Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Rowing; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Lake Albano
Dates	30 August – 3 September
Competitors	410 from 33 nations
	← 1956 1964 →

Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only. The competitions were held from 30 August to 3 September on the Lago di Albano.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)	Achim Hill (EUA)	Teodor Kocerka (POL)
double sculls details	Václav Kozák and Pavel Schmidt (TCH)	Aleksandr Berkutov and Yuriy Tyukalov (URS)	Ernst Hürlimann and Rolf Larcher (SUI)
coxless pairs details	Valentin Boreyko and Oleg Golovanov (URS)	Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder (AUT)	Veli Lehtelä and Toimi Pitkänen (FIN)
coxed pairs details	United Team of Germany (EUA) Bernhard Knubel Heinz Renneberg Klaus Zerta	Soviet Union (URS) Antanas Bagdonavičius Zigmas Jukna Igor Rudakov	United States (USA) Richard Draeger Conn Findlay Kent Mitchell
coxless fours details	United States (USA) Arthur Ayrault Ted Nash John Sayre Rusty Wailes	Italy (ITA) Tullio Baraglia Renato Bosatta Giancarlo Crosta Giuseppe Galante	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Akhremchik Yuriy Bachurov Valentin Morkovkin Anatoly Tarabrin
coxed fours details	United Team of Germany (EUA) Gerd Cintl Horst Effertz Klaus Riekemann Jürgen Litz Michael Obst	France (FRA) Robert Dumontois Claude Martin Jacques Morel Guy Nosbaum Jean Klein	Italy (ITA) Fulvio Balatti Romano Sgheiz Franco Trincavelli Giovanni Zucchi Ivo Stefanoni
eights details	United Team of Germany (EUA) Manfred Rulffs Walter Schröder Frank Schepke Kraft Schepke Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Karl-Heinz Hopp Klaus Bittner Hans Lenk Willi Padge	Canada (CAN) Donald Arnold Walter D'Hondt Nelson Kuhn John Lecky David Anderson Archibald MacKinnon Bill McKerlich Glen Mervyn Sohen Biln	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Bohumil Janoušek Jan Jindra Jiří Lundák Stanislav Lusk Václav Pavkovič Luděk Pojezný Jan Švéda Josef Věntus Miroslav Koníček

Participating nations[]

A total of 410 rowers from 33 nations competed at the Rome Games:

Argentina (9)
Australia (25)
Austria (10)
Belgium (5)
Brazil (5)
Canada (15)
Czechoslovakia (22)
Denmark (16)
Spain (18)
Finland (12)
France (16)
Great Britain (26)
United Team of Germany (26)
Greece (6)
Hungary (9)
Italy (26)
Japan (14)
Mexico (2)
Netherlands (13)
Norway (2)
New Zealand (1)
Peru (2)
Poland (5)
Portugal (5)
Romania (8)
South Africa (5)
Switzerland (18)
Sweden (12)
Soviet Union (25)
United Arab Republic (9)
United States (26)
Uruguay (5)
Yugoslavia (12)

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United Team of Germany (EUA)	3	1	0	4
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	1	5
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
3	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
6	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
9	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		7	7	7	21

Notes[]

Conflicting sources: Some sources list Lorne Loomer as a silver medalist in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.^[2] However, according to other sources Loomer competed in coxless pairs, but was replaced by substitute David Anderson in the coxed eights.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References[]

^ "Rowing at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Rowing" Archived 4 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 14 May 2008)
^ "Canada Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
^ "David Anderson". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
^ "1960 UBC/VRC Eights (M)". BC Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

External links[]

International Olympic Committee medal database

[SR-1] "Rowing at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2018.

[db-ol-ROW-1960-2] "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Rowing" Archived 4 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 14 May 2008)

[3] "Canada Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

[4] "David Anderson". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

[5] "1960 UBC/VRC Eights (M)". BC Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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