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Single Sculls, Men

Date27 August – 2 September 1972
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympia-Regattastrecke, Oberschleißheim, München
Participants18 from 18 countries

The defending Olympic champion in the single sculls, Jan Wienese of the Netherlands, was not present in Munich, but that did not mean that the 1972 edition lacked a favorite. Argentina’s Alberto Demiddi had captured bronze in 1968 and had won the event at the last two European Championships, the 1970 World Championships, the 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games, and the 1971 Diamond Challenge Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta, making him the best candidate to take the only top prize missing from his collection: an Olympic gold medal.

Demiddi won his opening heat easily, but the fastest time of the round was posted by Yury Malyshev of the Soviet Union, an unheralded competitor whose best international finish had been fourth at the 1970 World Championships. The final heat was taken by Yordan Valchev of Bulgaria. Demiddi and Malyshev were the heat winners in the semi-finals, but the Argentine regained his dominance, which seemed to indicate Malyshev’s earlier superiority was a fluke. In the final, however, Malyshev and Demiddi went neck and neck towards the finish, but the Soviet pulled ahead and, in a startling upset, snatched gold away from the Argentine. Demiddi’s silver medal was an improvement on his bronze one from the previous edition, but clearly not the prize that he had hoped for. East Germany’s Wolfgang Güldenpfennig was the only competitor anywhere near the two front runners and rowed to a comfortable third-place finish.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Yury MalyshevURSGold
2Alberto DemiddiARGSilver
3Wolfgang GüldenpfennigGDRBronze
4Udo HildFRG
5Jim DietzUSA
6Melchior BürginSUI
7Seán DreaIRL
8Yordan ValchevBUL
9Kenneth DwanGBR
10Murray WatkinsonNZL
11Kim BørgesenDEN
12Jaroslav HellebrandTCH
4 h1 r2/4Lennart BälterSWE
4 h2 r2/4Janis RodmanisCHI
4 h3 r2/4Hideo OkamotoJPN
5 h1 r2/4Jim ButterfieldBER
5 h2 r2/4José Lopes MarquesPOR
5 h3 r2/4Guillermo SpamerMEX

Round One

Date27 August 1972 — 9:00
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to semi-finals

Heat #1

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
13Alberto DemiddiARG7:46.091:49.19 (2)3:48.72 (2)5:50.65 (2)1:59.53 (2)2:01.93 (1)1:55.44 (1)Q
21Udo HildFRG7:48.121:48.73 (1)3:48.15 (1)5:50.10 (1)1:59.42 (1)2:01.95 (2)1:58.02 (2)
34Melchior BürginSUI8:00.201:52.73 (3)3:56.25 (3)6:01.00 (3)2:03.52 (3)2:04.75 (3)1:59.20 (3)
46Janis RodmanisCHI8:23.381:53.36 (5)3:57.87 (4)6:10.14 (4)2:04.51 (4)2:12.27 (4)2:13.24 (6)
55Jim ButterfieldBER8:29.201:52.76 (4)4:01.09 (5)6:17.49 (5)2:08.33 (5)2:16.40 (5)2:11.71 (5)
62Guillermo SpamerMEX8:38.631:55.74 (6)4:08.69 (6)6:28.17 (6)2:12.95 (6)2:19.48 (6)2:10.46 (4)

Heat #2

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
16Yury MalyshevURS7:42.671:47.81 (1)3:44.33 (1)5:47.38 (1)1:56.52 (2)2:03.05 (2)1:55.29 (1)Q
22Wolfgang GüldenpfennigGDR7:46.311:48.32 (2)3:44.80 (2)5:48.63 (2)1:56.48 (1)2:03.83 (3)1:57.68 (5)
31Seán DreaIRL7:47.641:49.04 (3)3:47.54 (3)5:50.22 (3)1:58.50 (3)2:02.68 (1)1:57.42 (3)
45Jim DietzUSA7:57.851:49.78 (5)3:52.04 (4)6:00.30 (4)2:02.26 (4)2:08.26 (4)1:57.55 (4)
54Jaroslav HellebrandTCH7:58.151:49.50 (4)3:52.28 (5)6:01.02 (5)2:02.78 (5)2:08.74 (5)1:57.13 (2)
63Lennart BälterSWE8:12.921:54.06 (6)3:58.51 (6)6:08.06 (6)2:04.45 (6)2:09.55 (6)2:04.86 (6)

