1954 European Rowing Championships

1954 European Rowing Championships
VenueBosbaan
LocationAmsterdam, the Netherlands
Dates20–22 August 1954 (women)
26–29 August 1954 (men)

The 1954 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bosbaan regatta course in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. This edition is particularly notable for the fact that it was the first time that women were allowed to compete as part of the championships, after three years of trial regattas for them. Women from 13 countries were represented with 34 boats, and they competed in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+) from 20 to 22 August. The men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+) a week later, from 26 to 29 August. It would be another 22 years until women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976.[1]

Medal summary – women's events

For the 1954 regatta, the Bosbaan was widened from five lanes to six. All of the boat classes had single-digit entries (five crews each for the eight and quad, and nine for the singles), just four of the lanes were used in the races so that there were heats, repêchages, and a final.[1]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time
W1x[2]  Soviet Union
Roza Chumakova 		 Austria
Eva Sika 		 Netherlands
Agnes Reuter
W2x[3]  Soviet Union
Larissa Tsausova
Zoja Rakickaya 		 West Germany
Maritta Golz
Hermine Heyden 		 Czechoslovakia
Svetla Bartakova
Hana Musilova
W4+[4]  Soviet Union
Lidia Walshuk
Lyudmila Blasko
Lidja Kirsanova
Natalya Morozova
Valentina Ogorodnikova (cox) 		 Netherlands
Berbertje Vochteloo
Ans de Mey
Marjolijne van Lith
Everdina Lafeber
Liesbeth de Wit (cox) 		 Great Britain
Iris Simpson
Bette Shubrook
Barbara Benzing
Marjorie Lutz
Rita Walkerdine (cox)
W4x+[5]  Soviet Union
Yelena Serbasova
Tamara Tarskova
Natalia Sanina
Klavdija Ulogova
Rosa Seremetyeva (cox) 		 Austria
Lisbeth Kaibitsch
Lore Kafka
Sigrid Freuis
Hilde Unterberger
Irma Roth (cox) 		 Netherlands
Hendrika Teuben
Crieta Paulen
Frida van der Hoop
Helena Koster
Sonja van de Kastelen (cox)
W8+[6]  Soviet Union
Irina Lobnyeva
Nina Martinova
Ekaterina Kopilova
Marina Schirtladse
Larissa Koncewaja
Alexandra Sonnova
Nina Sevruk
Jelena Lukatyna
Valentina Okorodnikova (cox) 		 Romania
Maria Maimon
Laura Mitroi
Ghizela Rostas
Elisabeta Gyorgy
Rita Schob
Mariana Vatan
Marta Kardos
Sonia Bulugioiu
Angela Codreanu (cox) 		 Netherlands
Jacoba Stefels
Janneke Loman
Willemijn Domhoff
Gwendoline van der Feltz
Johanna Moltzer
Magda Schepers
Helena Kouwenaar
Johanna Minnema
Jeanette Molenaar (cox)

Medal summary – men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time
M1x[7]  Switzerland
Alain Colomb 		 Poland
Teodor Kocerka 		 Soviet Union
Aleksandr Berkutov
M2x[8]  West Germany
Thomas Schneider
Gerhard Häge 		 Switzerland
Peter Stebler
Erich Schriever 		 Soviet Union
Heorhiy Zhylin
Ihor Yemchuk
M2-[9]  Denmark
Finn Pedersen
Kjeld Østrøm 		 Soviet Union
Igor Buldakov
Viktor Ivanov 		 United Kingdom
Christopher Davidge
David Macklin
M2+[10]  Switzerland
Gottfried Kottmann
Rolf Streuli
Walter Ludin (cox) 		 France
Claude Martin
Édouard Leguery
Daniel Forget (cox) 		 Belgium
René Verhoeven
Joseph van Thillo
Willy Vlaminckx (cox)
M4-[11]  Italy
Giuseppe Moioli
Giovanni Zucchi
Francesco Lazzari
Attilio Cantoni 		 United Kingdom
Gavin Sorrell
Colin Porter
Sidney Rand
Michael Beresford 		 Switzerland
Rico Bianchi
Karl Weidmann
Émile Ess
Heini Scheller
M4+[12]  Soviet Union
Yuriy Tyukalov
Yevgeny Kuznetsov
Fyodor Suo
Yevgeny Stirotinsky
Yuri Nosov (cox) 		 Denmark
Knud Jensen
Poul Locht
Eigil Krogh
Börge Krogh
Ejvind Christensen (cox) 		 Czechoslovakia
Karel Mejta
Jiří Havlis
Jan Jindra
Stanislav Lusk
Radomír Plšek (cox)
M8+[13]  Soviet Union
Yevgeny Brago
Vladimir Rodimushkin
Slava Amiragov
Yevgeny Samsonov
Igor Borisov
Leonid Gissen
Aleksey Komarov
Vladimir Kryukov
Nikolai Kolosovsky (cox) 		 Denmark
Flemming Nimb
Kjeld Larsen
Børge Hougaard
Svend Erik Schougaard
Wesley Ernest Pedersen
Walter Schröder
Kurt Andersen Krog
Aage Nielsen Drejer
Finn Hansen Aabye (cox) 		 Yugoslavia
Ivo Sirisević
Ante Marinović
Filip Kozulić
Zsivko Kraljić
Joszip Biliškov
Veljko Kukolj
Bozsidar Makjanić
Mihajlo Obradović
Zdenko Bego (cox)

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