1956 Summer Olympics / Rowing

Rowing at the XVI. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Melbourne
Competition venue	Lake Wendouree near Ballarat
Nations	25th
Athletes	242 (all male)
date	23-27 November 1956
decisions	7th
← 1952 Helsinki 1960 Rome →

At the XVI. 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne were seven competitions in rowing held.

One

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Vyacheslav Ivanov	8: 02.5
2	OUT	Stuart MacKenzie	8: 07.7
3	United States	John B. Kelly junior	8: 11.8

Double scull

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Alexander Berkutov Yuri Tyukalov	7: 24.0
2	United States	Bernard Costello James Gardiner	7: 32.2
3	OUT	Murray Riley Mervyn Wood	7: 37.4

Two without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	James Fifer Duvall Pike	7: 55.4
2	URS	Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov	8: 03.9
3	AUT	Josef Kloimstein Alfred Sageder	8: 11.8

Two with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Arthur Ayrault Conn Findlay Armin Seiffert	8: 26.1
2	EUA	Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky	8: 29.2
3	URS	Igor Yemchuk Georgi Shilin Vladimir Petrov	8: 31.0

Foursome without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	CAN	Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	7: 08.8
2	United States	John Welchli John McKinlay Arthur McKinlay James McIntosh	7: 18.4
3	FRA	René Guissart Yves Delacour Guy Guillabert Gaston Mercier	7: 20.9

Foursome with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	ITA	Alberto Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni	7: 19.4
2	SWE	Olof Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson	7: 22.4
3	FIN	Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi	7: 30.9

Eighth

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	United States	Thomas Charlton , David Wight , John Cooke , Donald Beer , Caldwell Esselstyn , Charles Grimes , Richard Wailes , Robert Morey , William Becklean	6: 35.2
2	CAN	Philip Kueber , Richard McClure , Robert Wilson , David Helliwell , Donald Pretty , William McKerlich , Douglas McDonald , Lawrence West , Carlton Ogawa	6: 37.1
3	OUT	Michael Aikman , David Boykett , Angus Benfield , James Howden , Garth Manton , Walter Howell , Adrian Monger , Bryan Doyle , Harold Hewitt	6: 39.2