1972 Summer Olympics / Rowing

Rowing at the XX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Munich
Competition venue	Regatta course Oberschleißheim
Nations	35
Athletes	440 (all male)
date	August 27 - September 2, 1972
decisions	7th
← 1968 Mexico City 1976 Montreal →

At the XX. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , seven rowing competitions took place from August 27 to September 2, 1972 on the Oberschleißheim regatta course .

Competitions and schedule

Regatta course Oberschleißheim - venue of the rowing competitions

VL

leader

HL

Reunion

HF

Semifinals

final

Rowing competitions and schedule
Competitions	August September
	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.
One	VL		HL		HF
Double scull	VL		HL		HF
Two without a helmsman	VL		HL		HF
Two with a helmsman	VL		HL		HF
Foursome without a helmsman	VL		HL		HF
Foursome with a helmsman	VL		HL		HF
Eighth	VL		HL		HF

One

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Yuri Malyshev	URS	7:10, 12
2	Alberto Demiddi	ARG	7: 11.53
3	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	GDR	7: 14.45
4th	Udo Hild	FRG	7: 20.81
5	James Dietz	United States	7: 24.81
6th	Melchior surety	SUI	7: 31.99

Participants: 18 rowers
finals on September 2nd

Double scull

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Alexander Timoshinin Gennady Korschikow	7: 01.77
2	NOR	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	7: 02.58
3	GDR	Joachim Böhmer Hans-Ulrich Schmied	7: 05.55
4th	THE	Niels Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht	7: 14.19
5	GBR	Timothy Crooks Patrick Delafield	7: 16.29
6th	TCH	Josef Straka Vladek Lacina	7: 17.60

Participants: 19 teams
final on September 2nd

Two without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Siegfried Brietzke Wolfgang Mager	6: 53.16
2	SUI	Heinrich Fischer Alfred Bachmann	6: 57.06
3	NED	Roelof Luynenburg Rudolf Stokvis	6: 58.70
4th	TCH	Lubomír Zapletal Petr Lakomý	6: 58.77
5	POLE	Alfons Ślusarski Jerzy Broniec	7: 02.74
6th	ROU	Ilie Oanță Dumitru Grumezescu	7: 42.90

Participants: 19 teams
final on September 2nd

Two with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert ( helmsman )	7: 17.25
2	TCH	Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček ( helmsman )	7: 19.57
3	ROU	Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi ( helmsman )	7: 21.36
4th	FRG	Heinz Mußmann Bernd Krause Stefan Kuhnke ( helmsman )	7: 21.52
5	URS	Vladimir Jeschinow Nikolai Ivanov Juri Lorenzson ( helmsman )	7: 24.44
6th	POLE	Wojciech Repsz Wieslaw Dlugosz Jacek Rylski ( helmsman )	7: 28.92

Participants: 21 teams
final on September 2nd

Foursome without a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	GDR	Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	6: 24.27
2	NZL	Richard Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills	6: 25.64
3	FRG	Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke	6: 28.41
4th	URS	Anatoly Tkachuk Igor Kashurov Alexander Motin Vitali Sapronov	6: 31.92
5	ROU	Emerich Tusa Adalbert Agh Mihai Nreckencu Francise Papp	6: 35.60
6th	THE	Villy Poulsen Peter Fich Christiansen Egon Petersen Rolf-Peder Andersen	6: 37.28

Participants: 20 teams
final on September 2nd

Foursome with a helmsman

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	FRG	Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter ( helmsman )	6: 31.85
2	GDR	Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig ( helmsman )	6: 33.30
3	TCH	Otakar Mareček Karel nephew Vladimír Jánoš František Provazník Vladimír Petříček ( helmsman )	6: 35.64
4th	URS	Vladimir Sterlik Vladimir Soloviev Alexander Ljubaturow Yuri Schamajew Igor Rudakov ( helmsman )	6: 37.71
5	United States	David Sawyer Charles Ruthford Chad Rudolph Michael Vespoli Stewart McDonald ( helmsman )	6: 41.86
6th	NZL	Warren Cole Chris Nilsson John Clark David Lindstrom Peter Lindsay ( helmsman )	6: 42.55

Participants: 14 teams
final on September 2nd

Eighth

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	NZL	Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Athol Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie ( helmsman )	6: 08.94
2	United States	Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Peter Raymond Timothy Mickelson Eugene Clapp William Hobbs Cleve Livingston Michael Livingston Paul Hoffman ( helmsman )	6: 11.61
3	GDR	Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinrich Mederow Dietmar Schwarz ( helmsman )	6: 11.67
4th	URS	Alexander Rjasankin Viktor Dementjew Sergei Koljaskin Alexander Schitow Valeri Bissarnow Boris Vorobjow Vladimir Savelov Alexander Martyshkin Viktor Michejew ( helmsman )	6: 14.48
5	FRG	Reinhard Wendemuth Frithjof Henckel Norbert Kindlmann Wolfgang Hottenrott Hans-Ulrich Buchholz Günter Petersmann Bernd Truschinski Winfried Ringwald Manfred Klein ( helmsman )	6: 14.91
6th	POLE	Jerzy Ulczynski Marian Siejkowski Krzysztof Marek Jan Mlodzikowski Grzegorz Stellak Marian Drazdzewski Ryszard Gilo Slawomir Maciejowski Ryszard Kubiak ( helmsman )	6: 29.35

Participants: 15 teams
Final on September 2nd

Medal table

Rowing medal table
space	country
1	GDR	3	1	3	7th
2	Soviet Union	2	-	-	2
3	New Zealand	1	1	-	2
4th	BR Germany	1	-	1	2
5	Czechoslovakia	-	1	1	2
6th	Argentina	-	1	-	1
	Norway	-	1	-	1
	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
	United States	-	1	-	1
10	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Romania	-	-	1	1
total		7th	7th	7th	21st

literature

Kicker-Sportmagazin : Born 1972: Issue No. 69–73, Olympia-Verlag GmbH

Web links

1. ↑ Schedule and results of the competitions p. 464–482 (PDF; 29.4 MB)