Rowing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

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Rowing
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Dates13–17 July 1924
Competitors181 from 14 nations
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The rowing competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris featured seven events, all for men only. The competitions were held from Sunday to Thursday, 13 to 17 July.[1]

Medal summary[edit]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single Sculls
details
 Jack Beresford (GBR)  William Gilmore (USA)  Josef Schneider (SUI)
Double Sculls
details
 Paul Costello
and John B. Kelly Sr. (USA)
 Marc Detton
and Jean-Pierre Stock (FRA)
 Rudolf Bosshard
and Heini Thoma (SUI)
Coxless Pairs
details
 Teun Beijnen
and Willy Rösingh (NED)
 Maurice Monney-Bouton
and Georges Piot (FRA)
none awarded[2]
Coxed Pairs
details
 Switzerland (SUI)
Édouard Candeveau
Alfred Felber
Émile Lachapelle
 Italy (ITA)
Ercole Olgeni
Giovanni Scatturin
Gino Sopracordevole
 United States (USA)
Leon Butler
Harold Wilson
Edward Jennings
Coxless Fours
details
 Great Britain (GBR)
Maxwell Eley
James MacNabb
Robert Morrison
Terence Sanders
 Canada (CAN)
Archibald Black
George MacKay
Colin Finlayson[3]
William Wood
 Switzerland (SUI)
Émile Albrecht
Alfred Probst
Eugen Sigg
Hans Walter
Coxed four
details
 Switzerland (SUI)
Émile Albrecht
Alfred Probst
Eugen Sigg
Hans Walter
Walter Lossli
 France (FRA)
Eugène Constant
Louis Gressier
Georges Lecointe
Raymond Talleux
Marcel Lepan
 United States (USA)
Bob Gerhardt
Sid Jelinek
Ed Mitchell
Henry Welsford
John Kennedy
Eights
details
 United States (USA)
Leonard Carpenter
Howard Kingsbury
Alfred Lindley
John Miller
James Rockefeller
Frederick Sheffield
Benjamin Spock
Alfred Wilson
Laurence Stoddard
 Canada (CAN)
Arthur Bell
Robert Hunter
William Langford
Harold Little
John Smith
Warren Snyder
Norman Taylor
William Wallace
Ivor Campbell
 Italy (ITA)
Antonio Cattalinich
Francesco Cattalinich
Simeone Cattalinich
Giuseppe Crivelli
Latino Galasso
Pietro Ivanov
Bruno Sorich
Carlo Toniatti
Vittorio Gliubich

Participating nations[edit]

A total of 181 rowers from 14 nations competed at the Paris Games:

Medal table[edit]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)2125
2 Switzerland (SUI)2035
3 Great Britain (GBR)2002
4 Netherlands (NED)1001
5 France (FRA)0303
6 Canada (CAN)0202
7 Italy (ITA)0112
Totals (7 entries)77620

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  2. ^ The official report shows a team from Great Britain (C. Killig and C. Southgate) ranked third, but they did not start in the final race with the other two pairs and the IOC medal database does not credit the pair with a bronze medal.
  3. ^ The IOC medal database credits this medal to A. Mariacher. Also the official report shows Mariacher as competitor instead of Finlayson. However the National Olympic Committee of Canada Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine shows only Finlayson as competitor, but not Mariacher.

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