1964 European Rowing Championships
{{Short description|International rowing event}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox sports competition event
| name = 1964 European Rowing Championships
| image = German rowing eight EK 1964.jpg
| caption = The German eight of the Ratzeburg Rowing Club after winning the final
| venue = Bosbaan
| location = Amsterdam, Netherlands
| dates = 31 July – 2 August 1964 (women)
6–9 August 1964 (men)
| competitors =
| nations =
| prev = 1963 Moscow (women)
| next = 1965 Duisburg
}}
The 1964 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bosbaan regatta course in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.{{cite news |title=Grossartiger Triumph der DDR-Ruderinnen |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19640804-0-8-104-0&highlight=Ruder-Europameisterschaften%7CEuropameisterschaften%7C1964 |access-date=17 January 2018 |work=Neue Zeit |volume=20 |issue=180 |date=4 August 1964 |page=8 |language=de |archive-date=17 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117012222/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19640804-0-8-104-0&highlight=Ruder-Europameisterschaften%7CEuropameisterschaften%7C1964 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} Women competed from 31 July to 2 August.{{cite news |title=DDR-Ruderinnen gestern zweimal vorn |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640725-0-7-86-0 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Berliner Zeitung |volume=20 |issue=203 |date=25 July 1964 |page=7 |language=de |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619044553/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640725-0-7-86-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} Men competed the following week from 6 to 9 August.{{cite news |title=Drei DDR-Boote in Amsterdam |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640806-0-7-123-0 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Berliner Zeitung |volume=20 |issue=215 |date=6 August 1964 |page=7 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124712/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640806-0-7-123-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} 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 Tokyo; women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976.
German participation
FISA, the International Rowing Federation, did not recognise East Germany as a country and insisted on one German team per boat class. The women, where East Germany was the dominant side, held their selection trials at the Olympic regatta course in Grünau in East Berlin on 24 and 25 July 1964. West Germany did not contest the coxed four and eight boat classes, and Karen Ulrich-Wolf won the single scull competition for the west as expected. East Germany won the competition in the remaining two boat classes – double scull and coxed quad scull.{{cite news |title=Viermal DDR |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640726-0-8-137-0&highlight=Ruder-Europameisterschaften%7C1964 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=19 |issue=204 |date=26 July 1964 |page=8 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124017/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640726-0-8-137-0&highlight=Ruder-Europameisterschaften%7C1964 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}
The negotiations about the 1964 rowing competitions for men were even more protracted than usual as not only did a way forward for the 1964 European Rowing Championships had to be found, but rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics two months later was also on the agenda. The negotiations were led by Willi Daume and Heinz Schöbel, presidents of the national Olympic committees of West and East Germany, respectively. In June 1964, West Germany insisted on one set of selection trials covering both the European and Olympic competitions. The tensions eased when it was agreed on 10 July that there would be separate selection trials for the two international competitions. It was agreed that some boat classes were to compete at a West German regatta course, and the remaining boat classes would meet at an East German venue. Four boats would start per race, with two for each country. The winning country would then be free to nominate rowers of their choice for that boat class, i.e. not necessarily those rowers who had won the race.{{cite news |title=12 Wochen vor Tokio |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640710-0-8-226-0&highlight=Ausscheidungen |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=19 |issue=188 |date=10 July 1964 |page=8 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120065816/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640710-0-8-226-0&highlight=Ausscheidungen |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}{{cite news |title=Sportlicher Standpunkt setzte sich durch |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640711-0-6-94-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=19 |issue=189 |date=11 July 1964 |page=6 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124059/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640711-0-6-94-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} Compared to the women, the situation was opposite, with West German rowers historically dominant; in 1963, they had won all boat classes.{{cite news |title=Als Außenseiter In die Rennen |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640731-0-8-112-0&highlight=Europameisterschafts%7CRuderer%7Crudern%7C1964 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Berliner Zeitung |volume=20 |issue=209 |date=31 July 1964 |page=8 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120070252/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640731-0-8-112-0&highlight=Europameisterschafts%7CRuderer%7Crudern%7C1964 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}
The trials for coxed pairs, double sculls and coxless fours were held on 1 August at the Olympic rowing venue at Grünau in East Berlin, with East Germany winning the double scull race, and West Germany the other two classes.{{cite news |title=Im "Doppelzweier" Doppelsieg |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640802-0-4-43-0 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Berliner Zeitung |volume=20 |issue=211 |date=2 August 1964 |page=4 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124653/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19640802-0-4-43-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} The following day, the remaining trials for single sculls, coxless pairs, coxed fours, and the eights were held in Duisburg.{{cite news |title=Ruderausscheidungen |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640801-0-8-225-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=19 |issue=210 |date=1 August 1964 |page=8 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120070404/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640801-0-8-225-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} East Germany won in the single scull (Achim Hill) and the coxed pair classes; three qualifications compared to West Germany's four was the best East German result yet.{{cite news |title=Mit drei Booten nach Amsterdam |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640803-0-3-44-0 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=19 |issue=212 |date=3 August 1964 |page=3 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124655/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640803-0-3-44-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}
At a FISA meeting held in conjunction with the 1964 men's regatta, the East German rowing association asked for separate German teams to be allowed to compete in future. Like at the previous meeting in 1963, the motions was voted down.{{cite news |title=FISA ignoriert Realitäten |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19640806-0-7-68-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neue Zeit |volume=20 |issue=182 |date=6 August 1964 |page=7 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120070449/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19640806-0-7-68-0&highlight=Europameisterschaften |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}
Medal summary – women's events
File:Veenstra and Meike de Vlas in 1964.jpg (silver medallist in single scull) with her trainer]]
File:Women rowing doubles EC 1964.jpg (left) and Daina Mallenberga (second from right) with two unidentified rowers]]
The Soviet Union was, once again, the most successful nation in the women's events, with three gold medals.
