1966 World Rowing Championships

The 2nd World Rowing Championships were held in 1966 at Lake Bled in Slovenia, Yugoslavia.^[1]

Quote from Australian rowing history pages: "The superbly organized regatta was held on the magnificent lake at Bled: a fitting setting for the second world championships."^[2]

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M1x	United States Don Spero		Netherlands Henri Jan Wienese		West Germany Jochen Meissner
M2x	Switzerland Melchior Bürgin(b) Martin Studach (s)		United States Seymour Cromwell (b) James Storm (s)		East Germany Manfred Haake (b) Jochen Brückhändler (s)
M2-	East Germany Peter Kremtz (b) Roland Göhler (s)		Austria Dietrich Losert (b) Dietrich Ebner (s)		Soviet Union Wiktor Suslin (b) Boris Fjedorow(s)
M2+	Netherlands Hadriaan Van Nes (b) Jan van de Graaf(s) Pole Haan(c)		France (b) (s) ] (c)		Italy (b) (s) (c)
M4-	East Germany Frank Forberger (b) Frank Ruhle(2) Dieter Grahn(3) Dieter Schubert(s)	6:18.41	Soviet Union (b) (2) (3) (s)		Netherlands (b) (2) (3) (s)
M4+	East Germany Hanno Melzer (b) Horst Baydonat(2) Helmut Hansel(3) Karl Heinz Grzeschuchner(s) Klaus-Dieter Ludwig(c)	6:29	Soviet Union (b) (2) (3) (s) (c)		Yugoslavia (b) (2) (3) (s) (c)
M8+	West Germany Horst Meyer (b) Dirk Schreyer(2) Michael Schwan(3) Ulrich Luhn(4) Peter Hertel(5) Rudiger Henning(6) Lutz Ulbricht(7) Peter Kuhn(s) Peter Niehnsen(c)	5:55	Soviet Union (b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)		East Germany (b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	3	0	2	5
2	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
3	United States	1	1	0	2
4	West Germany	1	0	1	2
5	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
6	Soviet Union	0	3	1	4
7	Austria	0	1	0	1
7	France	0	1	0	1
9	Italy	0	0	1	1
9	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

References