Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Toda Rowing Course
Date	12–15 October
Winning time	7:10.66
Medalists
Oleg Tyurin Boris Dubrovskiy  Soviet Union Seymour Cromwell Jim Storm  United States Vladimír Andrs Pavel Hofmann  Czechoslovakia
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Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pair	men
Coxed pair	men
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men
Eight	men
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The double sculls event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.^[1]

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Oleg Tyurin Boris Dubrovskiy (URS)	Seymour Cromwell Jim Storm (USA)	Vladimír Andrs Pavel Hofmann (TCH)

Results

Heats

The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	Seymour Cromwell and Jim Storm (USA)	6:31.63	QF
2.	Helmut Lebert and Josef Steffes-Mies (EUA)	6:41.24	QR
3.	Melchior Bürgin and Martin Studach (SUI)	6:45.58	QR
4.	Arnold Cooke and Peter Webb (GBR)	6:49.83	QR
5.	Barclay Wade and Gary Pearce (AUS)	7:01.21	QR
Heat 2
1.	Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrovskiy (URS)	6:51.03	QF
2.	Max Alwin and Peter Bots (NED)	7:07.52	QR
3.	Susumi Hosoya and Yasushi Murase (JPN)	7:25.64	QR
4.	Roberto Friedrich and Fernando Scheffler (MEX)	7:34.34	QR
Heat 3
1.	Vladimír Andrs and Pavel Hofmann (TCH)	6:39.67	QF
2.	M. de Meulemeester and Gerard Higny (BEL)	6:45.69	QR
3.	René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau (FRA)	6:48.70	QR
4.	Juan Carlos Gómez and José María Robledo (ARG)	6:58.08	QR

Repechages

The top finisher in each of the three repechages joined the finalists. The second and third-place finishers competed in a consolation final for 7th-12th places. The fourth-place finisher, in the only repechage with that many competitors, was eliminated.

Repechage 1
1.	Melchir Burgin and Martin Studach (SUI)	6:47.18	QF
2.	M. de Meulemeester and Gerard Higny (BEL)	6:49.28	QC
3.	Roberto Friedrich and Fernando Scheffler (MEX)	7:35.14	QC
Repechage 2
1.	Helmut Lebert and Josef Steffes-Mies (EUA)	6:39.92	QF
2.	Juan Gomez and Jose Robledo (ARG)	7:05.02	QC
3.	Hosoya Susumu and Murase Yasushi (JPN)	7:18.98	QC
Repechage 3
1.	René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau (FRA)	6:49.38	QF
2.	Arnold Cooke and Peter Webb (GBR)	6:50.48	QC
3.	Max Alwin and Peter Bots (NED)	6:56.59	QC
4.	Barclay Wade and Gary Pearce (AUS)	7:07.12	13th

Consolation final

The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.

7.	Arnold Cooke and Peter Webb (GBR)	6:44.39
8.	Max Alwin and Peter Bots (NED)	6:47.07
9.	M. de Meulemeester and Gerard Higny (BEL)	6:49.70
10.	Hosoya Susumu and Murase Yasushi (JPN)	7:15.22
11.	Roberto Friedrich and Fernando Scheffler (MEX)	7:27.47
12.	Juan Gomez and Jose Robledo (ARG)	Did not start

Final

	Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrovskiy (URS)	7:10.66
	Seymour Cromwell and Jim Storm (USA)	7:13.16
	Vladimír Andrs and Pavel Hofmann (TCH)	7:14.23
4.	Melchior Burgin and Martin Studach (SUI)	7:24.97
5.	Helmut Lebert and Josef Steffes-Mies (EUA)	7:30.03
6.	René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau (FRA)	7:41.80

References

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.

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