Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls explained

Event:	Men's double sculls
Games:	1960 Summer
Date:	31 August – 3 September
Competitors:	32
Nations:	16
Gold:	Václav Kozák Pavel Schmidt
Goldnoc:	TCH
Silver:	Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Ernst Hürlimann Rolf Larcher
Bronzenoc:	SUI
Prev:	1956
Next:	1964

The men's double sculls competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Lake Albano, Italy.^[1]

Competition format

This rowing competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and final), as well as a repechage round that allowed teams that did not win their heats to advance to the final. All races were 2,000 metres in distance.

Heats: Three heats. With 16 boats entered, there were five or six boats per heat. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the final; all other boats went to the repechage.
Repechage: Three heats. With 13 boats racing in but not winning their initial heats, there were four or five boats per repechage heat. The top boat in each repechage heat advanced to the final, with the remaining boats eliminated.
Final: The final consisted of the six boats that had won either the preliminary heats or the repechage heats.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1			6:45.23
2			6:48.22
3			6:49.94
4			6:51.92
5			6:52.05
6			7:16.41

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1			6:51.47
2			6:51.98
3			7:00.13
4			7:11.04
5			7:15.23

Heat 3

Italy was disqualified for false starting twice.

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1			6:54.78
2			6:55.31
3			7:18.13
4			7:38.57

Repechage

Repechage heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1			6:51.61
2			7:02.88
3			7:09.95
4			7:15.63

Repechage heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1			6:55.91
2			7:04.78
3			7:07.61
4			7:08.16
5			7:12.37

Repechage heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1			6:49.04
2			6:49.81
3			6:55.15
4			6:55.25

Final

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time
			6:47.50
			6:50.49
			6:50.59
4			6:52.22
5			6:53.86
6			6:56.40

Notes and References

Web site: Rowing at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Double Sculls . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418130450/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ROW/mens-double-sculls.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 11 August 2018.