Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course
Date	13–19 October
Competitors	353 from 29 nations

Rowing at the 1968 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 1968 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The events took place at Lake Xochimilco.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls	Jan Wienese (NED)	Jochen Meißner (FRG)	Alberto Demiddi (ARG)
double sculls	Aleksandr Timoshinin and Anatoliy Sass (URS)	Harry Droog and Leendert van Dis (NED)	John Nunn and Bill Maher (USA)
coxless pairs	Jörg Lucke and Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (GDR)	Larry Hough and Philip Johnson (USA)	Peter Christiansen and Ib Larsen (DEN)
coxed pairs	Italy (ITA) Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla	Netherlands (NED) Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders	Denmark (DEN) Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab
coxless fours	East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Melis József Csermely György Sarlós Antal Melis	Italy (ITA) Renato Bosatta Pier Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini
coxed fours	New Zealand (NZL) Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie	East Germany (GDR) Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Dieter Semetzky	Switzerland (SUI) Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich
eights	West Germany (FRG) Horst Meyer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Jörg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Nikolaus Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse (heat 1)[1]	Australia (AUS) Bob Shirlaw Gary Pearce John Ranch David Douglas Peter Dickson Joe Fazio Michael Morgan Alf Duval Alan Grover	Soviet Union (URS) Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlyk Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuriy Lorentsson

Participating nations

A total of 353 rowers from 29 nations competed at the Mexico Games:

Argentina (9)  Australia (11)  Austria (3)  Belgium (1)  Bulgaria (5)  Brazil (2)  Canada (14)  Cuba (11)

Czechoslovakia (15)  Denmark (10)  Egypt  Spain (3)  Finland (2)  France (17)  Great Britain (11)  East Germany (26)

West Germany (26)  Italy (14)  Hungary (6)  Japan (10)  Mexico (25)  Netherlands (22)  New Zealand (14)  Peru (3)

Poland (3)  Romania (14)  Switzerland (17)  Soviet Union (27)  United States (27)  Uruguay (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	0	3
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	1	2
6	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References

1. "Roland BOESE". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

• International Olympic Committee medal database