The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Rowing - Coxless Pairs

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

GREAT BRITAIN - 14 Medals

UNITED STATES - 12 Medals

  ROMANIA - 8 Medals

Medal Table
Coxless Pairs
Single Sculls Double Sculls
Quadruple Sculls Coxless Fours
Eights
Lightweight Double Sculls
Lightweight Coxless Fours
Coxed Pairs
Coxed Fours
Coxed Fours with Inriggers


Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1904
United States - (Robert Farnan, Joseph Ryan)
United States - (John Mulcahy, William Varley)
United States - (John Joachim, Joseph Buerger)
1908
Great Britain - (John Fenning, Gordon Thomson)
Great Britain - (George Fairbairn, Philip Verdon)
Canada - (Frederick Toms, Norwey Jackes)
Germany - (Martin Stahnke, Willy Duskow)
1924
Netherlands - (Teun Beijnen, Willy Rosingh)
France - (Maurice Bouton, Georges Piot)
NONE AWARDED
1928
Germany - (Kurt Moeschter, Bruno Muller)
Great Britain - (Terence O'Brien, Robert Nisbet)
United States - (Paul McDowell, John Schmitt)
1932
Great Britain - (Lewis Clive, Hugh Edwards)
New Zealand - (Cyril Stiles, Fred Thompson)
Poland - (Henryk Budzinski, Jan Krenz-Mikolajczak)
1936
Germany - (Willi Eichhorn, Hugo Strauß)
Denmark - (Harry Larsen, Peter Olsen)
Argentina - (Horacio Podesta, Julio Curatella)
1948
Great Britain - (John Wilson, Ran Laurie)
Switzerland - (Hans Kalt, Joesf Kalt)
Italy - (Felice Fenetti, Bruno Boni)
1952
United States - (Charles Logg, Thomas Price)
Belgium - (Michel Knuysen, Bob Baetens)
Switzerland - (Kurt Schmid, Hans Kalt)
1956
United States - (James Fifer, Duvall Hecht)
Soviet Union - (Igor Buldakov, Viktor Ivanov)
Austria - (Josef Kloimstein, Alfred Sageder)
1960
Soviet Union - (Valentin Boreyko, Oleg Golovanov)
Austria - (Josef Kloimstein, Alfred Sageder) Finland - (Veli Lehtela, Toimi Pitkanen)
1964
Canada - (George Hungerford, Roger Jackson)
Netherlands - (Steven Blaisse, Ernst Veenemans)
United Team of Germany - (Michael Schwan, Wolfgang Hottenrott)
1968
East Germany - (Jorg Lucke, Heinz-Jorg Bothe)
United States - (Lawrence Hough, Philip Johnson)
Denmark - (Peter Christiansen, Ivan Larsen)
1972
East Germany - (Siegfried Brietzke, Wolfgang Mager)
Switzerland - (Heinrich Fischer, Alfred Bachmann)
Netherlands - (Roel Luynenburg, Ruud Stokvis)
1976
East Germany - (Bernd Landvoigt, Jorg Landvoigt)
United States - (Calvin Coffey, Mike Staines)
West Germany - (Peter van Roye, Thomas Strauß)
1980
East Germany - (Bernd Landvoigt, Jorg Landvoigt) Soviet Union - (Yuriy Pimenov, Nikolay Pimenov)
Great Britain - (Charles Wiggin, Malcolm Carmichael)
1984
Romania - (Petru Iosub, Valer Toma)
Spain - (Fernando Climent, Luis Maria Lasurtegui)
Norway - (Hans Magnus Grepperud, Sverre Loken)
1988
Great Britain - (Andrew John Holmes, Steven Redgrave)
Romania - (Danut Dobre, Dragos Neagu)
Yugoslavia - (Sadik Mujkic, Bojan Preseren)
1992
Great Britain - (Matthew Pinsent, Steven Redgrave)
Germany - (Colin von Ettingshausen, Peter Hoeltzenbein)
Slovenia - (Iztok Cop, Denis Zvegelj)
1996
Great Britain - (Matthew Pinsent, Steven Redgrave) Australia - (David Weightman, Robert Scott)
France - (Michel Andrieux, Jean-Christophe Rolland)
2000
France - (Michel Andrieux, Jean-Christophe Rolland) United States - (Ted Murphy, Sebastian Bea)
Australia - (Matthew Long, James Tomkins)
2004
Australia - (Drew Ginn, James Tomkins)
Croatia - (Sinisa Skelin, Niksa Skelin)
South Africa - (Donovan Cech, Ramon di Clemente)
2008
Australia - (Drew Ginn, Duncan Free)
Canada - (David Calder, Scott Frandsen)
New Zealand - (Nathan Twaddle, George Bridgewater)
2012
New Zealand - (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond)
France - (Germain Chardin, Dorian Mortelette)
Great Britain - (George Nash, William Satch)
2016
New Zealand - (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond) South Africa - (Lawrence Brittain, Shaun Keeling)
Italy - (Marco Di Costanzo, Giovanni Abagnale)
2020
Croatia - (Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković) Romania - (Marius Cozmiuc, Ciprian Tudosă) Denmark - (Frederic Vystavel, Joachim Sutton)
2024
Croatia - (Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković) Great Britain - (Oliver Wynne-Griffith, Thomas George)
Switzerland - (Roman Röösli, Andrin Gulich)

