The 1956 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Bled in the city of Bled which, at the time, was located in Yugoslavia. Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and women entered in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+). Many of the men competed two months later at the Olympic Games in Melbourne; women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976.
Background FISA, the International Rowing Federation, decided at its congress held just prior to the 1955 Championships in Ghent to award the 1956 Championships to Bled, and that the 1957 Championships were to be hosted by Duisburg.
Medal summary – women's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time W1x Ingrid Scholz Eva Sika Kornélia Pap W2x Svetla Bartakova Hana Musilova Nina Opalenko Ekaterina Semlyanskaya Hertha Manger Gisela Pünner W4+ Olimpiada Mikhaylova Galina Putyrskaya Lyudmila Blasko Natalya Morozova Vera Savrimovich (cox) Maria Dopierala Maria Golebiewska Sabina Zdzienicka Maria Kowalska Danuta Migocka (cox) Felicia Urziceanu Elsa Oxenfeld Stela Georgescu Lucia Dumitrescu Angela Codreanu (cox) W4x+ Yevgeniya Tserbakova Lidiya Zontova Galina Kopilova Lyubov Trosenkova Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox) Istvánné Granek Ida Orodán Józsefné Raskó Jánosné Kőszegi Ilona Skotniczky (cox) Florica Bruteanu Viorica Udrescu Stela Stanciu Maria Laub Stefania Borisov (cox) W8+ Lyudmila Matveyeva Vera Taranda Alexandra Afonykina Vera Mikhaylova Nina Korobkova Zinaida Korotova Zinaida Trofimova Tamara Stolyarova Maria Fomicheva (cox) Felicia Urziceanu Marta Kardos Iuliana Toganel Rita Schob Sonia Bulugioiu Elsa Oxenfeld Etelca Laub Maria Bucur-Maimon Angela Codreanu (cox) Ingrid Matthes Marianne Falk Gerda Weith Ursula Nawrot Ingeborg Könnecke Hella Schulz Anita Blankenfeld Helga Richter Ursula Gesch (cox)
Medal summary – men's events Event Gold Silver Bronze Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time M1x Vyacheslav Ivanov Klaus von Fersen Teodor Kocerka M2x Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov Thomas Schneider Kurt Hipper Albert Krajmer František Reich M2- Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein Michel Knuysen Bob Baetens M2+ Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Horst Arndt Rainer Borkowsky (cox) Gottfried Kottmann Rolf Streuli Peter Rüede (cox) Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein Franz König (cox) M4- Giuseppe Moioli Attilio Cantoni Giovanni Zucchi Abbondio Marcelli Géza Ütő Csaba Kovács Rezső Riheczky Zoltán Kávay Willi Montag Horst Stobbe Gunther Kaschlun Manfred Fitze M4+ Reino Poutanen Kauko Hänninen Veli Lehtelä Toimi Pitkänen Matti Niemi (cox) Yury Popov Andrej Archipov Valentin Zanin Yaroslav Cherstvy Anatoly Fetissov (cox) Franco Trincavelli Angelo Vanzin Romano Sgheiz Alberto Winkler Ivo Stefanoni (cox) M8+ Josef Věntus Eduard Antoch Ctibor Reiskup Jan Švéda Josef Švec Zdeněk Žára Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koranda (cox) René Massiasse Maurice Houdayer Jean-Jacques Vignon Édouard Leguery Maurice Bas Richard Duc Émile Clerc Santé Marcuzzi Jacques Vilcoq (cox) Ferenc Demeter Gabor Dobay Tibor Bedekovits Imre Kaffka Laszlo Kerenyi Imre Kemény Pál Bakos Sandor Emödi Gyula Lengyel (cox)
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