Rowing highlights - London 2012 Paralympic Games

Check out this highlight video of the rowing competitions at London 2012 Paralympics

Results:
Men's single sculls
Cheng Huang China (CHN)
Erik Horrie Australia (AUS)
Aleksey Chuvashev Russia (RUS)

Women's single sculls
Alla Lysenko Ukraine (UKR)
Nathalie Benoit France (FRA)
Liudmila Vauchok Belarus (BLR)

Mixed double sculls
China (CHN) Lou Xiaoxian, Fei Tianming
France (FRA) Perle Bouge, Stephane Tardieu
United States (USA) Oksana Masters, Rob Jones

Mixed coxed four
Great Britain (GBR)
Pamela Relph
Naomi Riches
David Smith
James Roe
Lily van den Broecke (Cox)

Germany (GER)
Anke Molkenthin
Astrid Hengsbach
Tino Kolitscher
Kai Kruse
Katrin Splitt (Cox)

Ukraine (UKR)
Andrii Stelmakh
Kateryna Morozova
Olena Pukhaieva
Denys Sobol
Volodymyr Kozlov (Cox)

Rowing was introduced for the first time at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

The sport is open to male and female athletes and is divided into four boat classes. In all four events, races are over 1,000m. "Adaptive" rowing implies that the equipment is "adapted" to the athlete rather than the sport being "adapted" to the athlete.

At the London 2012 Games, 96 athletes competed in four medal events.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is committed to enabling Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and to develop sport opportunities for all persons with a disability from the beginner to elite level. In addition, the IPC aims to promote the Paralympic values, which include courage, determination, inspiration and equality. For further information, please visit http://www.paralympic.org.

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