Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls explained

Event:	Men's double sculls
Games:	1972 Summer
Venue:	Oberschleißheim Regatta Course
Date:	27 August – 2 September
Competitors:	38; (19 teams)
Nations:	19
Gold:	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov
Goldnoc:	URS
Silver:	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen
Silvernoc:	NOR
Bronze:	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied
Bronzenoc:	GDR
Win Value:	7:01.77
Prev:	1968
Next:	1976

The men's double sculls competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from 27 August – 2 September at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.^[1]

Results

Heats

Winner of each heat (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield		6:57.70
2	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied		7:07.94
3	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux		7:16.69
4	Jorge Imaz Ricardo Ibarra		7:18.28
5	Peter Barr John McNiven		7:21.69

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina		6:56.82
2	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler		7:02.90
3	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen		7:03.65
4	Thomas McKibbon John Van Blom		7:08.91
5	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski		7:21.05

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov		6:56.17
2	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans		7:02.12
3	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne		7:12.03
4	Tsugio Ito Yoshio Minato		7:17.51
5	Federico Scheffler Ricardo Scheffler		7:43.87

Heat 4

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht		7:11.32
2	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut		7:16.50
3	Manfred Krausbar Sepp Puchinger		7:29.13
4	Carlos Oliveira Manuel Barroso		8:09.93

Repechage

Top two finishers in each heat qualify to the semifinal round.

Repechage 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut		7:10.45
2	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne		7:11.55
3	Thomas McKibbon John Van Blom		7:19.63
4	Peter Barr John McNiven		7:29.05

Repechage 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen		7:03.71
2	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans		7:04.15
3	Jorge Imaz Ricardo Ibarra		7:22.15

Repechage 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler		7:14.70
2	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux		7:17.58
3	Federico Scheffler Ricardo Scheffler		7:40.11
4	Carlos Oliveira Manuel Barroso		7:44.25

Repechage 4

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied		7:00.54
2	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski		7:08.27
3	Tsugio Ito Yoshio Minato		7:09.73
4	Manfred Krausbar Sepp Puchinger		7:16.16

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B

First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied		7:29.13
2	Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield		7:31.62
3	Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina		7:36.83
4	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans		7:40.77
5	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler		7:45.42
6	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne		7:46.21

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht		7:31.32
2	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov		7:35.33
3	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen		7:35.82
4	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut		7:47.68
5	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux		7:55.00
6	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski		7:59.52

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans		7:07.25
2	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler		7:08.22
3	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux		7:10.03
4	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne		7:11.74
5	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut		7:14.21
6	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski		7:31.97

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov		7:01.77
	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen		7:02.58
	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied		7:05.55
4	Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht		7:14.19
5	Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield		7:16.29
6	Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina		7:17.60

External links

• Official reports of the 1972 Summer Olympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rowing at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's Double Sculls . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132220/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/ROW/mens-double-sculls.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 18 August 2018.