Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

Men's double sculls
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Aerial view of the venue in Oberschleißheim
VenueOberschleißheim Regatta Course
Date27 August – 2 September
Competitors38; (19 teams) from 19 nations
Winning time7:01.77
Medalists
   Soviet Union
   Norway
   East Germany
Rowing at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Single sculls   men  
Double sculls men
Coxless pair men
Coxed pair men
Coxless four men
Coxed four men
Eight men

The men's double sculls competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from August 27 – September 2 at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.[1]

Results

Heats

Winner of each heat (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Tim Crooks
Patrick Delafield
 Great Britain 6:57.70
2 Joachim Böhmer
Uli Schmied
 East Germany 7:07.94
3 Albert Heyche
Claude Dehombreux
 Belgium 7:16.69
4 Jorge Imaz
Ricardo Ibarra
 Argentina 7:18.28
5 Peter Barr
John McNiven
 Canada 7:21.69

Heat 2

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Josef Straka, Jr.
Vladek Lacina
 Czechoslovakia 6:56.82
2 Hans Ruckstuhl
Ueli Isler
 Switzerland 7:02.90
3 Frank Hansen
Svein Thøgersen
 Norway 7:03.65
4 Thomas McKibbon
John Van Blom
 United States 7:08.91
5 Roman Kowalewski
Kazimierz Lewandowski
 Poland 7:21.05

Heat 3

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Aleksandr Timoshinin
Gennadi Korshikov
 Soviet Union 6:56.17
2 Jan Bruyn
Paul Veenemans
 Netherlands 7:02.12
3 Jochen Meißner
Arthur Heyne
 West Germany 7:12.03
4 Tsugio Ito
Yoshio Minato
 Japan 7:17.51
5 Federico Scheffler
Ricardo Scheffler
 Mexico 7:43.87

Heat 4

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Niels Henry Secher
Jørgen Engelbrecht
 Denmark 7:11.32
2 Jean-Noël Ribot
Roland Thibaut
 France 7:16.50
3 Manfred Krausbar
Sepp Puchinger
 Austria 7:29.13
4 Carlos Oliveira
Manuel Barroso
 Portugal 8:09.93

Repechage

Top two finishers in each heat qualify to the semifinal round.

Repechage 1

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Jean-Noël Ribot
Roland Thibaut
 France 7:10.45
2 Jochen Meißner
Arthur Heyne
 West Germany 7:11.55
3 Thomas McKibbon
John Van Blom
 United States 7:19.63
4 Peter Barr
John McNiven
 Canada 7:29.05

Repechage 2

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Frank Hansen
Svein Thøgersen
 Norway 7:03.71
2 Jan Bruyn
Paul Veenemans
 Netherlands 7:04.15
3 Jorge Imaz
Ricardo Ibarra
 Argentina 7:22.15

Repechage 3

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Hans Ruckstuhl
Ueli Isler
 Switzerland 7:14.70
2 Albert Heyche
Claude Dehombreux
 Belgium 7:17.58
3 Federico Scheffler
Ricardo Scheffler
 Mexico 7:40.11
4 Carlos Oliveira
Manuel Barroso
 Portugal 7:44.25

Repechage 4

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Joachim Böhmer
Uli Schmied
 East Germany 7:00.54
2 Roman Kowalewski
Kazimierz Lewandowski
 Poland 7:08.27
3 Tsugio Ito
Yoshio Minato
 Japan 7:09.73
4 Manfred Krausbar
Sepp Puchinger
 Austria 7:16.16

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B

First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1
Rank Rower Country Time
1 Joachim Böhmer
Uli Schmied
 East Germany 7:29.13
2 Tim Crooks
Patrick Delafield
 Great Britain 7:31.62
3 Josef Straka, Jr.
Vladek Lacina
 Czechoslovakia 7:36.83
4 Jan Bruyn
Paul Veenemans
 Netherlands 7:40.77
5 Hans Ruckstuhl
Ueli Isler
 Switzerland 7:45.42
6 Jochen Meißner
Arthur Heyne
 West Germany 7:46.21
Semifinal 2
Rank Rower Country Time
1 Niels Henry Secher
Jørgen Engelbrecht
 Denmark 7:31.32
2 Aleksandr Timoshinin
Gennadi Korshikov
 Soviet Union 7:35.33
3 Frank Hansen
Svein Thøgersen
 Norway 7:35.82
4 Jean-Noël Ribot
Roland Thibaut
 France 7:47.68
5 Albert Heyche
Claude Dehombreux
 Belgium 7:55.00
6 Roman Kowalewski
Kazimierz Lewandowski
 Poland 7:59.52

Finals

Final B

Rank Rower Country Time
1 Jan Bruyn
Paul Veenemans
 Netherlands 7:07.25
2 Hans Ruckstuhl
Ueli Isler
 Switzerland 7:08.22
3 Albert Heyche
Claude Dehombreux
 Belgium 7:10.03
4 Jochen Meißner
Arthur Heyne
 West Germany 7:11.74
5 Jean-Noël Ribot
Roland Thibaut
 France 7:14.21
6 Roman Kowalewski
Kazimierz Lewandowski
 Poland 7:31.97

Final A

Rank Rower Country Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Aleksandr Timoshinin
Gennadi Korshikov
 Soviet Union 7:01.77
2nd, silver medalist(s) Frank Hansen
Svein Thøgersen
 Norway 7:02.58
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Joachim Böhmer
Uli Schmied
 East Germany 7:05.55
4 Niels Henry Secher
Jørgen Engelbrecht
 Denmark 7:14.19
5 Tim Crooks
Patrick Delafield
 Great Britain 7:16.29
6 Josef Straka, Jr.
Vladek Lacina
 Czechoslovakia 7:17.60

References

  1. "Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games: Men's Double Sculls". Sports Reference website. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
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