Eight at the Olympics

Eight (rowing) at the Olympic Games
Women's eight race at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Overview
Sport	Rowing
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900–2016 Women: 1976–2016
Reigning champion
Men	Great Britain Scott Durant Tom Ransley Andrew Triggs Hodge Matt Gotrel Pete Reed Paul Bennett Matt Langridge Will Satch Phelan Hill
Women	United States Emily Regan Kerry Simmonds Amanda Polk Lauren Schmetterling Tessa Gobbo Meghan Musnicki Elle Logan Amanda Elmore Katelin Snyder

The eight is a rowing event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900, and has been held at every Games since. The women's event was added when women's rowing was added to the Olympic programme in 1976, and has been held at every Games since. Since 1996, it is the only Olympic rowing event that uses a coxswain.

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris	United States	Belgium	Netherlands
1904 St. Louis	United States	Canada	None awarded
1908 London	Great Britain	Belgium	Canada  Great Britain
1912 Stockholm	Great Britain	Great Britain	Germany
1920 Antwerp	United States	Great Britain	Norway
1924 Paris	United States	Canada	Italy
1928 Amsterdam	United States	Great Britain	Canada
1932 Los Angeles	United States	Italy	Canada
1936 Berlin	United States	Italy	Germany
1948 London	United States	Great Britain	Norway
1952 Helsinki	United States	Soviet Union	Australia
1956 Melbourne	United States	Canada	Australia
1960 Rome	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Canada (CAN)	Czechoslovakia (TCH)
1964 Tokyo	United States (USA)	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Czechoslovakia (TCH)
1968 Mexico City	West Germany (FRG)	Australia (AUS)	Soviet Union (URS)
1972 Munich	New Zealand (NZL)	United States (USA)	East Germany (GDR)
1976 Montreal	East Germany (GDR)	Great Britain (GBR)	New Zealand (NZL)
1980 Moscow	East Germany (GDR)	Great Britain (GBR)	Soviet Union (URS)
1984 Los Angeles	Canada (CAN)	United States (USA)	Australia (AUS)
1988 Seoul	West Germany (FRG)	Soviet Union (URS)	United States (USA)
1992 Barcelona	Canada (CAN)	Romania (ROU)	Germany (GER)
1996 Atlanta	Netherlands (NED)	Germany (GER)	Russia (RUS)
2000 Sydney	Great Britain (GBR)	Australia (AUS)	Croatia (CRO)
2004 Athens	United States (USA)	Netherlands (NED)	Australia (AUS)
2008 Beijing	Canada (CAN)	Great Britain (GBR)	United States (USA)
2012 London	Germany (GER)	Canada (CAN)	Great Britain (GBR)
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Great Britain (GBR)	Germany (GER)	Netherlands (NED)
2020 Tokyo	New Zealand (NZL)	Germany (GER)	Great Britain (GBR)

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	2	2	16
2	Great Britain (GBR)	4	7	3	14
3	Canada (CAN)	3	5	3	11
4	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	1	3
	New Zealand (NZL)	2	0	1	3
6	West Germany (FRG)	2	0	0	2
7	Germany (GER)	1	3	3	7
8	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
9	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	0	2
10	Australia (AUS)	0	2	4	6
11	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	2	4
12	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	0	2
14	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
15	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	2	2
17	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1976 Montreal	East Germany	Soviet Union	United States
1980 Moscow	East Germany	Soviet Union	Romania
1984 Los Angeles	United States	Romania	Netherlands
1988 Seoul	East Germany	Romania	China
1992 Barcelona	Canada	Romania	Germany
1996 Atlanta	Romania	Canada	Belarus
2000 Sydney	Romania	Netherlands	Canada
2004 Athens	Romania	United States	Netherlands
2008 Beijing	United States	Netherlands	Romania
2012 London	United States	Canada	Netherlands
2016 Rio de Janeiro	United States	Great Britain	Romania
2020 Tokyo	Canada	New Zealand	China

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	1	1	6
2	Romania (ROU)	3	3	3	9
3	East Germany (GDR)	3	0	0	3
4	Canada (CAN)	2	2	1	5
5	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	3	5
6	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
9	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	2	2
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1