2001 World Rowing Championships

The 2001 World Rowing Championships were held from 19 to 26 August 2001 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.^[1]

  Non-Olympic classes

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
M1x	Norway Olaf Tufte	6:43.04	Slovenia Iztok Čop	6:43.36	Czech Republic Václav Chalupa	6:43.62
M2x	Hungary Ákos Haller (b) Tibor Pető (s)	6:14.16	France Adrien Hardy (b) Sébastien Vieilledent (s)	6:14.29	Italy Rossano Galtarossa (b) Alessio Sartori (s)	6:14.43
M4x	Germany Christian Schreiber (b) André Willms (2) Marco Geisler (3) Andreas Hajek (s)	5:40.89	Netherlands Geert Cirkel (b) Dirk Lippits (2) Diederik Simon (3) Michiel Bartman (s)	5:42.64	Italy Nicola Sartori (b) Mattia Righetti (2) Franco Berra (3) Simone Raineri (s)	5:42.87
M2+	Great Britain James Cracknell (b) Matthew Pinsent (s) Neil Chugani (c)	6:49.33	Italy Mattia Trombetta (b) Lorenzo Carboncini (s) Andrea Monizza (c)	6:49.75	Romania Cornel Nemțoc (b) Ioan Florariu (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	6:54.45
M2-	Great Britain James Cracknell (b) Matthew Pinsent (s)	6:27.57	Yugoslavia Đorđe Višacki (b) Nikola Stojić (s)	6:27.59	South Africa Ramon di Clemente (b) Donovan Cech (s)	6:29.31
M4+	France Gilles Bosquet (b) Vincent Gazan (2) Vincent Millot (3) Sidney Chouraqui (s) Christophe Lattaignant (c)	6:08.25	Italy Luca Agamennoni (b) Edoardo Verzotti (2) Massimo Cascone (3) Luca Ghezzi (s) Gianluca Barattolo (c)	6:09.71	Great Britain Chris Martin (b) Henry Adams (2) Alex Partridge (3) Dan Ouseley (s) Peter Rudge (c)	6:11.62
M4-	Great Britain Toby Garbett (b) Steve Williams (2) Ed Coode (3) Rick Dunn (s)	5:48.98	Germany Sebastian Thormann (b) Paul Dienstbach (2) Philipp Stüer (3) Bernd Heidicker (s)	5:50.56	Slovenia Jani Klemenčič (b) Milan Janša (2) Rok Kolander (3) Matej Prelog (s)	5:52.23
M8+	Romania Daniel Măstăcan (b) Florin Corbeanu (2) Cornel Nemțoc (3) Ioan Florariu (4) Ovidiu Cornea (5) Andrei Bănică (6) Gheorghe Pîrvan (7) Vasile Măstăcan (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	5:27.48	Croatia Oliver Martinov (b) Damir Vučičić (2) Tomislav Smoljanović (3) Nikša Skelin (4) Siniša Skelin (5) Krešimir Čuljak (6) Igor Boraska (7) Branimir Vujević (s) Silvijo Petriško (c)	5:28.47	Germany Sebastian Schulte (b) Thorsten Engelmann (2) Johannes Dobershütz (3) Stephan Koltzk (4) Jörg Dießner (5) Enrico Schnabel (6) Ulf Siems (7) Michael Ruhe (s) Peter Thiede (c)	5:29.41
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Ireland Sam Lynch	6:49.38	Italy Stefano Basalini	6:51.71	Czech Republic Michal Vabroušek	6:53.02
LM2x	Italy Elia Luini (b) Leonardo Pettinari (s)	6:16.75	Poland Tomasz Kucharski (b) Robert Sycz (s)	6:19.45	France Fabrice Moreau (b) Thibaud Chapelle (s)	6:20.30
LM4x	Italy Daniele Gilardoni (b) Luca Moncada (2) Mauro Baccelli (3) Filippo Mannucci (s)	5:50.76	Greece Nikolaos Skiathitis (b) Ioannis Korkouritis (2) Vasileios Polymeros (3) Panagiotis Miliotis (s)	5:52.87	Japan Akio Yano (b) Hitoshi Hase (2) Atsushi Obata (3) Kazuaki Mimoto (s)	5:54.19
LM2-	Ireland Gearoid Towey (b) Tony O'Connor (s)	6:34.72	Netherlands Simon Kolkman (b) Robert van der Vooren (s)	6:36.40	Italy Massimo Guglielmi (b) Giuseppe Del Gaudio (s)	6:36.99
LM4-	Austria Sebastian Sageder (b) Bernd Wakolbinger (2) Wolfgang Sigl (3) Martin Kobau (s)	5:53.55	Denmark Thomas Ebert (b) Thor Kristensen (2) Søren Madsen (3) Eskild Ebbesen (s)	5:54.36	France Laurent Porchier (b) Jean-Christophe Bette (2) Yves Hocdé (3) Xavier Dorfman (s)	5:55.55
LM8+	France Jean-Baptiste Dupy (b) Erwan Péron (2) Laurent Porchier (3) Franck Bussière (4) Pascal Touron (5) Jean-Christophe Bette (6) Yves Hocdé (7) Xavier Dorfman (s) Christophe Lattaignant (c)	5:37.21	Denmark Morten Riis (b) Stephan Mølvig (2) Thomas Croft Buck (3) Kenneth Bülow (4) Rasmus Hjortshøj (5) Svend Pedersen (6) Jesper Krogh (7) Morten Hansen (s) Sebastian Claus (c)	5:37.99	United States Erik Miller (b) Eric Feins (2) Gavin Blackmore (3) Tom Paradiso (4) John Cashman (5) Ben Cotting-Gagne (6) John Wall (7) Eric Kratochvil (s) Bill McManus (c)	5:38.80