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1976
Bulgaria - (Siyka Kelbecheva, Stoyanka Gruycheva)
East Germany - (Angelika Noack, Sabine Dahne)
West Germany - (Edith Echbauer, Thea Einoder)
1980
East Germany - (Ute Steindorf, Cornelia Klier)
Poland - (Malgorzata Dluzewska, Czeslawa Koscianska)
Bulgaria - (Siyka Kelbecheva, Stoyanka Kubatova)
1984
Romania - (Rodica Arba, Elena Horvat)
Canada - (Elizabeth Craig, Tricia Smith)
West Germany - (Ellen Becker, Iris Volkner)
1988
Romania - (Rodica Arba, Olga Homeghi) Bulgaria - (Radka Stoyanova, Lalka Berberova)
New Zealand - (Nicola Payne, Lynley Hannen)
1992
Canada - (Kathleen Heddle, Marnie McBean)
Germany - (Ingeburg Schwerzmann, Stefani Werremeier)
United States - (Stephanie Pierson, Anna Seaton)
1996
Australia - (Megan Still, Kate Slatter)
United States - (Karen Kraft, Melissa Schwen)
France - (Christine Gosse, Helene Cortin)
2000
Romania - (Georgeta Damian, Doina Ignat)
Australia - (Kate Slatter, Rachael Taylor)
United States - (Karen Kraft, Melissa Schwen)
2004
Romania - (Georgeta Damian, Viorica Susanu) Great Britain - (Katherine Grainger, Cath Bishop)
Belarus - (Yuliya Bichyk, Natallia Helakh)
2008
Romania - (Georgeta Damian, Viorica Susanu) China - (Wu You, Gao Yulan)
Belarus - (Yuliya Bichyk, Natallia Helakh)
2012
Great Britain - (Helen Glover, Heather Stanning)
Australia - (Kate Hornsey, Sarah Tait)
New Zealand - (Juliette Haigh, Rebecca Scown)
2016
Great Britain - (Helen Glover, Heather Stanning)
New Zealand - (Genevieve Behrent, Rebecca Scown)
Denmark - (Hedvig Rasmussen, Anne Andersen)
2020
New Zealand - (Grace Prendergast, Kerri Gowler) Russian Olympic Committiee - (Vasilisa Stepanova, Elena Oriabinskaia) Canada - (Caileigh Filmer, Hillary Janssens)
2024
Netherlands - (Ymkje Clevering, Veronique Meester)
Romania - (Ioana Vrînceanu, Roxana Anghel)
Australia - (Jessica Morrison, Annabelle McIntyre)

Medal Total  
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Great Britain
8
4
2
14
2
United States
3
5
4
12
3
Romania
6
3
0
9
4
Australia 3
3
2
8
5
New Zealand 3
2
3
8
6
East Germany
5
1
0
6
7
Canada
2
2
2
6
8
Germany
2
2
1
5
9
France
1
2
2
5
10
Netherlands 2
1
1
4
11
Switzerland 0
2
2
4
12
Denmark 0
1
3
4
13
Croatia 2
1
1
3
14
Soviet Union
1
2
0
3
15
Bulgaria
1
1
1
3
16
West Germany
0
0
3
3
17
Poland
0
1
1
2
18
Austria
0
1
1
2
19
South Africa
0
1
1
2
20
Belarus
0
0
2
2
21
Italy
0
0
2
2
22
Belgium
0
1
0
1
23
Spain
0
1
0
1
24
China
0
1
0
1
25
Russian Olympic Committee
0
1
0
1
26
Argentina
0
0
1
1
27
Finland
0
0
1
1
28
Norway
0
0
1
1
29
Slovenia
0
0
1
1
30
United Team of Germany 0
0
1
1
31
Yugoslavia 0
0
1
1