Rowing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Rowing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the sixth appearance of Rowing at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured six events being held on the Canning River in Perth, Western Australia. The course was 2,000 metres with the finish line being located near the Raffles Hotel and Canning Bridge in Applecross.

England topped the rowing medal table with three gold medals.

Medal table

Medal winners Single scullsDouble ScullsCoxless pairCoxless fourCoxed fourEights

Single sculls

Final PosAthleteTime1 James Hill 7:39.72 Bill Barry 7:44.93 Ian Tutty 7:44.9

Double sculls

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Peter Watkinson & Murray Watkinson 10.20.72 David Edwards & John Edwards 10.36.8

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 George Justicz & Nicholas Birkmyre8.06.92 Barclay Wade & Graeme Squires 8.14.6

Repechage PosAthleteTime1 Australia 7:36.72 Wales 8:03.1

Final PosAthleteTime1 England 6.52.42 New Zealand 6.54.33 Australia 7.01.4

Coxless pair

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Rodger Ninham & William Hatfield 8.57.02 Graham Lawrence & Murray Lawrence 9.20.1

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 Stewart Farquharson & David Lee Nicholson 8.40.62 Bob Stubbs & Marty Gifford 9.03.8

Repechage PosAthleteTime1 New Zealand 7:43.22 Canada 7:49.8

Final PosAthleteTime1 England 7.03.72 New Zealand 7.08.53 Australia 7:10.3

Coxless four

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Eldon Worobieff, Thomas Gray, Thomas Stokes, Ray McIntosh 7.19.92 Colin Cordes, Geoffrey Benge, Louis Lobel, Rodney Hutchinson 7.35.3

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 David Edwards, Jeremy Luke, Richard Luke, John Edwards 7.28.72 Peter Raper, Maurice Grace, Simon Newcomb, David Boykett 7.29.23 Christopher Davidge, Michael Clay, John Beveridge, John Tilbury 8.10.4

Repechage PosAthleteTime1 England 6:41.32 Australia 6:41.53 New Zealand 7:05.0

Final PosAthleteTime1 England 6.31.12 Wales 6.32.53 Canada 6.34.9

Coxed four

Final PosAthleteTime1 Winston Stephens, Keith Heselwood, Hugh Smedley, George Paterson, Doug Pulman (cox) 6:48.22 David Ramage, Derek Norwood, David Caithness, David John, Phillip Sarah (cox) 6:48.8 3 John Russell, Richard Knight, John Vigurs, Colin Porter, Michael Howard-Johnston (cox) 7:04.9

Eights

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Colin Porter, Christopher Davidge, John Beveridge, John Russell, John Vigurs, John Tilbury, Richard Knight, Michael Clay, Michael Howard-Johnston (cox) 7:23.12 Charles Lehman, Dushan Stankovich, Graeme McCall, Ian Douglas, Martin Tomanovits, Paul Guest, Terry Davies, Walter Howell, David Palfreyman (cox) 7:24.8

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 Alistair Dryden, Alan Grey, Christian Larsen, Colin Cordes, Darien Boswell, Alan Webster, Louis Lobel, Leslie Arthur, Robert Page (cox) 7:07.52 Daryl Sturdy, Donald Dewar, Marty Gifford, Max Wieczorek, Mark Lemieux, Peter Hewlett, Richard Bordewick, Rodney Browne, W.T. William, Ashley Lucky (cox) 7:09.5

Repechage PosAthleteTime1 Australia6:03.72 Canada 6:06.3

Final PosAthleteTime1 Australia 5:53.4 2 New Zealand 5:53.63 England 6:09.4

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