The men's double sculls competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from 27 August – 2 September at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.
Results
Heats Winner of each heat (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.
Heat 1
RankRowerCountryTime1Tim CrooksPatrick Delafield6:57.702Joachim BöhmerUli Schmied7:07.943Albert HeycheClaude Dehombreux7:16.694Jorge ImazRicardo Ibarra7:18.285Peter BarrJohn McNiven7:21.69
Heat 2
RankRowerCountryTime1Josef Straka, Jr.Vladek Lacina6:56.822Hans RuckstuhlUeli Isler7:02.903Frank HansenSvein Thøgersen7:03.654Thomas McKibbonJohn Van Blom7:08.915Roman KowalewskiKazimierz Lewandowski7:21.05
Heat 3
RankRowerCountryTime1Aleksandr TimoshininGennadi Korshikov6:56.172Jan BruynPaul Veenemans7:02.123Jochen MeißnerArthur Heyne7:12.034Tsugio ItoYoshio Minato7:17.515Federico SchefflerRicardo Scheffler7:43.87
Heat 4
RankRowerCountryTime1Niels Henry SecherJørgen Engelbrecht7:11.322Jean-Noël RibotRoland Thibaut7:16.503Manfred KrausbarSepp Puchinger7:29.134Carlos OliveiraManuel Barroso8:09.93
Repechage Top two finishers in each heat qualify to the semifinal round.
Repechage 1 RankRowerCountryTime1Jean-Noël RibotRoland Thibaut7:10.452Jochen MeißnerArthur Heyne7:11.55 3Thomas McKibbonJohn Van Blom7:19.634Peter BarrJohn McNiven7:29.05
Repechage 2 RankRowerCountryTime1Frank HansenSvein Thøgersen7:03.712Jan BruynPaul Veenemans7:04.153Jorge ImazRicardo Ibarra7:22.15
Repechage 3 RankRowerCountryTime1Hans RuckstuhlUeli Isler7:14.702Albert HeycheClaude Dehombreux7:17.583Federico SchefflerRicardo Scheffler7:40.114Carlos OliveiraManuel Barroso7:44.25
Repechage 4 RankRowerCountryTime1Joachim BöhmerUli Schmied7:00.542Roman KowalewskiKazimierz Lewandowski7:08.273Tsugio ItoYoshio Minato7:09.734Manfred KrausbarSepp Puchinger7:16.16
Semifinals
Semifinal A/B First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.
Semifinal 1 RankRowerCountryTime1Joachim BöhmerUli Schmied7:29.132Tim CrooksPatrick Delafield7:31.623Josef Straka, Jr.Vladek Lacina7:36.834Jan BruynPaul Veenemans7:40.775Hans RuckstuhlUeli Isler7:45.426Jochen MeißnerArthur Heyne7:46.21
Semifinal 2 RankRowerCountryTime1Niels Henry SecherJørgen Engelbrecht7:31.322Aleksandr TimoshininGennadi Korshikov7:35.333Frank HansenSvein Thøgersen7:35.824Jean-Noël RibotRoland Thibaut7:47.685Albert HeycheClaude Dehombreux7:55.006Roman KowalewskiKazimierz Lewandowski7:59.52
Finals
Final B RankRowerCountryTime1Jan BruynPaul Veenemans7:07.252Hans RuckstuhlUeli Isler7:08.223Albert HeycheClaude Dehombreux7:10.034Jochen MeißnerArthur Heyne7:11.745Jean-Noël RibotRoland Thibaut7:14.216Roman KowalewskiKazimierz Lewandowski7:31.97
Final A RankRowerCountryTimeAleksandr TimoshininGennadi Korshikov7:01.77Frank HansenSvein Thøgersen7:02.58Joachim BöhmerUli Schmied7:05.554Niels Henry SecherJørgen Engelbrecht7:14.195Tim CrooksPatrick Delafield7:16.296Josef Straka, Jr.Vladek Lacina7:17.60
References
External links Official reports of the 1972 Summer Olympics