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Eights, Men

Date12 – 15 October 1964
StatusOlympic
LocationToda Rowing Course, Toda, Saitama
Participants126 from 14 countries

The 1960 Summer Olympics had seen the United States not only lose their first Olympic final ever, but fail to reach the podium at all. Furthermore, it was the Canadians who were the reigning Pan American champions in the event. Nonetheless, there were few who would have counted the United States out, and they sent a strong team from the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia to the 1964 Games. Aside from Canada, other contenders included Germany, the reigning Olympic, European, and World Champions, and dark horse Australia, who had taken the title at the most recent British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

Germany and the United States met in the opening round, which made for an exciting and evenly-matched race in which the Germans came out ahead by less than 0.3 seconds. The other heats were won by the Soviets and the Czechoslovakians; the former’s successes included silver at the most recent European and World Championships, while the only recent success from the latter had come with a bronze medal at the 1963 Europeans. The United States advanced in the repêchage, but the Canadians and Australians were eliminated. Despite the results in the heats, the United States was clearly dominant in the final, winning gold by a margin of over five seconds. Germany settled for silver and was trailed by Czechoslovakia, who captured bronze. One of the Americans, cox Róbert Zimonyi, was a Hungrian immigrant who had won a bronze medal for his native country in the coxed pairs event at the 1948 Olympics.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1United StatesUSAGold
Joe AmlongTom AmlongBoyce BuddEmory ClarkStan CwiklinskiHugh FoleyBill KnechtBill StoweRóbert Zimonyi
2Unified Team of GermanyGERSilver
Klaus AeffkeKlaus BittnerMoritz von GroddeckHans-Jürgen WallbrechtKlaus BehrensJürgen SchröderJürgen PlagemannHorst MeyerThomas Ahrens
3CzechoslovakiaTCHBronze
Petr ČermákJiří LundákJan MrvíkJúlius TočekJosef VěntusLuděk PojeznýBohumil JanoušekRichard NovýMiroslav Koníček
4YugoslaviaYUG
Boris KlavoraJadran BarutJože BercVjekoslav SkalakMarko MandičAlojz ColjaPavao MartićLucijan KlevaZdenko Balaš
5Soviet UnionURS
Juozas JagelavičiusYury SuslinPetras KarlaVytautas BriedisVladimir SterlikZigmas JuknaAntanas BagdonavičiusRičardas VaitkevičiusYury Lorentsson
6ItalyITA
Dario GianiSergio TagliapietraGianpietro GilardiFrancesco GloriosoPietro PoltiGiuseppe SchiavonOrlando SavarinSereno BrunelloIvo Stefanoni
7FranceFRA
André FevretPierre MaddaloniAndré SlothJoseph MoroniRobert DumontoisJean-Pierre GrimaudBernard MeynadierMichel ViaudAlain Bouffard
8AustraliaAUS
David RamageDavid BoykettTerry DaviesRobert LachalPaul GuestMartin TomanovitsBrian VearGraeme McCallKevin Wickham
9CanadaCAN
Thomas GrayMax WieczorekRichard BordewickEldon WorobieffWaynne PrettyJohn LarsenMarc LemieuxDaryl SturdyDavid Overton
10JapanJPN
Naoji SatoKoichi MiyanoTsugio ItoTsuneo OgasawaraYoshihiro OnishiShin HasegawaHajime IshikawaRyuzo KikuchiOsamu Mandai
11New ZealandNZL
Mark BrownleeAlexander ClarkPeter DelaneyJohn GibbonsGeorge PatersonTony PopplewellRaymond SkinnerAlan WebsterDouglas Pulman
12Republic of KoreaKOR
Lee Sang-UKim Heon-JongKim Gyu-SanChoi Sin-IlAn Jong-DeukCheon Seong-TaeYu Hyeok-GeunJi Deok-HanPark Sin-Yeong
4 h1 r2/3CubaCUB
Osvaldo DíazGilberto CampbellMario TabioEzequiel MontenegroAlfredo HernándezLeovigildo MillánNorge MarreroSegundo MoraRoberto Ojeda
4 h3 r2/3United Arab RepublicEGY
Ali Abdel SamiAbdel Mohsen Isma'ilIbrahim MetwalliAbdel Latif MetwalliAhmed IbrahimAli Abdel RadiAbdel Fattah Abou-ShanabSaleh IbrahimAbbas Khamis

Round One

Date12 October 1964
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to the final. All others advanced to repˆchage

