Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events.
The medals were split between 22 countries, Romania topping the medal table, their women winning 3 golds, with the traditionally strong Germany and Great Britain picking up four medals each.
However, the defining moment of the regatta was Briton Matthew Pinsent winning his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal, this time without legendary partner Steve Redgrave. The British men's coxless four, of Steve Williams, James Cracknell, Ed Coode with Pinsent at stroke narrowly saw off the challenge of the World Champion Canadian crew of Cameron Baerg, Thomas Herschmiller, Jake Wetzel and Barney Williams. The final was stroke-for stroke, with the lead changing hands and Great Britain won with a time of 6:06.98, 8 hundredths of a second faster than the Canadians. Pinsent later wept at the medal ceremony.
Matching Pinsent's feat was German sculler Kathrin Boron, in the women's quad. She had won the double in Barcelona 1992 and Sydney 2000 and the quad in Atlanta 1996.
The Romanian women's pair of Georgeta Damian and Viorica Susanu took gold before doubling up to help their eight take gold, giving Damian her fourth Olympic Gold medal — having won 2 golds in Sydney in the same disciplines.
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Rowing medal table by country
| Position | Country: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | Total: |
| 1 |  Romania
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 |  Germany
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 |  Great Britain
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 |  Australia
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5= |  France
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5= |  United States
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7= |  Denmark
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7= | Missing image Flag_of_New_Zealand.png New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7= |  Norway
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7= |  Poland
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7= |  Russia
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= |  Belarus
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12= |  Netherlands
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14= |  Canada
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14= |  Czech Republic
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14= |  Croatia
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14= |  Estonia
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14= |  Slovenia
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Missing image Italy_flag_large.png Italy | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 20 |  Bulgaria
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 21= |  South Africa
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21= |  Ukraine
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Medal Summary
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