Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

The men's double sculls competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal took place from 18 to 25 July at the Olympic Reggatta Course at Île Notre-Dame.^[1]

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Île Notre-Dame Olympic Basin
Date	18–25 July
Competitors	26 from 13 nations
Medalists
Frank Hansen Alf Hansen  Norway Chris Baillieu Michael Hart  Great Britain Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied  East Germany
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Results

Heats

Three fastest rowers in each heat advanced to the semi-finals. The remaining rowers must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Frank Hansen Alf Hansen	Norway	6:29.77
2	Yevgeny Barbakov Gennady Korshikov	Soviet Union	6:38.63
3	Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	Great Britain	6:40.86
4	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	6:47.97
5	Gilberto Gerhardt Sérgio Sztancsa	Brazil	7:02.18

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied	East Germany	6:39.71
2	Peter Becker Gerhard Kroschewski	West Germany	6:41.16
3	Jean-Noël Ribot Jean-Michel Izart	France	6:44.04
4	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	6:46.33

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Josef Straka Miroslav Laholík	Czechoslovakia	6:40.55
2	Jean-Henrik Martell Lennart Bälter	Sweden	6:44.10
3	Zoran Pančić Darko Majstorović	Yugoslavia	6:49.68
4	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	6:52.09

Repechage

Top three finishers in heat qualify to the semifinal round.

Repechage

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	6:34.81
2	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	6:38.48
3	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	6:39.48
4	Gilberto Gerhardt Sérgio Sztancsa	Brazil	6:48.95

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Frank Hansen Alf Hansen	Norway	6:12.48
2	Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	Great Britain	6:18.38
3	Peter Becker Gerhard Kroschewski	West Germany	6:21.64
4	Josef Straka Miroslav Laholík	Czechoslovakia	6:25.02
5	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	6:34.34
6	Zoran Pančić Darko Majstorović	Yugoslavia	6:39.91

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied	East Germany	6:24.90
2	Yevgeny Barbakov Gennady Korshikov	Soviet Union	6:26.87
3	Jean-Noël Ribot Jean-Michel Izart	France	6:30.83
4	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	6:33.88
5	Jean-Henrik Martell Lennart Bälter	Sweden	6:35.51
6	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	6:42.32

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	7:15.21
2	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	7:16.59
3	Zoran Pančić Darko Majstorović	Yugoslavia	7:21.69
4	Josef Straka Miroslav Laholík	Czechoslovakia	7:23.49
5	Jean-Henrik Martell Lennart Bälter	Sweden	7:25.57
6	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	7:25.82

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
	Frank Hansen Alf Hansen	Norway	7:13.20
	Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	Great Britain	7:15.26
	Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:17.45
4	Yevgeny Barbakov Gennady Korshikov	Soviet Union	7:18.87
5	Peter Becker Gerhard Kroschewski	West Germany	7:22.15
6	Jean-Noël Ribot Jean-Michel Izart	France	7:50.18

References

1. . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2018.

External links

• Official reports of the 1976 Summer Olympics^{[dead link]}