Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

The men's double sculls competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course, Mexico.^[1]

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Date	13–19 October 1968
Competitors	27 from 13 nations
Medalists
Aleksandr Timoshinin Anatoliy Sass  Soviet Union Harry Droog Leendert van Dis  Netherlands John Nunn Bill Maher  United States
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Competition format

This rowing competition consisted of three main rounds (heats, semifinals, and finals), as well as a repechage round that allowed teams that did not win their heats to advance to the semifinals. All races were 2,000 metres in distance.

• Heats: Three heats. With 13 boats entered, there were four or five boats per heat. The top three boats in each heat (total of 9 boats) advanced directly to the semifinals; all other boats (4 boats) went to the repechage.
• Repechage: One heat. There were 4 boats in the repechage. The top three boats advanced to the semifinals. The last-place boat was eliminated.
• Semifinals: Two heats. Each heat consisted of 6 boats. The top three boats in each heat advanced to the final; the other three boats in each heat were sent to a 7th–12th place classification race.
• Finals: A main final and a 7th–12th place classification race.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bill Maher John Nunn	United States	6:56.96	Q
2	Alexandru Aposteanu Octavian Pavelescu	Romania	6:58.88	Q
3	Wolfgang Glock Udo Hild	West Germany	6:59.70	Q
4	Otto Plettner Ricardo Scheffler	Mexico	7:02.18	R
5	Edgard Gijsen Harri Klein	Brazil	7:16.70	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Yordan Valchev Atanas Zhelev	Bulgaria	6:54.16	Q
2	Leendert van Dis Harry Droog	Netherlands	6:56.09	Q
3	Manfred Haake Uli Schmied	East Germany	6:59.32	Q
4	Melchior Bürgin Martin Studach	Switzerland	6:59.52	R

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Anatoliy Sass Aleksandr Timoshinin	Soviet Union	7:07.46	Q
2	Jaroslav Hellebrand Petr Krátký	Czechoslovakia	7:10.35	Q
3	Jean-Marc Porte Gilbert Vallanchon	France	7:10.72	Q
4	Daryl Sturdy Robert Stubbs	Canada	7:36.52	R

Repechage

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Melchior Bürgin Hans Ruckstuhl	Switzerland	7:07.09	Q
2	Edgard Gijsen Harri Klein	Brazil	7:08.46	Q
3	Otto Plettner Ricardo Scheffler	Mexico	7:11.43	Q
4	Daryl Sturdy Robert Stubbs	Canada	7:22.87

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Manfred Haake Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:07.86	Q
2	Yordan Valchev Atanas Zhelev	Bulgaria	7:12.08	Q
3	Anatoliy Sass Aleksandr Timoshinin	Soviet Union	7:12.41	Q
4	Melchior Bürgin Hans Ruckstuhl	Switzerland	7:14.74	C
5	Jean-Marc Porte Gilbert Vallanchon	France	9:54.48	C
6	Alexandru Aposteanu Octavian Pavelescu	Romania	10:53.17	C

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bill Maher John Nunn	United States	7:10.05	Q
2	Wolfgang Glock Udo Hild	West Germany	7:11.56	Q
3	Leendert van Dis Harry Droog	Netherlands	7:13.74	Q
4	Otto Plettner Ricardo Scheffler	Mexico	7:15.20	C
5	Edgard Gijsen Harri Klein	Brazil	7:17.08	C
6	Jaroslav Hellebrand Petr Krátký	Czechoslovakia	ST	C

Finals

Classification 7–12

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time
7	Edgard Gijsen Harri Klein	Brazil	7:04.13
8	Alexandru Aposteanu Octavian Pavelescu	Romania	7:08.27
9	Jean-Marc Porte Gilbert Vallanchon	France	7:08.49
10	Otto Plettner Ricardo Scheffler	Mexico	7:09.90
11	Melchior Bürgin Hans Ruckstuhl	Switzerland	7:12.72
12	Jaroslav Hellebrand Petr Krátký	Czechoslovakia	7:25.14

Final

Rank	Rowers	Nation	Time
	Anatoliy Sass Aleksandr Timoshinin	Soviet Union	6:51.82
	Leendert van Dis Harry Droog	Netherlands	6:52.80
	Bill Maher John Nunn	United States	6:54.21
4	Yordan Valchev Atanas Zhelev	Bulgaria	6:58.48
5	Manfred Haake Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:04.92
6	Wolfgang Glock Udo Hild	West Germany	7:12.20