Heat #3

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
13Yordan ValchevBUL7:50.291:54.71 (3)3:56.59 (2)5:55.06 (1)2:01.88 (2)1:58.47 (1)1:55.23 (2)Q
26Murray WatkinsonNZL7:51.291:51.67 (1)3:53.28 (1)5:55.81 (2)2:01.61 (1)2:02.53 (3)1:55.48 (3)
35Kenneth DwanGBR7:57.491:56.20 (4)4:01.06 (4)6:02.69 (4)2:04.86 (4)2:01.63 (2)1:54.80 (1)
41Kim BørgesenDEN7:58.941:54.30 (2)3:57.04 (3)6:00.21 (3)2:02.74 (3)2:03.17 (4)1:58.73 (4)
52Hideo OkamotoJPN8:20.822:01.19 (6)4:11.01 (5)6:21.16 (5)2:09.82 (5)2:10.15 (5)1:59.66 (5)
64José Lopes MarquesPOR8:39.732:00.91 (5)4:14.84 (6)6:27.80 (6)2:13.93 (6)2:12.96 (6)2:11.93 (6)

Round One Repêchage

Date29 August 1972 — 9:00
FormatTop three finishers in each heat advanced to semi-finals

Heat #1

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12Udo HildFRG7:48.111:49.80 (2)3:48.42 (=1)5:50.07 (1)1:58.62 (1)2:01.65 (1)1:58.04 (1)Q
23Seán DreaIRL7:50.271:49.65 (1)3:48.42 (=1)5:50.78 (2)1:58.77 (2)2:02.36 (2)1:59.49 (2)Q
31Kim BørgesenDEN7:56.661:51.77 (3)3:51.79 (3)5:54.81 (3)2:00.02 (3)2:03.02 (3)2:01.85 (3)Q
45Lennart BälterSWE8:11.071:55.63 (5)3:58.59 (4)6:04.06 (4)2:02.96 (4)2:05.47 (4)2:07.01 (4)
54Jim ButterfieldBER8:26.161:54.70 (4)4:02.89 (5)6:15.14 (5)2:08.19 (5)2:12.25 (5)2:11.02 (5)

Heat #2

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12Wolfgang GüldenpfennigGDR8:05.191:50.91 (1)3:51.40 (1)5:55.77 (1)2:00.49 (1)2:04.37 (1)2:09.42 (2)Q
24Kenneth DwanGBR8:10.321:55.61 (3)3:59.92 (3)6:05.47 (3)2:04.31 (3)2:05.55 (2)2:04.85 (1)Q
31Jaroslav HellebrandTCH8:19.281:51.38 (2)3:54.27 (2)6:03.87 (2)2:02.89 (2)2:09.60 (3)2:15.41 (4)Q
45Janis RodmanisCHI8:29.661:57.10 (4)4:04.37 (4)6:16.08 (4)2:07.27 (4)2:11.71 (4)2:13.58 (3)
53José Lopes MarquesPOR8:54.272:02.91 (5)4:17.52 (5)6:35.36 (5)2:14.61 (5)2:17.84 (5)2:18.91 (5)

Heat #3

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
11Jim DietzUSA7:59.131:48.44 (1)3:48.39 (1)5:55.99 (1)1:59.95 (1)2:07.60 (3)2:03.14 (1)Q
25Melchior BürginSUI8:04.811:51.77 (2)3:53.60 (2)5:59.99 (2)2:01.83 (2)2:06.39 (2)2:04.82 (2)Q
34Murray WatkinsonNZL8:11.511:55.59 (3)3:57.52 (3)6:03.73 (3)2:01.93 (3)2:06.21 (1)2:07.78 (4)Q
42Hideo OkamotoJPN8:27.362:00.28 (5)4:07.52 (5)6:20.22 (4)2:07.24 (4)2:12.70 (4)2:07.14 (3)
53Guillermo SpamerMEX8:40.761:56.45 (4)4:06.17 (4)6:25.95 (5)2:09.72 (5)2:19.78 (5)2:14.81 (5)

Semi-Finals

Date31 August 1972 — 11:30
FormatTop three finishers in each heat advanced to final

