Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Yuri Malishev (URS)	Alberto Demiddi (ARG)	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (GDR)
Double sculls	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov	Norway (NOR) Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	East Germany (GDR) Joachim Böhmer Hans-Ulrich Schmeid
Coxless pair	East Germany (GDR) Siegfried Brietzke Wolfgang Mager	Switzerland (SUI) Heinrich Fischer Alfred Bachmann	Netherlands (NED) Roel Luynenburg Ruud Stokvis
Coxed pair	East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lücke Klaus-Dieter Neubert (cox)	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Oldrich Svojanovsky Pavel Svojanovsky Vladimir Petricek (cox)	Romania (ROM) Ştefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lowrenschi (cox)
Coxless four	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	West Germany (FRG) Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter (cox)	East Germany (GDR) Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Otakar Mareček Karel Neffe Vladimír János František Provazník Vladimír Petříček (cox)
Eights	New Zealand (NZL) Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Athol Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie (cox)	United States (USA) Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Peter Raymond Timoth Mickelson Eugene Clapp William Hobbs Robert Driscoll Michael Livingston Paul Hoffman	East Germany (GDR) Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinri Mederow Dietmar Schwarz (cox)

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• Rowing at the Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in rowing (men)
• Olympic medalists in rowing (women)
• Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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