Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
# Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, all for men. It was the last time that rowing did not include women's disciplines at the Olympics.

## Participating nations

A total of 440 rowers from 35 nations competed at the Munich:

* Argentina (18)
* Australia (16)
* Austria (16)
* Belgium (5)
* Bermuda (1)
* Brazil (2)
* Bulgaria (8)
* Canada (16)
* Chile (1)
* Cuba (7)
* Czechoslovakia (21)
* Denmark (12)
* East Germany (26)
* Finland (3)
* France (18)
* Great Britain (17)
* Hungary (15)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (21)
* Japan (3)
* Mexico (9)
* Netherlands (21)
* New Zealand (19)
* North Korea (6)
* Norway (16)
* Poland (16)
* Portugal (3)
* Romania (9)
* Soviet Union (26)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (17)
* United States (26)
* Uruguay (3)
* West Germany (26)
* Yugoslavia (15)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |

## Medal summary

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| single sculls details | Yury Malyshev (URS) | Alberto Demiddi (ARG) | Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (GDR) |
| double sculls details | Aleksandr Timoshinin and Gennadi Korshikov (URS) | Frank Hansen and Svein Thøgersen (NOR) | Joachim Böhmer and Uli Schmied (GDR) |
| coxless pair details | Siegfried Brietzke and Wolfgang Mager (GDR) | Heinrich Fischer and Alfred Bachmann (SUI) | Roel Luynenburg and Ruud Stokvis (NED) |
| coxed pair details | East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček | Romania (ROU) Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi |
| coxless four details | East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert | New Zealand (NZL) Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills | West Germany (FRG) Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke |
| coxed four details | West Germany (FRG) Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter | East Germany (GDR) Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Otakar Mareček Karel Neffe Vladimír Jánoš František Provazník Vladimír Petříček |
| eight details | New Zealand (NZL) Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie | United States (USA) Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Pete Raymond Tim Mickelson Gene Clapp Bill Hobbs Cleve Livingston Mike Livingston Paul Hoffman | East Germany (GDR) Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinrich Mederow Dietmar Schwarz |
