Medalists
| Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
 China (CHN)
Tang Bin
Xi Aihua
Jin Ziwei
Zhang Yangyang |
 Great Britain (GBR)
Annie Vernon
Debbie Flood
Frances Houghton
Katherine Grainger |
 Germany (GER)
Britta Oppelt
Manuela Lutze
Kathrin Boron
Stephanie Schiller |
Results
Heats
Heats 1
| Rank |
Rowers |
Country |
Time |
Notes |
| 1 |
Tang, Xi, Jin, Zhang |
China |
6:11.83 |
FA |
| 2 |
Spiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lyal’chuk, Kolesnikova |
Ukraine |
6:17.84 |
R |
| 3 |
de Jong, de Zwager, Hanson, Guloien |
Canada |
6:23.27 |
R |
| 4 |
Kalinovskaya, Dorodnova, Merk, Levina |
Russia |
6:26.21 |
R |
Heats 2
| Rank |
Rowers |
Country |
Time |
Notes |
| 1 |
Vernon, Flood, Houghton, Grainger |
Great Britain |
6:13.70 |
FA |
| 2 |
Oppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller |
Germany |
6:15.26 |
R |
| 3 |
Pernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway |
United States |
6:19.89 |
R |
| 4 |
Ives, Hore, Uphill, Bradley |
Australia |
6:20.95 |
R |
Repechage
| Rank |
Rowers |
Country |
Time |
Notes |
| 1 |
Oppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller |
Germany |
6:36.17 |
FA |
| 2 |
Pernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway |
United States |
6:39.53 |
FA |
| 3 |
Ives, Hore, Uphill, Bradley |
Australia |
6:41.39 |
FA |
| 4 |
Spiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lyal’chuk, Kolesnikova |
Ukraine |
6:41.45 |
FA |
| 5 |
de Jong, de Zwager, Hanson, Guloien |
Canada |
6:46.60 |
FB |
| 6 |
Kalinovskaya, Dorodnova, Merk, Levina |
Russia |
6:51.14 |
FB |
Final B
| Rank |
Rowers |
Country |
Time |
| 1 |
Kalinovskaya, Dorodnova, Merk, Levina |
Russia |
6:28.10 |
| 2 |
de Jong, de Zwager, Hanson, Guloien |
Canada |
6:28.78 |
Final A
| Rank |
Rowers |
Country |
Time |
| 1 |
Tang, Xi, Jin, Zhang |
China |
6:16.06 |
| 2 |
Vernon, Flood, Houghton, Grainger |
Great Britain |
6:17.37 |
| 3 |
Oppelt, Lutze, Boron, Schiller |
Germany |
6:19.56 |
| 4 |
Spiryukhova, Olefirenko, Lyal’chuk, Kolesnikova |
Ukraine |
6:20.02 |
| 5 |
Pernell, Meyer, Kaido, Shumway |
United States |
6:25.86 |
| 6 |
Ives, Hore, Uphill, Bradley |
Australia |
6:30.05 |
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