Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

Men's double sculls
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
DateAugust 5–9
Competitors24 from 12 nations
Medalists
   Great Britain
   Denmark
   Uruguay
Rowing at the
1948 Summer Olympics
Single sculls men
Double sculls men
Coxless pairs men
Coxed pairs men
Coxless fours men
Coxed fours men
Eights men

The men's double sculls competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Henley Royal Regatta Course on the Henley-on-Thames.

Schedule

Date Round
August 5, 1948Heats
August 6, 1948Repechage
August 7, 1948Semifinal
August 9, 1948 Final

Results

Heats

First boat of each heat qualified to the semifinal, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Jacques Maillet
Christian Guilbert
 France 6:47.8 Q
2 Dickie Burnell
Bert Bushnell
 Great Britain 6:56.9
3 Mario Ustolin
Francesco Dapiran
 Italy 6:59.2

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Ebbe Parsner
Aage Larsen
 Denmark 6:50.1 Q
2 Maurice Gueissaz
Maurice Matthey
 Switzerland 6:58.7
3 Gabriel Beaudry
Fred Graves
 Canada 7:09.3

Heat 3

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Ben Piessens
Willy Collet
 Belgium 6:50.9 Q
2 Tom Neumeier
Henk van der Meer
 Netherlands 6:56.1
3 Juan Rodríguez
William Jones
 Uruguay 7:14.0

Heat 4

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Joe Angyal
Arthur Gallagher
 United States 7:01.3 Q
2 Ángel Malvicino
Teodoro Nölting
 Argentina 7:08.0
3 Sándor Ormándi
József Simó
 Hungary 7:12.1

Repechage

First boat of each heat qualified to the semifinal.

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Dickie Burnell
Bert Bushnell
 Great Britain ? Q
2 Tom Neumeier
Henk van der Meer
 Netherlands 7:00.2
3 Ángel Malvicino
Teodoro Nölting
 Argentina 7:07.1

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Mario Ustolin
Francesco Dapiran
 Italy 6:53.9 Q
2 Maurice Gueissaz
Maurice Matthey
 Switzerland 7:00.2
3 Sándor Ormándi
József Simó
 Hungary 7:09.3

Heat 3

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Juan Rodríguez
William Jones
 Uruguay 7:02.1 Q
2 Gabriel Beaudry
Fred Graves
 Canada 7:08.7

Semifinal

First boat of each heat qualified to the final.

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Dickie Burnell
Bert Bushnell
 Great Britain 7:55.7 Q
2 Joe Angyal
Arthur Gallagher
 United States 8:07.3
3 Ben Piessens
Willy Collet
 Belgium 8:17.2

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Ebbe Parsner
Aage Larsen
 Denmark 7:48.3 Q
2 Mario Ustolin
Francesco Dapiran
 Italy 7:58.2

Heat 3

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1 Juan Rodríguez
William Jones
 Uruguay 8:02.2 Q
2 Jacques Maillet
Christian Guilbert
 France 8:33.2

Final

Rank Rowers Country Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Dickie Burnell
Bert Bushnell
 Great Britain 6:51.3
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ebbe Parsner
Aage Larsen
 Denmark 6:55.3
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Juan Rodríguez
William Jones
 Uruguay 7:12.4

References

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