Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's coxed eight
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
The venue in 2015
VenueVirgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course
Date13–19 October
Competitors114 from 12 nations
Teams12
Winning time6:07.00
Medalists
   West Germany
   Australia
   Soviet Union
Rowing at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Single sculls men
Double sculls men
Coxless pairs men
Coxed pairs men
Coxless fours men
Coxed fours men
Eights men

The men's coxed eight competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place at Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course, Mexico City, Mexico. It was held from 13 to 19 October and was won by the team from West Germany, beating the teams from Australia and the Soviet Union for the other medal positions.

Background

The United States had won this event at the last eight of nine Olympics, only missing out in 1960. West Germany was one of the favourites, as they had won the last four European Championships and the last two World Championships (in 1962 and 1966). The Soviet Union had a number of silver medal placings at recent events and were also among the favourites.[1]

Races were held in up to six lanes.[2] Twelve teams from 12 nations attended the competition.[1] Five of the teams replaced a total of six rowers during the competition, making for a total of 114 rowers who participated in the races.[3]

Results

Rowers are shown as per the seats occupied in the official results book published by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad.[3]

Heats

Two heats were rowed on 13 October.[4] The winning teams qualified for the final, and the remaining teams progressed to the repechage.[5]

Heat 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Horst Meyer
Dirk Schreyer
Rüdiger Henning
Lutz Ulbricht
Wolfgang Hottenrott
Egbert Hirschfelder
Jörg Siebert
Roland Böse
Gunther Tiersch (cox)
 West Germany 6:04.22 FA
2 Alf Duval
Michael Morgan
Joe Fazio
Peter Dickson
David Douglas
John Ranch
Gary Pearce
Bob Shirlaw
Alan Grover (cox)
 Australia 6:06.87 R
3 Petr Čermák
Milan Hurtala
Vladimír Jánoš
Zdeněk Kuba
Otakar Mareček
Oldřich Svojanovský
Pavel Svojanovský
Jan Wallisch
Jiří Pták (cox)
 Czechoslovakia 6:13.30 R
4 Neil Campbell
John Ross
Clayton Brown
Richard Crooker
John Richardson
Richard Symsyk
John McIntyre
Daryl MacDonald
Joel Finley (cox)
 Canada 6:21.22 R
5 Miguel Fuentes
Amado Mediña
Federico Arce
Edgar Morales
Antonio Páramo
Víctor Cervantes
Sergio Vásquez
Emilio Leal
Rodolfo Santillán (cox)
 Mexico 6:32.66 R
6 Masatoshi Shimizu
Tomio Murai
Tadamasa Kato
Shigeru Miyagawa
Fumio Nakata
Jujiro Tanaka
Toshi Fukumasu
Yoshinori Arai
Katsumi Yamamoto (cox)
 Japan 6:34.79 R

Heat 2

The Official Report of the Organising Committee lists Michael Livingston in seat 7 of the United States boat,[4] but this is incorrect, as he travelled to the 1968 Games as a reserve only.[6] It was his elder brother, Cleve Livingston, who sat in seat 7 for the heat and final.[7]

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Alan Webster
Wybo Veldman
Alistair Dryden
John Hunter
Mark Brownlee
John Gibbons
Tom Just
Gil Cawood
Robert Page (cox)
 New Zealand 6:05.62 FA
2 Peter Hein
Klaus-Dieter Bähr
Claus Wilke
Günter Bergau
Peter Gorny
Reinhard Zerfowski
Manfred Schneider
Peter Prompe
Karl-Heinz Danielowski (cox)
 East Germany 6:09.48 R
3 Zigmas Jukna
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Volodymyr Sterlyk
Juozas Jagelavičius
Aleksandr Martyshkin
Vytautas Briedis
Valentyn Kravchuk
Viktor Suslin
Yuriy Lorentsson (cox)
 Soviet Union 6:09.65 R
4 Maarten Kloosterman
Erik Wesdorp
Jan van Laarhoven
Jan Steinhauser
Eric Niehe
Gee van Enst
Jaap Reesink
Piet Bon
Arthur Koning (cox)
 Netherlands 6:12.23 R
5 Arthur Evans
Curtis Canning
Andy Larkin
Scott Steketee
Franklin Hobbs
Steve Brooks
Cleve Livingston
David Higgins
Paul Hoffman (cox)
 United States 6:15.42 R
6 Peter Thomas
Andrew Bayles
Patrick Wright
Peter Knapp
Malcolm Malpass
Robin Yarrow
Bruce Carter
Michael Cooper
Timothy Kirk (cox)
 Great Britain 6:22.20 R

