Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

Women's eight at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Eton Dorney
Date	29 July – 2 August
Competitors	56 from 7 nations
Winning time	6:10.59
Medalists
01 ! Erin Cafaro Susan Francia Esther Lofgren Taylor Ritzel Meghan Musnicki Elle Logan Caroline Lind Caryn Davies Mary Whipple  United States 02 ! Janine Hanson Rachelle Viinberg Krista Guloien Lauren Wilkinson Natalie Mastracci Ashley Brzozowicz Darcy Marquardt Andréanne Morin Lesley Thompson-Willie  Canada 03 ! Jacobine Veenhoven Ninke Kingma Chantal Achterberg Sytske de Groot Roline Repelaer van Driel Claudia Belderbos Carline Bouw Annemiek de Haan Anne Schellekens  Netherlands
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01 !		Erin Cafaro Susan Francia Esther Lofgren Taylor Ritzel Meghan Musnicki Elle Logan Caroline Lind Caryn Davies Mary Whipple	United States
02 !		Janine Hanson Rachelle Viinberg Krista Guloien Lauren Wilkinson Natalie Mastracci Ashley Brzozowicz Darcy Marquardt Andréanne Morin Lesley Thompson-Willie	Canada
03 !		Jacobine Veenhoven Ninke Kingma Chantal Achterberg Sytske de Groot Roline Repelaer van Driel Claudia Belderbos Carline Bouw Annemiek de Haan Anne Schellekens	Netherlands

The Women's eight competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Dorney Lake which, for the purposes of the Games venue, is officially termed Eton Dorney.

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

First team of each heat qualify to the final, remainder goes to the repechage.

First four qualify to the final.