Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's eight at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Toda Rowing Course
Date	12–15 October
Competitors	126 from 14 nations
Teams	14
Winning time	6:18.23
Medalists
Joseph Amlong Thomas Amlong Harold Budd Emory Clark Stanley Cwiklinski Hugh Foley William Knecht William Stowe Róbert Zimonyi (cox)   United States   Klaus Aeffke Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Jürgen Schröder Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)   United Team of Germany   Petr Čermák Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Július Toček Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Bohumil Janoušek Richard Nový Miroslav Koníček (cox)   Czechoslovakia

Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pairs	men
Coxed pairs	men
Coxless fours	men
Coxed fours	men
Eights	men

The eights (plus cox) event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Joseph Amlong Thomas Amlong Harold Budd Emory Clark Stanley Cwiklinski Hugh Foley William Knecht William Stowe Róbert Zimonyi (cox)	United Team of Germany (EUA) Klaus Aeffke Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Jürgen Schröder Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Petr Čermák Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Július Toček Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Bohumil Janoušek Richard Nový Miroslav Koníček (cox)

Results

Heats

The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.

Heat 1
Place	Team	Time
1.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	5:54.02	QF
2.	United States (USA)	5:54.30	QR
3.	Italy (ITA)	6:02.13	QR
4.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	6:02.43	QR
5.	Australia (AUS)	6:06.94	QR

Heat 2
Place	Team	Time
1.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:03.88	QF
2.	Canada (CAN)	6:07.19	QR
3.	Japan (JPN)	6:16.67	QR
4.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:20.63	QR
5.	Cuba (CUB)	6:31.76	QR

Heat 3
Place	Team	Time
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	6:06.15	QF
2.	France (FRA)	6:09.08	QR
3.	Egypt (EGY)	6:32.42	QR
4.	South Korea (KOR)	6:46.13	QR

Repechages

The top finisher in each of the three repechages joined the finalists. The second and third-place finishers competed in a consolation final for 7th-12th places. All other crews were eliminated.

Repechage 1
Place	Team	Time
1.	Italy (ITA)	6:03.59	QF
2.	France (FRA)	6:07.43	QC
3.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:14.83	QC
4.	Cuba (CUB)	6:27.29

Repechage 2
Place	Team	Time
1.	United States (USA)	6:01.47	QF
2.	Japan (JPN)	6:10.15	QC
3.	South Korea (KOR)	6:36.24	QC

Repechage 3
Place	Team	Time
1.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	5:59.23	QF
2.	Canada (CAN)	6:03.86	QC
3.	Australia (AUS)	6:06.24	QC
4.	Egypt (EGY)	6:19.03

Consolation final

The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.

Consolation final
Place	Team	Time
7.	France (FRA)	5:58.57
8.	Australia (AUS)	6:02.21
9.	Canada (CAN)	6:02.69
10.	Japan (JPN)	6:05.14
11.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:07.59
12.	South Korea (KOR)	6:31.80

Final

Place	Team	Time
	United States (USA)	6:18.23
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	6:23.29
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:25.11
4.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	6:27.15
5.	Soviet Union (URS)	6:30.69
6.	Italy (ITA)	6:42.78

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.