1959 European Rowing Championships Explained

1959 European Rowing Championships
Venue:	Mâcon regatta course
Location:	Mâcon, France
Dates:	14–16 August 1959 (women) 20–23 August 1959 (men)
Prev:	1958 Poznań
Next:	1960 London

The 1959 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Mâcon regatta course on the Saône in Mâcon, France. The event for women was held from 14 to 16 August,^[1] and 16 races were held.^[2] The event for men was held from 20 to 23 August.^[3] Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and women entered in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+).

Medal summary – women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x^[4]	Kornélia Pap		Emiliya Mukhina		Eva Sika
W2x^[5]	Nina Opalenko Lyudmila Otrosko		Magda Jifcu Dora Lakatos		Svetla Bartakova Hana Musilova
W4+^[6]	Valentina Terekhova Nadezhda Skunkova Ella Sergeyeva Nina Shamanova Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox)		Felicia Urziceanu Maria Trinks Stela Gavan-Georgescu Marta Kardos Stefania Borisov (cox)		Alajosne Labody Gyözöne Lukachich Zsuzsa Rakitay Ottone Nagy Rudolfne Radvanyi (cox)
W4x+^[7]	Olimpiada Mikhaylova Valentina Kalegina Galina Putyrskaya Larisa Pisareva Zinaida Andreyeva (cox)		Herta Weissig Gisela Heisse Hannelore Göttlich Helga Richter Hannelore Schneider (cox)		Magda Jifcu Emilia Rigard Doina Ciolacu Stela Stanciu Angela Codreanu (cox)
W8+^[8]	Valentina Sirsikova Vera Rebrova Nonna Petsernikova Lidiya Zontova Sinayda Kirillina Nina Korobkova Zinaida Korotova Nadezhda Gontsarova Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox)		Anita Blankenfeld Ingeborg Peter Ingrid Drews Waltraud Dinter Hilde Amelang Marianne Schulze Hella Schulz Marianne Falk Ursula Wiek (cox)		Alajosne Labody Maria Zakaly Laszlone Halasz Magda Helmich Judit Szalatnay Zsuzsa Rakitay Gyözöne Lukachich Ottone Nagy Rudolfne Radvanyi (cox)

Medal summary – men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x^[9]	Vyacheslav Ivanov		Klaus von Fersen		Teodor Kocerka
M2x^[10]	Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov		Václav Kozák Pavel Schmidt		Peter Bakker Co Rentmeester
M2-^[11]	Ingo Kliefoth Bernd Kruse		Oleg Golovanov Valentin Boreyko		Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein
M2+^[12]	Klaus Riekemann Hans-Joachim Berendes Hans-Dieter Maier (cox)		Renzo Ostino Giovanni Anselmi Vincenzo Bruno (cox)		Stelian Petrov Ion Voican Oprea Păunescu (cox)
M4-^[13]	Gottfried Kottmann Rolf Streuli Émile Ess Hansruedi Scheller		Günter Schroers Manfred Uellner Victor Hendrix Manfred Kluth		Ludek Musil René Líbal Miroslav Jíška Jindřich Blažek
M4+^[14]	Klaus Wegner Gerd Cintl Horst Effertz Claus Heß Michael Obst (cox)		Maarten Christiaan Fehmers Cornelis Jacobus Westermann Peter van Haaps Feye Meye Ivan Vanier (cox)		Kjell Hansson Ulf Gustafsson Lennart Hansson Lars-Eric Gustafsson Bengt Gunnarsson (cox)
M8+^[15]	Hans Lenk Karl-Heinz Hopp Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Kraft Schepke Frank Schepke Walter Schröder Manfred Rulffs Willi Padge (cox)		Pavel Hofmann Václav Jindra Bohumil Janoušek Jan Švéda Josef Švec Luděk Pojezný Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koníček (cox)		Igor Khokhlov Boris Fyodorov Georgy Gushchenko Anatoly Antonov Yury Popov Yaroslav Cherstvy Georgiy Bryulgart Oleg Vasiliev Yuri Polyakov (cox)

Notes and References

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