Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Regatta Course, Oberschleißheim
Date	27 August – 2 September
Competitors	38; (19 teams) from 19 nations
Winning time	7:01.77
Medalists
Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov  Soviet Union Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen  Norway Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied  East Germany

Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Single sculls		men
Double sculls		men
Coxless pair		men
Coxed pair		men
Coxless four		men
Coxed four		men
Eight		men

The men's double sculls competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from August 27 – September 2 at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.

Results

Heats

Winner of each heat (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield	Great Britain	6:57.70
2	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:07.94
3	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux	Belgium	7:16.69
4	Jorge Imaz Ricardo Ibarra	Argentina	7:18.28
5	Peter Barr John McNiven	Canada	7:21.69

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina	Czechoslovakia	6:56.82
2	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler	Switzerland	7:02.90
3	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	Norway	7:03.65
4	Thomas McKibbon John Van Blom	United States	7:08.91
5	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski	Poland	7:21.05

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov	Soviet Union	6:56.17
2	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans	Netherlands	7:02.12
3	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne	West Germany	7:12.03
4	Tsugio Ito Yoshio Minato	Japan	7:17.51
5	Federico Scheffler Ricardo Scheffler	Mexico	7:43.87

Heat 4

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht	Denmark	7:11.32
2	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut	France	7:16.50
3	Manfred Krausbar Sepp Puchinger	Austria	7:29.13
4	Carlos Oliveira Manuel Barroso	Portugal	8:09.93

Repechage

Top two finishers in each heat qualify to the semifinal round.

Repechage 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut	France	7:10.45
2	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne	West Germany	7:11.55
3	Thomas McKibbon John Van Blom	United States	7:19.63
4	Peter Barr John McNiven	Canada	7:29.05

Repechage 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	Norway	7:03.71
2	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans	Netherlands	7:04.15
3	Jorge Imaz Ricardo Ibarra	Argentina	7:22.15

Repechage 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler	Switzerland	7:14.70
2	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux	Belgium	7:17.58
3	Federico Scheffler Ricardo Scheffler	Mexico	7:40.11
4	Carlos Oliveira Manuel Barroso	Portugal	7:44.25

Repechage 4

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:00.54
2	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski	Poland	7:08.27
3	Tsugio Ito Yoshio Minato	Japan	7:09.73
4	Manfred Krausbar Sepp Puchinger	Austria	7:16.16

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B

First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:29.13
2	Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield	Great Britain	7:31.62
3	Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina	Czechoslovakia	7:36.83
4	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans	Netherlands	7:40.77
5	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler	Switzerland	7:45.42
6	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne	West Germany	7:46.21

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht	Denmark	7:31.32
2	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov	Soviet Union	7:35.33
3	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	Norway	7:35.82
4	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut	France	7:47.68
5	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux	Belgium	7:55.00
6	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski	Poland	7:59.52

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans	Netherlands	7:07.25
2	Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler	Switzerland	7:08.22
3	Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux	Belgium	7:10.03
4	Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne	West Germany	7:11.74
5	Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut	France	7:14.21
6	Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski	Poland	7:31.97

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
	Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov	Soviet Union	7:01.77
	Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	Norway	7:02.58
	Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:05.55
4	Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht	Denmark	7:14.19
5	Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield	Great Britain	7:16.29
6	Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina	Czechoslovakia	7:17.60

References

• Official reports of the 1972 Summer Olympics