1963 European Rowing Championships (men) explained

1963 European Rowing Championships (men)
Venue:	Lake Bagsværd
Location:	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates:	14–18 August 1963
Prev:	1962 East Berlin
Next:	1963 Moscow (women)

The 1963 European Rowing Championships for men were rowing championships held on Lake Bagsværd near the Danish capital Copenhagen;^[1] the competition for women was held the following month in Moscow. The regatta in Copenhagen was held from 14 to 18 August.^[2]

German participation

The rowing federations of East and West Germany met at the end of July in Hanover to discuss how their rowers should be represented. FISA did not recognise East Germany as a country and insisted on one German team per boat class. The negotiations were overshadowed by political tension—the Berlin Wall had been built two years earlier—and did not result in an agreement. The decision was thus made by FISA that selection trials for men were to be held at the Olympic regatta course in Grünau in East Berlin on 9 August.^[3] The West German rowers won the races in all seven boat classes. The closest result was the photo finish of the coxless pair, where the West German team was 0.05 seconds ahead.^{[4] [5]}

At a FISA meeting held in conjunction with the 1963 regatta, the East German rowing association asked for separate German teams to be allowed to compete in future. The vote on the item was 37 against and 15 in favour of the proposal, and the motion was thus rejected.^[6]

Medal summary – men's events

The finals were held during heavy rain.^[7] In the single sculls, the inaugural world champion, Vyacheslav Ivanov, came fourth. Medallists at the 1963 European Rowing Championships for men were:^[8]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x^[9]	Václav Kozák	7:11.84	Rob Groen	7:14.22	Helmut Lebert	7:19.47
M2x^[10]	Vladimír Andrs Pavel Hofmann	6:43.54	Seymour Cromwell Donald Spero	6:47.06	Oleg Tyurin Boris Dubrovskiy	6:52.78
M2-^[11]	Mario Petri Paolo Mosetti	6:53.28	Günther Zumkeller Dieter Bender	6:55.34	Jim Enters Herman Boelen	6:57.50
M2+^[12]	Klaus-Günter Jordan Wolfgang Neuß Frank Steinhäuser (cox)	7:21.70	Sipke Castelein Sjoerd Wartena E. de Voogd (cox)	7:30.08	Ionel Petrov Gheorghe Riefelt Oprea Păunescu (cox)	7:33.31
M4-^[13]	Gerd Wolter Klaus Bittner Egon Böttcher Christian Prey	6:13.88	Romano Sgheiz Fulvio Balatti Giovanni Zucchi Luciano Sgheiz	6:16.53	André Fevret Roger Chatelain Philippe Malivoire Jean-Pierre Drivet	6:11.97
M4+^[14]	Peter Neusel Bernhard Britting Joachim Werner Egbert Hirschfelder Jürgen Oelke (cox)	6:29.60	Karel Karafiát René Líbal Jaroslav Starosta Jan Štefan Ivan Papirnik (cox)	6:33.81	Yevgeny Levitskas Romas Levitskas Celistinas Jutcis Povilas Lutkattis Igor Rudakov (cox)	6:37.92
M8+^[15]	Bernd Kruse Ingo Kliefoth Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Klaus Aeffke Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)	6:04.19	Juozas Jagelavičius Vytautas Briedis Petras Karla Volodymyr Sterlik Yury Suslin Zigmas Jukna Antanas Bagdonavičius Ričardas Vaitkevičius Yuriy Lorentsson (cox)	6:07.98	Oldřich Tikal Bohumil Janoušek Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Otakar Mareček Richard Nový Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Miroslav Koníček (cox)	6:13.94

Notes and References

1. News: Ruder-EM begann . 17 January 2018 . . 19 . 190 . 17 August 1963 . 8 . de . 17 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180117012215/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19630817-0-8-89-0&highlight=Kopenhagens%7CRuderern%7CRuder-EM%7CRuder%7C1963 . dead .
2. News: Gegen die Ruder-Weltmeister . 12 January 2018 . . 19 . 215 . 8 August 1963 . 7 . de . 1 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200701143733/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19630808-0-7-91-0&highlight=Ruder-Europameisterschaften%7CEuropameisterschafts%7CEuropameisterschaft%7CRuderer%7CRuder%7C1963 . dead .
3. News: Ruder-Ausscheidung In Grünau . 12 January 2018 . . 19 . 210 . 3 August 1963 . 7 . de .
4. News: Kein Sieg für DDR-Ruderer . 12 January 2018 . . 19 . 184 . 10 August 1963 . 2 . de .
5. News: Waldemar . Sydow. Unerfüllte Ruder- Hoffnungen . 12 January 2018 . . 19 . 217 . 10 August 1963 . 7 . de .
6. News: Duisburg und Essen durchgefallen . 12 January 2018 . . 19 . 188 . 15 August 1963 . 7 . de .
7. H²O-Sport . Monatsschrift . September–October 1963 . 36 . 5 . 2–5 . 17 January 2018 . de . PDF.
8. News: Aus aller Welt . 17 January 2018 . . 19 . 192 . 20 August 1963 . 7 . de . 17 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180117012218/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19630820-0-7-128-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften%7CRuderer%7C1963%7C08 . dead .
9. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Einer) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.
10. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.
11. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier ohne Steuermann) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.
12. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.
13. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer o.Stm.) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.
14. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.
15. Web site: Heckert . Karlheinz . Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter) . Sport Komplett . 15 January 2018. de.