Heat #1

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
12Alberto DemiddiARG8:10.012:00.17 (4)4:04.78 (2)6:10.48 (1)2:04.61 (1)2:05.70 (1)1:59.53 (1)Q
26Wolfgang GüldenpfennigGDR8:16.351:56.31 (1)4:03.03 (1)6:13.67 (2)2:06.72 (2)2:10.64 (4)2:02.68 (4)Q
31Melchior BürginSUI8:16.951:57.63 (3)4:06.27 (4)6:15.86 (3)2:08.64 (5)2:09.59 (3)2:01.09 (3)Q
43Yordan ValchevBUL8:17.642:00.70 (6)4:08.80 (5)6:17.13 (4)2:08.10 (3)2:08.33 (2)2:00.51 (2)
55Seán DreaIRL8:27.701:57.48 (2)4:06.05 (3)6:17.25 (5)2:08.57 (4)2:11.20 (5)2:10.45 (5)
64Jaroslav HellebrandTCH8:44.602:00.26 (5)4:12.83 (6)6:28.66 (6)2:12.57 (6)2:15.83 (6)2:15.94 (6)

Heat #2

PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
11Yury MalyshevURS8:13.491:59.14 (3)3:59.74 (1)6:05.66 (1)2:00.60 (1)2:05.92 (1)2:07.83 (1)Q
23Jim DietzUSA8:21.541:58.28 (1)4:03.80 (3)6:10.28 (2)2:05.52 (4)2:06.48 (2)2:11.26 (3)Q
36Udo HildFRG8:26.371:58.71 (2)4:02.38 (2)6:11.74 (3)2:03.67 (2)2:09.36 (4)2:14.63 (6)Q
42Kim BørgesenDEN8:27.932:03.11 (5)4:08.43 (5)6:17.12 (4)2:05.32 (3)2:08.69 (3)2:10.81 (2)
54Murray WatkinsonNZL8:30.882:01.31 (4)4:07.21 (4)6:17.37 (5)2:05.90 (5)2:10.16 (5)2:13.51 (5)
65Kenneth DwanGBR8:38.622:04.18 (6)4:11.37 (6)6:25.25 (6)2:07.19 (6)2:13.88 (6)2:13.37 (4)

Final Round

Date1 – 2 September 1972

Final A

Time2 September 1972 — 11:00
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
14Yury MalyshevURS7:10.121:41.64 (1)3:29.41 (1)5:20.99 (1)1:47.77 (1)1:51.58 (1)1:49.13 (3)
23Alberto DemiddiARG7:11.531:42.32 (3)3:30.72 (2)5:22.48 (2)1:48.40 (2)1:51.76 (2)1:49.05 (2)
35Wolfgang GüldenpfennigGDR7:14.451:43.14 (4)3:33.44 (4)5:25.78 (3)1:50.30 (4)1:52.34 (3)1:48.67 (1)
42Udo HildFRG7:20.811:42.03 (2)3:31.73 (3)5:25.80 (4)1:49.70 (3)1:54.07 (4)1:55.01 (6)
56Jim DietzUSA7:24.811:44.06 (5)3:35.38 (5)5:31.17 (5)1:51.32 (5)1:55.79 (5)1:53.64 (5)
61Melchior BürginSUI7:31.991:47.46 (6)3:43.13 (6)5:40.86 (6)1:55.67 (6)1:57.73 (6)1:51.13 (4)

Final B

Time1 September 1972 — 10:00
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime500 m1,000 m1,500 m500-1,000 m1,000-1,500 m1,500-2,000 m
15Seán DreaIRL7:55.331:51.97 (1)3:51.09 (1)5:54.49 (1)1:59.12 (1)2:03.40 (1)2:00.84 (4)
21Yordan ValchevBUL7:59.551:53.91 (3)3:54.50 (3)5:59.41 (2)2:00.59 (2)2:04.91 (3)2:00.14 (3)
32Kenneth DwanGBR8:00.381:55.76 (5)3:59.04 (6)6:03.83 (=4)2:03.28 (6)2:04.79 (2)1:56.55 (2)
46Murray WatkinsonNZL8:05.421:56.21 (6)3:58.38 (5)6:40.34 (6)2:02.17 (4)2:41.96 (6)1:25.08 (1)
54Kim BørgesenDEN8:09.041:55.22 (4)3:57.68 (4)6:03.58 (3)2:02.46 (5)2:05.90 (4)2:05.46 (5)
63Jaroslav HellebrandTCH8:11.041:52.99 (2)3:54.13 (2)6:03.83 (=4)2:01.14 (3)2:09.70 (5)2:07.21 (6)