Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four

Men's coxed four
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date19–24 September
Competitors71from 14 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bernd Niesecke
Hendrik Reiher
Karsten Schmeling
Bernd Eichwurzel
Frank Klawonn
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dimitrie Popescu
Ioan Snep
Vasile Tomoiagă
Ladislau Lovrenschi
Valentin Robu
 Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Chris White
Ian Wright
Andrew Bird
Greg Johnston
George Keys
 New Zealand
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The men's coxed four competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.[1]

Competition format

The competition consisted of three main rounds (heats, semifinals, and finals) as well as a repechage. The 14 boats were divided into three heats for the first round, with 4 or 5 boats in each heat. The top three boats in each heat (9 boats total) advanced directly to the semifinals. The remaining 5 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured a single heat, with the top three boats advancing to the semifinals and the remaining 2 boats (4th and 5th placers in the repechage) being eliminated (13th and 14th place overall). The 12 semifinalist boats were divided into two heats of 6 boats each. The top three boats in each semifinal (6 boats total) advanced to the "A" final to compete for medals and 4th through 6th place; the bottom three boats in each semifinal were sent to the "B" final for 7th through 12th.[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Hendrik Reiher  East Germany 6:00.75 Q
2 Martin Ruppel  West Germany 6:02.98 Q
3 Andrew Bird  New Zealand 6:03.35 Q
4 Dino Lucchetta  Italy 6:06.09 R
5 Vaughan Thomas  Great Britain 6:20.89 R

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Mark Zembsch  United States 6:08.36 Q
2 Oldřich Hejdušek  Czechoslovakia 6:11.25 Q
3 Dario Varga  Yugoslavia 6:12.33 Q
4 Javier Viñolas  Spain 6:14.69 R
5 Terry Paul  Canada 6:15.21 R

Heat 3

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Ladislau Lovrenschi  Romania 6:10.26 Q
2 Sergey Titov  Soviet Union 6:16.53 Q
3 Martin Honegger  Switzerland 6:27.52 Q
4 Park Seong-nae  South Korea 6:57.99 R

Repechage

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Vaughan Thomas  Great Britain 6:31.11 Q
2 Dino Lucchetta  Italy 6:32.14 Q
3 Terry Paul  Canada 6:33.05 Q
4 Javier Viñolas  Spain 6:34.36
5 Park Seong-nae  South Korea 7:19.22

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Hendrik Reiher  East Germany 6:07.91 QA
2 Ladislau Lovrenschi  Romania 6:09.86 QA
3 Andrew Bird  New Zealand 6:10.41 QA
4 Dino Lucchetta  Italy 6:15.93 QB
5 Oldřich Hejdušek  Czechoslovakia 6:20.42 QB
6 Martin Honegger  Switzerland 7:55.92 QB

Semifinal 2

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Vaughan Thomas  Great Britain 6:15.22 QA
2 Mark Zembsch  United States 6:15.30 QA
3 Dario Varga  Yugoslavia 6:15.72 QA
4 Martin Ruppel  West Germany 6:15.87 QB
5 Sergey Titov  Soviet Union 6:16.69 QB
6 Terry Paul  Canada 6:17.36 QB

Finals

Final B

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time
7 Martin Ruppel  West Germany 6:42.65
8 Oldřich Hejdušek  Czechoslovakia 6:43.64
9 Terry Paul  Canada 6:44.95
10 Dino Lucchetta  Italy 6:45.39
Martin Honegger  Switzerland DNS
Sergey Titov  Soviet Union DNS

Final A

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hendrik Reiher  East Germany 6:10.74
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ladislau Lovrenschi  Romania 6:13.58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Andrew Bird  New Zealand 6:15.78
4 Vaughan Thomas  Great Britain 6:18.08
5 Mark Zembsch  United States 6:18.47
6 Dario Varga  Yugoslavia 6:23.28

Final classification

Rank Rowers Country
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bernd Niesecke
Hendrik Reiher
Karsten Schmeling
Bernd Eichwurzel
Frank Klawonn
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dimitrie Popescu
Ioan Snep
Vasile Tomoiagă
Ladislau Lovrenschi
Valentin Robu
 Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Chris White
Ian Wright
Andrew Bird
Greg Johnston
George Keys
 New Zealand
4 Adam Clift
John Maxey
John Garrett
Martin Cross
Vaughan Thomas
 Great Britain
5 John Terwilliger
Chris Huntington
Tom Darling
John Walters
Mark Zembsch
 United States
6 Sead Marušić
Lazo Pivač
Zlatko Celent
Vladimir Banjanac
Dario Varga
 Yugoslavia
7 Roland Baar
Wolfgang Klapheck
Christoph Korte
Andreas Lütkefels
Martin Ruppel
 West Germany
8 Milan Doleček
Oldřich Hejdušek
Petr Hlídek
Dušan Macháček
Michal Šubrt
 Czechoslovakia
9 Harold Backer
John Houlding
Robert Marland
Terry Paul
Brian Saunderson
 Canada
10 Giuseppe Carando
Leonardo Massa
Antonio Maurogiovanni
Giovanni Miccoli
Dino Lucchetta
 Italy
11 Martin Honegger
Marcel Hotz
Bruno Saile
Günter Schneider
Jörg Weitnauer
 Switzerland
Sigitas Kučinskas
Jonas Narmontas
Vladimir Romanishin
Sergey Titov
Igor Zotov
 Soviet Union
13 Agustín Alarcón
Baltasar Márquez
José Ramón Oyarzábal
Ibon Urbieta
Javier Viñolas
 Spain
14 Jeong Jae-won
Gang Man-gu
Lee Tae-hwa
Park Seong-nae
Yang Gwang-jae
 South Korea

References

  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's Coxed Fours". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, pp. 525–27.

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