Heat #1

Time11:00
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime
1Unified Team of GermanyGER5:54.02Q OB
Klaus AeffkeKlaus BittnerMoritz von GroddeckHans-Jürgen WallbrechtKlaus BehrensJürgen SchröderJürgen PlagemannHorst MeyerThomas Ahrens
2United StatesUSA5:54.30
Joe AmlongHugh FoleyStan CwiklinskiTom AmlongEmory ClarkBoyce BuddBill KnechtBill StoweRóbert Zimonyi
3ItalyITA6:02.13
Dario GianiSergio TagliapietraGianpietro GilardiFrancesco GloriosoPietro PoltiGiuseppe SchiavonOrlando SavarinSereno BrunelloIvo Stefanoni
4YugoslaviaYUG6:02.43
Boris KlavoraJadran BarutJože BercVjekoslav SkalakMarko MandičAlojz ColjaPavao MartićLucijan KlevaZdenko Balaš
5AustraliaAUS6:06.94
Brian VearDavid BoykettRobert LachalDavid RamagePaul GuestGraeme McCallMartin TomanovitsTerry DaviesKevin Wickham

Heat #2

Time11:20
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime
1CzechoslovakiaTCH6:03.88Q
Petr ČermákJiří LundákJan MrvíkJúlius TočekJosef VěntusLuděk PojeznýBohumil JanoušekRichard NovýMiroslav Koníček
2CanadaCAN6:07.19
Thomas GrayMax WieczorekRichard BordewickEldon WorobieffWaynne PrettyJohn LarsenMarc LemieuxDaryl SturdyDavid Overton
3JapanJPN6:16.67
Naoji SatoKoichi MiyanoTsugio ItoTsuneo OgasawaraYoshihiro OnishiShin HasegawaHajime IshikawaRyuzo KikuchiOsamu Mandai
4New ZealandNZL6:20.63
Mark BrownleeAlexander ClarkPeter DelaneyJohn GibbonsGeorge PatersonTony PopplewellRaymond SkinnerAlan WebsterDouglas Pulman
5CubaCUB6:31.76
Osvaldo DíazGilberto CampbellMario TabioEzequiel MontenegroAlfredo HernándezLeovigildo MillánNorge MarreroSegundo MoraRoberto Ojeda

Heat #3

Time11:40
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime
1Soviet UnionURS6:06.15Q
Juozas JagelavičiusYury SuslinPetras KarlaVytautas BriedisVladimir SterlikZigmas JuknaAntanas BagdonavičiusRičardas VaitkevičiusYury Lorentsson
2FranceFRA6:09.08
André FevretPierre MaddaloniAndré SlothJoseph MoroniRobert DumontoisJean-Pierre GrimaudBernard MeynadierMichel ViaudAlain Bouffard
3United Arab RepublicEGY6:32.42
Ali Abdel SamiAbdel Mohsen Isma'ilIbrahim MetwalliAbdel Latif MetwalliAhmed IbrahimAli Abdel RadiAbdel Fattah Abou-ShanabSaleh IbrahimAbbas Khamis
4Republic of KoreaKOR6:46.13
Lee Sang-UKim Heon-JongKim Gyu-SanChoi Sin-IlAn Jong-DeukCheon Seong-TaeYu Hyeok-GeunJi Deok-HanPark Sin-Yeong

Round One Repêchage

Date13 October 1964
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to the A Final. 2nd- and 3rd-place finishers advanced to the B Final

Heat #1

Time15:00
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime
1ItalyITA6:03.59Q
Dario GianiSergio TagliapietraGianpietro GilardiFrancesco GloriosoPietro PoltiGiuseppe SchiavonOrlando SavarinSereno BrunelloIvo Stefanoni
2FranceFRA6:07.43
André FevretPierre MaddaloniAndré SlothJoseph MoroniRobert DumontoisJean-Pierre GrimaudBernard MeynadierMichel ViaudAlain Bouffard
3New ZealandNZL6:14.83
Mark BrownleeAlexander ClarkPeter DelaneyJohn GibbonsGeorge PatersonTony PopplewellRaymond SkinnerAlan WebsterDouglas Pulman
4CubaCUB6:27.29
Osvaldo DíazGilberto CampbellMario TabioEzequiel MontenegroAlfredo HernándezLeovigildo MillánNorge MarreroSegundo MoraRoberto Ojeda

Heat #2

Time15:20
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime
1United StatesUSA6:01.47Q
Joe AmlongHugh FoleyStan CwiklinskiTom AmlongEmory ClarkBoyce BuddBill KnechtBill StoweRóbert Zimonyi
2JapanJPN6:10.15
Naoji SatoKoichi MiyanoTsugio ItoTsuneo OgasawaraYoshihiro OnishiShin HasegawaHajime IshikawaRyuzo KikuchiOsamu Mandai
3Republic of KoreaKOR6:36.24
Lee Sang-UKim Heon-JongKim Gyu-SanChoi Sin-IlAn Jong-DeukCheon Seong-TaeYu Hyeok-GeunJi Deok-HanPark Sin-Yeong

