Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

The men's eight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Lake Albano, Italy.[1]

Men's eight
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Date31 August – 3 September
Competitors126 from 14 nations
Medalists
Manfred Rulffs
Walter Schröder
Frank Schepke
Kraft Schepke
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Karl-Heinz Hopp
Klaus Bittner
Hans Lenk
Willi Padge
 United Team of Germany
Donald Arnold
Walter D'Hondt
Nelson Kuhn
John Lecky
David Anderson
Archibald MacKinnon
Bill McKerlich
Glen Mervyn
Sohen Biln
 Canada
Bohumil Janoušek
Jan Jindra
Jiří Lundák
Stanislav Lusk
Václav Pavkovič
Luděk Pojezný
Jan Švéda
Josef Věntus
Miroslav Koníček
 Czechoslovakia

Competition format

This rowing competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and final), as well as a repechage round that allowed teams that did not win their heats to advance to the final. All races were 2,000 metres in distance.

  • Heats: Three heats. With 15 boats entered, there were five boats per heat (except in the first heat, where one team did not appear). The winner of each heat advanced directly to the final; all other boats went to the repechage.
  • Repechage: Three heats. With 11 boats racing in but not winning their initial heats, there were three or four boats per repechage heat. The top boat in each repechage heat advanced to the final, with the remaining boats eliminated.
  • Final: The final consisted of the six boats that had won either the preliminary heats or the repechage heats.

Results

Heat 1

Poland was entered in this heat but did not appear.

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Miroslav Koníček Czechoslovakia6:13.08Q
2Terrence Scook Australia6:16.94R
3Abbas Khamis United Arab Republic6:22.06R
4Owe Lostad Sweden6:29.49R

Heat 2

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Willi Padge United Team of Germany6:03.34Q
2Alain Bouffard France6:07.71R
3Peter Reynolds Great Britain6:10.33R
4Hiroyuki Misawa Japan6:11.86R
5Werner Ehrensperger Switzerland6:17.00R

Heat 3

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Sohen Biln Canada6:03.18Q
2William Long United States6:07.69R
3Giuseppe Pira Italy6:09.05R
4Yuriy Lorentsson Soviet Union6:09.65R
5Faustino Amiano Spain6:31.43R

Repechage heat 1

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Giuseppe Pira Italy6:23.83Q
2Hiroyuki Misawa Japan6:24.41
3Werner Ehrensperger Switzerland6:30.26
4Terrence Scook Australia6:31.15

Repechage heat 2

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Alain Bouffard France6:21.34Q
2Yuriy Lorentsson Soviet Union6:21.88
3Abbas Khamis United Arab Republic6:41.26
4Faustino Amiano Spain6:52.46

Repechage heat 3

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1William Long United States6:31.77Q
2Peter Reynolds Great Britain6:33.22
3Owe Lostad Sweden6:49.56

Final

RankRowersCoxswainNationTime
Willi Padge United Team of Germany5:57.18
Sohen Biln Canada6:01.52
Miroslav Koníček Czechoslovakia6:04.84
4Alain Bouffard France6:06.57
5William Long United States6:08.06
6Giuseppe Pira Italy6:12.73

References

  1. "Rowing at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
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