Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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Venue	Lake Wendouree
Dates	23–27 November 1956
Competitors	242 from 25 nations
	← 1952 1960 →

VenueLake Wendouree

Dates23–27 November 1956

Competitors242 from 25 nations

Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 23 to 27 November on Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia.^[1]

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls details	Vyacheslav Ivanov Soviet Union	Stuart Mackenzie Australia	John B. Kelly Jr. United States
double sculls details	Aleksandr Berkutov and Yuriy Tyukalov Soviet Union	Pat Costello and Jim Gardiner United States	Murray Riley and Mervyn Wood Australia
coxless pairs details	James Fifer and Duvall Hecht United States	Igor Buldakov and Viktor Ivanov Soviet Union	Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder Austria
coxed pair details	United States Arthur Ayrault Conn Findlay Kurt Seiffert	United Team of Germany Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky	Soviet Union Ihor Yemchuk Heorhiy Zhylin Vladimir Petrov
coxless fours details	Canada Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold	United States John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh	France René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert
coxed fours details	Italy Alberto Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni	Sweden Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson	Finland Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi
eights details	United States Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean	Canada Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Wayne Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa	Australia Michael Aikman David Boykett Fred Benfield Jim Howden Garth Manton Walter Howell Adrian Monger Brian Doyle Harold Hewitt

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	2	1	6
2	Soviet Union	2	1	1	4
3	Canada	1	1	0	2
4	Italy	1	0	0	1
5	Australia	0	1	2	3
6	Sweden	0	1	0	1
6	United Team of Germany	0	1	0	1
8	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		7	7	7	21

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Current events	Single sculls Double sculls Quadruple sculls Coxless pair Coxless four Eight Lightweight double sculls
Discontinued events	Coxed pair Coxed four Coxed four with inriggers Lightweight coxless four
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Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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