1968 Summer Olympics / Rowing

Rowing at the XIX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Mexico city
Competition venue	Pista Olímpica Virgilio Uribe
Nations	29
Athletes	353 (all male)
date	13-19 October 1968
decisions	7th
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At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , seven rowing competitions were held. The regatta course " Pista Olímpica Virgilio Uribe " in the Xochimilco district served as a competition venue .

One

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NED	Jan Wienese	7: 47.80
2	FRG	Jochen Meißner	7: 52.00
3	ARG	Alberto Demiddi	7: 57.19
4th	United States	John van Blom	8: 00.51
5	GDR	Achim Hill	8: 06.09
6th	GBR	Kenneth Dwan	8: 13.76

Double scull

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Anatoly Sass Alexander Timoshinin	6: 51.82
2	NED	Henricus Droog Leendert van Dis	6: 52.80
3	United States	John Nunn William Maher	6: 54.21

Two without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Jörg Lucke Heinz-Jürgen Bothe	7: 26.56
2	United States	Lawrence Hugh Philip Johnson	7: 26.71
3	THE	Peter Fich Christiansen Ivan Larsen	7: 31.84

Two with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	ITA	Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla	8: 04.81
2	NED	Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders	8: 06.80
3	THE	Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab	8: 08.07

Foursome without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	6: 39.18
2	HUN	Zoltán Melis György Sarlós József Csermely Antal Melis	6: 41.64
3	ITA	Renato Bosatta Pier Angelo Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini	6: 44.01

Foursome with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	NZL	Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie	6: 45.62
2	GDR	Peter Kremtz Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Manfred Gelpke Dieter Semetzky	6: 48.20
3	SUI	Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich	6: 49.04

Eighth

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	FRG	Horst Meyer , Dirk Schreyer , Rüdiger Henning , Wolfgang Hottenrott , Lutz Ulbricht , Egbert Hirschfelder , Jörg Siebert , Niko Ott , Gunther Tiersch	6:07.00
2	OUT	Alfred Duval , David Douglas , Michael Morgan , John Ranch , Joseph Fazio , Gary Pearce , Peter Dickson , Robert Shirlaw , Alan Grover	6: 07.98
3	URS	Zigmas Jukna , Antanas Bagdonavičius , Wladimir Sterlik , Josanas Jagelavičius , Vytautas Briedis , Valentin Kravchuk , Alexander Martyshkin , Wiktor Suslin , Juri Lorenzson	6: 09.11

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . Pp. 123-128