1959 European Rowing Championships

Host City Mâcon
Country FRA
Held 14 – 23 August 1959
Competitors 137
Countries 12

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
ROW-W4x+-F Women — Medal 27 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 6 2 1 9
2 Germany GER 4 2 0 6
3 Hungary HUN 1 0 2 3
4 Switzerland SUI 1 0 0 1
5 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 2 2 4
= Romania ROU 0 2 2 4
7 East Germany GDR 0 2 0 2
8 Netherlands NED 0 1 1 2
9 Italy ITA 0 1 0 1
10 Austria AUT 0 0 2 2
11 Poland POL 0 0 1 1
= Sweden SWE 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 Ingo Kliefoth / Bernd Kruse GER Oleg Golovanov / Valentin Boreyko URS Alfred Sageder / Josef Kloimstein AUT
Coxed Pairs, Men Klaus Riekemann / Hans-Dieter Maier GER Renzo Ostino / Vincenzo Bruno ITA Stelian Petrov / Oprea Păunescu ROU
Double Sculls, Men Aleksandr Berkutov / Yury Tyukalov URS Václav Kozák / Pavel Schmidt TCH Peter Bakker / Ko Rentmeester NED
Coxless Fours, Men Switzerland SUI Germany GER Czechoslovakia TCH
Coxed Fours, Men Germany GER Netherlands NED Sweden SWE
Eights, Men Germany GER Czechoslovakia TCH Soviet Union URS
Single Sculls, Women Kornélia Pap HUN Emiliya Mukhina URS Eva Sika AUT
Double Sculls, Women Nina Opalenko / Lyudmila Otrosko URS Magda Jifcu / Dora Lakatos ROU Světla Bartáková / Hana Musilová TCH
Coxed Fours, Women Soviet Union URS Romania ROU Hungary HUN
Coxed Quadruple Sculls, Women Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Romania ROU
ROW-W4x+-F, Women Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Hungary HUN