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Olympic Rowing Coxed Eights (8+) Men’s Past Medalists (1940 - 1972)

Your Guide to the Historical Olympic Results (eight with coxswain)

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This is your guide to the historical results for the Olympic Rowing Coxed Eights, eight with coxswain (8+) Men's race. See how the men did over the years and learn who the gold, silver, and bronze men's medalists were along with their corresponding countries.

No Olympics were held in 1940 or 1944

1948 London Olympics

  • Gold: (USA)
    • Ian Turner
    • David Turner
    • James Hardy
    • George Ahlgren
    • Lloyd Butler
    • David Brown
    • Justus Smith
    • John Stack
    • Ralph Purchase
  • Silver: (GBR)
    • Christopher Barton
    • Michael Lapage
    • Guy Richardson
    • Ernest Bircher
    • Paul Massey
    • Charles Lloyd
    • David Meyrick
    • Alfred Mellows
    • Jack Dearlove
  • Bronze: (NOR)
    • Kristoffer Lepsøe
    • Thorstein Kråkenes
    • Hans Hansen
    • Halfdan Gran Olsen
    • Harald Kråkenes
    • Leif Næss
    • Thor Pedersen
    • Carl Monssen
    • Sigurd Monssen

1952 Helsinki Olympics

  • Gold: (USA)
    • Frank Shakespeare
    • William Fields
    • James Dunbar
    • Richard Murphy
    • Robert Detweiler
    • Henry Procter
    • Wayne Frye
    • Edward Stevens
    • Charles Manring
  • Silver: (URS)
    • Yevgeny Brago
    • Vladimir Rodimushkin
    • Aleksei Komarov
    • Igor Borisov
    • Slava Amiragov
    • Leonid Gissen
    • Yevgeny Samsonov
    • Vladimir Kryukov
    • Igor Polyakov
  • Bronze: (AUS)
    • Robert Tinning
    • Ernest Chapman
    • Nimrod Greenwood
    • David Anderson
    • Geoffrey Williamson
    • Mervyn Finlay
    • Edward Pain
    • Phillip Cayzer
    • Thomas Chessell

1956 Melbourne / Stockholm Olympics

  • Gold: (USA)
    • Thomas Charlton
    • David Wight
    • John Cooke
    • Donald Beer
    • Caldwell Esselstyn
    • Charles Grimes
    • Rusty Wailes
    • Robert Morey
    • William Becklean
  • Silver: (CAN)
    • Philip Kueber
    • Richard McClure
    • Robert Wilson
    • David Helliwell
    • Donald Pretty
    • William McKerlich
    • Douglas McDonald
    • Lawrence West
    • Carlton Ogawa
  • Bronze: (AUS)
    • Michael Aikman
    • David Boykett
    • Angus Benfield
    • James Howden
    • Garth Manton
    • Walter Howell
    • Adrian Monger
    • Bryan Doyle
    • Harold Hewitt

1960 Rome Olympics

  • Gold: (EUA)
    • Manfred Rulffs
    • Walter Schröder
    • Frank Schepke
    • Kraft Schepke
    • Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
    • Karl-Heinz Hopp
    • Klaus Bittner
    • Hans Lenk
    • Willi Padge
  • Silver: (CAN)
    • Donald Arnold
    • Walter D'Hondt
    • Nelson Kuhn
    • John Lecky
    • Lorne Loomer
    • Archibald MacKinnon
    • William McKerlich
    • Glen Mervyn
    • Sohen Biln
  • Bronze: (TCH)
    • Bohumil Janoušek
    • Jan Jindra
    • Jiří Lundák
    • Stanislav Lusk
    • Václav Pavkovič
    • Luděk Pojezný
    • Jan Švéda
    • Josef Věntus
    • Miroslav Koníček

1964 Tokyo Olympics

  • Gold: (USA)
    • Joseph Amlong
    • Thomas Amlong
    • Harold Budd
    • Emory Clark
    • Stanley Cwiklinski
    • Hugh Foley
    • William Knecht
    • William Stowe
    • Robert Zimony (cox)
  • Silver: (EUA)
    • Klau Aefke
    • Klau Bittner
    • Karl-Heinz Von Groddeck
    • Hans-Jurgen Wallbrecht
    • Klaus Behrens
    • Jurgen Schroeder
    • Jurgen Plagemann
    • Horst Mayer
    • Thomas Ahrens (cox)
  • Bronze: (TCH)
    • Petr Cermak
    • Jiri Lundak
    • Jan Mrvik
    • Julius Tocek
    • Josef Ventus
    • Ludek Pojezny
    • Bohumil Janousek
    • Richard Novy
    • Miroslav Konicek (cox)

1968 Mexico Olympics

  • Gold: (FRG)
    • Herts Mayer
    • Wolfgang Hottenrott
    • Dirk Schreyer
    • Egbert Hirschfelder
    • Rüdiger Henning
    • Joerg Siebert
    • Lutz Ulbricht
    • Nikolaus Ott
    • Günther Thiersch
  • Silver: (AUS)
    • Alfred Duval
    • David Douglas
    • Michael Morgan
    • John Ranch
    • Joseph Frazio
    • Gary Pierce
    • Peter Dickinson
    • Robert Shirlaw
    • Alan Grover
  • Bronze: (URS)
    • Zugmas Jukna
    • Alexander Matryshkin
    • Antanas Bagdonavichus
    • Vitaulas Briedis
    • Vladimir sterlik
    • Valentin Kravchik
    • Lozopas Yagelavichus
    • Victor Suslin
    • Yury Lorentsson

1972 Munich Olympics

  • Gold: (NZL)
    • Tony Hurt
    • Wybo Veldman
    • Dick Joyce
    • John Hunter
    • Lindsay Wilson
    • Athol Earl
    • Trvor Coker
    • Gary Robertson
    • Simon Dickie
  • Silver: (USA)
    • Lawrence Terry
    • Franklin Hobbs
    • Peter Raymond
    • Timoth Mickelson
    • Eugene Clapp
    • William Hobbs
    • Robert Driscoll
    • Michael Livingston
    • Paul Hoffman
  • Bronze: (GDR)
    • Hans-Joachim Borzym
    • Jörg Landvoigt
    • Harold Dimke
    • Manfred Schneider
    • Hartmut Schreiber
    • Manfred Schmorde
    • Bernd Landvoigt
    • Heinri Mederow
    • Dietmar Schwarz

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