Repechage

Two heats were rowed in the semi-finals on 15 October.[3] Of the five teams competing per heat, the first two would qualify for the final, while the others would progress to the small final.[8]

Heat 1

In the boat of the United States, Jake Fiechter in seat 6 replaced Cleve Livingston, who had taken seat 7 in the first round. Steve Brooks displaced Arthur Evans as stroke, with the latter moving to seat 7.[4]

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Petr Čermák
Milan Hurtala
Vladimír Jánoš
Zdeněk Kuba
Otakar Mareček
Oldřich Svojanovský
Pavel Svojanovský
Jan Wallisch
Jiří Pták (cox)
 Czechoslovakia 6:19.34 FA
2 Steve Brooks
Curtis Canning
Andy Larkin
Scott Steketee
Franklin Hobbs
Jake Fiechter
Arthur Evans
David Higgins
Paul Hoffman (cox)
 United States 6:19.81 FA
3 Peter Hein
Klaus-Dieter Bähr
Claus Wilke
Günter Bergau
Peter Gorny
Reinhard Zerfowski
Manfred Schneider
Peter Prompe
Karl-Heinz Danielowski (cox)
 East Germany 6:21.71 FB
4 Neil Campbell
John Ross
Clayton Brown
Richard Crooker
John Richardson
Richard Symsyk
John McIntyre
Daryl MacDonald
Joel Finley (cox)
 Canada 6:31.14 FB
5 Peter Thomas
Andrew Bayles
Patrick Wright
Peter Knapp
Malcolm Malpass
Robin Yarrow
Bruce Carter
Michael Cooper
Timothy Kirk (cox)
 Great Britain 6:43.55 FB

Heat 2

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Alf Duval
Michael Morgan
Joe Fazio
Peter Dickson
David Douglas
John Ranch
Gary Pearce
Bob Shirlaw
Alan Grover (cox)
 Australia 6:10.80 FA
2 Zigmas Jukna
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Volodymyr Sterlyk
Juozas Jagelavičius
Aleksandr Martyshkin
Vytautas Briedis
Valentyn Kravchuk
Viktor Suslin
Yuriy Lorentsson (cox)
 Soviet Union 6:12.12 FA
3 Maarten Kloosterman
Erik Wesdorp
Jan van Laarhoven
Jan Steinhauser
Eric Niehe
Gee van Enst
Jaap Reesink
Piet Bon
Arthur Koning (cox)
 Netherlands 6:12.90 FB
4 Miguel Fuentes
Amado Mediña
Federico Arce
Edgar Morales
Antonio Páramo
Víctor Cervantes
Sergio Vásquez
Emilio Leal
Rodolfo Santillán (cox)
 Mexico 6:43.13 FB
5 Masatoshi Shimizu
Tomio Murai
Tadamasa Kato
Shigeru Miyagawa
Fumio Nakata
Jujiro Tanaka
Toshi Fukumasu
Yoshinori Arai
Katsumi Yamamoto (cox)
 Japan 6:44.37 FB

Small final

The small final (now termed B final) was raced on 18 October.[9] Great Britain replaced Malcolm Malpass in seat 5 with John Mullard in this race, and Canada replaced John Richardson in seat 5 with Daryl Sturdy.[3] Mexico changed the seats for all rowers apart from the cox, and East Germany changed four of the seats. The Netherlands changed all seats apart from the stroke and the cox.[3]

