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1962 World Rowing Championships

International rowing event

International rowing event

FieldValue
name1962 World Rowing Championships
captionSwiss stamp dedicated to the World Rowing Championships
venueRotsee
locationLucerne, Switzerland
dates6–9 September
competitors401
nations24
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The 1962 World Rowing Championships were the inaugural world championships in rowing. The competition was held in September 1962 on the Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland. Rowers from West Germany dominated the competition, winning five of the seven boat classes.

Background

The Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA) decided in 1961 that, like at the Olympics, rowers from the whole world should compete for a championship title; thus far, they had only organised the European Rowing Championships, although they were open to rowers from outside of Europe. Prior to the 1974 World Rowing Championships, only men competed. Seven boat classes were part of the inaugural world championships that was held from 6 to 9 September on the Swiss Rotsee. There were 401 competitors from 24 countries (counting East and West Germany as one country) with 107 boats at the competition. Between 13 (double scull) and 17 (coxless pair) competed per boat class.

German rowers

FISA did not recognise East Germany, hence only one German crew was permitted per event. Selection trials between East and West German crews were held on 3 September on the Rotsee, three days before the start of the championships. As was predicted by East German media outlets, West German crews would win in six of the seven categories, with 1960 Olympic single scull silver medal winner Achim Hill the only successful East German qualifier, beating Edgar Heidorn from Hanover. During the world championships, Hill did not proceed beyond the heats, though.

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1962 World Rowing Championships:

Men's events

EventGoldSilverBronzeCountry & rowersTimeCountry & rowersTimeCountry & rowersTimeM1xM2xM2-M2+M4-M4+M8+
**Soviet Union**
Vyacheslav Ivanov7:07.09****
Stuart Mackenzie7:10.67****
Seymour Cromwell7:11.88
****
René Duhamel
Bernard Monnereau6:33.90****
Boris Dubrovskiy
Oleg Tyurin6:34.74****
Jost Krause-Wichmann
Josef Steffes-Mies6:34.92
****
Dieter Bender
Günther Zumkeller6:54.62****
Valentin Boreyko
Oleg Golovanov6:58.19****
Hugo Waser
Adolf Waser7:05.59
****
Wolfgang Neuß
Klaus-Günter Jordan
Frank Steinhäuser7:19.10**ROM**
Ionel Petrov
Carol Vereș
Oprea Păunescu7:22.60****
Vladimir Smirnov
Valeriy Polkovski
Igor Rudakov7:24.17
****
Gerd Wolter
Dagobert Thometschek
Peter Paustian
Christian Prey6:19.24****
André Fevret
Roger Chatelain
Philippe Malivoire
Jean-Pierre Drivet6:21.78****
Dieter Losert
Dieter Ebner
Horst Kuttelwascher
Helmuth Kuttelwascher
****
Bernd-Jürgen Marschner
Peter Neusel
Bernhard Britting
Manfred Ross
Jürgen Oelke6:29.12****
Jean Ledoux
Émile Clerc
André Sloth
Pierre Maddaloni
Alain Bouffard6:31.93****
Boris Fyodorov
Yury Suslin
Yuriy Tyukalov
Anatoli Fedorov
Igor Rudakov6:33.30
****
Horst Meyer
Jürgen Plagemann
Klaus Aeffke
Klaus Behrens
Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Thomas Ahrens5:50.83****
Ričardas Vaitkevičius
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Zigmas Jukna
Viktor Semyonov
Vytautas Briedis
Petras Karla
Yaroslav Cherstvy
Juozas Jagelavičius
Yuriy Lorentsson5:53.56****
Christian Puibaraud
Jean-Louis Bellet
Jacques Morel
Joseph Moroni
Georges Morel
Robert Dumontois
Bernard Meynadier
Michel Viaud
Alain Bouffard5:55.36

Event codes

Single scullDouble scullCoxless pairCoxed pairCoxless fourCoxed fourEightMen's
M1xM2xM2-M2+M4-M4+M8+

Medal table

CountryGoldSilverBronzeTotalTotal77721
5016
1326
1214
0101
ROM0101
0011
0011
0011

The countries that did compete but did not win medals were Denmark and the Netherlands (they had entered 7 boats each), Czechoslovakia (6 boats), Norway and Poland (5 boats each), Belgium, Japan and Sweden (4 boats each), Australia, Finland and Canada (3 boats each), Israel, Yugoslavia, and Hungary (2 boats each), and New Zealand and Portugal (1 boat each).

Finals

M1xM2xM2-M2+M4-M4+M8+
POL
ROMPOL
ROM
POLROM
CAN

References

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141021191133/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/1962-Lucerne.html | archive-date = 21 October 2014

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. One – Men | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150623193642/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/77.html | archive-date = 23 June 2015

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. Double Sculls – Men | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141025160843/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/78.html | archive-date = 25 October 2014

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. Two without coxswain – Men | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141211042409/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/79.html | archive-date = 11 December 2014

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. Two with coxswain – Men | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141031220121/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/80.html | archive-date = 31 October 2014

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. Coxless four | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006160527/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/82.html | archive-date = 6 October 2014

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. Four with coxswain – Men | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140113173504/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/83.html | archive-date = 13 January 2014

|trans-title=Rowing – World Championships. Eight – Men | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141017182947/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/84.html | archive-date = 17 October 2014

References

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  12. "Helmuth Kuttelwascher".
  13. "Jean Ledoux".
  14. "Émile Clerc".
  15. "Pierre Maddaloni".
  16. "Alain Bouffard".
  17. "Christian Puibaraud".
  18. "Jean-Pierre Bellet".
  19. "Joseph Moroni".
  20. "Bernard Meynadier".
  21. "Michel Viaud".
  22. "From Our Rowing Correspondent. "Ivanov Overhauls Tiring Mackenzie In Sculls." Times, 10 Sept. 1962, p. 3".
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