The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Rowing - Double Sculls

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 11 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 9 Medals

  GREAT BRITAIN - 9 Medals

Medal Table
Double Sculls
Single Sculls Quadruple Sculls
Coxless Pairs
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 - (John Mulcahy, William Varley)
United States - (Jamie McLoughlin, John Hoben)
United States - (Joseph Ravannack, John Wells)
1920
United States - (Paul Costello, John B. Kelly, Sr.)
Italy - (Pierto Annoni, Erminio Dones)
France - (Gaston Giran, Alfred Ple)
1924
United States - (Paul Costello, John B. Kelly, Sr.) France - (Marc Detton, Jean-Pierre Stock)
Switzerland - (Rudolf Bosshard, Heinrich Thoma)
1928
United States - (Paul Costello, Charles McIlvaine)
Canada - (Joseph Wright, Jr., Jack Guest)
Austria - (Leo Losert, Viktor Flesse)
1932
United States - (Kenneth Myers, William Gilmore)
Germany - (Herbert Buhtz, Gerhard Boetzelen)
Canada - (Charles Pratt, Noel de Mille)
1936
Great Britain - (Jack Beresford, Dick Southwood)
Germany - (Willi Kaidel, Joachim Pirsch)
Poland - (Roger Verey, Jerzy Ustupski)
1948
Great Britain - (Richard Burnell, Bertie Bushnell)
Denmark - (Ebbe Parsner, Aage Larsen)
Uruguay - (William Jones, Juan Rodriguez)
1952
Argentina - (Tranquilo Cappozzo, Eduardo Guerrero)
Soviet Union - (Heorhiy Zhylin, Igor Yemchuk)
Uruguay - (Miguel Seijas, Juan Rodriguez)
1956
Soviet Union - (Aleksandr Berkutov, Yury Tyukalov)
United States - (Pat Costello, James Gardiner)
Australia - (Murray Riley, Mervyn Wood)
1960
Czechoslovakia - (Vaclav Kozak, Pavol Schmidt)
Soviet Union - (Aleksandr Berkutov, Yury Tyukalov) Switzerland - (Ernst Hurlimann, Rolf Larcher)
1964
Soviet Union - (Oleg Tyurin, Boris Dubrovsky)
United States - (Seymour Cromwell, James Storm)
Czechoslovakia - (Vladimir Andrs, Pavel Hofmann)
1968
Soviet Union - (Aleksandr Timoshinin, Anatoly Sass)
Netherlands - (Henricus Droog, Leendert Van Dis)
United States - (John Nunn, Bill Mahr)
1972
Soviet Union - (Aleksandr Timoshin, Gennadi Korshikov)
Norway - (Frank Hansen, Svein Thogersen)
East Germany - (Joachim Bohmer, Hams-Ulrich Schmied)
1976
Norway - (Frank Hansen, Alf Hansen)
Great Britain - (Chris Baillieu, Michael Hart)
East Germany - (Jjurgern Bertow, Hans-Ulrich Schmied)
1980
East Germany - (Joachim Driefke, Klaus Kroppelien)
Yugoslavia - (Zoran Pancic, Milorad Stanulov)
Czechoslovakia - (Zdenek Pecka, Vaclav Vochoska)
1984
United States - (Brad Alan Lewis, Paul Enquist)
Belgium - (Pierre-Marie Deloof, Dirk Crois)
Yugoslavia - (Zoran Pancic, Milorad Stanulov)
1988
Netherlands - (Nico Rienks, Ronald Florijn)
Switzerland - (Beat Schwerzmann, Ueli Bodenmann)
Soviet Union - (Aleksandr Marchenko, Vasil Yakusha)
1992
Australia - (Peter Antonie, Stephen Hawkins)
Austria - (Arnold Jonke, Christoph Zerbst)
Netherlands - (Nico Rienks, Henk-Jan Zwolle)
1996
Italy - (Agostino Abbagnale, Davide Tizzano)
Norway - (Steffan Skar Storseth, Kjetil Undset)
France - (Frederic Kowal, Samuel Barathay)
2000
Slovenia - (Luka Spik, Iztok Cop)
Norway - (Olaf Tufte, Fredrik Bekken)
Italy - (Giovanni Calabrese, Nicola Sartori)
2004
France - (Sebastien Vieilledent, Adrian Hardy)
Slovenia - (Iztok Cop, Luka Spik)
Italy - (Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori)
2008
Australia - (David Crawshay, Scott Brennan)
Estonia - (Tonu Endrekson, Juri Jaanson)
Great Britain - (Matthew Wells, Stephen Rowbotham)
2012
New Zealand - (Nathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan)
Italy - (Alessio Sartori, Romano Battisti)
Slovenia - (Luka Spik, Iztok Cop)
2016
Croatia - (Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković) Lithuania - (Mindaugas Griškonis, Saulius Ritter)
Norway - (Kjetil Borch, Olaf Tufte)
2020
France - (Hugo Bucheron, Matthieu Androdias) Netherlands - (Melvin Twellaar, Stef Broenink) China - (Liu Zhiyu, Zhang Liang)
2024
Romania - (Andrei-Sebastian Cornea)
Netherlands - (Melvin Twellaar, Stef Broenink) Ireland - (Daire Lynch, Philip Doyle)

