Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The events took place at Lake Xochimilco.
| Rowing at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course |
| Date | 13–19 October 1968 |
| Competitors | 353 from 29 nations |
Medal summary
Men's events
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single sculls | Jan Wienese Netherlands | Jochen Meißner West Germany | Alberto Demiddi Argentina |
| Double sculls | Aleksandr Timoshinin and Anatoliy Sass Soviet Union | Harry Droog and Leendert van Dis Netherlands | John Nunn and Bill Maher United States |
| Coxless pair | Jörg Lucke and Heinz-Jürgen Bothe East Germany | Larry Hough and Philip Johnson United States | Peter Christiansen and Ib Larsen Denmark |
| Coxed pair | Italy Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla | Netherlands Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders | Denmark Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab |
| Coxless four | East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert | Hungary Zoltán Melis József Csermely György Sarlós Antal Melis | Italy Renato Bosatta Pier Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini |
| Coxed four | New Zealand Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie | East Germany Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Dieter Semetzky | Switzerland Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich |
| Eight | West Germany Horst Meyer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Jörg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Niko Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse (heat 1) | Australia Bob Shirlaw Gary Pearce John Ranch David Douglas Peter Dickson Joe Fazio Michael Morgan Alf Duval Alan Grover | Soviet Union Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlik 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | West Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (12 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
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