The men's lightweight coxless four competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held on 6–11 August at the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas. This was the last time that this boat class competed, as FISA axed it after the 2017 World Rowing Championships with immediate effect.
Results
Heats First three of each heat qualify to the semifinals, remainder goes to the repechage.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 Stefano OppoMartino GorettiLivio La PadulaPietro Ruta 6:03.26 SA/B 2 Jin WeiZhao JingbinYu ChenggangWang Tiexin 6:03.43 SA/B3 Lucas TramèrSimon SchürchSimon NiepmannMario Gyr 6:03.52 SA/B 4 Franck SolforosiThomas BaroukhGuillaume RaineauThibault Colard 6:07.31 R 5 Jan VetešníkOndřej VetešníkJiří KopáčMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:39.95 R
Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 Jacob BarsøeJacob LarsenKasper Winther JørgensenMorten Jørgensen 5:58.21 SA/B 2 Chris BartleyMark AldredJono CleggPeter Chambers 6:01.27 SA/B 3 Spyridon GiannarosPanagiotis MagdanisStefanos NtouskosIoannis Petrou 6:05.27 SA/B 4 Jonathan KochLars WichertTobias FranzmannLucas Schäfer 6:14.87 R
Heat 3 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 James LasschePeter TaylorAlistair BondJames Hunter 6:03.34 SA/B 2 Robin PrendesAnthony FahdenEdward KingTyler Nase 6:05.61 SA/B 3 Joris PijsTim HeijbrockJort van GennepBjörn van den Ende 6:07.88 SA/B 4 Maxwell LattimerBrendan HodgeNicolas PrattEric Woelfl 6:19.44 R
Repechage First three of heat qualify to the semifinals.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 Franck SolforosiThomas BaroukhGuillaume RaineauThibault Colard 6:01.18 SA/B 2 Jonathan KochLars WichertTobias FranzmannLucas Schäfer 6:03.29 SA/B 3 Jan VetešníkOndřej VetešníkJiří KopáčMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:04.30 SA/B 4 Maxwell LattimerBrendan HodgeNicolas PrattEric Woelfl 6:05.35
Semifinals
Semifinal 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 Stefano OppoMartino GorettiLivio La PadulaPietro Ruta 6:06.56 FA 2 Franck SolforosiThomas BaroukhGuillaume RaineauThibault Colard 6:07.32 FA 3 James LasschePeter TaylorAlistair BondJames Hunter 6:08.96 FA 4 Chris BartleyMark AldredJono CleggPeter Chambers 6:10.46 FB 5 Joris PijsTim HeijbrockJort van GennepBjörn van den Ende 6:12.87 FB 6 Jonathan KochLars WichertTobias FranzmannLucas Schäfer 6:18.43 FB
Semifinal 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 Lucas TramèrSimon SchürchSimon NiepmannMario Gyr 6:17.85 FA 2 Jacob BarsøeJacob LarsenKasper Winther JørgensenMorten Jørgensen 6:19.62 FA 3 Spyridon GiannarosPanagiotis MagdanisStefanos NtouskosIoannis Petrou 6:23.95 FA 4 Robin PrendesAnthony FahdenEdward KingTyler Nase 6:26.82 FB 5 Jin WeiZhao JingbinYu ChenggangWang Tiexin 6:27.27 FB 6 Jan VetešníkOndřej VetešníkJiří KopáčMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:33.43 FB
Final
Final B RankRowersCountryTimeNotes 1 Chris BartleyMark AldredJono CleggPeter Chambers 6:31.54 2 Jin WeiZhao JingbinYu ChenggangWang Tiexin 6:32.78 3 Jonathan KochLars WichertTobias FranzmannLucas Schäfer 6:35.83 4 Robin PrendesAnthony FahdenEdward KingTyler Nase 6:36.93 5 Joris PijsTim HeijbrockJort van GennepBjörn van den Ende 6:37.28 6 Jan VetešníkOndřej VetešníkJiří KopáčMiroslav Vraštil Jr. 6:43.52
Final A The medals for the competition were presented by Denis Oswald, Switzerland, member of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Matt Smith, United States of America, executive director of the International Rowing Federation. RankRowersCountryTimeNotes Lucas TramèrSimon SchürchSimon NiepmannMario Gyr 6:20.51 Jacob BarsøeJacob LarsenKasper Winther JørgensenMorten Jørgensen 6:21.97 Franck SolforosiThomas BaroukhGuillaume RaineauThibault Colard 6:22.85 4 Stefano OppoMartino GorettiLivio La PadulaPietro Ruta 6:25.52 5 James LasschePeter TaylorAlistair BondJames Hunter 6:28.14 6 Spyridon GiannarosPanagiotis MagdanisStefanos NtouskosIoannis Petrou 6:36.47
Aftermath This was the last time the Danish Gold Four competed, as they did not nominate their boat for the 2017 World Rowing Championships.
To achieve gender equality in rowing, FISA suggested early in 2017 to drop the lightweight men's four from the Olympic programme, and the recommendation was adopted by the executive board of the International Olympic Committee in June 2017. Shortly after the 2017 championships, the FISA council voted to remove the lightweight men's four from the world championships with immediate effect.
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