  Non-Olympic classes

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
W1x	Germany Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski	7:19.25	Russia Yuliya Levina	7:23.28	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch	7:25.18
W2x	Germany Kathrin Boron (b) Kerstin Kowalski	6:50.20	New Zealand Georgina Evers-Swindell (b) Caroline Evers-Swindell (s)	6:51.73	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch (b) Volna Berazniova (s)	6:52.72
W4x	Germany Peggy Waleska (b) Marita Scholz (2) Manuela Lutze (3) Manja Kowalski (s)	6:12.95	New Zealand Sonia Waddell (b) Paula Twining (2) Caroline Evers-Swindell (3) Georgina Evers-Swindell (s)	6:15.35	United States Sarah Jones (b) Carol Skricki (2) Hilary Gehman (3) Laura Rauchfuss (s)	6:18.30
W2-	Romania Georgeta Damian (b) Viorica Susanu (s)	7:01.27	Belarus Olga Tratsevskaya (b) Yuliya Bichyk (s)	7:03.51	Canada Jacqui Cook (b) Karen Clark (s)	7:05.52
W4-	Australia Jane Robinson (b) Julia Wilson (2) Jo Lutz (3) Victoria Roberts (s)	6:27.23	New Zealand Jackie Abraham-Lawrie (b) Kate Robinson (2) Rochelle Saunders (3) Nicky Coles (s)	6:28.58	Netherlands Christine Vink (b) Carin ter Beek (2) Anneke Venema (3) Femke Dekker (s)	6:30.81
W8+	Australia Jodi Winter (b) Jo Lutz (2) Julia Wilson (3) Jane Robinson (4) Emily Martin (5) Rebecca Sattin (6) Victoria Roberts (7) Kristina Larsen (s) Carly Bilson (c)	6:03.66	Romania Elena Pirvan (b) Aurica Bărăscu (2) Natalita Berteanu-Pelin (3) Elena Gavrilescu (4) Mihaela Nastasa (5) Doina Spircu-Craciun (6) Georgeta Damian-Andrunache (7) Viorica Susanu (s) Rodica Anghel (c)	6:04.96	Germany Silke Günther (b) Anja Pyritz (2) Dana Pyritz (3) Britta Holthaus (4) Susanne Schmidt (5) Sandra Goldbach (6) Maja Tucholke (7) Lenka Wech (s) Annina Ruppel (c)	6:05.32
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Ireland Sinéad Jennings	7:33.20	Netherlands Mirjam ter Beek	7:34.43	Switzerland Pia Vogel	7:36.26
LW2x	Germany Janet Radünzel (b) Claudia Blasberg (s)	6:55.55	Poland Katarzyna Demianiuk (b) Ilona Mokronowska (s)	6:58.02	Romania Monica Eremia-Stan (b) Irina Acsinte (s)	6:58.97
LW4x	Australia Catriona Roach (b) Sally Causby (2) Amber Halliday (3) Josephine Lips (s)	6:29.68	United States Marny Jaastad (b) Abigail Cromwell (2) Jennifer Edwards (3) Stacey Borgman (s)	6:32.64	Netherlands Mariel Pikkemaat (b) Maud Klinkers (2) Aukje Zuidema (3) Hedi Poot (s)	6:33.70
LW2-	Great Britain Sarah Birch (b) Jo Nitsch (s)	7:23.00	United States Suzanne Walther (b) Michelle Borkhuis (s)	7:25.37	Argentina Patricia Conte(b) Ana Urbano (s)	7:26.02

Place	Nation				Total
1	Germany	5	1	2	9
2	Great Britain	4	0	1	5
3	Australia	3	0	0	3
	Ireland	3	0	0	3
5	Italy	2	3	3	8
6	France	2	1	2	5
	Romania	2	1	2	5
8	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
11	Netherlands	0	3	2	5
12	Denmark	0	3	0	3
	New Zealand	0	3	0	3
14	Poland	0	2	0	2
15	Belarus	0	1	2	3
	United States	0	1	2	3
17	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
18	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
22	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
23	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		24	24	24	72