Heat #3

Time15:40
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime
1YugoslaviaYUG5:59.23Q
Boris KlavoraJadran BarutJože BercVjekoslav SkalakMarko MandičAlojz ColjaPavao MartićLucijan KlevaZdenko Balaš
2CanadaCAN6:03.86
Thomas GrayMax WieczorekRichard BordewickEldon WorobieffWaynne PrettyJohn LarsenMarc LemieuxDaryl SturdyDavid Overton
3AustraliaAUS6:06.24
Brian VearDavid BoykettRobert LachalDavid RamagePaul GuestGraeme McCallMartin TomanovitsTerry DaviesKevin Wickham
4United Arab RepublicEGY6:19.03
Ali Abdel SamiAbdel Mohsen Isma'ilIbrahim MetwalliAbdel Latif MetwalliAhmed IbrahimAli Abdel RadiAbdel Fattah Abou-ShanabSaleh IbrahimAbbas Khamis

Final Round

Date14 – 15 October 1964

Final A

Time15 October 1964 — 16:30
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
16United StatesUSA6:18.231:29.44 (3)3:04.29 (2)4:40.55 (1)1:34.85 (1)1:36.26 (1)1:37.68 (2)
Joe AmlongHugh FoleyStan CwiklinskiTom AmlongEmory ClarkBoyce BuddBill KnechtBill StoweRóbert Zimonyi
23Unified Team of GermanyGER6:23.291:28.54 (1)3:04.01 (1)4:45.33 (2)1:35.47 (2)1:41.32 (5)1:37.96 (3)
Klaus AeffkeKlaus BittnerMoritz von GroddeckHans-Jürgen WallbrechtKlaus BehrensJürgen SchröderJürgen PlagemannHorst MeyerThomas Ahrens
35CzechoslovakiaTCH6:25.111:30.08 (4)3:08.45 (4)4:47.65 (4)1:38.37 (5)1:39.20 (3)1:37.46 (1)
Petr ČermákJiří LundákJan MrvíkJúlius TočekJosef VěntusLuděk PojeznýBohumil JanoušekRichard NovýMiroslav Koníček
41YugoslaviaYUG6:27.151:32.63 (6)3:09.38 (5)4:48.21 (5)1:36.75 (3)1:38.83 (2)1:38.94 (4)
Boris KlavoraJadran BarutJože BercVjekoslav SkalakMarko MandičAlojz ColjaPavao MartićLucijan KlevaZdenko Balaš
52Soviet UnionURS6:30.691:29.32 (2)3:06.68 (3)4:47.05 (3)1:37.36 (4)1:40.37 (4)1:43.64 (5)
Juozas JagelavičiusYury SuslinPetras KarlaVytautas BriedisVladimir SterlikZigmas JuknaAntanas BagdonavičiusRičardas VaitkevičiusYury Lorentsson
64ItalyITA6:42.781:32.48 (5)3:12.29 (6)4:58.01 (6)1:39.81 (6)1:45.72 (6)1:44.77 (6)
Dario GianiSergio TagliapietraGianpietro GilardiFrancesco GloriosoPietro PoltiGiuseppe SchiavonOrlando SavarinSereno BrunelloIvo Stefanoni

Final B

Time14 October 1964 — 16:00
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
11FranceFRA5:58.571:27.94 (5)2:58.18 (2)4:29.20 (1)1:30.24 (2)1:31.02 (2)1:29.37 (1)
André FevretPierre MaddaloniAndré SlothJoseph MoroniRobert DumontoisJean-Pierre GrimaudBernard MeynadierMichel ViaudAlain Bouffard
22AustraliaAUS6:02.211:27.36 (3)3:01.71 (5)4:32.52 (4)1:34.35 (5)1:30.81 (1)1:29.69 (2)
Brian VearDavid BoykettRobert LachalDavid RamagePaul GuestGraeme McCallMartin TomanovitsTerry DaviesKevin Wickham
35CanadaCAN6:02.691:27.65 (4)2:59.05 (3)4:31.62 (3)1:31.40 (3)1:32.57 (3)1:31.07 (3)
Thomas GrayMax WieczorekRichard BordewickEldon WorobieffWaynne PrettyJohn LarsenMarc LemieuxDaryl SturdyDavid Overton
44JapanJPN6:05.141:27.34 (2)2:56.15 (1)4:30.67 (2)1:28.81 (1)1:34.52 (4)1:34.47 (5)
Naoji SatoKoichi MiyanoTsugio ItoTsuneo OgasawaraYoshihiro OnishiShin HasegawaHajime IshikawaRyuzo KikuchiOsamu Mandai
53New ZealandNZL6:07.591:27.12 (1)2:59.80 (4)4:36.36 (5)1:32.68 (4)1:36.56 (5)1:31.23 (4)
Mark BrownleeAlexander ClarkPeter DelaneyJohn GibbonsGeorge PatersonTony PopplewellRaymond SkinnerAlan WebsterDouglas Pulman
66Republic of KoreaKOR6:31.801:30.19 (6)3:07.24 (6)4:50.15 (6)1:37.05 (6)1:42.91 (6)1:41.65 (6)
Lee Sang-UKim Heon-JongKim Gyu-SanChoi Sin-IlAn Jong-DeukCheon Seong-TaeYu Hyeok-GeunJi Deok-HanPark Sin-Yeong