Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Rowing; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course
Date	13–19 October
Competitors	353 from 29 nations
	← 1964 1972 →

Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The events took place at Lake Xochimilco.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Jan Wienese (NED)	Jochen Meißner (FRG)	Alberto Demiddi (ARG)
double sculls details	Aleksandr Timoshinin and Anatoliy Sass (URS)	Harry Droog and Leendert van Dis (NED)	John Nunn and Bill Maher (USA)
coxless pairs details	Jörg Lucke and Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (GDR)	Larry Hough and Philip Johnson (USA)	Peter Christiansen and Ib Larsen (DEN)
coxed pairs details	Italy (ITA) Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla	Netherlands (NED) Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders	Denmark (DEN) Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab
coxless fours details	East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Melis József Csermely György Sarlós Antal Melis	Italy (ITA) Renato Bosatta Pier Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini
Coxed four details	New Zealand (NZL) Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie	East Germany (GDR) Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Dieter Semetzky	Switzerland (SUI) Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich
eights details	West Germany (FRG) Horst Meyer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Jörg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Niko Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse (heat 1)^[2]	Australia (AUS) Bob Shirlaw Gary Pearce John Ranch David Douglas Peter Dickson Joe Fazio Michael Morgan Alf Duval Alan Grover	Soviet Union (URS) Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlik Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuriy Lorentsson

Participating nations[]

A total of 353 rowers from 29 nations competed at the Mexico Games:

Argentina (9)
Australia (11)
Austria (3)
Belgium (1)
Bulgaria (5)
Brazil (2)
Canada (14)
Cuba (11)
Czechoslovakia (15)
Denmark (10)
Egypt
Spain (3)
Finland (2)
France (17)
Great Britain (11)
East Germany (26)
West Germany (26)
Italy (14)
Hungary (6)
Japan (10)
Mexico (25)
Netherlands (22)
New Zealand (14)
Peru (3)
Poland (3)
Romania (14)
Switzerland (17)
Soviet Union (27)
United States (27)
Uruguay (5)

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	0	3
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
4	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	1	2
6	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
8	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
11	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		7	7	7	21

References[]

^ "Rowing at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
^ "Roland BOESE". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

External links[]

International Olympic Committee medal database

[SR-1] "Rowing at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

[2] "Roland BOESE". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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