1974 World Rowing Championships

The 1974 World Rowing Championships was the 4th World Rowing Championships. It was held from 4-8 September 1974 (for men) and 29 August - 1 September 1974 (for women)[2] at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event was significantly extended from the 1970 edition, with the addition of both women's and lightweight men's events. Six women boat classes were added, three lightweight men classes, plus quad scull for men, increasing the number of boat classes from seven in 1970 to seventeen in 1974. This was also the last World Championships held on a quadrennial cycle – from this point, World Championships were held annually.[3][4]

1974 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Rotsee
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Dates	Men (4-8 September) Women (29 August - 1 September)[1]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1974 World Rowing Championships:[3][4]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [5][6]	East Germany Wolfgang Hönig	7:20.11	United States James Willam Dietz	7:23.95	Soviet Union Mykola Dovhan	7:24.74
M2x [7][8]	East Germany Christof Kreuziger Uli Schmied	6:35.95	Norway Alf Hansen Frank Hansen	6:38.34	Great Britain Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	6:43.32
M4x [9][10]	East Germany Joachim Dreifke Götz Draeger Rüdiger Reiche Jürgen Bertow	6:04.01	Soviet Union Mustafajew Kochel Yuriy Yakimov Gennadi Korshikov	6:05.79	Czechoslovakia Filip Koudela Zdeněk Pecka Miroslav Laholík Jaroslav Hellebrand	6:08.12
M2- [11][12]	East Germany Bernd Landvoigt Jörg Landvoigt	6:59.09	Romania Ilie Oantă Dumitru Grumecescu	7:03.99	Poland Alfons Ślusarski Zbigniew Ślusarski	7:04.64
M4- [13][14]	East Germany Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Wolfgang Mager	6:19.20	Soviet Union Raul Arnemann Nikolay Kuznetsov Sergei Posdejew Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov	6:22.83	West Germany Peter van Roye Klaus Jäger Bernd Truschinski Reinhard Wendemuth	6:27.01
M2+ [15][16]	Soviet Union Vladimir Eshinov Nikolay Ivanov Aleksandr Lukyanov	7:21.90	East Germany Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert	7:27.86	Czechoslovakia Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček	7:29.93
M4+ [17][18]	East Germany Andreas Schulz Rüdiger Kunze Ullrich Dießner Walter Dießner Wolfgang Groß	6:26.38	Soviet Union Gennadi Moskowski Alexander Pljuschkin Vladimir Vasilyev Anatoli Nemtyrjow Igor Rudakov	6:27.34	West Germany Hans-Johann Färber Ralph Kubail Peter-Michael Kolbe Peter Niehusen Uwe Benter	6:27.98
M8+ [19][20]	United States Alan Shealy Hugh Stevenson Richard Cashin Mark Norelius John Everett Mike Vespoli Tim Mickelson Kenneth Brown David Weinberg	5:46.37	Great Britain Frederick Smallbone John Yallop Tim Crooks Hugh Matheson David Maxwell Jim Clark Bill Mason Lenny Robertson Patrick Sweeney	5:47.49	New Zealand Tony Hurt Danny Keane Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Alec McLean Dave Rodger Ross Blomfield David Simmons	5:47.84
Lightweight events
LM1x [21][22]	United States William Belden	7:33.72	Netherlands Harald Punt	7:36.80	Switzerland Reto Wyss	7:36.96
LM4- [23][24]	Australia Campbell Johnstone Andrew Michelmore Geoffrey Rees Colin Smith	6:38.12	Netherlands Los Hans Pieterman Jannes Bruyn Hans Lycklama	6:43.26	United States Andrew Washburn Barry Selick James Ehrmann Peter Huntsman	6:43.48
LM8+ [25][26]	United States Matthew Baldino Joseph Gaynor Ralph Nauman David Harman Eric Aserlind Richard Ewing Mick Feld Richard Grogan John Hartigan	6:15.25	Netherlands Cornelis Bos L. Burghgraef E. van der Snoek W. Mulder B. van Aken G. van der Werff Ch. Hoynck van Papendrecht H. Hommen M. van de Broek	6:17.54	West Germany Uwe Barwig Wolfgang Fritsch Paul Lutz Julius Nick Lutz Kalmbacher Michael Speth Ekkehard Braun Wolfgang Gabler Willi Seyer	6:17.54

