Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
# Nation Qualification tournament Rowers
1 Australia 2011 Worlds ( gold ) Karsten Forsterling James McRae Chris Morgan Daniel Noonan
2 Germany 2011 Worlds ( silver ) Karl Schulze Philip Turning Lauritz Schoof Tim Grohmann
3 Croatia 2011 Worlds ( bronze ) Damir Martin David Šain Martin Sinković Valent Sinković
4 Poland 2011 Worlds ( 4th ) Michał Jeliński Marek Kolbowicz Adam Korol Konrad Wasielewski
5 Russia 2011 Worlds ( 5th ) Sergey Fedorovtsev Nikita Morgachyov Vladislav Ryabtsev Igor Salov
6 Italy 2011 Worlds ( 6th ) Rossano Galtarossa Paolo Perino Matteo Stefanini Simone Venier
7 Great Britain 2011 Worlds ( 1st in B final ) Charles Cousins Stephen Rowbotham Tom Solesbury Matthew Wells
8 United States 2011 Worlds ( 2nd in B final ) Peter Graves Elliot Hovey Alex Osborne Wes Piermarini
9 Switzerland 2011 Worlds ( 3rd in B final ) Augustin Maillefer Nico Stahlberg Florian Stofer André Vonarburg
10 New Zealand 2011 Worlds ( 4th in B final ) Michael Arms Robbie Manson John Storey Matthew Trott
11 Ukraine 2011 Worlds ( 5th in B final ) Serhiy Hryn Oleksandr Nadtoka Volodymyr Pavlovskiy Kostiantyn Zaitsev
1 Estonia Final Continental Tõnu Endrekson Andrei Jämsä Allar Raja Kaspar Taimsoo
2 France Final Continental Matthieu Androdias Benjamin Chabanet Adrien Hardy Pierre-Jean Peltier
Quadruple sculls men
The majority of qualification places for rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics were awarded based on results at the 2011 World Championships, held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia, in August and September 2011. Those places were awarded to National Olympic Committees, not the specific athletes. Further berths were allocated at three continental qualifying regattas in Africa, Asia and Latin America (heavyweight single and lightweight double sculls only) and a final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.