Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

The eights (plus cox) event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.[1]

Men's eight at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Toda Rowing Course
Date	12–15 October
Competitors	126 from 14 nations
Teams	14
Winning time	6:18.23
Medalists
Joseph Amlong Thomas Amlong Boyce Budd Emory Clark Stanley Cwiklinski Hugh Foley Bill Knecht William Stowe Róbert Zimonyi (cox)  United States Klaus Aeffke Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Jürgen Schröder Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)  United Team of Germany Petr Čermák Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Július Toček Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Bohumil Janoušek Richard Nový Miroslav Koníček (cox)  Czechoslovakia

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Joseph Amlong Thomas Amlong Boyce Budd Emory Clark Stanley Cwiklinski Hugh Foley Bill Knecht William Stowe Róbert Zimonyi (cox)	United Team of Germany (EUA) Klaus Aeffke Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Jürgen Schröder Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Petr Čermák Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Július Toček Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Bohumil Janoušek Richard Nový Miroslav Koníček (cox)

Results

Heats

The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.

Heat 1
Place	Team	Crew	Time
1.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Klaus Aeffke, Klaus Bittner, Moritz von Groddeck, Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht, Klaus Behrens, Jürgen Schröder, Jürgen Plagemann, Horst Meyer, Thomas Ahrens	5:54.02	QF
2.	United States (USA)	Joe Amlong, Tom Amlong, Boyce Budd, Emory Clark, Stan Cwiklinski, Hugh Foley, Bill Knecht, Bill Stowe, Róbert Zimonyi	5:54.30	QR
3.	Italy (ITA)	Dario Giani, Sergio Tagliapietra, Gianpietro Gilardi, Francesco Glorioso, Pietro Polti, Giuseppe Schiavon, Orlando Savarin, Sereno Brunello, Ivo Stefanoni	6:02.13	QR
4.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	Boris Klavora, Jadran Barut, Jože Berc, Vjekoslav Skalak, Marko Mandič, Alojz Colja, Pavao Martić, Lucijan Kleva, Zdenko Balaš	6:02.43	QR
5.	Australia (AUS)	David Ramage, David Boykett, Terry Davies, Robert Lachal, Paul Guest, Martin Tomanovits, Brian Vear, Graeme McCall, Kevin Wickham	6:06.94	QR

Heat 2
Place	Team	Crew	Time
1.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Petr Čermák, Jiří Lundák, Jan Mrvík, Július Toček, Josef Věntus, Luděk Pojezný, Bohumil Janoušek, Richard Nový, Miroslav Koníček	6:03.88	QF
2.	Canada (CAN)	Thomas Gray, Max Wieczorek, Richard Bordewick, Eldon Worobieff, Wayne Pretty, John Larsen, Marc Lemieux, Daryl Sturdy, David Overton	6:07.19	QR
3.	Japan (JPN)	Naoji Sato, Koichi Miyano, Tsugio Ito, Tsuneo Ogasawara, Yoshihiro Onishi, Shin Hasegawa, Hajime Ishikawa, Ryuzo Kikuchi, Osamu Mandai	6:16.67	QR
4.	New Zealand (NZL)	Mark Brownlee, Alexander Clark, Peter Delaney, John Gibbons, George Paterson, Tony Popplewell, Raymond Skinner, Alan Webster, Douglas Pulman	6:20.63	QR
5.	Cuba (CUB)	Osvaldo Díaz, Gilberto Campbell, Mario Tabio, Ezequiel Montenegro, Alfredo Hernández, Leovigildo Millan, Norge Marrero, Segundo Mora, Roberto Ojeda	6:31.76	QR

Heat 3
Place	Team	Crew	Time
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	Juozas Jagelavičius, Yury Suslin, Petras Karla, Vytautas Briedis, Volodymyr Sterlik, Zigmas Jukna, Antanas Bagdonavičius, Ričardas Vaitkevičius, Yuriy Lorentsson	6:06.15	QF
2.	France (FRA)	André Fevret, Pierre Maddaloni, André Sloth, Joseph Moroni, Robert Dumontois, Jean-Pierre Grimaud, Bernard Meynadier, Michel Viaud, Alain Bouffard	6:09.08	QR
3.	Egypt (EGY)	Ali Abdel Sami, Abdel Mohsen Saad, Ibrahim Metwalli, Abdel Latif Metwalli, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ali Abdel Radi, Abdel Fattah Abou-Shanab, Saleh Ibrahim, Abbas Khamis	6:32.42	QR
4.	South Korea (KOR)	Lee Sang-u, Kim Heon-jong, Kim Gyu-san, Choi Sin-il, An Jong-deuk, Cheon Seong-tae, Yoo Hyeok-geun, Ji Deok-han, Park Sin-yeong	6:46.13	QR

Repechages

The top finisher in each of the three repechages joined the finalists. The second and third-place finishers competed in a consolation final for 7th-12th places. All other crews were eliminated.

Repechage 1
Place	Team	Time
1.	Italy (ITA)	6:03.59	QF
2.	France (FRA)	6:07.43	QC
3.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:14.83	QC
4.	Cuba (CUB)	6:27.29

Repechage 2
Place	Team	Time
1.	United States (USA)	6:01.47	QF
2.	Japan (JPN)	6:10.15	QC
3.	South Korea (KOR)	6:36.24	QC

Repechage 3
Place	Team	Time
1.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	5:59.23	QF
2.	Canada (CAN)	6:03.86	QC
3.	Australia (AUS)	6:06.24	QC
4.	Egypt (EGY)	6:19.03

Consolation final

The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.

Consolation final
Place	Team	Time
7.	France (FRA)	5:58.57
8.	Australia (AUS)	6:02.21
9.	Canada (CAN)	6:02.69
10.	Japan (JPN)	6:05.14
11.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:07.59
12.	South Korea (KOR)	6:31.80

Final

Place	Team	Time
	United States (USA)	6:18.23
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	6:23.29
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:25.11
4.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	6:27.15
5.	Soviet Union (URS)	6:30.69
6.	Italy (ITA)	6:42.78

References

1. "Rowing at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.