Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair

Men's coxless pairs at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Date	August 11–13
Competitors	26 from 13 nations
Medalists
Willi Eichhorn Hugo Strauß   Germany   Harry Larsen Peter Olsen   Denmark   Horacio Podestá Julio Curatella   Argentina

Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pairs	men
Coxed pairs	men
Coxless fours	men
Coxed fours	men
Eights	men

The men's coxless pairs competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin took place are at Grünau on the Langer See.

Schedule

Date	Round
August 11, 1936	Heats
August 12, 1936	Semifinal
August 13, 1936	Final

Results

Heats

First boat of each heat qualified to the final, remainder goes to the semifinal.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ryszard Borzuchowski Edward Kobyliński	Poland	7:29.9	Q
2	Wilhelm Klopfer Karl Müller	Switzerland	7:33.7
3	Frans Thissen Edmond Van Herck	Belgium	7:38.1
4	Afonso de Castro Eduardo Lehman	Brazil	7:40.2
5	Jan Kramer Willem Jens	Netherlands	7:48.0

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Károly Győry Tibor Mamusich	Hungary	7:19.0	Q
2	Harry Larsen Peter Olsen	Denmark	7:19.1
3	Baldomiro Benquet Gabriel Benquet	Uruguay	7:42.1
4	Harry Sharkey George Dahm	United States	7:50.0

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Willi Eichhorn Hugo Strauß	Germany	7:12.6	Q
2	Horacio Podestá Julio Curatella	Argentina	7:20.0
3	Thomas Cree David Burnford	Great Britain	7:32.5
4	Heinz Gattringer Max Colli	Austria	7:38.7

Semifinal

First boat of each heat qualified to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Horacio Podestá Julio Curatella	Argentina	9:11.4	Q
2	Thomas Cree David Burnford	Great Britain	9:14.4
3	Harry Sharkey George Dahm	United States	DNF
4	Afonso de Castro Eduardo Lehman	Brazil	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wilhelm Klopfer Karl Müller	Switzerland	8:57.4	Q
2	Baldomiro Benquet Gabriel Benquet	Uruguay	9:00.8
3	Heinz Gattringer Max Colli	Austria	9:42.8

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Harry Larsen Peter Olsen	Denmark	8:53.4	Q
2	Jan Kramer Willem Jens	Netherlands	9:25.4
3	Frans Thissen Edmond Van Herck	Belgium	9:33.1

Final

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Willi Eichhorn Hugo Strauß	Germany	8:16.1
	Harry Larsen Peter Olsen	Denmark	8:19.2
	Horacio Podestá Julio Curatella	Argentina	8:23.0
4	Károly Győry Tibor Mamusich	Hungary	8:25.7
5	Wilhelm Klopfer Karl Müller	Switzerland	8:33.0
6	Ryszard Borzuchowski Edward Kobyliński	Poland	8:41.9

References

• Official Olympic Report