Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
# Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 23 to 27 November on Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia.

## Medal summary

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| single sculls details | Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS) | Stuart Mackenzie (AUS) | John B. Kelly Jr. (USA) |
| double sculls details | Aleksandr Berkutov and Yuriy Tyukalov (URS) | Pat Costello and Jim Gardiner (USA) | Murray Riley and Mervyn Wood (AUS) |
| coxless pairs details | James Fifer and Duvall Hecht (USA) | Igor Buldakov and Viktor Ivanov (URS) | Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder (AUT) |
| coxed pair details | United States (USA) Arthur Ayrault Conn Findlay Kurt Seiffert | United Team of Germany (EUA) Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky | Soviet Union (URS) Ihor Yemchuk Heorhiy Zhylin Vladimir Petrov |
| coxless fours details | Canada (CAN) Archibald MacKinnon Lorne Loomer Walter D'Hondt Donald Arnold | United States (USA) John Welchli John McKinlay Art McKinlay James McIntosh | France (FRA) René Guissart Yves Delacour Gaston Mercier Guy Guillabert |
| coxed fours details | Italy (ITA) Alberto Winkler Romano Sgheiz Angelo Vanzin Franco Trincavelli Ivo Stefanoni | Sweden (SWE) Olle Larsson Gösta Eriksson Ivar Aronsson Evert Gunnarsson Bertil Göransson | Finland (FIN) Kauko Hänninen Reino Poutanen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi |
| eights details | United States (USA) Thomas Charlton David Wight John Cooke Donald Beer Caldwell Esselstyn Charles Grimes Rusty Wailes Robert Morey William Becklean | Canada (CAN) Philip Kueber Richard McClure Robert Wilson David Helliwell Wayne Pretty Bill McKerlich Douglas McDonald Lawrence West Carlton Ogawa | Australia (AUS) Michael Aikman David Boykett Fred Benfield Jim Howden Garth Manton Walter Howell Adrian Monger Brian Doyle Harold Hewitt |

## Participating nations

A total of 242 rowers from 25 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:

* Australia (26)
* Austria (4)
* Belgium (7)
* Brazil (5)
* Canada (13)
* Chile (3)
* Cuba (9)
* Czechoslovakia (11)
* Denmark (7)
* Finland (5)
* France (13)
* Great Britain (12)
* United Team of Germany (12)
* Greece (1)
* Hungary (4)
* Italy (21)
* Japan (9)
* Mexico (1)
* New Zealand (8)
* Poland (8)
* Sweden (9)
* Soviet Union (25)
* United States (26)
* Uruguay (2)
* Yugoslavia (1)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | United States (USA) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | United Team of Germany (EUA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
