1973 European Rowing Championships

1973 European Rowing Championships
1973 European Rowing Championships
	The venue, here in 2008, was built in 1973
Venue	Krylatskoye Rowing Canal
Location	Moscow, Soviet Union
Dates	23–26 August (women); 29 August – 2 September (men)
Nations	18 (women); 29 (men)
	← 1972 Brandenburg 2007 Poznań →

The 1973 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held at the regatta course on the Krylatskoye Rowing Canal in Moscow, Soviet Union.^[1] The competition was the first use of the venue.^[2] There were seven competitions for men and five for women.^[3] World Rowing Championships were held, up until 1974, at four-year intervals, and the European Rowing Championships were open to nations outside of Europe and had become to be regarded as quasi-world championships. From 1974 the world championships changed to an annual schedule, and the European Rowing Championships were discontinued. It was only in 2006 that the International Rowing Federation (FISA) decided to re-establish the European Rowing Championships, with the 2007 event the first regatta after the hiatus.^[4]

Women competed in Moscow from 23 to 26 August.^[5] Their event overlapped with the 1973 Summer Universiade that was also held in the city.^[6] Twenty nations nominated women to the competition,^[5] but only 18 nations had their women compete^[7] with a total of 53 boats (W1x: 14 boats; W2x: 11 boats; W4x+: 10 boats; W4+: 10 boats; W8+: 8 boats).^[8] At the time, there was an expectation that rowing for women would be included in the 1976 Olympic programme, and it was expected that women would compete at the 1974 World Rowing Championships. For that reason, East Germany had decided to put forward younger rowers so that they would have become experienced by 1976.^[9] Women competed over a distance of 1000 meters.

Men competed from 29 August to 2 September, and 29 countries representing 4 continents nominated 109 boats.^[10]^[11] Men competed over a distance of 2000 metres.

Medal summary[]

Medallists at the 1973 European Rowing Championships were:

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x^[12]	Soviet Union Genovaitė Ramoškienė	3:59.97	Belgium	4:00.36	West Germany Edith Eckbauer	4:06.68
W2x^[13]	Soviet Union Yelena Antonova	3:40.05	Netherlands Helie Klaasse Andrea Vissers	3:42.80	West Germany	3:43.90
W4+^[14]	Netherlands Liesbeth de Graaff Myriam Steenman Hette Borrias Liesbeth de Bruin (cox)	3:38.13	East Germany Sabine Dähne Angelika Noack (cox)	3:38.89	Poland Anna Karbowiak Małgorzata Kawalska Bogusława Tomasiak Barbara Wojciechowska (cox)	3:41.86
W4x+^[15]	East Germany Sabine Jahn Brigitte Ahrenholz Ursula Wagner Roswietha Reichel (cox)	3:30.63	Romania Elisabeta Lazăr Maria Micșa (cox)	3:32.56	Soviet Union (cox)	3:33.55
W8+^[16]	Soviet Union Sofia Beketova Nina Abramova Nina Bystrova Nina Frolova (cox)	3:21.12	East Germany Ilona Richter Irina Müller Helma Mähren Henrietta Dobler (cox)	3:22.58	Romania Florica Petcu Aurelia Marinescu Aneta Matei (cox)	3:23.78

