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.
| 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 |
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 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | West Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Argentina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
Medal summary
Men's events
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| single sculls | Yury Malyshev Soviet Union | Alberto Demiddi Argentina | Wolfgang Güldenpfennig East Germany |
| double sculls | Aleksandr Timoshinin and Gennadi Korshikov Soviet Union | Frank Hansen and Svein Thøgersen Norway | Joachim Böhmer and Uli Schmied East Germany |
| coxless pair | Siegfried Brietzke and Wolfgang Mager East Germany | Heinrich Fischer and Alfred Bachmann Switzerland | Roel Luynenburg and Ruud Stokvis Netherlands |
| coxed pair | East Germany Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert | Czechoslovakia Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček | Romania Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi |
| coxless four | East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert | New Zealand Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills | West Germany Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke |
| coxed four | West Germany Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter | East Germany Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | Czechoslovakia Otakar Mareček Karel Neffe Vladimír Jánoš František Provazník Vladimír Petříček |
| eight | New Zealand Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie | United States Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Pete Raymond Tim Mickelson Gene Clapp Bill Hobbs Cleve Livingston Mike Livingston Paul Hoffman | East Germany Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinrich Mederow Dietmar Schwarz |
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