Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics on a stamp of the Netherlands
Dates2–10 August 1928
Competitors245 from 19 nations

Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 2 to 10 August.[1]

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
Bobby Pearce
 Australia
Ken Myers
 United States
David Collet
 Great Britain
Double sculls
Paul Costello
and Charles McIlvaine
 United States
Joseph Wright Jr.
and Jack Guest
 Canada
Leo Losert
and Viktor Flessl
 Austria
Coxless pair
Kurt Moeschter
and Bruno Müller
 Germany
Terence O'Brien
and Robert Nisbet
 Great Britain
Paul McDowell
and John Schmitt
 United States
Coxed pair
 Switzerland
Hans Schöchlin
Karl Schöchlin
Hans Bourquin
 France
Armand Marcelle
Édouard Marcelle
Henri Préaux
 Belgium
Léon Flament
François de Coninck
Georges Anthony
Coxless four
 Great Britain
John Lander
Michael Warriner
Richard Beesly
Edward Vaughan Bevan
 United States
Charles Karle
William Miller
George Healis
Ernest Bayer
 Italy
Cesare Rossi
Pietro Freschi
Umberto Bonadè
Paolo Gennari
Coxed four
 Italy
Valerio Perentin
Giliante D'Este
Nicolò Vittori
Giovanni Delise
Renato Petronio
 Switzerland
Ernst Haas
Joseph Meyer
Otto Bucher
Karl Schwegler
Fritz Bösch
 Poland
Franciszek Bronikowski
Edmund Jankowski
Leon Birkholc
Bernard Ormanowski
Bolesław Drewek
Eight
 United States
Marvin Stalder
John Brinck
Francis Frederick
William Thompson
William Dally
James Workman
Hubert A. Caldwell
Peter Donlon
Donald Blessing
 Great Britain
Jamie Hamilton
Guy Oliver Nickalls
John Badcock
Donald Gollan
Harold Lane
Gordon Killick
Jack Beresford
Harold West
Arthur Sulley
 Canada
Frederick Hedges
Frank Fiddes
John Hand
Herbert Richardson
Jack Murdoch
Athol Meech
Edgar Norris
William Ross
John Donnelly

Participating nations

A total of 244 rowers from 19 nations competed at the Amsterdam Games:

Only one rower (Joseph Wright Jr.) and one coxswain (Georges Anthony) competed in more than one event.

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States2215
2 Great Britain1214
3 Switzerland1102
4 Italy1012
5 Australia1001
 Germany1001
7 Canada0112
8 France0101
9 Austria0011
 Belgium0011
 Poland0011
Totals (11 entries)77721

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2018.

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