Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair

Men's coxless pairs
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueLake Wendouree
DateNovember 23 – November 27
Competitors18 from 9 nations
Medalists
   United States
   Soviet Union
   Austria
Rowing at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Single sculls men
Double sculls men
Coxless pairs men
Coxed pairs men
Coxless fours men
Coxed fours men
Eights men

The men's coxless pairs competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia. The event was held from November 23 – November 27.

Heats

First two rowers advanced directly to semi-finals. The others must compete in the repechage for remaining spots in the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1 Reg Douglas
Bob Parker
 New Zealand (NZL) 7:32.6 SF
2 Peter Raper
Maurice Grace
 Australia (AUS) 7:37.2 SF
3 Alvaro Bianchi
Maurizio Clerici
 Italy (ITA) 7:41.2

Heat 2

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1 Helmut Sauermilch
Claus Heß
 United Team of Germany (EUA) 7:30.1 SF
2 Finn Pedersen
Kjeld Østrøm
 Denmark (DEN) 7:36.6 SF
3 Bob Baetens
Michel Knuysen
 Belgium (BEL) 7:45.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1 James Fifer
Duvall Hecht
 United States (USA) 7:19.5 SF
2 Igor Buldakov
Viktor Ivanov
 Soviet Union (URS) 7:29.9 SF
3 Josef Kloimstein
Alfred Sageder
 Austria (AUT) 7:37.0

Repechage

First two rowers advanced directly to semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1 Josef Kloimstein
Alfred Sageder
 Austria (AUT) SF
2 Alvaro Bianchi
Maurizio Clerici
 Italy (ITA) SF
3 Bob Baetens
Michel Knuysen
 Belgium (BEL)

Semi-finals

First two rowers advanced directly to finals.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1 Igor Buldakov
Viktor Ivanov
 Soviet Union (URS) 8:41.3 F
2 Josef Kloimstein
Alfred Sageder
 Austria (AUT) 8:42.4 F
3 Reg Douglas
Bob Parker
 New Zealand (NZL) 8:44.7
4 Finn Pedersen
Kjeld Østrøm
 Denmark (DEN) 8:55.1

Heat 2

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1 James Fifer
Duvall Hecht
 United States (USA) 8:37.7 F
2 Peter Raper
Maurice Grace
 Australia (AUS) 8:48.2 F
3 Helmut Sauermilch
Claus Heß
 United Team of Germany (EUA) 8:52.3
4 Alvaro Bianchi
Maurizio Clerici
 Italy (ITA) 9:11.1

Final

Rank Athlete name Country Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) James Fifer
Duvall Hecht
 United States (USA) 7:55.4
2nd, silver medalist(s) Igor Buldakov
Viktor Ivanov
 Soviet Union (URS) 8:03.9
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Josef Kloimstein
Alfred Sageder
 Austria (AUT) 8:11.8
4 Peter Raper
Maurice Grace
 Australia (AUS) 8:22.2

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/7/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.