Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four rowing events were contested. Races were held at Henley-on-Thames. There was one fewer event in 1908 than 1904, after the double sculls was dropped from the programme. Hungary and Norway competed in rowing for the first time, along with 6 other nations.

Contents 1 Medal table 2 Medal summary 3 Links 4 Sources

[edit] Medal table

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	4	3	1	8
2	Belgium	0	1	0	1
3	Canada	0	0	3	3
4	Germany	0	0	2	2
5	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
—	Italy	0	0	0	0
	Norway	0	0	0	0

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's single sculls	Great Britain Harry Blackstaffe	Great Britain Alexander McCulloch	Germany Bernhard von Gaza Hungary Karoly Levitzky
Men's coxless pairs	Great Britain John Fenning and Gordon Thomson	Great Britain George Fairbairn and Philip Verdon	Canada F. B. Thoms and Norwey Jackes Germany Martin Stahnke and Willy Düskow
Men's coxless fours	Great Britain R. Collier Cudmore, J. Angus Gillan, Duncan McKinnon and John Somers-Smith	Great Britain Philip Filleul, Harold Barker, John Fenning and Gordon Thomson	Canada Gordon Balfour, Becher Gale, Charles Riddy and Geoffrey Taylor Netherlands Hermanus Höfte, Albertus Wielsma, Johan Burk and Bernardus Croon
Men's coxed eights	Great Britain Albert Gladstone, Frederick Kelly, Banner Johnstone, Guy Nickalls, Charles Burnell, Ronald Sanderson, Raymond Etherington-Smith, Henry Bucknall and Gilchrist Maclagan	Belgium Oscar Taelman, Marcel Morimont, Remy Orban, Georges Mijs, Francois Vergucht, Polydore Veirman, Oscar de Somville, Rodolphe Poma and Alfred Vanlandeghem	Canada Irvine Robertson, George Wright, Julius Thomson, Walter Lewis, Gordon Bruce Balfour, Becher Gale, Charles Riddy, Geoffrey Taylor and Douglas Kertland Great Britain Frank Jerwood, Eric Powell, Oswald Carver, Edward Williams, Henry Goldsmith, Harold Kitching, John Burn, Douglas Stuart and Richard Boyle

[edit] Links

• Rowing at the Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in rowing (men)
• Olympic medalists in rowing (women)
• Rowers at the 1908 Summer Olympics

[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.

The 1908 Summer Olympics in London

Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics

single sculls | coxless pairs | coxless fours | coxed eights

Events at the 1908 Summer Olympics (London)
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Rowing at the Summer Olympics
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