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Men’s Eights
Held at 6 Games, 1908–1980. Most golds: Great Britain (2). Most medals: Ulrich Karnatz (2). The event as the lists name it each year; names that changed are joined here.
Open the latest podium in the atlas →Games61908–1980
Medals19
Delegations11on the podium
Games by Games gold, silver, bronze
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 Moscow | Bernd Krauß, Hans-Peter Koppe, Ulrich Kons, Jörg Friedrich, Jens Doberschütz, Ulrich Karnatz, Uwe Dühring, Bernd Höing, Klaus-Dieter Ludwig East Germany | Duncan McDougall, Allan Whitwell, Henry Clay, Chris Mahoney, Andrew Justice, John Pritchard, Malcolm McGowan, Richard Stanhope, Colin Moynihan Great Britain | Viktor Kokoshyn, Andriy Tishchenko, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Jonas Pinskus, Jonas Narmontas, Andrey Luhin, Oleksandr Mantsevych, Ihar Maystrenka, Hryhoriy Dmytrenko Soviet Union |
| 1976 Montreal | Bernd Baumgart, Gottfried Döhn, Werner Klatt, Hans-Joachim Lück, Dieter Wendisch, Roland Kostulski, Ulrich Karnatz, Karl-Heinz Prudöhl, Karl-Heinz Danielowski East Germany | Richard Lester, John Yallop, Timothy Crooks, Hugh Matheson, David Maxwell, Jim Clark, Frederick Smallbone, Lenny Robertson, Patrick Sweeney Great Britain | Ivan Sutherland, Trevor Coker, Peter Dignan, Lindsay Wilson, Joe Earl, Dave Rodger, Alec McLean, Tony Hurt, Simon Dickie New Zealand |
| 1964 Tokyo | Joseph Amlong, Thomas Amlong, Boyce Budd, Emory Clark, Stanley Cwiklinski, Hugh Foley, Bill Knecht, William Stowe, Róbert Zimonyi United States | Klaus Aeffke, Klaus Bittner, Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht, Klaus Behrens, Jürgen Schröder, Jürgen Plagemann, Horst Meyer, Thomas Ahrens United Team of Germany | Petr Čermák, Jiří Lundák, Jan Mrvík, Július Toček, Josef Věntus, Luděk Pojezný, Bohumil Janoušek, Richard Nový, Miroslav Koníček Czechoslovakia |
| 1920 Antwerp | Virgil Jacomini, Edwin Graves, William Jordan, Edward Moore, Alden Sanborn, Donald Johnston, Vince Gallagher, Clyde King, Sherm Clark United States | Ewart Horsfall, Guy Oliver Nickalls, Richard Lucas, Walter James, John Campbell, Sebastian Earl, Ralph Shove, Sidney Swann, Robin Johnstone Great Britain | Theodor Nag, Conrad Olsen, Adolf Nilsen, Håkon Ellingsen, Thore Michelsen, Arne Mortensen, Karl Nag, Tollef Tollefsen, Thoralf Hagen Norway |
| 1912 Stockholm | Edgar Burgess, Sidney Swann, Leslie Wormald, Ewart Horsfall, James Angus Gillan, Stanley Garton, Alister Kirby, Philip Fleming, Henry Wells Great Britain | William Fison, William Parker, Thomas Gillespie, Beaufort Burdekin, Frederick Pitman, Arthur Wiggins, Charles Littlejohn, Robert Bourne, John Walker Great Britain | Otto Liebing, Max Bröske, Max Vetter, Willi Bartholomae, Fritz Bartholomae, Werner Dehn, Rudolf Reichelt, Hans Matthiae, Kurt Runge Germany |
| 1908 London | Albert Gladstone, Frederick Kelly, Banner Johnstone, Guy Nickalls, Charles Burnell, Ronald Sanderson, Raymond Etherington-Smith, Henry Bucknall, Gilchrist Maclagan Great Britain | Oscar Taelman, Marcel Morimont, Rémy Orban, Georges Mys, François Vergucht, Polydore Veirman, Oscar de Somville, Rodolphe Poma, Alfred Van Landeghem Belgium | Irvine Robertson, Joseph Wright, Julius Thomson, Walter Lewis, Gordon Balfour, Becher Gale, Charles Riddy, Geoffrey Taylor, Douglas Kertland Canada / Frank Jerwood, Eric Powell, Oswald Carver, Edward Williams, Henry Goldsmith, Harold Kitching, John Burn, Douglas Stuart, Richard Boyle Great Britain |
Most golds
| Place | Delegation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Britain | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | East Germany | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | United States | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | United Team of Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Soviet Union | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |