Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's coxed eights

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The men's coxed eights was one of four rowing events on the Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. 6 boats from 5 nations competed.

1 Standings
2 Results
3 Sources

[edit] Standings

Place	Bow	Rowers		Stroke	Cox	Nation
1	Albert Gladstone	Frederick Kelly Banner Johnstone Guy Nickalls	Charles Burnell Ronald Sanderson Raymond Etherington-Smith	Henry Bucknall	Gilchrist Maclagan	Great Britain
2	Oscar Taelman	Marcel Morimont Rémy Orban Georges Mijs	François Vergucht Polydore Veirman Oscar de Somville	Rodolphe Poma	Alfred van Landeghem	Belgium
3	Irvine Robertson	Joseph Wright Julius Thomson Walter Lewis	Gordon Balfour Becher Gale Charles Riddy	Geoffrey Taylor	Douglas Kertland	Canada
3	Frank Jerwood	Eric Powell Oswald Carver Edward Williams	Henry Goldsmith Harold Kitching John Burn	Douglas Stuart	Richard Boyle	Great Britain
5	Klekner Sándor	Haraszthy Lajos Szebeny Antal Éder Róbert	Hautzinger Sándor Várady Jenö Wampetich Imre	Kirchknopf Ferenc	Vasko Kálmán	Hungary
5	Otto Krogh	Erik Bye Ambrosius Høyer Gustav Hæhre	Emil Irgens Hannibal Feght Wilhelm Hansen	Annan Knudsen	Einar Tønsager	Norway

[edit] Results

[edit] Quarterfinals

[edit] Quarterfinal 1

Place	Bow	Rowers		Stroke	Cox	Nation	Time
1	Irvine Robertson	Joseph Wright Julius Thomson Walter Lewis	Gordon Balfour Becher Gale Charles Riddy	Geoffrey Taylor	Douglas Kertland	Canada	8.6
2	Otto Krogh	Erik Bye Ambrosius Høyer Gustav Hæhre	Emil Irgens Hannibal Feght Wilhelm Hansen	Annan Knudsen	Einar Tønsager	Norway	Unknown

[edit] Quarterfinal 2

Place	Bow	Rowers		Stroke	Cox	Nation	Time
1	Albert Gladstone	Frederick Kelly Banner Johnstone Guy Nickalls	Charles Burnell Ronald Sanderson Raymond Etherington-Smith	Henry Bucknall	Gilchrist Maclagan	Great Britain	8.10
2	Klekner Sándor	Haraszthy Lajos Szebeny Antal Éder Róbert	Hautzinger Sándor Várady Jenö Wampetich Imre	Kirchknopf Ferenc	Vasko Kálmán	Hungary	Unknown

[edit] Semifinals

[edit] Semifinal 1

Place	Bow	Rowers		Stroke	Cox	Nation	Time
1	Albert Gladstone	Frederick Kelly Banner Johnstone Guy Nickalls	Charles Burnell Ronald Sanderson Raymond Etherington-Smith	Henry Bucknall	Gilchrist Maclagan	Great Britain	8.12
2	Irvine Robertson	Joseph Wright Julius Thomson Walter Lewis	Gordon Balfour Becher Gale Charles Riddy	Geoffrey Taylor	Douglas Kertland	Canada	Unknown

[edit] Semifinal 2

The second semifinal of the coxed eights was the only rowing heat in which a British boat was defeated by a visiting nation. In each of the other three events, the two British boats won both semifinals.

Place	Bow	Rowers		Stroke	Cox	Nation	Time
1	Oscar Taelman	Marcel Morimont Rémy Orban Georges Mijs	François Vergucht Polydore Veirman Oscar de Somville	Rodolphe Poma	Alfred van Landeghem	Belgium	8.22
2	Frank Jerwood	Eric Powell Oswald Carver Edward Williams	Henry Goldsmith Harold Kitching John Burn	Douglas Stuart	Richard Boyle	Great Britain	Unknown

[edit] Final

Place	Bow	Rowers		Stroke	Cox	Nation	Time
1	Albert Gladstone	Frederick Kelly Banner Johnstone Guy Nickalls	Charles Burnell Ronald Sanderson Raymond Etherington-Smith	Henry Bucknall	Gilchrist Maclagan	Great Britain	8.34
2	Oscar Taelman	Marcel Morimont Rémy Orban Georges Mijs	François Vergucht Polydore Veirman Oscar de Somville	Rodolphe Poma	Alfred van Landeghem	Belgium	Unknown

[edit] Sources

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman (2001). Rowing 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on May 6, 2007.