1966 World Rowing Championships

1966 World Rowing Championships
Yugoslav stamp dedicated to the 1966 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Bled
Location	Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia

The 1966 World Rowing Championships was the 2nd World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1966 at Lake Bled in Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.^[1]^[2]

Quote from Australian rowing history pages: "The superbly organized regatta was held on the magnificent lake at Bled: a fitting setting for the second world championships."^[2] Prior to the 4th World Rowing Championships in 1974, only men competed.^[1]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1966 World Rowing Championships:^[1]^[2]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Event	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x ^[3]	United States Don Spero		Netherlands Jan Wienese		West Germany Jochen Meißner
M2x ^[4]	Switzerland Melchior Bürgin Martin Studach		United States Seymour Cromwell Jim Storm		East Germany Manfred Haake Jochen Brückhändler
M2- ^[5]	East Germany Peter Kremtz Roland Göhler		Austria Dieter Losert Dieter Ebner		Soviet Union Viktor Suslin Boris Fjedorow
M2+ ^[6]	Netherlands Hadriaan van Nes Jan van de Graaff Poul de Haan		France Jacques Morel Georges Morel Gilles Florent^[7]		Italy Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Enrico Pietropolli
M4- ^[8]	East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	6:18.41	Soviet Union Zigmas Jukna Antanas Bagdonavičius Volodymyr Sterlyk Juozas Jagelavičius		Netherlands Maarten Kloosterman Roelof Luynenburg Eric Niehe Rudolf Stokvis
M4+ ^[9]	East Germany Hanno Melzer Horst Bagdonat Helmut Hänsel Karl-Heinz Gzeschuchna Klaus-Dieter Ludwig	6:29	Soviet Union Anatoly Tkachuk Vitaly Kurdchenko Boris Kuzmin Vladimir Yevseyev Anatoly Luzgin		Yugoslavia Boris Ercegovic Predrag Savic Ivo Juginovic Frane Kazija Ljubomir Curovic
M8+ ^[10]	West Germany Horst Meyer Dirk Schreyer Michael Schwan Ulrich Luhn Peter Hertel Rüdiger Henning Lutz Ulbricht Peter Kuhn Peter Niehusen	5:55	Soviet Union Juri Chodorow Andris Prieditis Aleksandr Martyshkin Arkadi Kudinow Elmars Rubins Vladimir Rikkonen^[11] Viktor Suslin Pawel Iljinskij Wiktor Mihejew		East Germany Joachim Böhmer Wolfgang Schulz Jörg Lucke Kurt Wunderlich Erich Wunderlich Klaus-Dieter Bähr Peter Hein Hans-Jürgen Bothe Hartmut Wenzel

Event codes

	single scull	double scull	coxless pair	coxed pair	coxless four	coxed four	eight (coxed)
Men's	M1x	M2x	M2-	M2+	M4-	M4+	M8+

Medals table

Place	Country	01 ! Gold	02 ! Silver	03 ! Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	3	0	2	5
2	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
3	United States	1	1	0	2
4	West Germany	1	0	1	2
5	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
6	Soviet Union	0	3	1	4
7	Austria	0	1	0	1
7	France	0	1	0	1
9	Italy	0	0	1	1
9	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References

1 2 3 "World Rowing Medalists". HickokSports.com. 29 September 2011. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013.
1 2 3 "1966 World Championships—Bled, Yugoslavia". RowingHistory-Aus.info. Archived from the original on 2014-10-21.
↑ "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Einer - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. One - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-06-23.
↑ "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften. Doppelzweier – Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Double Sculls - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-25.
↑ "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Zweier ohne Steuermann - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Two without coxswain - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-12-11.
↑ "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Zweier mit Steuermann - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Two with coxswain - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-31.
↑ Gilles Florent at WorldRowing.com from FISA
↑ "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Vierer ohne Steuermann" [Rowing - World Championships. Coxless four]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.
↑ "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Vierer mit Steuermann - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Four with coxswain - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-01-13.
↑ "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften. Achter – Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. Eight - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-10-17.
↑ Vladimir Rikkonen at WorldRowing.com from FISA

World Rowing Championships

Editions	Lucerne 1962 Bled 1966 St. Catharines 1970 Lucerne 1974 Nottingham 1975 Villach 1976 Amsterdam 1977 Cambridge 1978 Bled 1979 Hazewinkel 1980 Munich 1981 Lucerne 1982 Duisburg 1983 Montreal 1984 Hazewinkel 1985 Nottingham 1986 Copenhagen 1987 Milan 1988 Bled 1989 Tasmania 1990 Vienna 1991 Montreal 1992 Račice 1993 Indianapolis 1994 Tampere 1995 Motherwell 1996 Aiguebelette 1997 Cologne 1998 St. Catharines 1999 Zagreb 2000 Lucerne 2001 Seville 2002 Milan 2003 Banyoles 2004 Kaizu, Gifu 2005 Dorney 2006 Munich 2007 Ottensheim 2008 Poznań 2009 Cambridge 2010 Bled 2011 Plovdiv 2012 Chungju 2013 Amsterdam 2014 Aiguebelette 2015 Rotterdam 2016 Sarasota 2017 Plovdiv 2018 Ottensheim 2019

Venues	Rotsee (1962) Lake Bled (1966) Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course (1970) Rotsee (1974) Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre (1975) Lake Ossiach (1976) Bosbaan (1977) Lake Karapiro (1978) Lake Bled (1979) Hazewinkel (1980) Oberschleißheim Regatta Course (1981) Rotsee (1982) Wedau (1983) Notre Dame Island (1984) Hazewinkel (1985) Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre (1986) Copenhagen (1987) Idroscalo (1988) Lake Bled (1989) Lake Barrington (Tasmania) (1990) Vienna (1991) Notre Dame Island (1992) Račice (Litoměřice District) (1993) Eagle Creek Park (1994) Kaukajärvi (1995) Strathclyde Country Park (1996) Lac d'Aiguebelette (1997) Fühlinger See (1998) Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course (1999) Jarun (2000) Rotsee (2001) Guadalquivir (2002) Idroscalo (2003) Lake of Banyoles (2004) Nagaragawa International Regatta Course (2005) Dorney Lake (2006) Oberschleißheim Regatta Course (2007) Ottensheim (2008) Lake Malta (2009) Lake Karapiro (2010) Lake Bled (2011) Plovdiv (2012) Tangeum Lake (2013) Bosbaan (2014) Lac d'Aiguebelette (2015) Willem-Alexanderbaan (2016) Nathan Benderson Park (2017) Plovdiv (2018) Ottensheim (2019)

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