Rowing — Double Sculls, Men

Times held 26
Total participants 558
Total countries 54

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1904 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 6 1
1920 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 10 5
1924 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 10 5
1928 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 20 10
1932 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 10 5
1936 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 24 12
1948 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 24 12
1952 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 32 16
1956 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 16 8
1960 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 32 16
1964 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 26 13
1968 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 27 13
1972 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 38 19
1976 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 26 13
1980 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 19 9
1984 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 23 11
1988 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 34 17
1992 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 39 19
1996 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 39 19
2000 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 32 16
2004 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 28 14
2008 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 28 14
2012 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 26 13
2016 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 26 13
2020 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 26 13
2024 Double Sculls, Men Olympic 26 13

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1904 Atalanta Boat ClubUSA Ravenswood Boat ClubUSA Independent Rowing ClubUSA
1920 United StatesUSA ItalyITA FranceFRA
1924 United StatesUSA FranceFRA SwitzerlandSUI
1928 United StatesUSA CanadaCAN AustriaAUT
1932 United StatesUSA GermanyGER CanadaCAN
1936 Great BritainGBR GermanyGER PolandPOL
1948 Great BritainGBR DenmarkDEN UruguayURU
1952 ArgentinaARG Soviet UnionURS UruguayURU
1956 Soviet UnionURS United StatesUSA AustraliaAUS
1960 CzechoslovakiaTCH Soviet UnionURS SwitzerlandSUI
1964 Soviet UnionURS United StatesUSA CzechoslovakiaTCH
1968 Soviet UnionURS NetherlandsNED United StatesUSA
1972 Soviet UnionURS NorwayNOR East GermanyGDR
1976 NorwayNOR Great BritainGBR East GermanyGDR
1980 East GermanyGDR YugoslaviaYUG CzechoslovakiaTCH
1984 United StatesUSA BelgiumBEL YugoslaviaYUG
1988 NetherlandsNED SwitzerlandSUI Soviet UnionURS
1992 AustraliaAUS AustriaAUT NetherlandsNED
1996 ItalyITA NorwayNOR FranceFRA
2000 SloveniaSLO NorwayNOR ItalyITA
2004 FranceFRA SloveniaSLO ItalyITA
2008 AustraliaAUS EstoniaEST Great BritainGBR
2012 New ZealandNZL ItalyITA SloveniaSLO
2016 CroatiaCRO LithuaniaLTU NorwayNOR
2020 FranceFRA NetherlandsNED People's Republic of ChinaCHN
2024 RomaniaROU NetherlandsNED IrelandIRL

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States USA 6 3 2 11
Soviet Union URS 4 2 1 7
France FRA 2 1 2 5
Great Britain GBR 2 1 1 4
Australia AUS 2 0 1 3
Netherlands NED 1 3 1 5
Norway NOR 1 3 1 5
Italy ITA 1 2 2 5
Slovenia SLO 1 1 1 3
Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 2 3
East Germany GDR 1 0 2 3
Argentina ARG 1 0 0 1
Croatia CRO 1 0 0 1
New Zealand NZL 1 0 0 1
Romania ROU 1 0 0 1
Germany GER 0 2 0 2
Switzerland SUI 0 1 2 3
Austria AUT 0 1 1 2
Canada CAN 0 1 1 2
Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 1 2
Belgium BEL 0 1 0 1
Denmark DEN 0 1 0 1
Estonia EST 0 1 0 1
Lithuania LTU 0 1 0 1
Uruguay URU 0 0 2 2
Ireland IRL 0 0 1 1
People's Republic of China CHN 0 0 1 1
Poland POL 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Paul Costello USA 3 0 0 3
Aleksandr Timoshinin RUS
URS
2 0 0 2
Jack Kelly, Sr. USA 2 0 0 2
Iztok Čop SLO 1 1 1 3
Luka Špik SLO 1 1 1 3

