1947 European Rowing Championships

The 1947 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Rotsee in the Swiss city of Lucerne. The competition was for men only, they competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and 15 nations participated.^[1] It was the first European Rowing Championships held after World War II, and it was the second time that the regatta was held on the Rotsee; the previous regatta was in 1934.^[2]

1947 European Rowing Championships
Venue	Rotsee
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Nations	15
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Medal summary – men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x[3]	France Jean Séphériadès		Belgium Ben Piessens		Switzerland Hansjakob Keller
M2x[4]	Netherlands Henk van der Meer Tom Neumeier		Switzerland Arnoldo Gianella Ilvo Prosperi		Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Vavrena Frantisek Vrba
M2-[5]	Denmark Søren Jensen Jørn Snogdahl		Austria Gert Watzke Kurt Watzke		France Jérôme Havlik Pierre Rivière
M2+[6]	Hungary Béla Zsitnik Antal Szendey Szaniszlo Latinovits (cox)		Italy Giovanni Steffè Aldo Tarlao Alvino Grio (cox)		Denmark Finn Pedersen Tage Henriksen Carl-Ebbe Andersen (cox)
M4-[7]	Italy Giuseppe Moioli Elio Morille Giovanni Invernizzi Franco Faggi		Czechoslovakia Karel Vaněk Josef Schejbal Jiří Romovacek Václav Roubík		Switzerland Hermann Betschart Ernst Rufli Gotthard Oehninger Karl Schmid
M4+[8]	France Gaston Piéddeloup Claude Loewenstein Gérald Maquat Jean Roulin Marcel Boigegrain (cox)		Italy Reginaldo Polloni Riccardo Cerutti Renato Macario Francesco Gotti Domenico Cambieri (cox)		Czechoslovakia Bogdan Kopecky Miroslav Merk Miroslav Ptacek Jaroslav Dlohoska Zdenek Dvorak (cox)
M8+[9]	Italy Angelo Fioretti Mario Acchini Fortunato Maninetti Bonifacio De Bortoli Enrico Ruberti Pietro Sessa Ezio Acchini Luigi Gandini Alessandro Bardelli (cox)		Denmark Charles Willumsen Holger Larsen Niels Rasmussen Ib Nielsen Jarl Emcken Poul Korup Børge Hougaard Gerhardt Sørensen Niels Wamberg (cox)		Switzerland Walter Stapfer Erich Schriever Rudolf Reichling Peter Stebler Émile Knecht Heiri Zoller Fritz Stapfer Jakob Knöpfel Franco Brentani (cox)