Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls
# Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

The men's double sculls competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Lake Albano, Italy.

## Competition format

This rowing competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and final), as well as a repechage round that allowed teams that did not win their heats to advance to the final. All races were 2,000 metres in distance.

* Heats: Three heats. With 16 boats entered, there were five or six boats per heat. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the final; all other boats went to the repechage.
* Repechage: Three heats. With 13 boats racing in but not winning their initial heats, there were four or five boats per repechage heat. The top boat in each repechage heat advanced to the final, with the remaining boats eliminated.
* Final: The final consisted of the six boats that had won either the preliminary heats or the repechage heats.

## Results

### Heats

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | René DuhamelBernard Monnereau | France | 6:45.23 | Q |
| 2 | Peter BakkerCo Rentmeester | Netherlands | 6:48.22 | R |
| 3 | Joža LovecPerica Vlašić | Yugoslavia | 6:49.94 | R |
| 4 | John B. Kelly Jr.Bill Knecht | United States | 6:51.92 | R |
| 5 | Heinz BecherGünter Schroers | United Team of Germany | 6:52.05 | R |
| 6 | Ian TuttyKevyn Webb | Australia | 7:16.41 | R |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Václav KozákPavel Schmidt | Czechoslovakia | 6:51.47 | Q |
| 2 | Aleksandr BerkutovYuriy Tyukalov | Soviet Union | 6:51.98 | R |
| 3 | Nicholas BirkmyreGeorge Justicz | Great Britain | 7:00.13 | R |
| 4 | Harald KråkenesSverre Kråkenes | Norway | 7:11.04 | R |
| 5 | Jannik Madum AndersenPoul Mortensen | Denmark | 7:15.23 | R |

**Heat 3**

Italy was disqualified for false starting twice.

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ernst HürlimannRolf Larcher | Switzerland | 6:54.78 | Q |
| 2 | Gérard HignyJean-Marie Lemaire | Belgium | 6:55.31 | R |
| 3 | Gottfried DittrichAdolf Löblich | Austria | 7:18.13 | R |
| 4 | Paulo CarvalhoMariano Caulín | Uruguay | 7:38.57 | R |
| – | Severino LuciniCesarino Pestuggia | Italy | DSQ | R |

### Repechage

**Repechage heat 1**

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Peter BakkerCo Rentmeester | Netherlands | 6:51.61 | Q |
| 2 | Harald KråkenesSverre Kråkenes | Norway | 7:02.88 | |
| 3 | Jannik Madum AndersenPoul Mortensen | Denmark | 7:09.95 | |
| 4 | Gottfried DittrichAdolf Löblich | Austria | 7:15.63 | |

**Repechage heat 2**

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Aleksandr BerkutovYuriy Tyukalov | Soviet Union | 6:55.91 | Q |
| 2 | Paulo CarvalhoMariano Caulín | Uruguay | 7:04.78 | |
| 3 | Joža LovecPerica Vlašić | Yugoslavia | 7:07.61 | |
| 4 | Severino LuciniCesarino Pestuggia | Italy | 7:08.16 | |
| 5 | Ian TuttyKevyn Webb | Australia | 7:12.37 | |

**Repechage heat 3**

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Gérard HignyJean-Marie Lemaire | Belgium | 6:49.04 | Q |
| 2 | Nicholas BirkmyreGeorge Justicz | Great Britain | 6:49.81 | |
| 3 | Heinz BecherGünter Schroers | United Team of Germany | 6:55.15 | |
| 4 | John B. Kelly Jr.Bill Knecht | United States | 6:55.25 | |

### Final

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Václav KozákPavel Schmidt | Czechoslovakia | 6:47.50 |
| | Aleksandr BerkutovYuriy Tyukalov | Soviet Union | 6:50.49 |
| | Ernst HürlimannRolf Larcher | Switzerland | 6:50.59 |
| 4 | René DuhamelBernard Monnereau | France | 6:52.22 |
| 5 | Peter BakkerCo Rentmeester | Netherlands | 6:53.86 |
| 6 | Gérard HignyJean-Marie Lemaire | Belgium | 6:56.40 |
