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Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics on a stamp of the Netherlands
Dates	2–10 August 1928
Competitors	245 from 19 nations
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Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 2 to 10 August.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Bobby Pearce (AUS)	Ken Myers (USA)	David Collet (GBR)
Double sculls details	Paul Costello and Charles McIlvaine (USA)	Joseph Wright Jr. and Jack Guest (CAN)	Leo Losert and Viktor Flessl (AUT)
Coxless pair details	Kurt Moeschter and Bruno Müller (GER)	Terence O'Brien and Robert Nisbet (GBR)	Paul McDowell and John Schmitt (USA)
Coxed pair details	Switzerland (SUI) Hans Schöchlin Karl Schöchlin Hans Bourquin	France (FRA) Armand Marcelle Édouard Marcelle Henri Préaux	Belgium (BEL) Léon Flament François de Coninck Georges Anthony
Coxless four details	Great Britain (GBR) John Lander Michael Warriner Richard Beesly Edward Vaughan Bevan	United States (USA) Charles Karle William Miller George Healis Ernest Bayer	Italy (ITA) Cesare Rossi Pietro Freschi Umberto Bonadè Paolo Gennari
Coxed four details	Italy (ITA) Valerio Perentin Giliante D'Este Nicolò Vittori Giovanni Delise Renato Petronio	Switzerland (SUI) Ernst Haas Joseph Meyer Otto Bucher Karl Schwegler Fritz Bösch	Poland (POL) Franciszek Bronikowski Edmund Jankowski Leon Birkholc Bernard Ormanowski Bolesław Drewek
Eight details	United States (USA) Marvin Stalder John Brinck Francis Frederick William Thompson William Dally James Workman Hubert A. Caldwell Peter Donlon Donald Blessing	Great Britain (GBR) Jamie Hamilton Guy Oliver Nickalls John Badcock Donald Gollan Harold Lane Gordon Killick Jack Beresford Harold West Arthur Sulley	Canada (CAN) Frederick Hedges Frank Fiddes John Hand Herbert Richardson Jack Murdoch Athol Meech Edgar Norris William Ross John Donnelly

Participating nations

A total of 244 rowers from 19 nations competed at the Amsterdam Games:

•  Austria (2)
•  Argentina (9)
•  Australia (1)
•  Belgium (21)
•  Canada (11)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  Denmark (10)
•  France (26)
•  Germany (23)
•  Great Britain (22)
•  Hungary (6)
•  Italy (26)
•  Japan (6)
•  Monaco (5)
•  Netherlands (21)
•  Poland (14)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Switzerland (13)
•  United States (26)

Only one rower (Joseph Wright Jr.) and one coxswain (Georges Anthony) competed in more than one event.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	2	1	5
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	1	4
3	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
5	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
8	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	7	21

See also

• Rowing at the Summer Olympics

References

1. "Rowing at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2018.

External links

• International Olympic Committee medal database

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