1974 World Rowing Championships

The 1974 World Rowing Championships was the 4th World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1974 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event was significantly extended from the 1970 edition, with the addition of both women's and lightweight men's events. Six women boat classes were added, three lightweight men classes, plus quad scull for men, increasing the number of boat classes from seven in 1970 to seventeen in 1974. This was also the last World Championships held on a quadrennial cycle – from this point, World Championships were held annually.[1][2]

1974 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Rotsee
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1974 World Rowing Championships:[1][2]

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x [3][4]	East Germany Wolfgang Hönig	7:20.11	United States James Willam Dietz	7:23.95	Soviet Union Mykola Dovhan	7:24.74
M2x [5][6]	East Germany Christof Kreuziger Uli Schmied	6:35.95	Norway Alf Hansen Frank Hansen	6:38.34	Great Britain Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	6:43.32
M4x [7][8]	East Germany Joachim Dreifke Götz Draeger Rüdiger Reiche Jürgen Bertow	6:04.01	Soviet Union Mustafajew Kochel Yuriy Yakimov Gennadi Korshikov	6:05.79	Czechoslovakia Filip Koudela Zdeněk Pecka Miroslav Laholík Jaroslav Hellebrand	6:08.12
M2- [9][10]	East Germany Bernd Landvoigt Jörg Landvoigt	6:59.09	Romania Ilie Oantă Dumitru Grumecescu	7:03.99	Poland Alfons Ślusarski Zbigniew Ślusarski	7:04.64
M4- [11][12]	East Germany Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Wolfgang Mager	6:19.20	Soviet Union Raul Arnemann Nikolay Kuznetsov Sergei Posdejew Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov	6:22.83	West Germany Peter van Roye Klaus Jäger Bernd Truschinski Reinhard Wendemuth	6:27.01
M2+ [13][14]	Soviet Union Vladimir Eshinov Nikolay Ivanov Aleksandr Lukyanov	7:21.90	East Germany Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert	7:27.86	Czechoslovakia Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček	7:29.93
M4+ [15][16]	East Germany Andreas Schulz Rüdiger Kunze Ullrich Dießner Walter Dießner Wolfgang Groß	6:26.38	Soviet Union Gennadi Moskowski Alexander Pljuschkin Vladimir Vasilyev Anatoli Nemtyrjow Igor Rudakov	6:27.34	West Germany Hans-Johann Färber Ralph Kubail Peter-Michael Kolbe Peter Niehusen Uwe Benter	6:27.98
M8+ [17][18]	United States Alan Shealy Hugh Stevenson Richard Cashin Mark Norelius John Everett Mike Vespoli Tim Mickelson Kenneth Brown David Weinberg	5:46.37	Great Britain Frederick Smallbone John Yallop Tim Crooks Hugh Matheson David Maxwell Jim Clark Bill Mason Lenny Robertson Patrick Sweeney	5:47.49	New Zealand Tony Hurt Danny Keane Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Alec McLean Dave Rodger Ross Blomfield David Simmons	5:47.84
Lightweight events
LM1x [19][20]	United States William Belden	7:33.72	Netherlands Harald Punt	7:36.80	Switzerland Reto Wyss	7:36.96
LM4- [21][22]	Australia Campbell Johnstone Andrew Michelmore Geoffrey Rees Colin Smith	6:38.12	Netherlands Los Hans Pieterman Jannes Bruyn Hans Lycklama	6:43.26	United States Andrew Washburn Barry Selick James Ehrmann Peter Huntsman	6:43.48
LM8+ [23][24]	United States Matthew Baldino Joseph Gaynor Ralph Nauman David Harman Eric Aserlind Richard Ewing Mick Feld Richard Grogan John Hartigan	6:15.25	Netherlands Cornelis Bos L. Burghgraef E. van der Snoek W. Mulder B. van Aken G. van der Werff Ch. Hoynck van Papendrecht H. Hommen M. van de Broek	6:17.54	West Germany Uwe Barwig Wolfgang Fritsch Paul Lutz Julius Nick Lutz Kalmbacher Michael Speth Ekkehard Braun Wolfgang Gabler Willi Seyer	6:17.54

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x [25][26]	East Germany Christine Scheiblich	3:46.52	Soviet Union Genovaitė Ramoškienė	3:52.38	Belgium Christine Wasterlain	3:53.08
W2x [27][28]	Soviet Union Yelena Antonova Galina Yermolayeva	3:24.00	West Germany Astrid Hohl Regine Adam	3:26.43	East Germany Gisela Medefindt Rita Schmidt	3:28.78
W4x+ [29][30]	East Germany Roswietha Reichel Ursula Wagner Jutta Lau Sybille Tietze Liane Weigelt	3:19.81	Romania Ioana Tudoran Elisabeta Lazăr Doina Bardas Teodora Boicu Elena Giurcă	3:21.92	Soviet Union Nadeschda Scherbak Natalja Gorodilowa Walentina Iwtschenkowa Antonina Marischkina Irina Moisejenko	3:22.64
W2- [31][32]	Romania Marilena Ghita Cornelia Neascu	3:43.12	East Germany Renate Bänsch Bergit Heinze	3:45.18	Soviet Union Janina Tschigowskaja Ruta Weinzerga	3:45.43
W4+ [33][34]	East Germany Rosel Nitsche Angelika Noack Renate Schlenzig Sabine Dähne Christa Karnath	3:28.99	Netherlands Liesbeth Vosmaer-de Bruin Ingrid Munneke-Dusseldorp Myriam Steenman Liesbeth de Graaff M. Kraayenhof	3:31.19	Romania Marlena Predescu Kabat Avram Chertic Aneta Matei	3:32.71
W8+ [35][36]	East Germany Henrietta Dobler Helma Lehmann Ilona Richter Bianka Schwede Brigitte Ahrenholz Irina Müller Gunhild Blanke Doris Mosig Sabine Brincker	3:04.82	Soviet Union Nina Bystrova Valentina Rubtsova Nina Abramova Sofia Shurkalova Valentina Jermakova Sergejewa Vera Alexeyeva Nina Filatova Nina Frolova	3:05.05	Romania Elena Oprea Florica Petcu Georgeta Militaru Cristel Wiener Aurelia Marinescu Luliana Balaban Avram Chertic Aneta Matei	3:08.31

Event codes

	single sculls	double sculls	quadruple sculls	pair (coxless)	four (coxless)	coxed pair	coxed four	eight (coxed)
Men's	M1x [3]	M2x [5]	M4x [7]	M2- [9]	M4- [11]	M2+ [13]	M4+ [15]	M8+ [17]
Lightweight men's	LM1x [19]				LM4- [21]			LM8+ [23]
Women's	W1x [25]	W2x [27]	W4x [29]	W2- [31]			W4+ [33]	W8+ [35]

Medal table

Medals by country (including lightweight rowing events):[37][38]

	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	10	2	1	13
2	United States	3	1	1	5
3	Soviet Union	2	5	3	10
4	Romania	1	2	2	5
5	Australia	1	0	0	1
6	Netherlands	0	4	0	4
7	West Germany	0	1	3	4
8	Great Britain	0	1	1	2
9	Norway	0	1	0	1
10	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
11	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		17	17	17	51

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