1957 European Rowing Championships

1957 European Rowing Championships
Venue	Wedau Regatta Course
Location	Duisburg, West Germany
Dates	23–25 August 1957 (women)  ? August – 1 September 1957 (men)
←  1956 Bled 1958 Poznań  →

The 1957 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Wedau Regatta Course in the city of Duisburg which, at the time, was located in West Germany. ^[1] Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and women entered in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+). Many of the men competed two months later at the Olympic Games in Melbourne; women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976. Women competed from 23 to 25 August. Men competed the following week.

Background

FISA, the International Rowing Federation, decided at its congress held just prior to the 1955 Championships in Ghent to award the 1956 Championships to Bled, and that the 1957 Championships were to be hosted by Duisburg. ^[2]

Medal summary – women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x [3]	Soviet Union Emiliya Mukhina		Austria Eva Sika		Hungary Kornélia Pap
W2x [4]	Soviet Union Zossia Rakitskaya Valentina Kalegina		Romania Maria Laub Florica Ghiuzelea		West Germany Ingrid Scholz Ursula Vogt
W4+ [5]	Soviet Union Tamara Stolyarova Lidiya Zontova Irina Kamenkova Yevgeniya Tsugekekek Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox)		Romania Marta Kardos Iuliana Toganel Rita Schob Felicia Urziceanu Stefania Borisov (cox)		East Germany Ursula Brämer Christa Golbs Lieselotte Proll Ingeborg Sasse Helga Groh (cox)
W4x+ [6]	Soviet Union Alexandra Kulesova Inna Lisany Nina Yegorova Svetlana Belyakova Tamara Saretskaya (cox)		Hungary Istvánné Granek Józsefné Raskó Lászlóné Terelmes Jánosné Kőszegi Rudolfné Radványi (cox)		East Germany Brigitte Raue Herta Weissig Ruth Harre Johanna Knoll Johanna Ullrich (cox)
W8+ [7]	Soviet Union Tamara Stolyarova Zinaida Trofimova Vera Rebrova Nina Korobkova Zinaida Korotova Erna Virs Sinayda Abramkina Lyudmila Khoykalova Maria Fomicheva (cox)		Romania Maria Bucur Stela Georgescu Elsa Oxenfeld Sonia Balan Rita Schob Felicia Urziceanu Marta Kardos Iuliana Toganel Angela Codreanu (cox)		East Germany Hannelore Haaker Gerda Weith Christl Langner Hella Schulz Marianne Falk Anita Blankenfeld Ingeborg Peter Waltraud Dinter Ursula Gesch (cox)

Medal summary – men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [8]	Australia Stuart Mackenzie		West Germany Klaus von Fersen		Soviet Union Vyacheslav Ivanov
M2x [9]	Soviet Union Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov		West Germany Thomas Schneider Friedrich-Wilhelm Sidow		Belgium Henri Steenacker Gérard Higny
M2- [10]	Great Britain Christopher Davidge Tony Leadley		Austria Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein		Romania Radu Nicolae Stefan Kureska
M2+ [11]	West Germany Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky (cox)		Soviet Union Heorhiy Zhylin Ihor Yemchuk Vladimir Petrov (cox)		Poland Zbigniew Schwarzer Henryk Jagodziński Bertold Mainka (cox)
M4- [12]	West Germany Willi Montag Horst Stobbe Gunther Kaschlun Christian Stevens		Soviet Union Vladimir Nosenko Fodor Dzhusefovich Alexander Bolotin Nikolai Skreba		Romania Carol Kiss Nicolae Stefan Radu Nicolae Ştefan Pongratz
M4+ [13]	East Germany Gerhard Müller Egon Meyer Heinz Dathe Lothar Wundratsch Dietmar Domnick (cox)		Soviet Union Robert Butow Yury Suslin Andrej Archipov Yuri Sapkov Oleg Gjemidov (cox)		Switzerland Gottfried Kottmann Michel Buol Cinto Baggi Rolf Streuli Werner Ehrensperger (cox)
M8+ [14]	Italy Franco Trincavelli Alberto Winkler Attilio Cantoni Romano Sgheiz Giovanni Zucchi Abbondio Marcelli Angelo Vanzin Ellero Borgnolo Ivo Stefanoni (cox)		Soviet Union Boris Fyodorov Georgy Gushchenko Anatoly Antonov Yury Popov Yaroslav Cherstvy Yury Rogozov Georgiy Bryulgart Oleg Vasilyev Yuri Polyakov (cox)		Czechoslovakia Josef Věntus Jan Švéda Ctibor Reiskup Václav Jindra Josef Švec Zdeněk Žára Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda (cox)

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