Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's quadruple sculls

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Men's quadruple sculls
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Date18–25 July
Competitors45 from 11 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Rüdiger Reiche
Karl-Heinz Bußert
Michael Wolfgramm
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yevgeniy Duleyev
Yuriy Yakimov
Aivars Lazdenieks
Vytautas Butkus
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jaroslav Hellebrand
Václav Vochoska
Zdeněk Pecka
Vladek Lacina
 Czechoslovakia
1980 →

The men's quadruple sculls competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics took place at Notre Dame Island Olympic Basin, Canada.[1] It was the first time that the event was included at the Olympics.[1]

Competition format[edit]

The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and finals) as well as a repechage. The 11 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 6 boats in one heat and 5 boats in the other. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the "A" final (1st through 6th place). The remaining 9 boats were placed in the repechage. Two heats were held in the repechage, with 5 boats in one heat and 4 boats in the other. The top two boats in each heat of the repechage went to the "A" final as well. The remaining 5 boats (3rd, 4th, and 5th placers in the repechage heats) competed in the "B" final for 7th through 11th place.[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course.

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

Heat 1[edit]

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Czechoslovakia 5:49.21 QA
2  West Germany 5:53.40 R
3  United States 5:55.05 R
4  Great Britain 5:58.79 R
5  Switzerland 6:03.44 R
6  Canada 6:19.88 R

Heat 2[edit]

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  Soviet Union 5:47.83 QA
2  East Germany 5:50.87 R
3  Bulgaria 5:57.19 R
4  France 5:58.92 R
5  Cuba 8:00.68 R

Repechage[edit]

Repechage heat 1[edit]

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  West Germany 5:48.52 QA
2  Bulgaria 5:49.38 QA
3  France 5:53.55 QB
4  Switzerland 5:57.82 QB
5  Canada 6:14.49 QB

Repechage heat 2[edit]

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes
1  East Germany 5:50.36 QA
2  United States 5:55.23 QA
3  Great Britain 5:58.68 QB
4  Cuba 6:10.11 QB

Finals[edit]

Final B[edit]

Rank Rowers Nation Time
7  France 6:28.60
8  Switzerland 6:29.61
9  Great Britain 6:32.83
10  Cuba 6:40.76
11  Canada 6:44.74

Final A[edit]

Rank Rowers Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  East Germany 6:18.65
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union 6:19.89
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Czechoslovakia 6:21.77
4  West Germany 6:24.81
5  Bulgaria 6:32.04
6  United States 6:34.33

Final classification[edit]

Rank Rowers Country
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Rüdiger Reiche
Karl-Heinz Bußert
Michael Wolfgramm
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yevgeniy Duleyev
Yuriy Yakimov
Aivars Lazdenieks
Vytautas Butkus
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jaroslav Hellebrand
Václav Vochoska
Zdeněk Pecka
Vladek Lacina
 Czechoslovakia
4 Norbert Kothe
Helmut Krause
Michael Gentsch
Helmut Wolber
 West Germany
5 Yordan Valchev
Mincho Nikolov
Khristo Zhelev
Eftim Gerzilov
 Bulgaria
6 Peter Cortes
Kenneth Foote
Neil Halleen
John Van Blom
 United States
7 Roland Weill
Roland Thibaut
Patrick Morineau
Charles Imbert
 France
8 Hans Ruckstuhl
Denis Oswald
Jürg Weitnauer
Reto Wyss
 Switzerland
9 Andrew Justice
Mark Hayter
Allan Whitwell
Thomas Bishop
 Great Britain
10 Francisco Rodríguez
César Herrera
Ramón Luperón
Nelson Simon
Cirilo Suárez
 Cuba
11 Louis Bourassa
York Langerfeld
Louis Prévost
André Renart
 Canada

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Rowing at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's Quadruple Sculls". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 105.