1961 European Rowing Championships

Host City Praha
Country TCH
Held 18 – 27 August 1961
Competitors 140
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 7 2 1 10
2 Germany GER 2 1 1 4
3 Italy ITA 2 0 1 3
4 Hungary HUN 1 0 0 1
5 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 3 2 5
6 East Germany GDR 0 2 2 4
= Romania ROU 0 2 2 4
8 Finland FIN 0 1 0 1
= Great Britain GBR 0 1 0 1
10 France FRA 0 0 1 1
= Netherlands NED 0 0 1 1
= United States USA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Single Sculls, Men Vyacheslav Ivanov URS Vladimír Andrs TCH Sy Cromwell USA
Coxless Pairs, Men Günther Zumkeller / Dieter Bender GER Veli Lehtelä / Toimi Pitkänen FIN Ernst Veenemans / Steven Blaisse NED
Coxed Pairs, Men Zigmas Jukna / Gerdas Morhus URS Ionel Petrov / Oprea Păunescu ROU Václav Chalupa / Jan Dvořák TCH
Double Sculls, Men Aleksandr Berkutov / Yury Tyukalov URS Nicholas Birkmyre / George Justicz GBR Václav Kozák / Pavel Schmidt TCH
Coxless Fours, Men Italy ITA Soviet Union URS Germany GER
Coxed Fours, Men Germany GER Soviet Union URS Italy ITA
Eights, Men Italy ITA Germany GER France FRA
Single Sculls, Women Kornélia Pap HUN Alena Postlová TCH Sosya Rakitskaya URS
Double Sculls, Women Valentina Kalegina / Galina Samorodova URS Hannelore Göttlich / Helga Kolbe GDR Ana Tamas / Florica Ghiuzelea ROU
Coxed Fours, Women Soviet Union URS Romania ROU East Germany GDR
Coxed Quadruple Sculls, Women Soviet Union URS Czechoslovakia TCH East Germany GDR
ROW-W4x+-F, Women Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Romania ROU