Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics explained

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Event:	Rowing
Games:	1908 Summer
Venue:	Henley-on-Thames
Dates:	28–31 July 1908
Competitors:	81
Nations:	8
Prev:	1904
Next:	1912

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four rowing events were contested, all for men only. Races were held at Henley-on-Thames. The competitions were held from 28 to 31 July. There was one fewer event in 1908 than 1904, after the double sculls was dropped from the programme. Hungary and Norway competed in rowing for the first time, along with six other nations.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	align=center bgcolor=gold style="width:14em"	Gold	align=center bgcolor=silver style="width:14em"	Silver	align=center bgcolor=cc9966 style="width:14em"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor=cc9966 style="width:14em"	Bronze
Single sculls
Coxless pair
Coxless four	Collier Cudmore James Angus Gillan Duncan Mackinnon John Somers-Smith	Philip Filleul Harold Barker John Fenning Gordon Thomson	Gordon Balfour Becher Gale Charles Riddy Geoffrey Taylor	Hermannus Höfte Albertus Wielsma Johan Burk Bernardus Croon
Eights	Albert Gladstone Frederick Kelly Banner Johnstone Guy Nickalls Charles Burnell Ronald Sanderson Raymond Etherington-Smith Henry Bucknall Gilchrist Maclagan	Oscar Taelman Marcel Morimont Rémy Orban Georges Mys François Vergucht Polydore Veirman Oscar de Somville Rodolphe Poma Alfred Van Landeghem	Irvine Robertson Joseph Wright Julius Thomson Walter Lewis Gordon Balfour Becher Gale Charles Riddy Geoffrey Taylor Douglas Kertland	Frank Jerwood Eric Powell Oswald Carver Edward Williams Henry Goldsmith Harold Kitching John Burn Douglas Stuart Richard Boyle

Participating nations

81 rowers from 8 nations competed.

External links

• International Olympic Committee medal database
• Book: Cook, Theodore Andrea . 1908 . The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report . British Olympic Association . London.
• Web site: De Wael . Herman . 2001 . Rowing 1908 . Herman's Full Olympians . 6 May 2006.

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Notes and References

1. Rowing at the 1908 London Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417050315/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1908/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 5 August 2018 .