Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed pair

Men's coxed pair at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Toda Rowing Course
Date	11–15 October
Competitors	48 from 16 nations
Teams	16
Winning time	8:21.23
Medalists
Edward Ferry Conn Findlay Kent Mitchell (cox)  United States Jacques Morel Georges Morel Jean-Claude Darouy (cox)  France Herman Rouwé Erik Hartsuiker Jan Just Bos (cox)  Netherlands

The coxed pair event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Edward Ferry Conn Findlay Kent Mitchell (cox)	France (FRA) Jacques Morel Georges Morel Jean-Claude Darouy (cox)	Netherlands (NED) Herman Rouwé Erik Hartsuiker Jan Just Bos (cox)

Results

Heats

The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	United States (USA), Ed Ferry, Conn Findlay and Kent Mitchell	7:53.17	QF
2.	Netherlands (NED), Herman Rouwé, Erik Hartsuiker and Jan-Just Bos	7:56.80	QR
3.	Czechoslovakia (TCH), Václav Chalupa, Jiří Palko and Zdeněk Mejstřík	8:00.07	QR
4.	Austria (AUT), Alfred Sageder, Josef Kloimstein and Peter Salzbacher	8:01.22	QR
5.	United Team of Germany (EUA), Günter Bergau, Peter Gorny and Karl-Heinz Danielowski	8:02.99	QR
6.	Switzerland (SUI), Hugo Waser, Adolf Waser and Werner Ehrensperger	8:09.16	QR
Heat 2
1.	France (FRA), Jacques Morel, Georges Morel and Jean-Claude Darouy	7:53.14	QF
2.	Soviet Union (URS), Nikolay Safronov, Leonid Rakovshchik and Igor Rudakov	7:53.15	QR
3.	Australia (AUS), Bruce Richardson, Neil Lodding and Wayne Gammon	8:09.15	QR
4.	Yugoslavia (YUG), Ante Guberina, Slavko Janjušević and Zdenko Balaš	8:20.33	QR
5.	Egypt (EGY), Mohamed El-Halawani, Mahmoud Nasser and Abdullah Ali	8:22.99	QR
Heat 3
1.	Poland (POL), Kazimierz Naskręcki, Marian Siejkowski and Stanisław Kozera	7:55.79	QF
2.	Romania (ROU), Gheorghe Riffelt, Ionel Petrov and Oprea Păunescu	8:02.34	QR
3.	Denmark (DEN), Jens Berendt Jensen, Knud Nielsen and Niels Olsen	8:08.98	QR
4.	Argentina (ARG), Natalio Rossi, Juan Pedro Lier and Oscar Rompani	8:19.63	QR
5.	Japan (JPN), Toshihiro Hamada, Katsuhiko Ihara and Masahiro Takatsuki	8:32.51	QR

Repechages

The top finisher in each of the three repechages joined the finalists. The second and third place finishers competed in a consolation final for 7th to 12th places. All other crews were eliminated.

Repechage 1
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	7:19.64	QF
2.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	7:22.96	QC
3.	Austria (AUT)	7:30.72	QC
4.	Denmark (DEN)	7:39.39
Repechage 2
1.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:28.61	QF
2.	Switzerland (SUI)	7:30.60	QC
3.	Romania (ROU)	7:38.36	QC
4.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	7:40.89
5.	Egypt (EGY)	7:43.54
Repechage 3
1.	Netherlands (NED)	7:28.58	QF
2.	Australia (AUS)	7:37.53	QC
3.	Argentina (ARG)	7:44.62	QC
4.	Japan (JPN)	8:05.30

Consolation final

The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.

7.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	7:27.98
8.	Austria (AUT)	7:31.65
9.	Australia (AUS)	7:32.54
10.	Romania (ROU)	7:35.74
11.	Switzerland (SUI)	7:36.03
12.	Argentina (ARG)	Did not start

Final

	United States (USA)	8:21.33
	France (FRA)	8:23.15
	Netherlands (NED)	8:23.42
4.	Soviet Union (URS)	8:24.85
5.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	8:36.21
6.	Poland (POL)	8:40.00

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.