a small lead followed by Canada, South Africa and Serbia and Montenegro. Canada suddenly veered off course, interfering with South Africa and allowing Serbia to pass it. South Africa protested, and Canada was excluded from the results. Canada requested that they would be allowed into the final as the seventh boat. The decision not to allow this came after the B Final had raced. Finals Final A (August 21) Australia (Drew Ginn, James Tomkins) 6:30.76 Croatia (Siniša Skelin, Nikša Skelin) 6:32.64 South Africa (Donovan Cech, Ramon di Clemente) 6:33.40 New Zealand (Nathan Twaddle, George Bridgewater) 6:34.24 Serbia and Montenegro (Nikola Stojić, Mladen Stegić) 6:39.74 Germany (Tobias Kühne, Jan Herzog) 6:46.50 In the finals, Australia's Drew Ginn and James Tomkins established an early lead over the field which they stretched to 2 seconds at the 1000 metre mark (halfway), with Croatia in second and Serbia in third. Over the last 1000 meters, Australia maintained its margin over the rest of the field, Croatia continued to run second and South Africa rowed through to finish third. For Tomkins, it was his third gold medal and fourth overall, and for Ginn it was his second gold. Final B (August 19) Great Britain (Toby Garbett, Rick Dunn) 6:22.04 Italy (Giuseppe de Vita, Dario Lari) 6:22.08 Slovenia (Matija Pavšič, Andrej Hrabar) 6:27.11 Argentina (Walter Naneder, Marcos Morales) 6:27.88 United States (Luke Walton, Artour Samsonov) 6:30.49 Canada (Dave Calder, Chris Jarvis) DNS References External links Official Olympic Report Men's Coxless Pair Men's events at the 2004 Summer Olympics