Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight double sculls

The men's lightweight double sculls event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 28 July to 2 August 2024 at the Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France in Vaires-sur-Marne. 32 rowers from 16 nations competed.^[1] This event is not planned to return at the 2028 Summer Olympics, where it will instead be replaced by coastal rowing, in the form of the beach sprint rowing events.^[2]

Men's lightweight double sculls at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Olympic rowing
Venue	Stade nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne, National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France, Vaires-sur-Marne
Dates	28 July – 2 August 2024
Medalists
Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan  Ireland Stefano Oppo Gabriel Soares  Italy Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou  Greece
← 2020

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3]

World Best
World record	Ireland	6:05.33	Tokyo, Japan	2021
Olympic record	Ireland	6:05.33	Tokyo, Japan	2021

Results

Heats

The first two of each heat qualified for the semifinals, while the remainder went to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Raphaël Ahumada Jan Schäuble	Switzerland	6:24.88	Q
2	3	Dennis Carracedo Ferrero Caetano Horta	Spain	6:28.92	Q
3	1	Hugo Beurey Ferdinand Ludwig	France	6:31.32	R
4	6	Miguel Ángel Carballo Alexis López	Mexico	6:37.46	R
5	5	Naoki Furuta Masayuki Miyaura	Japan	6:52.58	R
6	2	Alejandro Colomino Pedro Dickson	Argentina	7:04.34	R

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Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Stefano Oppo Gabriel Soares	Italy	6:29.17	Q
2	1	Jiří Šimánek Miroslav Vraštil Jr.	Czech Republic	6:34.33	Q
3	4	Niels Van Zandweghe Tibo Vyvey	Belgium	6:45.07	R
4	3	Eber Sanhueza César Abaroa	Chile	6:46.90	R
5	2	Shakhzod Nurmatov Sobirjon Safaroliev	Uzbekistan	6:56.57	R

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Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan	Ireland	6:34.12	Q
2	3	Lars Benske Ask Tjøm	Norway	6:41.77	Q
3	2	Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou	Greece	6:46.90	R
4	5	Igor Khmara Stanislav Kovalov	Ukraine	7:00.13	R
5	1	Ahmed Abdelaal Mohamed Kota	Egypt	7:20.92	R

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Repechage

The first 3 in each repechage qualify for the Semifinals. The remainder goes to Final C.

Repechage 1

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou	Greece	6:39.46	Q
2	3	Hugo Beurey Ferdinand Ludwig	France	6:50.98	Q
3	5	Alejandro Colomino Pedro Dickson	Argentina	6:52.94	Q
4	4	Eber Sanhueza César Abaroa	Chile	6:58.78	FC
5	1	Ahmed Abdelaal Mohamed Kota	Egypt	7:14.95	FC

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Repechage 2

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Niels Van Zandweghe Tibo Vyvey	Belgium	6:42.99	Q
2	4	Igor Khmara Stanislav Kovalov	Ukraine	6:46.05	Q
3	2	Miguel Ángel Carballo Alexis López	Mexico	6:47.60	Q
4	5	Shakhzod Nurmatov Sobirjon Safaroliev	Uzbekistan	6:50.61	FC
5	1	Naoki Furuta Masayuki Miyaura	Japan	7:04.48	FC

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Semifinals

Semifinal A/B 1

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan	Ireland	6:21.88	FA
2	3	Raphaël Ahumada Jan Schäuble	Switzerland	6:24.31	FA
3	5	Jiří Šimánek Miroslav Vraštil Jr.	Czech Republic	6:25.99	FA
4	6	Hugo Beurey Ferdinand Ludwig	France	6:26.60	FB
5	2	Niels Van Zandweghe Tibo Vyvey	Belgium	6:30.49	FB
6	1	Alejandro Colomino Pedro Dickson	Argentina	6:51.59	FB

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Semifinal A/B 2

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Stefano Oppo Gabriel Soares	Italy	6:22.85	FA
2	2	Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou	Greece	6:23.36	FA
3	5	Lars Benske Ask Tjøm	Norway	6:26.62	FA
4	3	Dennis Carracedo Ferrero Caetano Horta	Spain	6:35.05	FB
5	6	Igor Khmara Stanislav Kovalov	Ukraine	6:37.35	FB
6	1	Miguel Ángel Carballo Alexis López	Mexico	6:37.43	FB

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Finals

Final C

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
13	3	Eber Sanhueza César Abaroa	Chile	6:28.00
14	4	Naoki Furuta Masayuki Miyaura	Japan	6:30.93
15	2	Shakhzod Nurmatov Sobirjon Safaroliev	Uzbekistan	6:31.33
16	1	Ahmed Abdelaal Mohamed Kota	Egypt	6:37.92

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
7	3	Hugo Beurey Ferdinand Ludwig	France	6:19.73
8	4	Dennis Carracedo Ferrero Caetano Horta	Spain	6:19.90
9	5	Niels Van Zandweghe Tibo Vyvey	Belgium	6:20.28
10	6	Miguel Ángel Carballo Alexis López	Mexico	6:25.84
11	2	Igor Khmara Stanislav Kovalov	Ukraine	6:26.32
12	1	Alejandro Colomino Pedro Dickson	Argentina	6:31.86

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Final A

Rank	Lane	Rower	Nation	Time	Notes
	3	Fintan McCarthy Paul O'Donovan	Ireland	6:10.99
	4	Stefano Oppo Gabriel Soares	Italy	6:13.33
	2	Petros Gkaidatzis Antonios Papakonstantinou	Greece	6:13.44
4	5	Raphaël Ahumada Jan Schäuble	Switzerland	6:16.50
5	6	Lars Benske Ask Tjøm	Norway	6:20.92
6	1	Jiří Šimánek Miroslav Vraštil Jr.	Czech Republic	6:21.00

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