Rowing World Championships 1966
The 1966 World Rowing Championships were held on Lake Bled near Bled . It was the second world rowing championships ever. The titles were awarded in the seven Olympic boat classes, rowers and lightweight rowers were not at the start.
In 1965, the world rowing association FISA repealed the rule that only a German team was allowed to start. The World Championships in Bled were the first appearance of the GDR men's national rowing team at an international championship as an independent team. With three gold medals, the GDR team was the most successful team when it premiered at a rowing world championship.
Results
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 German Democratic Republic
|
3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 2 |
 Netherlands
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 |
 United States
|
1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4th |
 BR Germany
|
1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5 |
 Switzerland
|
1 | 1 | ||
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
|
3 | 1 | 4th | |
| 7th |
 Austria
|
1 | 1 | ||
 France
|
1 | 1 | |||
| 9 |
 Italy
|
1 | 1 | ||
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
1 | 1 | |||
| total | 7th | 7th | 7th | 21st | |
Web links
- German medal winners at world championships (with photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Ueberhorst : One hundred years of the German Rowing Association. A historical-critical appraisal . Albrecht Philler Verlag, Minden 1983, ISBN 3-7907-3100-5 , pp. 140f.
- ↑ Results in one
- ↑ Results in double sculls
- ↑ Results in twos without
- ↑ Results in twos with
- ↑ Results in a foursome without
- ↑ Results in a foursome with a helmsman
- ↑ Results in the eighth