Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only. The events took place at Lake Xochimilco.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
single sculls	Jan Wienese (NED)	Jochen Meißner (FRG)	Alberto Demiddi (ARG)
double sculls	Aleksandr Timoshinin and Anatoly Sass (URS)	Henricus Droog and Leendert Van Dis (NED)	John Nunn and Bill Maher (USA)
coxless pairs	Jörg Lucke and Heinz-Jörg Bothe (GDR)	Laurence Hough and Philip Johnson (USA)	Peter Christiansen and Ivan Larsen (DEN)
coxed pairs	Italy (ITA) Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla	Netherlands (NED) Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders	Denmark (DEN) Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab
coxless fours	East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Melis József Csermely György Sarlós Antal Melis	Italy (ITA) Renato Bosatta Pier Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini
coxed fours	New Zealand (NZL) Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie	East Germany (GDR) Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Dieter Semetzky	Switzerland (SUI) Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich
eights	West Germany (FRG) Horst Meyer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Jörg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Nikolaus Ott Günther Thiersch	Australia (AUS) Bob Shirlaw Gary Pearce John Ranch David Douglas Peter Dickson Joe Fazio Michael Morgan Alf Duval Alan Grover	Soviet Union (URS) Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlyk Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuri Lorentsson

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	0	3
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	1	2
6	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References

• International Olympic Committee medal database