The 1954 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bosbaan regatta course in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. This edition is particularly notable for the fact that it was the first time that women were allowed to compete as part of the championships, after three years of trial regattas for them. Women from 13 countries were represented with 34 boats, and they competed in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+) from 20 to 22 August. The men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+) a week later, from 26 to 29 August. It would be another 22 years until women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976.
Medal summary – women's events For the 1954 regatta, the Bosbaan was widened from five lanes to six. All of the boat classes had single-digit entries (five crews each for the eight and quad, and nine for the singles), just four of the lanes were used in the races so that there were heats, repêchages, and a final.
Event Gold Silver Bronze Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time W1x Roza Chumakova Eva Sika Agnes Reuter W2x Larissa Tsausova Zoja Rakickaya Maritta Golz Hermine Heyden Svetla Bartakova Hana Musilova W4+ Lidia Walshuk Lyudmila Blasko Lidja Kirsanova Natalya Morozova Valentina Ogorodnikova (cox) Berbertje Vochteloo Ans de Mey Marjolijne van Lith Everdina Lafeber Liesbeth de Wit (cox) Iris Simpson Bette Shubrook Barbara Benzing Marjorie Lutz Rita Walkerdine (cox) W4x+ Yelena Serbasova Tamara Tarskova Natalia Sanina Klavdija Ulogova Rosa Seremetyeva (cox) Lisbeth Kaibitsch Lore Kafka Sigrid Freuis Hilde Unterberger Irma Roth (cox) Hendrika Teuben Grieta Paulen Frida van der Hoop Helena Koster Sonja van de Kastelen (cox) W8+ Irina Lobnyeva Nina Martinova Ekaterina Kopilova Marina Schirtladse Larissa Koncewaja Alexandra Sonnova Nina Sevruk Jelena Lukatyna Valentina Okorodnikova (cox) Maria Maimon Laura Mitroi Ghizela Rostas Elisabeta Gyorgy Rita Schob Mariana Vatan Marta Kardos Sonia Bulugioiu Angela Codreanu (cox) Jacoba Stefels Janneke Loman Willemijn Domhoff Gwendoline van der Feltz Johanna Moltzer Magda Schepers Helena Kouwenaar Johanna Minnema Jeanette Molenaar (cox)
Medal summary – men's events Event Gold Silver Bronze Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time M1x Alain Colomb Teodor Kocerka Aleksandr Berkutov M2x Thomas Schneider Gerhard Häge Peter Stebler Erich Schriever Heorhiy Zhylin Ihor Yemchuk M2- Finn Pedersen Kjeld Østrøm Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov Christopher Davidge David Macklin M2+ Gottfried Kottmann Rolf Streuli Walter Ludin (cox) Claude Martin Édouard Leguery Daniel Forget (cox) René Verhoeven Joseph van Thillo Willy Vlaminckx (cox) M4- Giuseppe Moioli Giovanni Zucchi Francesco Lazzari Attilio Cantoni Gavin Sorrell Colin Porter Sidney Rand Michael Beresford Rico Bianchi Karl Weidmann Émile Ess Heini Scheller M4+ Yuriy Tyukalov Yevgeny Kuznetsov Fyodor Suo Yevgeny Stirotinsky Yuri Nosov (cox) Knud Jensen Poul Locht Eigil Krogh Börge Krogh Ejvind Christensen (cox) Karel Mejta Jiří Havlis Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Radomír Plšek (cox) M8+ Yevgeny Brago Vladimir Rodimushkin Slava Amiragov Yevgeny Samsonov Igor Borisov Leonid Gissen Aleksey Komarov Vladimir Kryukov Nikolai Kolosovsky (cox) Flemming Nimb Kjeld Larsen Børge Hougaard Svend Erik Schougaard Wesley Ernest Pedersen Walter Schröder Kurt Andersen Krog Aage Nielsen Drejer Finn Hansen Aabye (cox) Ivo Sirisević Ante Marinović Filip Kozulić Zsivko Kraljić Joszip Biliškov Veljko Kukolj Bozsidar Makjanić Mihajlo Obradović Zdenko Bego (cox)
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