1970 World Rowing Championships

1970 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course
Location	St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

The 1970 World Rowing Championships was the 3rd World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1970 at the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The competition involved seven events.^[1][2] Prior to the 4th World Rowing Championships in 1974, only men competed.^[1]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1970 World Rowing Championships:^[1][2]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [3]	Argentina Alberto Demiddi	7:16.54	East Germany Götz Draeger		Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Hellebrand
M2x [4]	Denmark Jörgen Engelbrecht Niels Secher	6:28.68	East Germany Hans-Ulrich Schmied Joachim Böhmer		United States John van Blom Thomas McKibbon
M2- [5]	East Germany Peter Gorny Werner Klatt	6:57.81	Poland Alfons Ślusarski Jerzy Broniec		West Germany Udo Brecht Lutz Ulbricht
M2+ [6]	Romania Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi	7:25.30	East Germany Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Klaus-Dieter Ludwig		Soviet Union Vladimir Eshinov Nikolay Ivanov Walentin Kostizin
M4- [7]	East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	6:23.15	West Germany Joachim Werner Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Claus Schneggenburger Wolfgang Plottke		Denmark Erik Petersen Tom Hindsby Kurt Helmudt Poul Nielsen
M4+ [8]	West Germany Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Stefan Voncken	6:28.55	East Germany Bernd Meerbach Rolf Zimmermann Jochen Mietzner Karl-Heinz Prudöhl Karl-Heinz Danielowski		Norway Alf Hansen Finn Tveter Tom Welo Peter Waerness Finn Aronsen
M8+ [9]	East Germany Ernst Otto Borchmann Rolf Jobst Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Bernd Ahrendt Klaus-Peter Foppke Hans-Joachim Puls Reinhard Zahn	5:36.1	Soviet Union Nikolai Sumatoschin Aleksandr Martyshkin Aleksandr Riasankin[10] Victor Melnikov[11] Beniaminas Natsevicius[12] Mindaugas Vaitkus[13] Wiktor Lewschin Aleksandr Visotski[14] Viktor Mikejev[15]		New Zealand Warren Cole Wybo Veldman Murray Watkinson John Hunter Dick Joyce Dudley Storey Gary Robertson Gil Cawood Simon Dickie

Event codes

	single scull	double scull	coxless pair	coxed pair	coxless four	coxed four	eight (coxed)
Men's	M1x	M2x	M2-	M2+	M4-	M4+	M8+

Medals table

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
East Germany	3	4	0	7
West Germany	1	1	1	3
Denmark	1	0	1	2
Argentina	1	0	0	1
Romania	1	0	0	1
Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
Poland	0	1	0	1
Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Norway	0	0	1	1
United States	0	0	1	1
Total	7	7	7	21

References

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13. Mindaugas Vaitkus at WorldRowing.com from FISA
14. Aleksandr Visotski at WorldRowing.com from FISA
15. Viktor Mikejev at WorldRowing.com from FISA