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Rowing At The 1956 Summer Olympics
Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics featured seven events, for men only. The competitions were held from 23 to 27 November on Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Australia. Medal summary Participating nations A total of 242 rowers from 25 nations competed at the Melbourne Games: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Medal table References External links International Olympic Committee medal database {{Rowing at the Summer Olympics 1956 Summer Olympics events 1956 Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with the name * Oly (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and musician * Oly Hicks (born 1968 ...
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Lake Wendouree
Lake Wendouree () is an artificially created and maintained shallow urban lake located adjacent to the suburb of the same name in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The name Wendouree comes from a local Aboriginal word ''wendaaree'' which means 'go away': a story is told that when settler William Cross Yuille asked a local Indigenous woman what the name of the swamp was, that was her reply. Location and features Lake Wendouree is one of the smallest of a complex of natural wetlands which includes nearby Lake Burrumbeet and Lake Learmonth on the plains of the Central Highlands. The swamp was dammed following the Victorian gold rush in 1851 and since the 1860s it has been a popular recreational lake for Ballarat's citizens. Lake Wendouree now holds significant historical, environmental, and recreational values to the Ballarat community. The lake hosted the rowing and canoeing events during the 1956 Olympic Games. During its history, the shallow lake has dried up durin ...
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Igor Buldakov
Igor Vasilevich Buldakov (russian: Игорь Васильевич Булдаков, 26 August 1930 – 30 April 1979) was a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he and his partner Viktor Ivanov Viktor Petrovich Ivanov (russian: Виктор Петрович Иванов, born May 12, 1950) is a Russian politician and businessman, former KGB officer, who served in the KGB Directorate of Leningrad and its successors in 1977–1994. He w ... won the silver medal in the coxless pairs event. References * External links * 1930 births 1979 deaths Russian male rowers Soviet male rowers Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics European Rowing Championships medalists {{Russia-rowing-bio-stub ...
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Archibald MacKinnon
Archibald MacKinnon (born January 13, 1937 in Cranbrook, British Columbia) is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in ''coxless fours'' at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Lorne Loomer, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold."1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Rowing"
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At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, MacKinnon received a gold medal in ''eights''. He received a silver medal in ''eights'' at the

Vladimir Petrov (rowing)
Vladimir Viktorovich Petrov (russian: Владимир Викторович Петров, born 27 April 1932) is a Russian rowing coxswain who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ... in 1932. In 1956 he coxed the Soviet boat that won the bronze medal in the coxed pair event. He was also the cox of the Soviet boat that was eliminated in the semi-finals of the eight competition. References 1932 births Living people Russian male rowers Soviet male rowers Coxswains (rowing) Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics European Rowing Champ ...
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Heorhiy Zhylin
Heorhiy Semenovych Zhylin ( ua, Георгій Семенович Жилін, 18 August 1925 – 12 September 1997) was a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ... and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1952 he won the silver medal with his partner Ihor Yemchuk in the double sculls event. Four years later he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs competition. References * External links * 1925 births 1997 deaths Ukrainian male rowers Soviet male rowers Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the S ...
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Ihor Yemchuk
Igor Fedorovich Yemchuk ( ua, Ігор Федорович Ємчук, 2 December 1930 – 5 March 2008) was a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1952 he won the silver medal with his partner Heorhiy Zhylin Heorhiy Semenovych Zhylin ( ua, Георгій Семенович Жилін, 18 August 1925 – 12 September 1997) was a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolymp ... in the double sculls event. Four years later he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs competition. References *Profile of Ihor Yemchuk External links * * 1930 births 2008 deaths Rowers from Kyiv Ukrainian male rowers Soviet male rowers Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olym ...
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Rainer Borkowsky
Rainer Borkowsky (born 19 October 1942) is a German rowing coxswain who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Borkowsky was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1942. At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with rowers Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Horst Arndt. The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class. At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ..., Germany, they again won a gold medal. References 1942 births Living people Coxswains (rowing) Olympic rowers of the United Team of Germany Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medal ...
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Horst Arndt
Horst Arndt (19 September 1934 – 18 October 2014) was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Arndt was born in Königsberg in 1934, which was then part of Prussia and is now located in Russia and known as Kaliningrad. He was a lifelong member of the RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888, a rowing club in Wiesbaden. At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with fellow rower Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Rainer Borkowsky as cox. The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class. At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, they again won a gold medal. Arndt died in 2014 in Taunusstein Taunusstein () is the biggest town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. It has 30,068 inhabitants (2020). Geography Location Taunusstein lies r ...
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Karl-Heinrich Von Groddeck
Karl-Heinrich Erich Moritz von Groddeck (19 July 1936 – 14 December 2011) was a German rower who won three Olympic medals for the United Team of Germany: a silver in the coxed pairs in 1956 and a gold and a silver in the eights in 1960 and 1964, respectively. He also won one world and five European titles in these two rowing events between 1956 and 1964 for West Germany. In 1964 he retired from competitions. Back in 1958, von Groddeck moved from Wiesbaden to Hamburg to work for Axel Springer AG Axel Springer SE () is a German digital and popular periodical publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as ''Bild'', ''Die Welt'', and '' Fakt'' and more than 15,000 employees. It generated tot ... as a journalist in the sports section of a newspaper. For many years he was reporting the history of German rowing.Rowohlts Bunte Liste, pp. 355 ff. Later he worked as a freelance journalist. References 1936 births 2011 de ...
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Kurt Seiffert
Armin Kurt Seiffert (born December 21, 1935) is an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ..., where he received a gold medal as coxswain in ''coxed pairs'', with Conn Findlay and Arthur Ayrault."1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Rowing"
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Conn Findlay
Francis Conn Findlay (April 24, 1930April 8, 2021) was an American Olympic rower and sailor. He won four Olympic medals in those two sports, including two golds in coxed pair. He was also part of the America's Cup sailing crews that won in 1974 and 1977. He is one of 11 sailors to have won both the America's Cup and an Olympic medal. Findlay started competitive rowing while attending the University of Southern California. He participated in his first Olympic Games in 1956, winning his first gold medal in coxed pair. After finishing third in that discipline at the Olympics four years later, he recaptured gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He did not make another Olympic appearance for 12 years until returning in 1976, switching to sailing and securing bronze in Tempest class. Early life Findlay was born in Stockton, California, on April 24, 1930. He studied at the University of Southern California, where he rowed on their men's crew during his senior year in 1953–54. ...
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Arthur Ayrault
Arthur Delancey "Dan" Ayrault Jr. (January 21, 1935 – February 24, 1990) was an American competitive rower and two-time Olympic gold medalist. While competing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Ayrault won a gold medal in coxed pair with Conn Findlay and Kurt Seiffert. During the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, he earned a gold medal in coxless four. Ayrault's teammates were Ted Nash, John Sayre, and Rusty Wailes. Early life and education Ayrault was born in Long Beach, California, on January 21, 1935. He graduated from the Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1952. Morristown-Beard School inducted Ayrault into their Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1956, he earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy at Stanford University. During his time at Stanford, Ayrault served as captain of the Cardinals' rowing team. Stanford's Department of Athletics later inducted Aryault into the school's Hall of Fame. H ...
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