Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
# Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The events took place at Lake Xochimilco.

## Medal summary

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Single sculls details | Jan Wienese (NED) | Jochen Meißner (FRG) | Alberto Demiddi (ARG) |
| Double sculls details | Aleksandr Timoshinin and Anatoliy Sass (URS) | Harry Droog and Leendert van Dis (NED) | John Nunn and Bill Maher (USA) |
| Coxless pair details | Jörg Lucke and Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (GDR) | Larry Hough and Philip Johnson (USA) | Peter Christiansen and Ib Larsen (DEN) |
| Coxed pair details | Italy (ITA) Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla | Netherlands (NED) Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders | Denmark (DEN) Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab |
| Coxless four details | East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert | Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Melis József Csermely György Sarlós Antal Melis | Italy (ITA) Renato Bosatta Pier Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini |
| Coxed four details | New Zealand (NZL) Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie | East Germany (GDR) Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Dieter Semetzky | Switzerland (SUI) Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich |
| Eight details | West Germany (FRG) Horst Meyer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Jörg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Niko Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse (heat 1) | Australia (AUS) Bob Shirlaw Gary Pearce John Ranch David Douglas Peter Dickson Joe Fazio Michael Morgan Alf Duval Alan Grover | Soviet Union (URS) Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlik Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuriy Lorentsson |

## Participating nations

A total of 353 rowers from 29 nations competed at the Mexico Games:

* Argentina (9)
* Australia (11)
* Austria (3)
* Belgium (1)
* Bulgaria (5)
* Brazil (2)
* Canada (14)
* Cuba (11)
* Czechoslovakia (15)
* Denmark (10)
* Egypt
* Spain (3)
* Finland (2)
* France (17)
* Great Britain (11)
* East Germany (26)
* West Germany (26)
* Italy (14)
* Hungary (6)
* Japan (10)
* Mexico (25)
* Netherlands (22)
* New Zealand (14)
* Peru (3)
* Poland (3)
* Romania (14)
* Switzerland (17)
* Soviet Union (27)
* United States (27)
* Uruguay (5)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
