Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Île Notre-Dame Olympic Basin
Date	18 July - 25 July
Competitors	26 from 13 nations
Medalists
Frank Hansen Alf Hansen   Norway   Chris Baillieu Michael Hart   Great Britain   Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied   East Germany

Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Single sculls		men		women
Double sculls		men		women
Coxless pair		men		women
Coxed pair		men
Quadruple sculls		men		women
Coxless four		men
Coxed four		men		women
Eight		men		women

The men's double sculls competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal took place from July 18 – July 25 at the Olympic Reggatta Course at Île Notre-Dame.

Results

Heats

Three fastest rowers in each heat advanced to the semi-finals. The remaining rowers must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in semi-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Frank Hansen Alf Hansen	Norway	6:29.77
2	Yevgeny Barbakov Gennady Korshikov	Soviet Union	6:38.63
3	Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	Great Britain	6:40.86
4	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	6:47.97
5	Gilberto Gerhardt Sérgio Sztancsa	Brazil	7:02.18

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied	East Germany	6:39.71
2	Peter Becker Gerhard Kroschewski	West Germany	6:41.16
3	Jean-Noël Ribot Jean-Michel Izart	France	6:44.04
4	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	6:46.33

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Josef Straka Miroslav Laholík	Czechoslovakia	6:40.55
2	Jean-Henrik Martell Lennart Bälter	Sweden	6:44.10
3	Zoran Pančić Darko Majstorović	Yugoslavia	6:49.68
4	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	6:52.09

Repechage

Top three finishers in heat qualify to the semifinal round.

Repechage

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	6:34.81
2	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	6:38.48
3	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	6:39.48
4	Gilberto Gerhardt Sérgio Sztancsa	Brazil	6:48.95

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B

First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Frank Hansen Alf Hansen	Norway	6:12.48
2	Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	Great Britain	6:18.38
3	Peter Becker Gerhard Kroschewski	West Germany	6:21.64
4	Josef Straka Miroslav Laholík	Czechoslovakia	6:25.02
5	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	6:34.34
6	Zoran Pančić Darko Majstorović	Yugoslavia	6:39.91

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied	East Germany	6:24.90
2	Yevgeny Barbakov Gennady Korshikov	Soviet Union	6:26.87
3	Jean-Noël Ribot Jean-Michel Izart	France	6:30.83
4	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	6:33.88
5	Jean-Henrik Martell Lennart Bälter	Sweden	6:35.51
6	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	6:42.32

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Umberto Ragazzi Silvio Ferrini	Italy	7:15.21
2	Bill Belden Lawrence Klecatsky	United States	7:16.59
3	Zoran Pančić Darko Majstorović	Yugoslavia	7:21.69
4	Josef Straka Miroslav Laholík	Czechoslovakia	7:23.49
5	Jean-Henrik Martell Lennart Bälter	Sweden	7:25.57
6	Patrick Willems Didier Vermeersch	Belgium	7:25.82

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
01 !	Frank Hansen Alf Hansen	Norway	7:13.20
02 !	Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	Great Britain	7:15.26
03 !	Jürgen Bertow Uli Schmied	East Germany	7:17.45
4	Yevgeny Barbakov Gennady Korshikov	Soviet Union	7:18.87
5	Peter Becker Gerhard Kroschewski	West Germany	7:22.15
6	Jean-Noël Ribot Jean-Michel Izart	France	7:50.18

References

• Official reports of the 1976 Summer Olympics