Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed pair

Men's coxed pairs
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Date 23–27 November
Competitors 24 from 8 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Arthur Ayrault
Conn Findlay
Kurt Seiffert		  United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Horst Arndt
Rainer Borkowsky		  United Team of Germany
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Ihor Yemchuk
Heorhiy Zhylin
Vladimir Petrov		  Soviet Union

The men's coxed pairs competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Wendouree near Ballarat, Australia.[1]

Results

The following rowers took part:[1]

Rank Rowers Country
1st, gold medalist(s) Arthur Ayrault
Conn Findlay
Kurt Seiffert		  United States
2nd, silver medalist(s) Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Horst Arndt
Rainer Borkowsky		  United Team of Germany
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Ihor Yemchuk
Heorhiy Zhylin
Vladimir Petrov		  Soviet Union
Zbigniew Schwarzer
Henryk Jagodziński
Bertold Mainka		  Poland
Livien Ven
Antoon Ven
Jos Van Thillo		  Belgium
Robert Duncan
Bruce Dickson
John Cockbill		  Australia
Josef Kloimstein
Alfred Sageder
Franz König		  Austria
Juan Carmona
Jorge Contreras
Eusebio Ojeda		  Chile

References

  1. 1 2 "Rowing at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Coxed Pairs". Sports Reference. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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