Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only.

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Henri Wienese Netherlands (NED)	Jochen Meissner West Germany (FRG)	Alberto Demiddi Argentina (ARG)
Coxed four	New Zealand (NZL) Richard Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie (cox)	East Germany (GDR) Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göbler Klaus Jacon Dieter Semetzky (cox)	Switzerland (SUI) Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich (cox)
Coxless pair	East Germany (GDR) Jörg Lucke Heinz-Jörg Bothe	United States (USA) Lawrence Hugh Philip Johnson	Denmark (DEN) Peter Christiansen Ivan Larsen
Coxed pair	Italy (ITA) Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla (cox)	Netherlands (NED) Herman Suselbeek Hadrian Van Nes Roderick Rijnders (cox)	Denmark (DEN) Jorn Krab Harry Jorgensen Preben Krab (cox)
Coxless four	East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	Hungary (HUN) Zoltan Melis Jozsef Csermely György Sarlos Anta Melis	Italy (ITA) Renato Bosatta Pie Conti Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini
Double Sculls	Soviet Union (URS) Anatoly Sass Alexander Timoshinin	Netherlands (NED) Henricus Droog Leendert Van Dis	United States (USA) John Nunn William Maher
Eights	West Germany (FRG) Herts Mayer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Joerg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Nikolaus Ott Günther Thiersch (cox)	Australia (AUS) Alfred Duval David Douglas Michael Morgan John Ranch Joseph Frazio Gary Pierce Peter Dickinson Robert Shirlaw Alan Grover (cox)	Soviet Union (URS) Zugmas Jukna Alexander Matryshkin Antanas Bagdonavichus Vitaulas Briedis Vladimir sterlik Valentin Kravchik Lozopas Yagelavichus Victor Suslin Yury Lorentsson (cox)

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• Rowing at the Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in rowing (men)
• Olympic medalists in rowing (women)
• Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Events at the 1968 Summer Olympics (Mexico City)
Athletics • Basketball • Basque pelota (demonstration) • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis (demonstration) • Volleyball • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Rowing at the Summer Olympics
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