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x [27][28]	East Germany Christine Scheiblich	3:46.52	Soviet Union Genovaitė Ramoškienė	3:52.38	Belgium Christine Wasterlain	3:53.08
W2x [29][30]	Soviet Union Yelena Antonova Galina Yermolayeva	3:24.00	West Germany Astrid Hohl Regine Adam	3:26.43	East Germany Gisela Medefindt Rita Schmidt	3:28.78
W4x+ [31][32]	East Germany Roswietha Reichel Ursula Wagner Jutta Lau Sybille Tietze Liane Weigelt	3:19.81	Romania Ioana Tudoran Elisabeta Lazăr Doina Bardas Teodora Boicu Elena Giurcă	3:21.92	Soviet Union Nadeschda Scherbak Natalja Gorodilowa Walentina Iwtschenkowa Antonina Marischkina Irina Moisejenko	3:22.64
W2- [33][34]	Romania Marilena Ghita Cornelia Neascu	3:43.12	East Germany Renate Bänsch Bergit Heinze	3:45.18	Soviet Union Janina Tschigowskaja Ruta Weinzerga	3:45.43
W4+ [35][36]	East Germany Rosel Nitsche Angelika Noack Renate Schlenzig Sabine Dähne Christa Karnath	3:28.99	Netherlands Liesbeth Vosmaer-de Bruin Ingrid Munneke-Dusseldorp Myriam Steenman Liesbeth de Graaff M. Kraayenhof	3:31.19	Romania Marlena Predescu Kabat Avram Chertic Aneta Matei	3:32.71
W8+ [37][38]	East Germany Henrietta Dobler Helma Lehmann Ilona Richter Bianka Schwede Brigitte Ahrenholz Irina Müller Gunhild Blanke Doris Mosig Sabine Brincker	3:04.82	Soviet Union Nina Bystrova Valentina Rubtsova Nina Abramova Sofia Shurkalova Valentina Jermakova Sergejewa Vera Alexeyeva Nina Filatova Nina Frolova	3:05.05	Romania Elena Oprea Florica Petcu Georgeta Militaru Cristel Wiener Aurelia Marinescu Luliana Balaban Avram Chertic Aneta Matei	3:08.31

Event codes

	single sculls	double sculls	quadruple sculls	pair (coxless)	four (coxless)	coxed pair	coxed four	eight (coxed)
Men's	M1x [5]	M2x [7]	M4x [9]	M2- [11]	M4- [13]	M2+ [15]	M4+ [17]	M8+ [19]
Lightweight men's	LM1x [21]				LM4- [23]			LM8+ [25]
Women's	W1x [27]	W2x [29]	W4x [31]	W2- [33]			W4+ [35]	W8+ [37]

Medal table

Medals by country (including lightweight rowing events):[39][40]

	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	10	2	1	13
2	United States	3	1	1	5
3	Soviet Union	2	5	3	10
4	Romania	1	2	2	5
5	Australia	1	0	0	1
6	Netherlands	0	4	0	4
7	West Germany	0	1	3	4
8	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
9	Norway	0	1	0	1
10	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
11	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		17	17	17	51

Finals

[41]

Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
M1x	East Germany	United States	Soviet Union	Italy	Argentina	Finland
M2x	East Germany	Norway	Great Britain	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Italy
M4x	East Germany	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Switzerland	New Zealand	Bulgaria
M2-	East Germany	Romania	Poland	Netherlands	Czechoslovakia	West Germany
M4-	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany	New Zealand	United States	Norway
M2+	Soviet Union	East Germany	Czechoslovakia	Italy	France	Romania
M4+	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany	Czechoslovakia	Bulgaria	United States
M8+	United States	Great Britain	New Zealand	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
LM1x	United States	Netherlands	Switzerland	Great Britain	West Germany	Mexico
LM4-	Australia	Netherlands	United States	West Germany	Sweden	Norway
LM8+	United States	Netherlands	West Germany	Canada	4 boats only
W1x	East Germany	Soviet Union	Belgium	West Germany	France	Bulgaria
W2x	Soviet Union	West Germany	East Germany	Poland	Netherlands	Bulgaria
W4x+	East Germany	Romania	Soviet Union	West Germany	Czechoslovakia	Hungary
W2-	Romania	East Germany	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	United States	West Germany
W4+	East Germany	Netherlands	Romania	France	Soviet Union	Poland
W8+	East Germany	Soviet Union	Romania	West Germany	Netherlands	Poland

Great Britain

[42]

Event		Notes
M1x	N/A	no entry
M2x	Chris Baillieu & Michael Hart (Leander)	bronze medal in A final
M4x	National squad	4th in B final
M2-	N/A	no entry
M4-	Leander	unplaced
M2+	N/A	no entry
M4+	Lady Margaret & London University	3rd in B final
M8+	Frederick Smallbone, John Yallop, Tim Crooks, Hugh Matheson, David Maxwell Jim Clark, Bill Mason, Lenny Robertson, Patrick Sweeney cox, (Leander / Thames Tradesmen)	silver medal in A Final
LM1x	Geoff Potts (Durham)	4th in A final
L4-	Graeme Hall, Christopher Drury, Nicholas Tee, Daniel Topolski (Leander)	1st in B in final
L8	N/A	no entry
W1x	Ann Cork	unplaced
W2x	N/A	no entry
W4x	Jackie Darling (Civil Service Ladies), Pauline Bird (Weybridge Ladies), Liz Lorrimer (Nottingham), Lorraine Baker (Derby), Karen Peer, cox (St George's Ladies)	unplaced
W2-	Liz Monti & Lin Clark (Civil Service Ladies)	3rd in B final
W4+	Chris Aistrop (Weybridge Ladies), Maggie Lambourn, Chris Grimes, Clare Grove, Pauline Wright, cox (all Civil Service Ladies)	5th in B final
W8+	N/A	no entry

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