1962 World Rowing Championships

The 1962 World Rowing Championships was the 1st World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1962 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.^[1][2]

The Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA) did not recognise East Germany, and so only one German crew was permitted per event. Selection trials between East and West German crews were held the day before the championships, with West German crews winning in all categories.^[2] Prior to the 4th World Rowing Championships in 1974, only men competed.^[1]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1962 World Rowing Championships:^[1][2]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [3]	Soviet Union Vyacheslav Ivanov	7:07.09	Great Britain Stuart MacKenzie	7:10.67	United States Seymour Cromwell	7:11.88
M2x [4]	France René Duhamel Bernard Monnereau	6:33.90	Soviet Union Boris Dubrovskiy Oleg Tyurin	6:34.74	Germany Jost Krause-Wichmann Josef Steffes-Mies	6:34.92
M2- [5]	Germany Dieter Bender Günther Zumkeller	6:54.62	Soviet Union Valentin Boreyko Oleg Golovanov	6:58.19	Switzerland Hugo Waser Adolf Waser	7:05.59
M2+ [6]	Germany Wolfgang Neuss Klaus-Günther Jordan Frank Steinhäuser	7:19.10	Romania Ion Petrov Carol Veres Oprea Păunescu [7]	7:22.60	Soviet Union Wladimir Smirnow Waleri Polkowski Igor Rudakov	7:24.17
M4- [8]	Germany Gerd Wolter Dagobert Tometschek Peter Paustain Christian Prey	6:19.24	France André Fevret [9] Roger Chatelain [10] Philippe Malivoire [11] Jean-Pierre Drivet [12]		Austria Dieter Losert Dieter Ebner Horst Kuttelwascher [13] Helmut Kuttelwascher [14]
M4+ [15]	Germany Bernd-Jürgen Marschner Peter Neusel Bernhard Britting Manfred Ross Jürgen Oelke	6:29.12	France Jean Ledoux [16] Émile Clerc [17] André Sloth Pierre Maddaloni [18] Alain Bouffard [19]	6:31.93	Soviet Union Boris Fjodorow Yuriy Suslin Juri Tjukalow Anatoli Fjodorow Igor Rudakov	6:33.30
M8+ [20]	Germany Horst Meyer Jürgen Plagemann Klaus Aeffke Klaus Behrens Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Ingo Kliefoth Bernd Kruse Thomas Ahrens	5:50.83	Soviet Union Ričardas Vaitkevičius Antanas Bagdonavičius Zigmas Jukna Wiktor Semjonow Vytautas Briedis Petras Karla Jaroslaw Tscherschtwij Juozas Jagelavičius Juri Lorenzon	5:53.56	France Christian Puibaraud [21] Jean-Pierre Bellet [22] Jacques Morel Joseph Moroni [23] Georges Morel Robert Dumontois Bernard Meynadier [24] Michel Viaud [25] Alain Bouffard [19]	5:55.36

Event codes

Medals table

Country	01 ! Gold	02 ! Silver	03 ! Bronze	Total
Germany	5	0	1	6
Soviet Union	1	3	2	6
France	1	2	1	4
Great Britain	0	1	0	1
Romania	0	1	0	1
Austria	0	0	1	1
Switzerland	0	0	1	1
United States	0	0	1	1
Total	7	7	7	21

References