1962 World Rowing Championships
VenueRotsee
LocationLucerne, Switzerland
Dates6–9 September
Competitors401
Nations24
Next1966 Bled

The 1962 World Rowing Championships were the inaugural world championships in rowing. The competition was held in September 1962 on the Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.[1][2] Rowers from West Germany dominated the competition, winning five of the seven boat classes.

Background

The Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA) decided in 1961 that, like at the Olympics, rowers from the whole world should compete for a championship title; thus far, they had only organised the European Rowing Championships, although they were open to rowers from outside of Europe.[3] Prior to the 1974 World Rowing Championships, only men competed.[1] Seven boat classes were part of the inaugural world championships that was held from 6 to 9 September on the Swiss Rotsee. There were 401 competitors from 24 countries (counting East and West Germany as one country) with 107 boats at the competition. Between 13 (double scull) and 17 (coxless pair) competed per boat class.[3]

German rowers

FISA did not recognise East Germany, hence only one German crew was permitted per event. Selection trials between East and West German crews were held on 3 September on the Rotsee, three days before the start of the championships.[4] As was predicted by East German media outlets, West German crews would win in six of the seven categories, with 1960 Olympic single scull silver medal winner Achim Hill the only successful East German qualifier, beating Edgar Heidorn from Hanover.[2][4][5] During the world championships, Hill did not proceed beyond the heats, though.[6]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1962 World Rowing Championships:[1][2]

Men's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
Country & rowersTime[2]Country & rowersTimeCountry & rowersTime
M1x [7]Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Ivanov		7:07.09'
Stuart Mackenzie		7:10.67'
Seymour Cromwell		7:11.88
M2x [8]'
René Duhamel
Bernard Monnereau		6:33.90'
Boris Dubrovskiy
Oleg Tyurin		6:34.74'
Jost Krause-Wichmann
Josef Steffes-Mies		6:34.92
M2- [9]'
Dieter Bender
Günther Zumkeller		6:54.62'
Valentin Boreyko
Oleg Golovanov		6:58.19'
Hugo Waser
Adolf Waser		7:05.59
M2+ [10]'
Wolfgang Neuß
Klaus-Günter Jordan
Frank Steinhäuser		7:19.10Romania
Ionel Petrov
Carol Vereș
Oprea Păunescu[11]		7:22.60'
Vladimir Smirnov
Valeriy Polkovski
Igor Rudakov		7:24.17
M4- [12]'
Gerd Wolter
Dagobert Thometschek
Peter Paustian
Christian Prey		6:19.24'
André Fevret[13]
Roger Chatelain[14]
Philippe Malivoire [15]
Jean-Pierre Drivet[16]		6:21.78[17]'
Dieter Losert
Dieter Ebner
Horst Kuttelwascher[18]
Helmuth Kuttelwascher[19]
M4+ [20]'
Bernd-Jürgen Marschner
Peter Neusel
Bernhard Britting
Manfred Ross
Jürgen Oelke		6:29.12'
Jean Ledoux[21]
Émile Clerc[22]
André Sloth
Pierre Maddaloni[23]
Alain Bouffard[24]		6:31.93'
Boris Fyodorov
Yury Suslin
Yuriy Tyukalov
Anatoli Fedorov
Igor Rudakov		6:33.30
M8+ [25]'
Horst Meyer
Jürgen Plagemann
Klaus Aeffke
Klaus Behrens
Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Ingo Kliefoth
Bernd Kruse
Thomas Ahrens		5:50.83'
Ričardas Vaitkevičius
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Zigmas Jukna
Viktor Semyonov
Vytautas Briedis
Petras Karla
Yaroslav Cherstvy
Juozas Jagelavičius
Yuriy Lorentsson		5:53.56'
Christian Puibaraud[26]
Jean-Louis Bellet[27]
Jacques Morel
Joseph Moroni[28]
Georges Morel
Robert Dumontois
Bernard Meynadier[29]
Michel Viaud[30]
Alain Bouffard[24]		5:55.36

Event codes

Single scullDouble scullCoxless pairCoxed pairCoxless fourCoxed fourEight
Men'sM1xM2xM2-M2+M4-M4+M8+

Medal table

CountryGoldSilverBronzeTotal
5016
1326
1214
0101
Romania0101
0011
0011
0011
Total77721

The countries that did compete but did not win medals were Denmark and the Netherlands (they had entered 7 boats each), Czechoslovakia (6 boats), Norway and Poland (5 boats each), Belgium, Japan and Sweden (4 boats each), Australia, Finland and Canada (3 boats each), Israel, Yugoslavia, and Hungary (2 boats each), and New Zealand and Portugal (1 boat each).[3]

Finals

[31]

Event1st2nd3rd4th5th6th
M1x
M2x
M2-Poland
M2+RomaniaPoland
M4-Romania
M4+PolandRomania
M8+Canada

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