Medal summary – men's events
File:Thomas Keller and Vyacheslav N Ivanov 1964.jpg congratulates Vyacheslav Ivanov for his single scull title]]
File:Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrovsky 1964.jpg and Boris Dubrovskiy – winner of the double scull competition]]
File:Ernst Veenemans and Steven Blaisse 1964.jpg and Steven Blaisse – winner of the coxless pair competition]]
File:Günter Bergau, Karl-Heinz Danielowski, Peter Gorny 1964b.jpg, Karl-Heinz Danielowski, and Peter Gorny – winner of the coxed pair competition]]
File:Günter Schroers, Horst Effertz, Albrecht Müller and Manfred Misselhorn 1964.jpg, Horst Effertz, Albrecht Müller, and Manfred Misselhorn – winner of the coxless four competition]]
File:German rowing eight EK 1964b.jpg
All finals were held on Sunday, 9 August. The Soviet Union had boats in all seven classes, followed by Holland (six classes). West Germany, Denmark and Poland had four boats each in the finals.{{cite news |title=Zwei DDR-Boote im Finale |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19640809-0-7-78-0 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neue Zeit |volume=20 |issue=185 |date=9 August 1964 |page=7 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124648/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2612273X-19640809-0-7-78-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} In the single scull event, the rowers that placed outside the medals were Murray Watkinson (NZL; fourth), Eugeniusz Kubiak (POL; fifth), and Gottfried Kottmann (SUI; sixth). In the coxless pair, the American brothers Joseph and Thomas Amlong came fourth, while the Soviet rowers Oleg Golovanov and Valentin Boreyko came fifth.{{cite news |title=Bergau/Gorny Europameister im Zweier m. St. in Amsterdam |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640810-0-3-34-0&highlight=Amsterdamer%7CAmsterdam%7CRuder%7C1964 |access-date=20 January 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=19 |issue=219 |date=10 August 1964 |page=3 |language=de |archive-date=20 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120124607/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19640810-0-3-34-0&highlight=Amsterdamer%7CAmsterdam%7CRuder%7C1964 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}
Medals table
The table shows the aggregate results for men and women with East and West Germany counted as separate countries. The overall winner was the Soviet Union with six gold medals, followed by East Germany and then West Germany with three and two gold medals, respectively.
{{Medals table
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| gold_URS = 6 | silver_URS = 4 | bronze_URS = 0
| gold_GDR = 3 | silver_GDR = 1 | bronze_GDR = 0
| gold_FRG = 2 | silver_FRG = 2 | bronze_FRG = 0
| gold_NED = 1 | silver_NED = 2 | bronze_NED = 1
| gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 1 | bronze_DEN = 1
| gold_TCH = 0 | silver_TCH = 1 | bronze_TCH = 1
| gold_GBR = 0 | silver_GBR = 1 | bronze_GBR = 0
| gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 2
| gold_ROM = 0 | silver_ROM = 0 | bronze_ROM = 2
| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1
| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 0 | bronze_POL = 1
| gold_SUI = 0 | silver_SUI = 0 | bronze_SUI = 1
| gold_USA = 0 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 1
| gold_YUG = 0 | silver_YUG = 0 | bronze_YUG = 1
}}
References
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{{European Rowing Championships}}
Category:European Rowing Championships