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Argentina ARG 1952 Summer Olympics Tranquilo Capozzo / Eduardo Guerrero 1 Gold See all
Australia AUS 1992 Summer Olympics Steve Hawkins / Peter Antonie 1 Gold See all
2008 Summer Olympics David Crawshay / Scott Brennan 1 Gold
Austria AUT 1992 Summer Olympics Arnold Jonke / Christoph Zerbst 2 Silver See all
Azerbaijan AZE 2016 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Aleksandrov / Boris Yotov 12 See all
Belarus BLR 2008 Summer Olympics Dzianis Mihal / Stanislau Shcharbachenia 7 See all
Belgium BEL 1984 Summer Olympics Pierre-Marie Deloof / Dirk Crois 2 Silver See all
Brazil BRA 1924 Summer Olympics Edmundo Branco / Carlos Branco 4 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1968 Summer Olympics Atanas Zhelev / Yordan Valchev 4 See all
Canada CAN 1928 Summer Olympics Canada 2 Silver See all
Chile CHI 1988 Summer Olympics Alejandro Rojas / Marcelo Rojas 4 h2 r2/4 See all
Croatia CRO 2016 Summer Olympics Martin Sinković / Valent Sinković 1 Gold See all
Cuba CUB 2004 Summer Olympics Yosbel Martínez / Yoennis Hernández 10 See all
Czechia CZE 2004 Summer Olympics Milan Doleček, Jr. / Ondřej Synek 5 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1960 Summer Olympics Václav Kozák / Pavel Schmidt 1 Gold See all
Denmark DEN 1948 Summer Olympics Ebbe Parsner / Aage Larsen 2 Silver See all
East Germany GDR 1980 Summer Olympics Joachim Dreifke / Klaus Kröppelien 1 Gold See all
Estonia EST 2008 Summer Olympics Tõnu Endrekson / Jüri Jaanson 2 Silver See all
Finland FIN 1984 Summer Olympics Reima Karppinen / Aarne Lindroos 8 See all
France FRA 2004 Summer Olympics Sébastien Vieilledent / Adrien Hardy 1 Gold See all
2020 Summer Olympics Hugo Boucheron / Matthieu Androdias 1 Gold
Germany GER 1932 Summer Olympics Herbert Buhtz / Gerhard Boetzelen 2 Silver See all
1936 Summer Olympics Willi Kaidel / Joachim Pirsch 2 Silver
Great Britain GBR 1936 Summer Olympics Jack Beresford / Dick Southwood 1 Gold See all
1948 Summer Olympics Dickie Burnell / Bert Bushnell 1 Gold
Greece GRE 1988 Summer Olympics Konstantinos Ditsios / Pantelis Papaterpos 4 h3 r2/4 See all
Hong Kong, China HKG 1992 Summer Olympics Lui Kam Chi / Chiang Wing Hung 19 See all
Hungary HUN 1924 Summer Olympics Ervin Mórich / Béla Szendey 3 h1 r1/2 See all
2000 Summer Olympics Hungary 5
Iraq IRQ 2008 Summer Olympics Haidar Nozad / Hamzah Jebur 13 See all
Ireland IRL 2024 Summer Olympics Daire Lynch / Philip Doyle 3 Bronze See all
Italy ITA 1996 Summer Olympics Davide Tizzano / Agostino Abbagnale 1 Gold See all
Japan JPN 1964 Summer Olympics Susumi Hosoya / Yasushi Murase 10 See all
Latvia LAT 1996 Summer Olympics Uģis Lasmanis / Andris Reinholds 9 See all
Lithuania LTU 2016 Summer Olympics Mindaugas Griškonis / Saulius Ritter 2 Silver See all
Mexico MEX 1984 Summer Olympics Armando Chávez / Eduardo Arrillaga 9 See all
Netherlands NED 1988 Summer Olympics Ronald Florijn / Nico Rienks 1 Gold See all
New Zealand NZL 2012 Summer Olympics Nathan Cohen / Joseph Sullivan 1 Gold See all
Norway NOR 1976 Summer Olympics Frank Hansen / Alf Hansen 1 Gold See all
People's Republic of China CHN 2020 Summer Olympics Liu Zhiyu / Zhang Liang 3 Bronze See all
Poland POL 1936 Summer Olympics Roger Verey / Jerzy Ustupski 3 Bronze See all
Portugal POR 1972 Summer Olympics Carlos Oliveira / Manuel Barroso 4 h3 r2/4 See all
ROC ROC 2020 Summer Olympics Ilya Kondratyev / Andrey Potapkin 7 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 1996 Summer Olympics Lee In-Su / Lee Ho 4 h2 r3/4 See all
Romania ROU 2024 Summer Olympics Andrei-Sebastian Cornea / Marian Enache 1 Gold See all
Russian Federation RUS 2008 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Kornilov / Aleksey Svirin 11 See all
Serbia SRB 2024 Summer Olympics Martin Mačković / Nikolaj Pimenov 7 See all
Slovakia SVK 1996 Summer Olympics Ondrej Hambálek / Ján Žiška 11 See all
Slovenia SLO 2000 Summer Olympics Luka Špik / Iztok Čop 1 Gold See all
Soviet Union URS 1956 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Berkutov / Yury Tyukalov 1 Gold See all
1964 Summer Olympics Oleg Tyurin / Boris Dubrovsky 1 Gold
1968 Summer Olympics Anatoly Sass / Aleksandr Timoshinin 1 Gold
1972 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Timoshinin / Gennady Korshikov 1 Gold
Spain ESP 2024 Summer Olympics Aleix García / Rodrigo Conde 5 See all
Sweden SWE 1976 Summer Olympics Jean-Henrik Martell / Lennart Bälter 11 See all
Switzerland SUI 1988 Summer Olympics Beat Schwerzmann / Ueli Bodenmann 2 Silver See all
Ukraine UKR 2000 Summer Olympics Kostiantyn Zaitsev / Kostiantyn Pronenko 11 See all
2012 Summer Olympics Dmytro Mikhai / Artem Morozov 11
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Slobodenyuk / Leonid Shaposhnykov 12 See all
United States USA 1904 Summer Olympics John Mulcahy / Bill Varley 1 Gold See all
1920 Summer Olympics Jack Kelly, Sr. / Paul Costello 1 Gold
1924 Summer Olympics United States 1 Gold
1928 Summer Olympics United States 1 Gold
1932 Summer Olympics United States 1 Gold
1984 Summer Olympics Bradley Lewis / Paul Enquist 1 Gold
Uruguay URU 1948 Summer Olympics William Jones / Juan Antonio Rodríguez 3 Bronze See all
1952 Summer Olympics Miguel Seijas / Juan Antonio Rodríguez 3 Bronze
West Germany FRG 1984 Summer Olympics Andreas Schmelz / Georg Agrikola 4 See all
1988 Summer Olympics Christian Händle / Ralf Thienel 4
Yugoslavia YUG 1980 Summer Olympics Zoran Pančić / Milorad Stanulov 2 Silver See all