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1976
Bulgaria - (Svetlana Otsetova, Zdravka Yordanova)
East Germany - (Sabine Jahn, Petra Boesler)
Soviet Union - (Leonora Kaminskaite, Genovaite Ramoskiene)
1980
Soviet Union - (Yelena Khloptseva, Larisa Popova)
East Germany - (Cornelia Linse, Heidi Westphal)
Romania - (Olga Homeghi, Valeria Racila)
1984
Romania - (Mariora Popescu, Elisabeta Oleniuc)
Netherlands - (Greet Hellemans, Nicolette Hellemans)
Canada - (Daniele Laumann, Silken Laumann)
1988
East Germany - (Birgit Peter, Martina Schroter)
Romania - (Elisabeta Lipa, Veronica Cogeanu)
Bulgaria - (Violeta Ninova, Stefka Madina)
1992
Germany - (Kerstin Koppen, Kathrin Boron)
Romania - (Veronica Cochelea, Elisabeta Lipa)
China - (Gu Xiaoli, Lu Huali)
1996
Canada - (Kathleen Heddle, Marnie McBean)
China - (Zhang Xiuyun, Cao Mianying)
Netherlands - (Irene Eijs, Eeke van Nes)
2000
Germany - (Jana Thieme, Kathrin Boron)
Netherlands - (Pieta van Dishoeck, Eeke van Nes)
Lithuania - (Birute Sakickiene, Kristina Poplavskaja)
2004
New Zealand - (Georgina Evers-Swindell, Carolina Evers-Swindell)
Germany - (Peggy Waleska, Britta Oppelt)
Great Britain - (Sarah Winckless, Elise Laverick)
2008
New Zealand - (Georgina Evers-Swindell, Carolina Evers-Swindell) Germany - (Annekatrin Thiele, Christiane Huth)
Great Britain - (Elise Laverick, Anna Bebington)
2012
Great Britain - (Anna Watkins, Katherine Granger)
Australia - (Kim Crow, Brooke Pratley)
Poland - (Magdalena Fularczyk, Julia Michalska)
2016
Poland - (Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska, Natalia Madaj)
Great Britain - (Victoria Thornley, Katherine Grainger)
Lithuania - (Donata Vištartaitė, Milda Valčlukaitė)
2020
Romania - (Nicoleta Acuţa Bodnar, Simona Radis) New Zealand - (Brooke Donoghue, Hannah Osbourne) Netherlands - (Roos de Jong, Lisa Scheenaard)
2024
New Zealand - (Brooke Francis, Lucy Spoors)
Romania - (Nicoleta Acuţa Bodnar, Simona Radis) Great Britain - (Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Rebecca Wilde)

Medal Total  
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
United States
6
3
2
11
2
Soviet Union
5
2
2
9
3
Great Britain 3
2
4
9
4
Netherlands 1
5
3
9
5
Romania 3
3
1
7
6
Germany
2
4
0
6
7
East Germany
2
2
2
6
8
New Zealand 4
1
0
5
9
France 2
1
2
5
10
Norway
1
3
1
5
11
Italy
1
2
2
5
12
Australia
2
1
1
4
13
Canada
1
1
2
4
14
Slovenia
1
1
1
3
15
Poland
1
0
2
3
16
Czechoslovakia
1
0
2
3
17
Switzerland
0
1
2
3
18
Lithuania 0
1
2
3
19
China 0
1
2
3
20
Bulgaria
1
0
1
2
21
Austria
0
1
1
2
22
Yugoslavia
0
1
1
2
23
Uruguay
0
0
2
2
24
Argentina
1
0
0
1
25
Croatia
1
0
0
1
26
Denmark
0
1
0
1
27
Belgium
0
1
0
1
28
Estonia
0
1
0
1
29
Ireland
0
0
1
1