1947 European Rowing Championships

1947 European Rowing Championships
1947 European Rowing Championships
Venue	Rotsee
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Nations	15
	← 1938 Milan 1949 Amsterdam →

The 1947 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Rotsee in the Swiss city of Lucerne. The competition was for men only, they competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and 15 nations participated.^[1] It was the first European Rowing Championships held after World War II, and it was the second time that the regatta was held on the Rotsee; the previous regatta was in 1934.^[2]

Medal summary – men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x^[3]	France Jean Séphériadès		Belgium Ben Piessens		Switzerland Hansjakob Keller
M2x^[4]	Netherlands Henk van der Meer Tom Neumeier		Switzerland		Czechoslovakia
M2-^[5]	Denmark Søren Jensen Jørn Snogdahl		Austria Gert Watzke Kurt Watzke		France
M2+^[6]	Hungary Béla Zsitnik Antal Szendey (cox)		Italy Giovanni Steffè Aldo Tarlao (cox)		Denmark Finn Pedersen Tage Henriksen Carl-Ebbe Andersen (cox)
M4-^[7]	Italy Giuseppe Moioli Elio Morille Giovanni Invernizzi Franco Faggi		Czechoslovakia Karel Vaněk Josef Schejbal Václav Roubík		Switzerland Hermann Betschart Ernst Rufli Karl Schmid
M4+^[8]	France Gérald Maquat Marcel Boigegrain (cox)		Italy Reginaldo Polloni Riccardo Cerutti Renato Macario Francesco Gotti Domenico Cambieri (cox)		Czechoslovakia (cox)
M8+^[9]	Italy Angelo Fioretti Mario Acchini Fortunato Maninetti Bonifacio De Bortoli Enrico Ruberti Pietro Sessa Ezio Acchini Luigi Gandini Alessandro Bardelli (cox)		Denmark Charles Willumsen Holger Larsen Niels Rasmussen Ib Nielsen Jarl Emcken Poul Korup Børge Hougaard Gerhardt Sørensen Niels Wamberg (cox)		Switzerland Erich Schriever Rudolf Reichling Peter Stebler Émile Knecht (cox)

References[]

^ "Rotsee – das Mekka der Ruderer" (in German). Regionalzeitung Rontaler AG. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ "Rudersport" (in German). Naturarena Rotsee. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Einer)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier ohne Steuermann)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer o.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[1] "Rotsee – das Mekka der Ruderer" (in German). Regionalzeitung Rontaler AG. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[2] "Rudersport" (in German). Naturarena Rotsee. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[3] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Einer)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[4] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[5] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier ohne Steuermann)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[6] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[7] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer o.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[8] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[9] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

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Pre-WWI events ♂	1893 Lake Orta 1894 Mâcon 1895 Ostend 1896 Geneva 1897 Pallanza 1898 Turin 1899 Ostend 1900 Paris 1901 Zürich 1902 Strasbourg 1903 Venice 1904 Paris 1905 Ghent 1906 Pallanza 1907 Strasbourg 1908 Lucerne 1909 Paris 1910 Ostend 1911 Como 1912 Geneva 1913 Ghent
Inter-war events ♂	1920 Mâcon 1921 Amsterdam 1922 Barcelona 1923 Como 1924 Zürich 1925 Prague 1926 Lucerne 1927 Como 1929 Bydgoszcz 1930 Liège 1931 Paris 1932 Belgrade 1933 Budapest 1934 Lucerne 1935 Berlin 1937 Amsterdam 1938 Milan
Post-WWII events	1947 Lucerne ♂ 1949 Amsterdam ♂ 1950 Milan ♂ 1951 Mâcon 1953 Copenhagen 1954 Amsterdam 1955 Bucharest ♀ 1955 Ghent ♂ 1956 Bled 1957 Duisburg 1958 Poznań 1959 Mâcon 1960 London ♀ 1961 Prague 1962 East Berlin ♀ 1963 Copenhagen ♂ 1963 Moscow ♀ 1964 Amsterdam 1965 Duisburg 1966 Amsterdam ♀ 1967 Vichy 1968 East Berlin ♀ 1969 Klagenfurt 1970 Tata ♀ 1971 Copenhagen 1972 Brandenburg ♀ 1973 Moscow
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