Men's lightweight coxless pair at the 2017 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Nathan Benderson Park
Location	Sarasota, United States
Dates	24–29 September
Competitors	16 from 8 nations
Winning time	6:32.42
Medalists
Mark O'Donovan Shane O'Driscoll    Ireland   Giuseppe Di Mare Alfonso Scalzone    Italy   Xavier Vela Willian Giaretton    Brazil
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2017 World Rowing Championships
Openweight events
Single sculls	men	women
Double sculls	men	women
Quadruple sculls	men	women
Coxless pair	men	women
Coxless four	men	women
Coxed pair	men
Eight	men	women
Lightweight events
Lwt single sculls	men	women
Lwt double sculls	men	women
Lwt quadruple sculls	men	women
Lwt coxless pair	men
Lwt coxless four	men
Para-rowing events
PR1 single sculls	men	women
PR2 double sculls	mixed
PR3 double sculls	mixed
PR3 coxed four	mixed
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The men's lightweight coxless pair competition at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota took place in Nathan Benderson Park.^[1]

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:^[1]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

Results

Heats

Heat winners advanced directly to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the repechage.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mark O'Donovan Shane O'Driscoll	Ireland	6:33.20	FA
2	Joel Cassells Sam Scrimgeour	Great Britain	6:38.57	R
3	Giuseppe Di Mare Alfonso Scalzone	Italy	6:40.39	R
4	Roland Szigeti David Forrai	Hungary	7:24.30	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Xavier Vela Willian Giaretton	Brazil	6:36.11	FA
2	Nikita Bolozin Aleksei Kiiashko	Russia	6:45.24	R
3	John Devlin Alex Twist	United States	6:53.63	R
4	Edmundo Reynoso Angy Canul	Mexico	6:57.68	R

Repechage

The four fastest boats advanced to the A final. The remaining boats were sent to the B final.^[3]

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppe Di Mare Alfonso Scalzone	Italy	6:40.42	FA
2	Nikita Bolozin Aleksei Kiiashko	Russia	6:41.75	FA
3	Joel Cassells Sam Scrimgeour	Great Britain	6:42.69	FA
4	John Devlin Alex Twist	United States	6:55.67	FA
5	Roland Szigeti David Forrai	Hungary	6:58.65	FB
6	Edmundo Reynoso Angy Canul	Mexico	7:08.45	FB

Finals

The A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the B final.^[4]

Final B

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
1	Roland Szigeti David Forrai	Hungary	7:05.22
2	Edmundo Reynoso Angy Canul	Mexico	7:05.24

Final A

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
	Mark O'Donovan Shane O'Driscoll	Ireland	6:32.42
	Giuseppe Di Mare Alfonso Scalzone	Italy	6:34.20
	Xavier Vela Willian Giaretton	Brazil	6:35.30
4	Joel Cassells Sam Scrimgeour	Great Britain	6:37.56
5	Nikita Bolozin Aleksei Kiiashko	Russia	6:45.52
6	John Devlin Alex Twist	United States	6:59.01

References