1948 Summer Olympics / Rowing

Rowing at the XIV Summer Olympics
information
venue	Henley-on-Thames
Competition venue	Thames
Nations	27
Athletes	310 (all male)
date	5th-9th August 1948
decisions	7th
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At the XIV Olympic Games in 1948 , seven competitions were held in rowing . As in the 1908 Summer Olympics , the competitions took place on the traditional route of the Henley Royal Regatta near Henley-on-Thames , around 60 kilometers west of central London .

One

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	OUT	Mervyn Wood	7: 24.4
2	URU	Eduardo Risso	7: 38.2
3	ITA	Romolo Catasta	7: 51.4

Double scull

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GBR	Richard Burnell Bertram Bushnell	6: 51.3
2	THE	Ebbe Parsner Aage Larsen	6: 55.3
3	URU	William Jones Juan Rodríguez	7: 12.4

Two without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GBR	John Wilson Ran Laurie	7: 21.1
2	SUI	Hans Kalt Josef Kalt	7: 23.9
3	ITA	Felice Fanetti Bruno Bonuses	7: 31.5

Two with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	THE	Finn Pedersen days Henriksen Carl-Ebbe Andersen	8: 00.5
2	ITA	Giovanni Steffè Aldo Tarlao Alberto Radi	8: 12.2
3	HUN	Antal Szendey Béla Zsitnik Róbert Zimonyi	8: 25.2

Foursome without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	ITA	Giuseppe Moioli Elio Morille Giovanni Invernizzi Franco Faggi	6: 39.0
2	THE	Helge Halkjær Axel Bonde Hansen Helge Schrøder Ib Storm Larsen	6: 43.5
3	United States	Frederick Kingsbury Stuart Griffing Gregory Gates Robert Perew	6: 47.7

Foursome with a helmsman

The winning American foursome

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Warren Westlund Robert Martin Robert Will Gordon Giovanelli Allen Morgan	6: 50.3
2	SUI	Rudolf Reichling Erich Schriever Émile Knecht Pierre Stebler André Moccand	6: 53.3
3	THE	Erik Larsen Børge Raahauge Nielsen Henry Larsen Harry Knudsen Ib Olsen	6: 58.6

Eighth

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Ian Turner , David Turner , James Hardy , George Ahlgren , Lloyd Butler , David Brown , Justus Smith , John Stack , Ralph Purchase	5: 56.7
2	GBR	Christopher Barton , Michael Lapage , Guy Richardson , Ernest Bircher , Paul Massey , Charles Lloyd , David Meyrick , Alfred Mellows , Jack Dearlove	6: 06.9
3	NOR	Kristoffer Lepsøe , Thorstein Kråkenes , Hans Hansen , Halfdan Olsen , Harald Kråkenes , Leif Næss , Thor Pedersen , Carl Monssen , Sigurd Monssen	6: 10.3