1908 European Rowing Championships

1908 European Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee)
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Dates	30 August 1908
Nations	Four
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The 1908 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held in the Swizz city of Lucerne. ^[1] The competition, held on 30 August, was for men only and they competed in five boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2+, M4+, M8+). ^[2] Many of the rowers had a month earlier competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. ^[3]

Medal summary

Four nations (Belgium, France, Italy, and Switzerland) competed in five events. ^[4]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [5]	France Gaston Delaplane		Switzerland Ernst Hürlimann		[a]
M2x [6]	Belgium Jozef Hermans Xavier Crombet		Italy Emilio Sacchini Erminio Dones		Switzerland H. de Kok Max Geldner
M2+ [7]	Belgium Guillaume Visser Urbain Molmans Rodolphe Colpaert (cox)		Italy Ercole Olgeni Scipione Del Giudice Giuseppe Mion (cox)		France [b]
M4+ [8]	Italy Ercole Olgeni Scipione Del Giudice Mario Tres Brenno Del Giudice Giuseppe Mion (cox)		Belgium Rodolphe Poma Oscar Dessomville Polydore Veirman Oscar Taelman		Switzerland Albert Breuleux L. Peter Th. Schmid P. Ottiker E.-W. von Seckendorff (cox)
M8+ [9]	Belgium Rodolphe Poma Oscar Dessomville Polydore Veirman François Vergucht Georges Mys Stanislas Kowalski Marcel Morimont Oscar Taelman Raphael van der Waeren (cox)		France Roche Herbinet Marius Lejeune Jobelin Terrail G. Lejeune Peyrouni Besland		Italy Giovanni Brunialti Alberto del Nunzio Archimede de Gregori Alfredo Tuzi Armando Garroni Guido de Cupis Carlo Gigliesi Alfonso Serventi

Footnotes

1. The source does not list further medallists.
2. The source does not list the names of the team members.

References

1. "Event Information". International Rowing Federation . Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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4. Mallory, Peter. "73. Early Rowing in Italy: Scipione Del Giudice – Gli Scarronzoni". International rowing turns professional (PDF). p. 740. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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