The men's coxless pairs competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place at Mei Bay, Helsinki, Finland.
Schedule Date Round20 July 1952Heats21 July 1952Repechage21 July 1952Semifinal22 July 1952Semifinal repechage 23 July 1952 Final
Results
Heats First boat of each heat qualified to the semifinal, remainder goes to the repechage.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1 Kurt SchmidHans Kalt7:46.0Q2David CallenderChristopher Davidge7:47.0 3Michel KnuysenBob Baetens7:48.9 4Charlie LoggTom Price7:50.7
Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Don PalmerVic Middleton8:06.4Q2Bent JensenPalle Tillisch8:13.3 3Bruno GambaAntonio Saverio9:21.23Jan ŚwiątkowskiStanisław WieśniakDQ
Heat 3 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Ben BinnendijkCarl Kuntze8:00.4 Q2Alberto MaderoÓscar Almirón 8:02.23Klaus HahnHerbert Kesel8:09.53Mikhail PlaksinVasily Bagretsov8:12.3
Heat 4 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Bernt TorberntssonEvert Gunnarsson7:54.5Q2Jean-Pierre SoucheRené Guissart 7:57.93Heinz RennebergHeinz Eichholz8:03.3 4Bengt AhlströmStig Winter8:06.7
Repechage First boat of each heat qualified to the semifinal.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Michel KnuysenBob Baetens7:22.8Q2Mikhail PlaksinVasily Bagretsov7:31.9 3Bruno GambaAntonio Saverio7:43.4 4Bengt AhlströmStig Winter7:47.9
Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Charlie LoggTom Price7:28.4Q2Jan ŚwiątkowskiStanisław Wieśniak7:39.7 3Klaus HahnHerbert KeselDNF
Semifinal First boat of each heat qualified to the final, remainder goes to the repechage.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Kurt SchmidHans Kalt7:37.7Q2Don PalmerVic Middleton7:46.83Jean-Pierre SoucheRené Guissart7:54.7 4Alberto MaderoÓscar Almirón7:59.8
Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1David CallenderChristopher Davidge7:45.6Q2Ben BinnendijkCarl Kuntze7:53.23Bernt TorberntssonEvert Gunnarsson8:07.54Bent JensenPalle Tillisch8:15.7
Semifinal repechage First boat of each heat qualified to the final.
Heat 1 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Charlie LoggTom Price 7:36.2Q2Bent JensenPalle Tillisch7:47.13Don PalmerVic Middleton7:50.5
Heat 2 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Michel KnuysenBob Baetens 7:35.0Q2Alberto MaderoÓscar Almirón7:41.03Ben BinnendijkCarl Kuntze7:44.7
Heat 3 RankRowersCountryTimeNotes1Jean-Pierre SoucheRené Guissart 7:57.1Q2Bernt TorberntssonEvert Gunnarsson7:58.6
Final RankRowersCountryTimeNotes Charlie LoggTom Price8:20.7Michel KnuysenBob Baetens8:23.5Kurt SchmidHans Kalt8:32.7 4David CallenderChristopher Davidge8:37.4 5Jean-Pierre SoucheRené Guissart8:48.8
References
External links Official Olympic Report