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x^[17]	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	8:02.77	Soviet Union Vytautas Butkus	8:05.87	East Germany Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	8:07.09
M2x^[18]	East Germany Christof Kreuziger Uli Schmied	7:26.95	Soviet Union Gennadiy Korshikov Aleksandr Timoshinin	7:33.97	Great Britain Michael Hart Chris Baillieu	7:41.87
M2-^[19]	Romania Dumitru Grumezescu	7:39.10	New Zealand Wybo Veldman Noel Mills	7:42.63	West Germany Winfried Ringwald Alois Bierl	7:43.53
M2+^[20]	Soviet Union Nikolay Ivanov Vladimir Eshinov Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)	8:09.83	East Germany Jörg Lucke Wolfgang Gunkel Klaus-Dieter Neubert (cox)	8:13.42	Romania Petre Ceapura Ștefan Tudor (cox)	8:15.67
M4-^[21]	East Germany Gottfried Döhn	6:56.67	Soviet Union Tiit Helmja Apolinaras Grigas	7:00.55	Norway Rolf Andreassen Arne Bergodd Ole Nafstad	7:01.85
M4+^[22]	Soviet Union Aleksandr Plyushkin Vladimir Vasilyev Anatoly Nemtyryov (cox)	7:08.17	East Germany Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Reinhard Gust Dietrich Zander Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)	7:18.20	Czechoslovakia František Provazník Vladimír Jánoš Karel Neffe Otakar Mareček Vladimír Petříček (cox)	7:18.81
M8+^[23]	East Germany Heinrich Mederow Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Bernd Landvoigt Karl-Heinz Prudöhl Werner Klatt Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Karl-Heinz Danielowski (cox)	6:19.02	Czechoslovakia Miroslav Vraštil Sr. Josef Neštický Václav Mls Pavel Konvička Petr Lakomý Lubomír Zapletal Jiří Pták (cox)	6:33.18	Soviet Union Aleksandr Ryazankin Vladimir Savelov Aleksandr Martyshkin Nikolay Surov Sergey Kolyaskin Boris Vorobyov Vladimir Rikkanen Yuriy Lorentsson (cox)	6:36.14

Medals table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	3	2	10
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	4	1	9
3	Romania (ROU)	1	1	2	4
4	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	0	2
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	3	4
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
7	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		12	12	12	36

References[]

^ "1973 European Championships". worldrowing.com. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ "Ein Ruderkanal hat Premiere". Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 29, no. 198. 23 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ "1973 European Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "European Rowing Championships". FISA. Archived from the original on 13 March 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Titelkampf beginnt". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 232. 23 August 1973. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ ""Universiade 73": Uns vereint gleicher Sinn, gleicher Mut". Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 29, no. 191. 15 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ Allmer, Hans (24 August 1973). "Neue Ruderanlage von Moskau hatte Premiere". Neues Deutschland (in German). Vol. 28, no. 233. p. 5. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ "Rita Schmidt hat Halbfinale erreicht". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 233. 24 August 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ Sydow, Waldemar (20 August 1973). "UdSSR eindeutig favorisiert". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 229. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ "Kurz berichtet". Neues Deutschland (in German). Vol. 28, no. 232. 23 August 1973. p. 5. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ Radtke, Bodo (30 August 1973). "EM mit vier Kontinenten". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 239. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)
^ "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(W4+) Women's Coxed Four – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(W4x+) Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(W8+) Women's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M1x) Men's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M2x) Men's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M2-) Men's Pair - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M4-) Men's Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^ "(M8+) Men's Eight - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[1] "1973 European Championships". worldrowing.com. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

[2] "Ein Ruderkanal hat Premiere". Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 29, no. 198. 23 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[3] "1973 European Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[4] "European Rowing Championships". FISA. Archived from the original on 13 March 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2018.

[Titelkampf-5] "Titelkampf beginnt". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 232. 23 August 1973. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[6] ""Universiade 73": Uns vereint gleicher Sinn, gleicher Mut". Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 29, no. 191. 15 August 1973. p. 3. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[7] Allmer, Hans (24 August 1973). "Neue Ruderanlage von Moskau hatte Premiere". Neues Deutschland (in German). Vol. 28, no. 233. p. 5. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[8] "Rita Schmidt hat Halbfinale erreicht". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 233. 24 August 1973. p. 11. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[9] Sydow, Waldemar (20 August 1973). "UdSSR eindeutig favorisiert". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 229. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[10] "Kurz berichtet". Neues Deutschland (in German). Vol. 28, no. 232. 23 August 1973. p. 5. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[11] Radtke, Bodo (30 August 1973). "EM mit vier Kontinenten". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 29, no. 239. p. 7. Retrieved 5 January 2018.(registration required)

[12] "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[13] "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[14] "(W4+) Women's Coxed Four – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[15] "(W4x+) Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[16] "(W8+) Women's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[17] "(M1x) Men's Single Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[18] "(M2x) Men's Double Sculls - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[19] "(M2-) Men's Pair - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[20] "(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[21] "(M4-) Men's Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[22] "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

[23] "(M8+) Men's Eight - Final". International Rowing Federation. 2 September 1973. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

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