Rowing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Rowing; at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Dates	13–17 July 1924
Competitors	181 from 14 nations
	← 1920 1928 →

The rowing competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris featured seven events, all for men only. The competitions were held from Sunday to Thursday, 13 to 17 July.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single Sculls details	Jack Beresford (GBR)	William Gilmore (USA)	Josef Schneider (SUI)
Double Sculls details	Paul Costello and John B. Kelly Sr. (USA)	Marc Detton and Jean-Pierre Stock (FRA)	Rudolf Bosshard and Heini Thoma (SUI)
Coxless Pairs details	Teun Beijnen and Willy Rösingh (NED)	Maurice Monney-Bouton and Georges Piot (FRA)	none awarded^[2]
Coxed Pairs details	Switzerland (SUI) Édouard Candeveau Alfred Felber Émile Lachapelle	Italy (ITA) Ercole Olgeni Giovanni Scatturin Gino Sopracordevole	United States (USA) Leon Butler Harold Wilson Edward Jennings
Coxless Fours details	Great Britain (GBR) Maxwell Eley James MacNabb Robert Morrison Terence Sanders	Canada (CAN) Archibald Black George MacKay Colin Finlayson^[3] William Wood	Switzerland (SUI) Émile Albrecht Alfred Probst Eugen Sigg Hans Walter
Coxed four details	Switzerland (SUI) Émile Albrecht Alfred Probst Eugen Sigg Hans Walter Walter Lossli	France (FRA) Eugène Constant Louis Gressier Georges Lecointe Raymond Talleux Marcel Lepan	United States (USA) Bob Gerhardt Sid Jelinek Ed Mitchell Henry Welsford John Kennedy
Eights details	United States (USA) Leonard Carpenter Howard Kingsbury Alfred Lindley John Miller James Rockefeller Frederick Sheffield Benjamin Spock Alfred Wilson Laurence Stoddard	Canada (CAN) Arthur Bell Robert Hunter William Langford Harold Little John Smith Warren Snyder Norman Taylor William Wallace Ivor Campbell	Italy (ITA) Antonio Cattalinich Francesco Cattalinich Simeone Cattalinich Giuseppe Crivelli Latino Galasso Pietro Ivanov Bruno Sorich Carlo Toniatti Vittorio Gliubich

Participating nations

A total of 181 rowers from 14 nations competed at the Paris Games:

Argentina (9)
Australia (10)
Belgium (15)
Brazil (2)
Canada (14)
France (22)
Great Britain (21)
Hungary (7)
Italy (17)
Netherlands (17)
Poland (6)
Spain (10)
Switzerland (11)
United States (20)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	1	2	5
2	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	3	5
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	0	2
4	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
5	France (FRA)	0	3	0	3
6	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
7	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	6	20

References

^ "Rowing at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
^ The official report shows a team from Great Britain (C. Killig and C. Southgate) ranked third, but they did not start in the final race with the other two pairs and the IOC medal database does not credit the pair with a bronze medal.
^ The IOC medal database credits this medal to A. Mariacher. Also the official report shows Mariacher as competitor instead of Finlayson. However the National Olympic Committee of Canada Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine shows only Finlayson as competitor, but not Mariacher.

Sources

"Paris 1924 Rowing - Results & Videos". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

[SR-1] "Rowing at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

[GBR_pair-2] The official report shows a team from Great Britain (C. Killig and C. Southgate) ranked third, but they did not start in the final race with the other two pairs and the IOC medal database does not credit the pair with a bronze medal.

[CAN-3] The IOC medal database credits this medal to A. Mariacher. Also the official report shows Mariacher as competitor instead of Finlayson. However the National Olympic Committee of Canada Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine shows only Finlayson as competitor, but not Mariacher.

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