Rowing Men: Olympic Games 1956 at Melbourne (aus) Coxless Fours November 23-27: Semifinals: Heat 1: 1. Canada (Archibald McKinnon, Lorne Loomer, Walter d'Hondt, Donald Arnold) * 7:47.7 2. France (Guy Guillabert, Gaston Mercier, Yves Delacour, René Guissart) * 8:08.4 3. Soviet Union (Leonid Zakharov, Aleksandr Cheff, Nikolay Karasyov, Igor Ivanov) 8:18.3 4. Poland (Kazimierz Blasinski, Szczepan Grajczyk, Zbigniew Paradowski, Marian Nietupski) 8:32.0 Heat 2: 1. USA (John Welchli, John McKinlay, Arthur McKinlay, James McIntosh) * 7:59.7 2. Italy (Abbondio Marcelli, Giovanni Zucchi, Attilio Cantoni, Giuseppe Moioli) * 8:10.2 3. Germany (Wilhelm Montag, Horst Stobbe, Günther Kaschlun, Manfred Fitze) 8:19.8 4. Australia (John Harrison, Peter Evatt, Geoffrey Williamson, David Anderson) 8:22.4 Final: 1. Canada (Archibald McKinnon, Lorne Loomer, Walter d'Hondt, Donald Arnold) 7:08.8 2. USA (John Welchli, John McKinlay, Arthur McKinlay, James McIntosh) 7:18.4 3. France (Guy Guillabert, Gaston Mercier, Yves Delacour, René Guissart) 7:20.9 4. Italy (Abbondio Marcelli, Giovanni Zucchi, Attilio Cantoni, Giuseppe Moioli) 7:22.5