Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Main article: Rowing at the Summer Olympics

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]

Rowing at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Aerial view of the venue in Oberschleißheim
Venue	Oberschleißheim Regatta Course
Date	27 August – 2 September 1972
Competitors	440 from 35 nations
← 1968 1976 →

Participating nations

A total of 440 rowers from 35 nations competed at the Munich:

•  Argentina (18)
•  Australia (16)
•  Austria (16)
•  Belgium (5)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Canada (16)
•  Chile (1)
•  Cuba (7)
•  Czechoslovakia (21)
•  Denmark (12)
•  East Germany (26)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (18)
•  Great Britain (17)
•  Hungary (15)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (21)
•  Japan (3)
•  Mexico (9)
•  Netherlands (21)
•  New Zealand (19)
•  North Korea (6)
•  Norway (16)
•  Poland (16)
•  Portugal (3)
•  Romania (9)
•  Soviet Union (26)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (17)
•  United States (26)
•  Uruguay (3)
•  West Germany (26)
•  Yugoslavia (15)

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 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Yury Malyshev (URS)	Alberto Demiddi (ARG)	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (GDR)
double sculls details	Aleksandr Timoshinin and Gennadi Korshikov (URS)	Frank Hansen and Svein Thøgersen (NOR)	Joachim Böhmer and Uli Schmied (GDR)
coxless pair details	Siegfried Brietzke and Wolfgang Mager (GDR)	Heinrich Fischer and Alfred Bachmann (SUI)	Roel Luynenburg and Ruud Stokvis (NED)
coxed pair details	East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček	Romania (ROU) Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi
coxless four details	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 details	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 details	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