1956 European Rowing Championships

1956 European Rowing Championships
1956 European Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Bled
Location	Bled, Yugoslavia
	← 1955 Ghent (men) 1957 Duisburg →

The 1956 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Bled in the city of Bled which, at the time, was located in Yugoslavia.^[1] Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and women entered in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+). Many of the men competed two months later at the Olympic Games in Melbourne; women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976.

Background

FISA, the International Rowing Federation, decided at its congress held just prior to the 1955 Championships in Ghent to award the 1956 Championships to Bled, and that the 1957 Championships were to be hosted by Duisburg.^[2]

Medal summary – women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x^[3]	West Germany Ingrid Scholz		Austria Eva Sika		Hungary Kornélia Pap
W2x^[4]	Czechoslovakia Svetla Bartakova Hana Musilova		Soviet Union Nina Opalenko Ekaterina Semlyanskaya		Hungary Hertha Manger Gisela Pünner
W4+^[5]	Soviet Union Olimpiada Mikhaylova Galina Putyrskaya Lyudmila Blasko Natalya Morozova Vera Savrimovich (cox)		Poland Maria Dopierala Maria Golebiewska Sabina Zdzienicka Maria Kowalska Danuta Migocka (cox)		Romania Felicia Urziceanu Elsa Oxenfeld Stela Georgescu Lucia Dumitrescu Angela Codreanu (cox)
W4x+^[6]	Soviet Union Yevgeniya Tserbakova Lidiya Zontova Galina Kopilova Lyubov Trosenkova Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox)		Hungary Istvánné Granek Ida Orodán Józsefné Raskó Jánosné Kőszegi Ilona Skotniczky (cox)		Romania Florica Bruteanu Viorica Udrescu Stela Stanciu Maria Laub Stefania Borisov (cox)
W8+^[7]	Soviet Union Lyudmila Matveyeva Vera Taranda Alexandra Afonykina Vera Mikhaylova Nina Korobkova Zinaida Korotova Zinaida Trofimova Tamara Stolyarova Maria Fomicheva (cox)		Romania Felicia Urziceanu Marta Kardos Iuliana Toganel Rita Schob Sonia Bulugioiu Elsa Oxenfeld Etelca Laub Maria Bucur-Maimon Angela Codreanu (cox)		East Germany Ingrid Matthes Marianne Falk Gerda Weith Ursula Nawrot Ingeborg Könnecke Hella Schulz Anita Blankenfeld Helga Richter Ursula Gesch (cox)

Medal summary – men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x^[8]	Soviet Union Vyacheslav Ivanov		West Germany Klaus von Fersen		Poland Teodor Kocerka
M2x^[9]	Soviet Union Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov		West Germany Thomas Schneider Kurt Hipper		Czechoslovakia Albert Krajmer František Reich
M2-^[10]	Soviet Union Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov		Austria Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein		Belgium Michel Knuysen Bob Baetens
M2+^[11]	West Germany Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky (cox)		Switzerland Gottfried Kottmann Rolf Streuli Peter Rüede (cox)		Austria Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein Franz König (cox)
M4-^[12]	Italy Giuseppe Moioli Attilio Cantoni Giovanni Zucchi Abbondio Marcelli		Hungary Géza Ütő Csaba Kovács Rezső Riheczky Zoltán Kávay		West Germany Willi Montag Horst Stobbe Gunther Kaschlun Manfred Fitze
M4+^[13]	Finland Reino Poutanen Kauko Hänninen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi (cox)		Soviet Union Yury Popov Andrej Archipov Valentin Zanin Yaroslav Cherstvy Anatoly Fetissov (cox)		Italy Franco Trincavelli Angelo Vanzin Romano Sgheiz Alberto Winkler Ivo Stefanoni (cox)
M8+^[14]	Czechoslovakia Josef Věntus Eduard Antoch Ctibor Reiskup Jan Švéda Josef Švec Zdeněk Žára Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda (cox)		France René Massiasse Maurice Houdayer Jean-Jacques Vignon Édouard Leguery Maurice Bas Richard Duc Émile Clerc Santé Marcuzzi Jacques Vilcoq (cox)		Hungary Ferenc Demeter Gabor Dobay Tibor Bedekovits Imre Kaffka Laszlo Kerenyi Imre Kemény Pál Bakos Sandor Emödi Gyula Lengyel (cox)

References

^ Smalman-Smith, Helena. "1955 and 1956 Women's European Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ "DDR vorläufiges Mitglied". Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 11, no. 198. 25 August 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 4 March 2018.(registration required)
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Einer)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Doppelzweier)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Vierer m.Stfr.)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Doppelvierer m.Stfr.)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Achter)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Einer)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier ohne Steuermann)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer o.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
^ Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[British_rowing-1] Smalman-Smith, Helena. "1955 and 1956 Women's European Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[2] "DDR vorläufiges Mitglied". Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 11, no. 198. 25 August 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 4 March 2018.(registration required)

[3] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Einer)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[4] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Doppelzweier)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[5] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Vierer m.Stfr.)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[6] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Doppelvierer m.Stfr.)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[7] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Achter)". sport-komplett.de (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[8] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Einer)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[9] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[10] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier ohne Steuermann)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[11] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[12] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer o.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[13] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

[14] Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

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Pre-WWI events ♂	1893 Lake Orta 1894 Mâcon 1895 Ostend 1896 Geneva 1897 Pallanza 1898 Turin 1899 Ostend 1900 Paris 1901 Zürich 1902 Strasbourg/Kehl 1903 Venice 1904 Paris 1905 Ghent 1906 Pallanza 1907 Strasbourg/Kehl 1908 Lucerne 1909 Paris 1910 Ostend 1911 Como 1912 Geneva 1913 Ghent
Inter-war events ♂	1920 Mâcon 1921 Amsterdam 1922 Barcelona 1923 Como 1924 Zürich 1925 Prague 1926 Lucerne 1927 Como 1929 Bydgoszcz 1930 Liège 1931 Paris 1932 Belgrade 1933 Budapest 1934 Lucerne 1935 Berlin 1937 Amsterdam 1938 Milan
Post-WWII events	1947 Lucerne ♂ 1949 Amsterdam ♂ 1950 Milan ♂ 1951 Mâcon 1953 Copenhagen 1954 Amsterdam 1955 Bucharest ♀ 1955 Ghent ♂ 1956 Bled 1957 Duisburg 1958 Poznań 1959 Mâcon 1960 London ♀ 1961 Prague 1962 East Berlin ♀ 1963 Copenhagen ♂ 1963 Moscow ♀ 1964 Amsterdam 1965 Duisburg 1966 Amsterdam ♀ 1967 Vichy 1968 East Berlin ♀ 1969 Klagenfurt 1970 Tata ♀ 1971 Copenhagen 1972 Brandenburg an der Havel ♀ 1973 Moscow
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