Rank Rower Country Time
7 Günter Bergau
Klaus-Dieter Bähr
Claus Wilke
Peter Gorny
Reinhard Zerfowski
Peter Hein
Manfred Schneider
Peter Prompe
Karl-Heinz Danielowski (cox)
 East Germany 6:11.69
8 Maarten Kloosterman
Piet Bon
Eric Niehe
Jaap Reesink
Gee van Enst
Jan Steinhauser
Erik Wesdorp
Jan van Laarhoven
Arthur Koning (cox)
 Netherlands 6:14.18
9 Neil Campbell
John Ross
Clayton Brown
Richard Crooker
Daryl Sturdy
Richard Symsyk
John McIntyre
Daryl MacDonald
Joel Finley (cox)
 Canada 6:18.65
10 Peter Thomas
Andrew Bayles
Patrick Wright
Peter Knapp
John Mullard
Robin Yarrow
Bruce Carter
Michael Cooper
Timothy Kirk (cox)
 Great Britain 6:29.23
11 Edgar Morales
Víctor Cervantes
Emilio Leal
Sergio Vásquez
Miguel Fuentes
Antonio Páramo
Federico Arce
Amado Mediña
Rodolfo Santillán (cox)
 Mexico 6:41.62
12 Masatoshi Shimizu
Tomio Murai
Tadamasa Kato
Shigeru Miyagawa
Fumio Nakata
Jujiro Tanaka
Toshi Fukumasu
Yoshinori Arai
Katsumi Yamamoto (cox)
 Japan 6:52.02

Final

The final (now termed A final) was raced on 19 October.[9] On the morning of the race, the West German team replaced Roland Böse—who was suffering from angina pectoris and had developed a fever—with Nikolaus Ott in seat 8.[3][10] The team from Czechoslovakia replaced Milan Hurtala (seat 2) with Karel Kolesa (seat 4), and all the remaining rowers apart from the cox took different seats in the final compared to the two previous races.[3] The team from the United States replaced Arthur Evans with Cleve Livingston in seat 7.[3]

Rank Rower Country Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Horst Meyer
Dirk Schreyer
Rüdiger Henning
Lutz Ulbricht
Wolfgang Hottenrott
Egbert Hirschfelder
Jörg Siebert
Nikolaus Ott
Gunther Tiersch (cox)
 West Germany 6:07.00
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alf Duval
Michael Morgan
Joe Fazio
Peter Dickson
David Douglas
John Ranch
Gary Pearce
Bob Shirlaw
Alan Grover (cox)
 Australia 6:07.98
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Zigmas Jukna
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Volodymyr Sterlyk
Juozas Jagelavičius
Aleksandr Martyshkin
Vytautas Briedis
Valentyn Kravchuk
Viktor Suslin
Yuriy Lorentsson (cox)
 Soviet Union 6:09.11
4 Alan Webster
Wybo Veldman
Alistair Dryden
John Hunter
Mark Brownlee
John Gibbons
Tom Just
Gil Cawood
Robert Page (cox)
 New Zealand 6:10.43
5 Vladimír Jánoš
Zdeněk Kuba
Oldřich Svojanovský
Karel Kolesa
Pavel Svojanovský
Jan Wallisch
Otakar Mareček
Petr Čermák
Jiří Pták (cox)
 Czechoslovakia 6:12.17
6 Steve Brooks
Curtis Canning
Andy Larkin
Scott Steketee
Franklin Hobbs
Jake Fiechter
Cleve Livingston
David Higgins
Paul Hoffman (cox)
 United States 6:14.34

After the medal ceremony, Ott gave his gold medal to Böse, but another medal was later minted for Ott.[10] As per convention, the Olympic results database lists Böse as a medallist based on the fact that he competed in the qualifying race.[11]

Notes

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