Rowing
Olympic Games

Men: Coxless Pairs
Year Location
2012 London (gbr)
2008 Beijing (chn) Australia Canada New Zealand
(Drew Ginn,
Duncan Free)
(David Calder,
Scott Francsen)
(Nathan Twaddle,
George Bridgewater)
2004 Athínai (gre) Australia Croatia South Africa
(Drew Ginn,
James Tomkins)
(Sinisa Skelin,
Niksa Skelin)
(Donovan Cech,
Ramon di Clemente)
2000 Sydney (aus) France USA Australia
(Michel Andrieux,
Jean-Christophe Rolland)
(Ted Murphy,
Sebastian Bea)
(Matthew Long,
James Tomkins)
1996 Atlanta (usa) Great Britain Australia France
(Steven Redgrave,
Matthew Pinsent)
(David Weightman,
Robert Scott)
(Michel Andrieux,
Jean-Christophe Rolland)
1992 Barcelona (spa) Great Britain Germany Slovenia
(Steven Redgrave,
Matthew Pinsent)
(Colin von Ettingshausen,
Peter Höltzenbein)
(Iztok Cop,
Denis Zvegelj)
1988 Seoul (sko) Great Britain Romania Yugoslavia
(Andrew Holmes,
Steven Redgrave)
(Dragos Neagu,
Danut Dobre)
(Bojan Preseren,
Sadik Mujkic)
1984 Los Angeles (usa) Romania Spain Norway
(Petru Iosub,
Valer Toma)
(Fernando Climent,
Luis María Lasurtegui)
(Hans Magnus Grepperud,
Sverre Løken)
1980 Moskva (sov) East Germany Soviet Union Great Britain
(Jörg Landvoigt,
Bernd Landvoigt)
(Yuriy Pimenov,
Nikolay Pimenov)
(Charles Wiggin,
Malcolm Carmichael)
1976 Montréal (can) East Germany USA West Germany
(Jörg Landvoigt,
Bernd Landvoigt)
(Calvin Coffey,
Michael Staines)
(Peter Vanroye,
Thomas Strauss)
1972 München (wge) East Germany Switzerland Netherlands
(Siegfried Brietzke,
Wolfgang Mager)
(Heinrich Fischer,
Alfred Bachmann)
(Roelof Luijnenburg,
Rudolf Stokvis)
1968 Mexico City (mex) East Germany USA Denmark
(Jörg Lucke,
Heinz-Jürgen Bothe)
(Lawrence Hough,
Philip Johnson)
(Peter Christiansen,
Ib Ivan Larsen)
1964 Tokyo (jpn) Canada Netherlands Germany
(George Hungerford,
Roger Jackson)
(Steven Blaisse,
Ernst Veenemans)
(Michael Schwan,
Wolfgang Hottenrott)
1960 Roma (ita) Soviet Union Austria Finland
(Valentin Boreyko,
Oleg Golovanov)
(Josef Kloimstein,
Alfred Sageder)
(Veli Lehtelä,
Toimi Pitkänen)
1956 Melbourne (aus) USA Soviet Union Austria
(James Fifer,
Duvall Hecht)
(Igor Buldakov,
Viktor Ivanov)
(Josef Kloimstein,
Alfred Sageder)
1952 Helsinki (fin) USA Belgium Switzerland
(Charles Logg,
Thomas Price)
(Michael Knuysen,
Robert Baetens)
(Kurt Schmid,
Hans Kalt)
1948 London (gbr) Great Britain Switzerland Italy
(John Wilson,
William Laurie)
(Hans Kalt,
Josef Kalt)
(Felice Fanetti,
Bruno Boni)
1936 Berlin (ger) Germany Denmark Argentina
(Willi Eichhorn,
Hugo Strauss)
(Richard Olsen,
Harry Jarsen)
(Horacio Podestá,
Julio Curatella)
1932 Los Angeles (usa) Great Britain New Zealand Poland
(Lewis Clive,
Hugh Edwards)
(Cyril Stiles,
Frederick Thompson)
(Henryk Budzynski,
Janusz Mikolajczak)
1928 Amsterdam (net) Germany Great Britain USA
(Kurt Möschter,
Bruno Müller)
(Terence O'Brien,
Robert Nisbet)
(Paul McDowell,
John Schmitt)
1924 Paris (fra) Netherlands France --
(Teun Beijnen,
Wilhelm Rösingh)
(Maurice Bouton,
George Piot)
1908 London (gbr) Great Britain Great Britain Canada
(John Fenning,
Gordon Thomson)
(George Fairbairn,
Philip Verdon)
(Fred Toms,
Norman Jackes)
Germany
(Martin Stahnke,
Willi Düskow)
1904 St. Louis (usa) USA USA USA
(Robert Farnam,
Joseph Ryan)
(John Mulcahy,
William Varley)
(John Joachim,
Joseph Buerger)

Notes:
Distance: 1952-: 2000 m, 1948: 1850 m, 1924-1936: 2000 m, 1908: 2412 m, 1904: 3218 m
1924: only two teams finished the competition