Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
VenueLlyn Padarn
LocationLlanberis, Wales
Dates18 to 26 July 1958

Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fifth appearance of Rowing at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured six events being held at Llyn Padarn in Llanberis, Wales. [1]

England topped the rowing medal table with three gold medals.[2]

Army preparing Padarn Lake for the Empire Games rowing contests.
Attribution:National Library of Wales

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Wales)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 England3126
2 Australia1225
3 Canada1203
4 New Zealand1113
5 Wales*0011
6 Northern Ireland0000
 Scotland0000
 South Africa0000
Totals (8 entries)66618

Medal winners

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls Australia New Zealand England
Double Sculls England Australia New Zealand
Coxless pair New Zealand England Australia
Coxless four England Canada Wales
Coxed four England Canada Australia
Eights Canada Australia England


Single sculls

[3]

Final

Pos Athlete Time
1 Australia Mackenzie 7:20.1
2 New Zealand Hill 7:23.9
3 England Carver 7:26.8
4 South Africa Meineke 7:33.3

Double sculls

[4]

Final

Pos Athlete Time
1 England Spracklen & Baker 6:56.4
2 Australia Wood & Mackenzie 7:01.4
3 New Zealand Suckling & Hill
4 Canada Pearce & Stephan

Coxless pair

Pos Athlete Time
1 New Zealand Bob Parker & Reg Douglas 7.11.1
2 England Tom Christie & Nicholas Clack 7:13.7
3 Australia Dave Anderson & Geoff Williamson 7:32.5
4 Wales David Edwards & John Edwards dnf

Coxless four

  • No heats

Final

Pos Athlete Time
1 England Roger Pope, Keith Shackell, David Young & Creighton Redman 6:34.4
2 Canada Glen Smith, Malcolm Turnbull, Richard McClure & John Madden 6:38.9
3 Wales David Edwards, John Fage, David Prichard & John Edwards 6:47.9
4 Australia Victor Schweikert, Kenneth Railton, Bruce Evans, Neville Clinton 7:11.7

Coxed four

Final

Pos Athlete Time
1 England Colin Porter, John Vigurs, Simon Crosse, Michael Beresford & Richard Gabriel (cox) 6:46.5
2 Canada Donald Arnold, Walter D'Hondt, David Helliwell, Lawrence Stapleton & Sohen Biln (cox) 6:53.2
3 Australia Mick Allan, Ralfe Currall, Kevin Evans, Roland Waddington & Lionel Robberds (cox)
4 New Zealand Donald Gemmell, Peter Aitchison, Frank Crotty, Graeme Moran & Richard Tuffin (cox)

Eights

Final

Pos Athlete Time
1 Canada Archibald MacKinnon, Donald Arnold, Wayne Pretty, Glen Mervyn, Walter D'Hondt, Lorne Loomer, Robert Wilson, Bill McKerlich, Sohen Biln (cox) 5:55.1
2 Australia Bruce Evans, Mick Allan, Kenneth Railton, Kevin Evans, Neville Clinton, Ralfe Currall, Peter Waddington, Victor Schweikert, Lionel Robberds (cox) 5:56.1
3 England Tony Hancox, Don Elliot, Dennis Mount, Hilali Wober, John A Stephenson, Felix Badcock, J. P. M. Thomson, Dick Workman, Raymond Penney (cox) 6:10.2
4 Scotland A. G. Cross, T. Gillies, G. F. Gray, I. G. Inglis, A. Lindsay, A. T. Nelson, J. Ross, Ken J. Scott, B. Parsonage (cox) 6:15.5

References

  1. ^ "Medal Standings Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Rowing". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Rowing". Liverpool Daily Post. 21 July 1958. p. 9. Retrieved 9 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Rowing". Birmingham Daily Post. 5 August 1954. p. 23. Retrieved 9 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.