Rowing at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Rowing at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fourth appearance of Rowing at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured five events being held at the Vedder Canal in Chilliwack, Canada. A temporary dam costing $23,000 was required to ensure there was sufficient water in the canal during competition.

New Zealand topped the rowing medal table with two gold medals and two silver medals.

Medal table

Medal winners

Single scullsDouble scullsCoxless pairCoxed fourEightsnone

Single sculls Final PosAthleteTime1 Don Rowlands 8:28.22 Sidney Rand 8:43.43 Bobby Williams 8:51.3

Heats Rand 9.05.0 bt Peter Evatt 9.18.3 Rowlands 8.52.1 bt Williams 9.14.8

Double sculls Only three entries PosAthleteTime1 Mervyn Wood & Murray Riley 7:54.52 Bob Parker & Reg Douglas 8:05.23 Donald Guest & Larry Stephan 8:28.5

Coxless pair Only three entries PosAthleteTime1 Bob Parker & Reg Douglas 8:23.92 Tom Christie & Nicholas Clack 8:24.13 Dave Anderson & Geoff Williamson 8:29.7

Coxed four Final PosAthleteTime1 Dave Anderson, Peter Evatt, Geoff Williamson, Mervyn Wood & Lionel Robberds (cox) 7:58.32 Bruce Culpan, Kerry Ashby, Murray Ashby, Bill Tinnock & Stanley Callagher (cox) 8:04.43 M.G.C Savage, John Macmillan, Alastair Davidson, Maurice Legg & David Glynne-Jones (cox) 8:04.5

Heats Australian 8.10.0 bt New Zealand 8.13.9 England 8.22.7 bt Canada (Walter Plata, Joseph Bialik, Daryl MacDonald, Gordon Cudney, Eric Blair) 8:35.7

Eights Only two entries, the Canadian crew was from the University of British Columbia and the English crew was from the Thames Rowing Club. PosAthleteTime1 Douglas McDonald, Glen Smith, Herman J. Zloklikovits, Ken J. Drummond, Lawrence West, Ray Sierpina, Robert Wilson, Thomas Toynbee & Thomas Harris (cox) 6:59.02 Alastair Davidson, Alan Watson, Geoffrey Page, John Pope, Joe Eldeen, M.G.C. Savage, Maurice Legg, John Macmillan & David Glynne-Jones (cox) 7:10.5

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