A quick look at the emerging 2004 Olympic rowing results on the NBC website at http://www.nbcolympics.com/results/1549022/detail.html yields the following rough guess. Of course race conditions vary from day to day so these comparisons can only provide a rough idea. In order of what's fast... Men's Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:42.48 - USA Men's Quadruple Sculls . . . . 5:56.85 - CZE Men's Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:06.98 - GBR Woman's Eight . . . . . . . . . . . 6:17.70 - ROM Men's Double Sculls . . . . . . . 6:29.00 - FRA Woman's Quadruple Sculls . . 6:29.29 - GBR Men's Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30.76 - NZL Men's Single Sculls . . . . . . . . 6:49.30 - NOR Women's Double Sculls . . . . 7:01.78 - NZL Women's Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:06.55 - BLR Women's Single Sculls . . . . . 7:18.12 - CZE So, it looks as if Eights are the fastest, then quads, fours, doubles, pairs and singles and men are faster than women. A Men's double, a Woman's Quad and a men's pair would be a good race. So would a Woman's Eight against a Men's Four.

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