Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four

Men's coxed four
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
The venue in 2015
VenueVirgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course
Date13–19 October
Competitors66 from 13 nations
Teams13
Medalists
   New Zealand
   East Germany
   Switzerland
Rowing at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Single sculls men
Double sculls men
Coxless pairs men
Coxed pairs men
Coxless fours men
Coxed fours men
Eights men

The men's coxed four competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place at Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course, Mexico City, Mexico. It was held from 13 to 19 October and was unexpectedly won by the team from New Zealand, which secured the country its first Olympic rowing medal.

Background

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, the men's coxed four event was won by the United Team of Germany. It was the last appearance of the German United Team. The 1962 World Rowing Championships had been won by the team from West Germany, and the 1966 World Rowing Championships had been won by East Germany. The West Germans had come second at the 1965 European Rowing Championships. The crew from the Soviet Union also belonged to the group of favourites, as they had won the last three European Rowing Championships and gained silver at the 1966 World Rowing Championships. A further medal contender was Italy, who had several previous Olympians in their boat.[1]

Races were held in up to six lanes.[2] Thirteen teams from 13 nations attended the competition.[1]

Results

Heats

Three heats were rowed on 13 October; these were the first three rowing races of the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2] Two of the heats had four teams and one had five teams, with the first three teams to qualify for the semi-finals, and the remaining teams progressing to the repechage.[3]

Heat 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Peter Kremtz
Manfred Gelpke
Roland Göhler
Klaus Jacob
Dieter Semetzky
 East Germany 7:03.60 SF
2 Herman Rouwé
Erik Hartsuiker
Berend Brummelman
Tom Dronkert
Otto Weekhout
 Netherlands 7:08.15 SF
3 Anatoly Nemtyryov
Nikolay Surov
Aleksey Mishin
Boris Duyunov
Viktor Mikheyev
 Soviet Union 7:10.18 SF
4 Hugo Aberastegui
José María Robledo
Juan Carlos Gómez
Guillermo Segurado
Rolando Locatelli
 Argentina 7:11.52 R
5 Jorge Castillo
Daniel Chávez
Avelino Soberón
Rafael Velasco
Gregorio Blasco
 Mexico 7:51.39 R

Heat 2

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Dick Joyce
Ross Collinge
Dudley Storey
Warren Cole
Simon Dickie
 New Zealand 7:12.19 SF
2 Reinhold Batschi
Petre Ceapura
Ștefan Tudor
Francisc Papp
Ladislau Lovrenschi
 Romania 7:16.50 SF
3 Luther Jones
Bill Purdy
Tony Martin
Gardner Cadwalader
John Hartigan
 United States 7:21.39 SF
4 Ramón Luperón
Santiago Cuesta
Jorge López
Lázaro Rivero
Roberto Ojeda
 Cuba 7:41.11 R

Heat 3

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Romano Sgheiz
Emilio Trivini
Giuseppe Galante
Luciano Sgheiz
Mariano Gottifredi
 Italy 7:08.60 SF
2 Denis Oswald
Peter Bolliger
Hugo Waser
Jakob Grob
Gottlieb Fröhlich
 Switzerland 7:10.39 SF
3 Niko Ott
Peter Berger
Udo Brecht
Hans-Johann Färber
Stefan Armbruster
 West Germany 7:12.04 SF
4 Jean le Goff
André Sloth
Jean Freslon
Jean-Pierre Grimaud
Roger Jouy
 France 7:13.47 R

Repechage

One heat was rowed in the repechage on 15 October.[2] Of the four teams competing, the first three would progress to the semi-finals. The team from the host nation was eliminated in the repechage.[4]

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Hugo Aberastegui
José María Robledo
Juan Carlos Gómez
Guillermo Segurado
Rolando Locatelli
 Argentina 6:55.55 SF
2 Jean le Goff
André Sloth
Jean Freslon
Jean-Pierre Grimaud
Roger Jouy
 France 7:05.48 SF
3 Ramón Luperón
Santiago Cuesta
Jorge López
Lázaro Rivero
Roberto Ojeda
 Cuba 7:13.43 SF
4 Jorge Castillo
Daniel Chávez
Avelino Soberón
Rafael Velasco
Gregorio Blasco
 Mexico 7:36.29

Semi-finals

Two heats were rowed in the semi-finals on 17 October.[5] Of the six teams competing per heat, the first three would qualify for the final, while the others would progress to the small final.[6]

