Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Lake Albano
Dates	30 August – 3 September
Competitors	410 from 33 nations

Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pairs	men
Coxed pairs	men
Coxless fours	men
Coxed fours	men
Eights	men

Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only. The competitions were held from 30 August to 3 September on the Lago di Albano.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls	Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)	Achim Hill (EUA)	Teodor Kocerka (POL)
double sculls	Václav Kozák and Pavol Schmidt (TCH)	Aleksandr Berkutov and Yury Tyukalov (URS)	Ernst Hürlimann and Rolf Larcher (SUI)
coxless pairs	Valentin Boreyko and Oleg Golovanov (URS)	Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder (AUT)	Veli Lehtelä and Toimi Pitkänen (FIN)
coxed pairs	United Team of Germany (EUA) Bernhard Knubel Karl Renneberg Klaus Zerta	Soviet Union (URS) Antanas Bagdonavičius Zigmas Jukna Igor Rudakov	United States (USA) Richard Draeger Conn Findlay Kent Mitchell
coxless fours	United States (USA) Arthur Ayrault Ted Nash John Sayre Rusty Wailes	Italy (ITA) Tullio Baraglia Renato Bosatta Giancarlo Crosta Giuseppe Galante	Soviet Union (URS) Igor Akhremchik Yuriy Bachurov Valentin Morkovkin Anatoly Tarabrin
coxed fours	United Team of Germany (EUA) Gerd Cintl Horst Effertz Klaus Riekemann Jürgen Litz Michael Obst	France (FRA) Robert Dumontois Claude Martin Jacques Morel Guy Nosbaum Jean Klein	Italy (ITA) Fulvio Balatti Romano Sgheiz Franco Trincavelli Giovanni Zucchi Ivo Stefanoni
eights	United Team of Germany (EUA) Manfred Rulffs Walter Schröder Frank Schepke Kraft Schepke Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Karl-Heinz Hopp Klaus Bittner Hans Lenk Willi Padge	Canada (CAN) Donald Arnold Walter D'Hondt Nelson Kuhn John Lecky David Anderson Archibald MacKinnon Bill McKerlich Glen Mervyn Sohen Biln	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Bohumil Janoušek Jan Jindra Jiří Lundák Stanislav Lusk Václav Pavkovič Luděk Pojezný Jan Švéda Josef Věntus Miroslav Koníček

Participating nations

A total of 410 rowers from 33 nations competed at the Rome Games:

Argentina (9)  Australia (25)  Austria (10)  Belgium (5)  Brazil (5)  Canada (15)  Czechoslovakia (22)  Denmark (16)  Spain (18)

Finland (12)  France (16)  Great Britain (26)  United Team of Germany (26)  Greece (6)  Hungary (9)  Italy (26)  Japan (14)

Mexico (2)  Netherlands (13)  Norway (2)  New Zealand (1)  Peru (2)  Poland (5)  Portugal (5)  Romania (8)

South Africa (5)  Switzerland (18)  Sweden (12)  Soviet Union (25)  United Arab Republic (9)  United States (26)  Uruguay (5)  Yugoslavia (12)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United Team of Germany (EUA)	3	1	0	4
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	1	5
3	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
6	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
9	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References

• International Olympic Committee medal database
• Conflicting sources: Some sources list Lorne Loomer as a silver medalist in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.^[1] However, according to other sources Loomer competed in coxless pairs, but was replaced by substitute David Anderson in the coxed eights.^[2][3][4]

1. "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Rowing" (Retrieved on May 14, 2008)
2. "Canada Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". sports-reference. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
3. "David Anderson". sports-reference. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
4. "1960 UBC/VRC Eights (M)". BC Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 January 2014.