Rowing
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Dates13–17 July 1924
Competitors181 from 14 nations
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Rowing at the
1924 Summer Olympics
Single scullsmen
Double scullsmen
Coxless pairmen
Coxed pairmen
Coxless fourmen
Coxed fourmen
Eightmen

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

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

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

Medal table

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

  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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