Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenueLake Albano
Dates30 August – 3 September
Competitors410 from 33 nations
Rowing at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Single sculls men
Double sculls men
Coxless pairs men
Coxed pairs men
Coxless fours men
Coxed fours men
Eights men

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.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
single sculls
 Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)  Achim Hill (EUA)  Teodor Kocerka (POL)
double sculls
 Václav Kozák
and Pavol Schmidt (TCH)
 Aleksandr Berkutov
and Yury Tyukalov (URS)
 Ernst Hürlimann
and Rolf Larcher (SUI)
coxless pairs
 Valentin Boreyko
and Oleg Golovanov (URS)
 Josef Kloimstein
and Alfred Sageder (AUT)
 Veli Lehtelä
and Toimi Pitkänen (FIN)
coxed pairs
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Bernhard Knubel
Karl Renneberg
Klaus Zerta
 Soviet Union (URS)
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Zigmas Jukna
Igor Rudakov
 United States (USA)
Richard Draeger
Conn Findlay
Kent Mitchell
coxless fours
 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
 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
 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:

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  United States (USA) 1 0 1 2
 Czechoslovakia (TCH) 1 0 1 2
5  Italy (ITA) 0 1 1 2
6  Austria (AUT) 0 1 0 1
 France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
 Canada (CAN) 0 1 0 1
9  Poland (POL) 0 0 1 1
 Switzerland (SUI) 0 0 1 1
 Finland (FIN) 0 0 1 1
Total 7 7 7 21

References

  1. "1960 Summer Olympics Rome, Italy Rowing" (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
  2. "Canada Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". sports-reference. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. "David Anderson". sports-reference. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  4. "1960 UBC/VRC Eights (M)". BC Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
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