1971 European Rowing Championships

1971 European Rowing Championships
	1971 M8+ semifinal, showing New Zealand (front), the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia
Venue	Lake Bagsværd
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	12–15 August (women); 18–25 August (men)
Nations	17 (women) and 27 (men)

The 1971 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Bagsværd in the Danish capital Copenhagen. There were seven competitions for men and five for women, and the most successful nation was East Germany with five gold medals across the twelve boat classes. As World Rowing Championships were still held at four-year intervals at the time, the European Rowing Championships were open to nations outside of Europe and had become to be regarded as quasi-world championships. Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x: 17 boats; M2x: 16 boats; M2-: 13 boats; M2+: 20 boats; M4-: 15 boats; M4+: 18 boats; M8+: 16 boats), and 120 boats were entered in total.[1]

The women's championships were held from 12 to 15 August,[2] and 49 boats were entered from 17 countries. The men's championships were held shortly afterwards, from 18 to 25 August. The men entered 116 boats from 27 countries.[3]

Medal summary

Medallists at the 1971 European Rowing Championships were:

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x[4]	East Germany Anita Kuhlke	4:30.75	France Annick Anthoine	4:34.66	West Germany Edith Eckbauer	4:35.03
W2x[5]	Soviet Union Elena Kondrashina Galina Yermolayeva	4:05.55	East Germany Gisela Jäger Rita Schmidt	4:08.13	West Germany Astrid Hohl Bärbel Kornhass	4:09.55
W4x+[6]	Romania Doina Bardas Elisabeta Lazăr Mitana Botez Ioana Tudoran Stefania Gurau (cox)	3:48.39	Soviet Union Galina Mitrokhina Aleksandra Bocharova Nadeschda Pronina Tatyana Rakovshchik Ludmila Arjakovskaia (cox)	3:50.92	France Josiane Fénié Jeanine Gonneaud Josiane Massiasse Jacqueline Kustner Marie-Hélène Gin (cox)	3:53.14
W4+[7]	Soviet Union Anna Kuleshova Olga Ivanova Tatiana Petrova Elena Morozova Alla Sisheva (cox)	3:55.77	Romania Doina Bălașa Mărioara Singiorzan Elena Necula Teodora Boicu Rodica Iordache (cox)	3:56.45	East Germany Irmhild Schulz Angelika Noack Ingelore Schweizer Irina Müller Christine Rösch (cox)	3:59.66
W8+[8]	Soviet Union Larissa Sotskova Nina Filatova Sofia Beketova Valentina Alekseeva Nina Abramova Evdokia Riabova Valentina Rubtsova Nina Bystrova Nina Frolova (cox)	3:27.78	East Germany Ute Marten Renate Schlenzig Rosel Nitsche Christa Staack Brigitte Ahrenholz Susanne Spitzer Gunhild Blanke Renate Boesler Gudrun Apelt (cox)	3:35.52	Romania Ecaterina Trancioveanu Elena Necula Elena Oprea[nb 1] Cristel Wiener Florica Petcu Elena Gawluk Marioara Constantin Viorica Lincaru Stefania Gurau (cox)	3:41.38

Notes:

There is uncertainty whether the later Olympian competed in 1971 as a 13-year-old

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x[9]	Argentina Alberto Demiddi	6:57.99	East Germany Götz Draeger	7:01.41	New Zealand Murray Watkinson	7:02.34
M2x[10]	East Germany Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied	6:15.27	Norway Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	6:15.65	Soviet Union Nikolai Balenkov Gennadi Korshikov	6:25.20
M2-[11]	East Germany Peter Gorny Werner Klatt	6:43.40	Czechoslovakia Petr Lakomý Lubomír Zapletal	6:48.57	Poland Jerzy Broniec Alfons Ślusarski	6:51.46
M2+[12]	East Germany Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert (cox)	6:56.94	Czechoslovakia Pavel Svojanovský Oldřich Svojanovský Petr Krchov (cox)	6:58.43	Soviet Union Nikolay Ivanov Vladimir Eshinov Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)	6:59.59
M4-[13]	East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	6:00.72	Norway Svein Nielsen Kjell Sverre Johansen Tom Amundsen Ole Nafstad	6:03.59	West Germany Wolfgang Plottke Franz Held Peter Funnekötter Joachim Ehrig	6:06.02
M4+[14]	West Germany Alois Bierl Gerhard Auer Hans-Johann Färber Peter Berger Uwe Benter (cox)	6:12.82	East Germany Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Dieter Schwarz (cox)	6:14.95	Soviet Union Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov Volodymyr Sterlik Viktor Suslin Anatoli Fedorov Igor Rudakov (cox)	6:14.98
M8+[15]	New Zealand Gary Robertson Trevor Coker Joe Earl Lindsay Wilson John Hunter Dick Joyce Wybo Veldman Tony Hurt Simon Dickie (cox)	5:33.92	East Germany Dietrich Zander Hans-Joachim Puls Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Reinhard Gust Klaus-Peter Foppke Ernst Otto Borchmann Bernd Ahrendt Reinhard Zahn (cox)	5:34.32	Soviet Union Mindaugas Vaitkus Beniaminas Natsevicius Apolinaras Grigas Tiit Helmja Pavel Solovyev Vladimir Ilyinsky Nikolai Sumatikhin Aleksandr Martyshkin Viktor Mikheyev (cox)	5:39.74

The New Zealand eight would go on in unchanged composition to win the 1972 Olympic eight event.[16]

Medals table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	5	5	1	11
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	4	8
3	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	3	4
5	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	1	2
6	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	0	2
7	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
9	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
10	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		12	12	12	36

References

"Schwere Vorlauf-Gegner". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 27 (227). 18 August 1971. p. 8. Retrieved 29 December 2017.(registration required)
Sydow, Waldemar (11 August 1971). "Alles offen auf dem Baasvaerd-See". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 27 (220). p. 8. Retrieved 29 December 2017.(registration required)
Smalman-Smith, Helena. "1971 Women's European Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
"(W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(W2x) Women's Double Sculls – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(W4x+) Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(W4+) Women's Coxed Four – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(W8+) Women's Eight – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M1x) Men's Single Sculls – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M2x) Men's Double Sculls – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M2-) Men's Pair – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M4-) Men's Four – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M4+) Men's Coxed Four – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
"(M8+) Men's Eight – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand at the 1972 München Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

External links

Some NZ Rowing History – the perspective of a New Zealand spectator, including a number of photos
Collection of photos

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[9] There is uncertainty whether the later Olympian competed in 1971 as a 13-year-old

[1] "Schwere Vorlauf-Gegner". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 27 (227). 18 August 1971. p. 8. Retrieved 29 December 2017.(registration required)

[2] Sydow, Waldemar (11 August 1971). "Alles offen auf dem Baasvaerd-See". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 27 (220). p. 8. Retrieved 29 December 2017.(registration required)

[3] Smalman-Smith, Helena. "1971 Women's European Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. Retrieved 26 December 2017.

[4] "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[5] "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[6] "(W4x+) Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[7] "(W4+) Women's Coxed Four – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[8] "(W8+) Women's Eight – Final". 15 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[10] "(M1x) Men's Single Sculls – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[11] "(M2x) Men's Double Sculls – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[12] "(M2-) Men's Pair – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[13] "(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[14] "(M4-) Men's Four – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[15] "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[16] "(M8+) Men's Eight – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

[17] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "New Zealand at the 1972 München Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

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