Lightweight quadruple sculls, men, 2,000 m

What to remember

Greece set the world best time in the men's lightweight quadruple sculls. In the 2014 World Championships final in Amsterdam, Georgios Konsolas, Spyridon Giannaros, Panagiotis Magdanis and Eleftherios Konsolas covered 2,000 m in 5 min 42.75 s.

Georgios Konsolas came with form: in 2013 he had won world gold in the same boat class in Chungju. In a quad each rower holds two oars, one in each hand, so the forces are applied evenly on both sides of a long, narrow hull shaped to cut drag.

Rowing has no world records, because weather makes times vary too much. It keeps world best times instead, every one of them rowed over the standard 2,000 m course.