1956 European Rowing Championships

Host City Bled
Country YUG
Held 30 August – 1 September 1956
Competitors 139
Countries 13

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Single Sculls Men — Medal 3 3
Coxless Pairs Men — Medal 6 3
Coxed Pairs Men — Medal 9 3
Double Sculls Men — Medal 6 3
Coxless Fours Men — Medal 12 3
Coxed Fours Men — Medal 15 3
Eights Men — Medal 27 3
Single Sculls Women — Medal 3 3
Double Sculls Women — Medal 6 3
Coxed Fours Women — Medal 15 3
Coxed Quadruple Sculls Women — Medal 15 3
Eights Women — Medal 27 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 6 2 0 8
2 Germany GER 2 2 1 5
3 Czechoslovakia TCH 2 0 1 3
4 Italy ITA 1 0 1 2
5 Finland FIN 1 0 0 1
6 Hungary HUN 0 2 2 4
7 Austria AUT 0 2 1 3
8 Romania ROU 0 1 2 3
9 Poland POL 0 1 1 2
10 France FRA 0 1 0 1
= Switzerland SUI 0 1 0 1
12 East Germany GDR 0 0 2 2
13 Belgium BEL 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Single Sculls, Men Vyacheslav Ivanov URS Klaus von Fersen GER Teodor Kocerka POL
Coxless Pairs, Men Igor Buldakov / Viktor Ivanov URS Alfred Sageder / Josef Kloimstein AUT Michel Knuysen / Bob Baetens BEL
Coxed Pairs, Men Germany GER Switzerland SUI Austria AUT
Double Sculls, Men Aleksandr Berkutov / Yury Tyukalov URS Thomas Schneider / Kurt Hipper GER Albert Krajmer / František Reich TCH
Coxless Fours, Men Italy ITA Hungary HUN Germany GER
Coxed Fours, Men Finland FIN Soviet Union URS Italy ITA
Eights, Men Czechoslovakia TCH France FRA Hungary HUN
Single Sculls, Women Ingrid Scholz GER Eva Sika AUT Kornélia Pap HUN
Double Sculls, Women Světla Bartáková / Hana Musilová TCH Nina Opalenko / Yekaterina Semlyanskaya URS Hertha Manger / Gisela Pünner GDR
Coxed Fours, Women Soviet Union URS Poland POL Romania ROU
Coxed Quadruple Sculls, Women Soviet Union URS Hungary HUN Romania ROU
Eights, Women Soviet Union URS Romania ROU East Germany GDR