Rowing Men: Olympic Games 1956 at Melbourne (aus) Coxed Pairs November 23-27: Semifinals: Heat 1: 1. Poland (Zbigniew Schwarzer, Henryk Jagodzinski, Bertold Mainka) * 9:22.8 2. Soviet Union (Igor Yemchuk, Georgiy Zhilin, Vladimir Petrov) * 9:26.2 3. Belgium (Lievin Ven, Antoon Ven, Jacques van Thillo) 9:29.3 4. Austria (Josef Kloimstein, Alfred Sageder, Franz König) 9:29.7 Heat 2: 1. Germany (Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Horst Arndt, Rainer Borkowsky) * 9:24.1 2. USA (Arthur Ayrault Jr., Conn Findlay, Kurt Seiffert) * 9:25.1 3. Australia (Robert Duncan, Bruce Dickson, John Cockbill) 9:37.7 4. Chile (Juan Carmona, Jorge Contreras, Eusebio Ojeda) 11:03.6 Final: 1. USA (Arthur Ayrault Jr., Conn Findlay, Kurt Seiffert) * 8:26.1 2. Germany (Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Horst Arndt, Rainer Borkowsky) 8:29.2 3. Soviet Union (Igor Yemchuk, Georgiy Zhilin, Vladimir Petrov) 8:31.0 4. Poland (Zbigniew Schwarzer, Henryk Jagodzinski, Bertold Mainka) 8:31.5