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Nathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan of New Zealand Win Olympic Rowing Men's Double Sculls Gold
- Published_at:2012-08-02
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Footballgoals2013B
- tags: Nathan, Cohen, Joseph, Sullivan, of, New, Zealand, Win, Olympic, Rowing, Men, Double, Sculls, Gold
- description: Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan of New Zealand added Olympic gold to their two world titles by winning the men's double sculls at Dorney Lake on Thursday. New Zealand Gold Medal Olympics 2012 London Olympic Games 2012 2-8-2012 Cohen and Sullivan, who broke the Olympic-best time in the heats, won in 6 minutes, 31.67 seconds. Italy was a half length behind in second place out in Lane 6 and Slovenia took the bronze. It was New Zealand's first gold of the London Games. The race was without the defending champions from Australia, David Crawshay and Scott Brennan, and also the favored German crew of Hans Gruhne and Stephan Kruger. Both boats were eliminated in the semifinals. New Zealand's Nathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan Win Gold Men's Double Sculls Rowing New Zealand's Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan take the men's double sculls rowing and are the Olympic champions! But how they had to work for it. Having been back behind Great Britain in fifth with less than half the race left, they timed their charge to perfection. Italy made the move to stretch it out with 500 meter to go, but New Zealand had all the answers. Brilliant, tactical win for them. Italy take silver; Slovenia bronze. Great Britain in a much expected fifth. Joseph Sullivan and Nathan Cohen celebrate Joseph Sullivan and Nathan Cohen of New Zealand celebrate winning gold in the men's Double Sculls final on Day 6 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. World champions Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan won the Double Sculls in 6:31.67, ahead of Italy and the Slovenian crew who were looking to reclaim the Olympic title they won 12 years ago in Sydney. Great Britain's pair made a promising start, leading the field after 250m and were in medal contention heading into the second half of the race. But New Zealand and Italy produced strong finishes to overhaul Slovenia and row Britain out of the medals. South Africa won gold in the men's Lightweight Four as Great Britain won a silver medal after being pipped to the line in a sensational final. In a thriling sprint for the line, the British crew edged 2008 champions Denmark into bronze. Golds for New Zealand and South Africa New Zealand won gold in the men's Double Sculls and South Africa took top honours in the men's Lightweight Four after a close final. New Zealand wins Gold http://doiop.com/NZLGoldRowing Medal London 2012 Rowing Double Sculls Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan have claimed New Zealand's first gold medal of the London Olympics in the men's double sculls rowing event. NZL wins gold medal New Zealand Gold Medal London 2012 Rowing Olympics rowing: men's double sculls won by New Zealand New Zealand's Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan took gold. The British pair clocked a time of six minutes 40.54 seconds with Italy taking the silver and Slovenia the bronze. Final A Official Photofinish Rank Lane Team Time + 1 5 New Zealand COHEN Nathan / SULLIVAN Joseph 6:31.67 + 2 6 Italy SARTORI Alessio / BATTISTI Romano 6:32.80 + 3 3 Slovenia SPIK Luka / COP Iztok 6:34.35 + 4 4 Argentina SUAREZ Ariel / ROSSO Cristian 6:36.36 + 5 1 Great Britain LUCAS Bill / TOWNSEND Sam 6:40.54 + 6 2 Lithuania MASCINSKAS Rolandas / RITTER Saulius 6:42.96 + Final B Official Photofinish Rank Lane Team Time + 1 4 Norway HOFF Nils Jakob / BORCH Kjetil 6:20.82 + 2 5 Australia CRAWSHAY David / BRENNAN Scott 6:22.19 + 3 3 Germany KNITTEL Eric / KRUEGER Stephan 6:23.36 + 4 2 France BAHAIN Julien / BERREST Cedric 6:26.44 + 5 1 Ukraine MIKHAI Dmytro / MOROZOV Artem 6:31.51 + 6 6 Canada BRAITHWAITE Michael / KOWALYK Kevin 6:32.61
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