Heat 1

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Dick Joyce
Ross Collinge
Dudley Storey
Warren Cole
Simon Dickie
 New Zealand 6:48.65 F
2 Luther Jones
Bill Purdy
Tony Martin
Gardner Cadwalader
John Hartigan
 United States 6:54.22 F
3 Romano Sgheiz
Emilio Trivini
Giuseppe Galante
Luciano Sgheiz
Mariano Gottifredi
 Italy 6:58.24 F
4 Hugo Aberastegui
José María Robledo
Juan Carlos Gómez
Guillermo Segurado
Rolando Locatelli
 Argentina 7:02.25
5 Niko Ott
Peter Berger
Udo Brecht
Hans-Johann Färber
Stefan Armbruster
 West Germany 7:06.45
6 Herman Rouwé
Erik Hartsuiker
Berend Brummelman
Tom Dronkert
Otto Weekhout
 Netherlands 7:08.68

Heat 2

Note that the team from the Soviet Union replaced one of their rowers in this heat, and swapped some seats. Anatoly Nemtyryov rowed in this heat only.[5]

Rank Rower Country Time Notes
1 Peter Kremtz
Manfred Gelpke
Roland Göhler
Klaus Jacob
Dieter Semetzky
 East Germany 6:46.23 F
2 Nikolay Surov
Aleksey Mishin
Anatoly Nemtyryov
Arkady Kudinov
Viktor Mikheyev
 Soviet Union 6:48.16 F
3 Denis Oswald
Peter Bolliger
Hugo Waser
Jakob Grob
Gottlieb Fröhlich
 Switzerland 6:48.54 F
4 Reinhold Batschi
Petre Ceapura
Ștefan Tudor
Francisc Papp
Ladislau Lovrenschi
 Romania 6:52.67
5 Jean le Goff
André Sloth
Jean Freslon
Jean-Pierre Grimaud
Roger Jouy
 France 7:14.05
6 Ramón Luperón
Santiago Cuesta
Jorge López
Lázaro Rivero
Roberto Ojeda
 Cuba 7:26.62

Small final

The small final (now termed B final) was raced on 18 October.[7]

Rank Rower Country Time
7 Reinhold Batschi
Petre Ceapura
Ștefan Tudor
Francisc Papp
Ladislau Lovrenschi
 Romania 6:46.68
8 Hugo Aberastegui
José María Robledo
Juan Carlos Gómez
Guillermo Segurado
Rolando Locatelli
 Argentina 6:50.54
9 Herman Rouwé
Erik Hartsuiker
Berend Brummelman
Tom Dronkert
Otto Weekhout
 Netherlands 6:51.77
10 Jean le Goff
André Sloth
Jean Freslon
Jean-Pierre Grimaud
Roger Jouy
 France 6:52.86
11 Ramón Luperón
Santiago Cuesta
Jorge López
Lázaro Rivero
Roberto Ojeda
 Cuba 7:07.07
12  West Germany DNS

Final

The final (now termed A final) was raced on 19 October.[7] The New Zealand team unexpectedly beat the team from East Germany by over two seconds. In another surprise, the Swiss boat overtook the Italians for the bronze medal position. The win secured New Zealand its first Olympic rowing gold, and its third Olympic rowing medal in total.[1] The medals were presented by IOC vice-president Konstantin Adrianow.[8]

Rank Rower Country Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Dick Joyce
Ross Collinge
Dudley Storey
Warren Cole
Simon Dickie
 New Zealand 6:45.62
2nd, silver medalist(s) Peter Kremtz
Manfred Gelpke
Roland Göhler
Klaus Jacob
Dieter Semetzky
 East Germany 6:48.20
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Denis Oswald
Peter Bolliger
Hugo Waser
Jakob Grob
Gottlieb Fröhlich
 Switzerland 6:49.04
4 Romano Sgheiz
Emilio Trivini
Giuseppe Galante
Luciano Sgheiz
Mariano Gottifredi
 Italy 6:49.54
5 Luther Jones
Bill Purdy
Tony Martin
Gardner Cadwalader
John Hartigan
 United States 6:51.41
6 Anatoly Nemtyryov
Nikolay Surov
Aleksey Mishin
Boris Duyunov
Viktor Mikheyev
 Soviet Union 7:00.00

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