| Rowing at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |
|---|---|
) Aerial view of the venue in Oberschleißheim | |
| Venue | Oberschleißheim Regatta Course |
| Date | 27 August – 2 September |
| Competitors | 440 from 35 nations |
Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, all for men. It was the last time that rowing did not include women's disciplines at the Olympics.[1]
Medal summary
Men's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| single sculls |  Yury Malyshev (URS) |  Alberto Demiddi (ARG) |  Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (GDR) |
| double sculls | Aleksandr Timoshinin and Gennadi Korshikov (URS) |  Frank Hansenand Svein Thøgersen (NOR) | Joachim Böhmer and Uli Schmied (GDR) |
| coxless pair | Siegfried Brietzke and Wolfgang Mager (GDR) |  Heinrich Fischerand Alfred Bachmann (SUI) |  Roel Luynenburgand Ruud Stokvis (NED) |
| coxed pair | East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček | .svg.png){kind=small} Romania (ROU)Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi |
| coxless four | East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert |  New Zealand (NZL)Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills |  West Germany (FRG)Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke |
| coxed four | West Germany (FRG) Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter | East Germany (GDR) Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Otakar Mareček Karel Neffe Vladimír Jánoš František Provazník Vladimír Petříček |
| eight | New Zealand (NZL) Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie |  United States (USA)Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Pete Raymond Tim Mickelson Gene Clapp Bill Hobbs Cleve Livingston Mike Livingston Paul Hoffman | East Germany (GDR) Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinrich Mederow Dietmar Schwarz |
Participating nations
A total of 440 rowers from 35 nations competed at the Munich:
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (11 nations) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
References
- ^ "Rowing at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2018.