Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Venue	Llyn Padarn
Location	Llanberis, Wales
Dates	18 to 26 July 1958
←  1954 1962  →

Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fifth appearance of Rowing at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured six events being held at Llyn Padarn in Llanberis, Wales. ^[1]

England topped the rowing medal table with three gold medals. ^[2]

Army preparing Padarn Lake for the Empire Games rowing contests.
Attribution:National Library of Wales

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Wales)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	3	1	2	6
2	Australia	1	2	2	5
3	Canada	1	2	0	3
4	New Zealand	1	1	1	3
5	Wales *	0	0	1	1
6	Northern Ireland	0	0	0	0
	Scotland	0	0	0	0
	South Africa	0	0	0	0
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Australia	New Zealand	England
Double Sculls	England	Australia	New Zealand
Coxless pair	New Zealand	England	Australia
Coxless four	England	Canada	Wales
Coxed four	England	Canada	Australia
Eights	Canada	Australia	England

Single sculls

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Heat 1 Pos Team Time 1 Stuart Mackenzie 8:29.1 2 David Meineke 8:30.9 3 Tony Biernacki 8:53.5

Heat 2 Pos Team Time 1 James Hill 8:36.8 2 Russell Carver

Final

Pos	Athlete	Time
1	Mackenzie	7:20.1
2	Hill	7:23.9
3	Carver	7:26.8
4	Meineke	7:33.3

Double sculls

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Heat 1 Pos Team Time 1 Mike Spracklen & Geoffrey Baker 7:49.3 2 Jon Pearce & Larry Stephan 7:58.2 3 8:18.4

Heat 2 Pos Team Time 1 Mervyn Wood & Stuart Mackenzie 2 Norm Suckling & James Hill 7:50.9

Final

Pos	Athlete	Time
1	Spracklen & Baker	6:56.4
2	Wood & Mackenzie	7:01.4
3	Suckling & Hill
4	Pearce & Stephan

Coxless pair

Pos	Athlete	Time
1	Bob Parker & Reg Douglas	7.11.1
2	Tom Christie & Nicholas Clack	7:13.7
3	Dave Anderson & Geoff Williamson	7:32.5
4	David Edwards & John Edwards	dnf

Coxless four

• No heats

Final

Pos	Athlete	Time
1	Roger Pope, Keith Shackell, David Young & Creighton Redman	6:34.4
2	Glen Smith, Malcolm Turnbull, Richard McClure & John Madden	6:38.9
3	David Edwards, John Fage, David Prichard & John Edwards	6:47.9
4	Victor Schweikert, Kenneth Railton, Bruce Evans, Neville Clinton	7:11.7

Coxed four

Heat 1 Pos Team Time 1 Canada 7:21.4 2 England 7:27.9 3 New Zealand 7:51.7

Heat 2 Pos Team Time 1 Australia 7:55.3 2 Scotland 7:57.4

Final

Pos	Athlete	Time
1	Colin Porter, John Vigurs, Simon Crosse, Michael Beresford & Richard Gabriel (cox)	6:46.5
2	Donald Arnold, Walter D'Hondt, David Helliwell, Lawrence Stapleton & Sohen Biln (cox)	6:53.2
3	Mick Allan, Ralfe Currall, Kevin Evans, Roland Waddington & Lionel Robberds (cox)
4	Donald Gemmell, Peter Aitchison, Frank Crotty, Graeme Moran & Richard Tuffin (cox)

Eights

Heat 1 Pos Team Time 1 Canada 6:36.1 2 England 7:05.8 3 Northern Ireland 7:30.1

Heat 2 Pos Team Time 1 Australia 2 Scotland 6:55.0

Final

Pos	Athlete	Time
1	Archibald MacKinnon, Donald Arnold, Wayne Pretty, Glen Mervyn, Walter D'Hondt, Lorne Loomer, Robert Wilson, Bill McKerlich, Sohen Biln (cox)	5:55.1
2	Bruce Evans, Mick Allan, Kenneth Railton, Kevin Evans, Neville Clinton, Ralfe Currall, Peter Waddington, Victor Schweikert, Lionel Robberds (cox)	5:56.1
3	Tony Hancox, Don Elliot, Dennis Mount, Hilali Wober, John A Stephenson, Felix Badcock, J. P. M. Thomson, Dick Workman, Raymond Penney (cox)	6:10.2
4	A. G. Cross, T. Gillies, G. F. Gray, I. G. Inglis, A. Lindsay, A. T. Nelson, J. Ross, Ken J. Scott, B. Parsonage (cox)	6:15.5

References

1. "Medal Standings Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
2. "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Rowing". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
3. "Rowing" . Liverpool Daily Post. 21 July 1958. p. 9. Retrieved 9 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "Rowing" . Birmingham Daily Post. 5 August 1954. p. 23. Retrieved 9 October 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.