Rowing at the 1950 British Empire Games

Rowing at the 1950 British Empire Games was the third appearance of Rowing at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured five events being held at Lake Karapiro, south of Auckland. Three special trains took 1500 people to Cambridge on 7 February 1950.

Australia topped the rowing medal table with four gold medals.

Medal table

Medal winners The double sculls competition was an invitation event and originally no medals were awarded but they are counted in the medal table today.

Single scullsDouble scullsCoxless pairnoneCoxed fournoneEights

Results

Single sculls PosAthleteTime1 Mervyn Wood 7:46.82 Tony Rowe 7:54.03 Ian Stephen 8:04.04 Tristan Hegglun

Double sculls Only three entries PosAthleteTime1 Mervyn Wood & Murray Riley 7:222 Joe Schneider & Des Simonson 7:323 Ken Tinegate & Jack Brown 7:39

Coxless pair Only two entries PosAthleteTime1 Wal Lambert & Jack Webster 7:582 David Gould & Humphrey Gould 8:10

Coxed four Only two entries PosAthleteTime1 Ted Johnson, John O'Brien, Bill James, Bill Carroll, Colin Johnstone (cox) 7:17.22 Leslie Montgomery, Erwin Elder, Cecil Winkworth, Kenneth Gee, Kevin Fox (cox) 7:24.0

Eights Only three entries PosAthleteTime1 Alan Brown, Bruce Goswell, Edward Pain, Eric Longley, Peter Holmes a Court, Phil Cayzer, Bob Tinning, Ross Selman, James Barnes (cox) 6:272 Bruce Culpan, Don Rowlands, Edwin Smith, Grahame Jarratt, Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Thomas Engel, William Tinnock, Donald Adam (cox) 6:27.53 Tony Butcher, Hank Rushmere, Michael Lapage, Patrick Bradley, Peter de Giles, Peter Kirkpatrick, Dickie Burnell, William Windham, Jack Dearlove (cox) 6:40

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