Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

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Rowing

at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad

Venue

Lake Casitas

Date

31 July – 5 August

Competitors

63 from 7 nations

Winning time

5:41.32

Medalists

	Blair Horn Dean Crawford Michael Evans Paul Steele Grant Main Mark Evans Kevin Neufeld Pat Turner Brian McMahon (cox)	Canada
	Chip Lubsen Andrew Sudduth John Terwilliger Christopher Penny Tom Darling Fred Borchelt Charles Clapp Bruce Ibbetson Bob Jaugstetter (cox)	United States
	Craig Muller Clyde Hefer Samuel Patten Tim Willoughby Ian Edmunds James Battersby Ion Popa Stephen Evans Gavin Thredgold (cox)	Australia

Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men	women
Double sculls	men	women
Coxless pair	men	women
Coxed pair	men
Quadruple sculls	men	women
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men	women
Eight	men	women

The men's coxed eight (M8+) competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Casitas in Ventura County, California, United States. It was held from 31 July to 5 August. New Zealand had won the last two world championships, and the other strong team, East Germany, was absent from the event due to the Eastern Bloc boycott. This made New Zealand the strong favourite. But the final was won by Canada, with the USA and Australia the other medallists, and New Zealand coming a disappointing fourth.^[1]

Background

East Germany had for many years been the dominating country for this boat class. From the 1976 Summer Olympics to the 1980 Summer Olympics, the country won every gold at Olympic and World Rowing Championships level.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] At the 1981 World Rowing Championships, East Germany came in fourth place, with the Soviet Union winning gold.^[7] In 1982 and 1983, the event was won by New Zealand, with East Germany coming second on both occasions.^[8]^[9] With the Eastern Bloc boycott affecting the 1984 Summer Olympics, New Zealand was thus regarded as the strong favourite.^[1] Another medal contender was the United States; they used to dominate this event, and had won the 1983 Pan American Games.^[1]

Previous M8+ competitions

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1976 Summer Olympics^[2]	East Germany	United Kingdom	New Zealand
1977 World Rowing Championships^[3]	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany
1978 World Rowing Championships^[4]	East Germany	West Germany	New Zealand
1979 World Rowing Championships^[5]	East Germany	New Zealand	Soviet Union
1980 Summer Olympics^[6]	East Germany	United Kingdom	Soviet Union
1981 World Rowing Championships^[7]	Soviet Union	United Kingdom	United States
1982 World Rowing Championships^[8]	New Zealand	East Germany	Russia
1983 World Rowing Championships^[9]	New Zealand	East Germany	Australia

Results

Heats

The two heats in round one were rowed on 31 July. The winner of each heat advanced to the final, while the remaining teams went to the repechage.^[10]

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nigel Atherfold Dave Rodger Roger White-Parsons George Keys Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Stevenson Mike Stanley Andy Hay (cox)	New Zealand	5:48.19	FA
2	Blair Horn Dean Crawford Michael Evans Paul Steele Grant Main Mark Evans Kevin Neufeld Pat Turner Brian McMahon (cox)	Canada	5:50.44	R
3	Duncan McDougall Chris Mahoney Salih Hassan Clive Roberts Adam Clift John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Allan Whitwell Colin Moynihan (cox)	Great Britain	5:55.18	R
4	Alain Duprat Dominique Lecointe Thierry Louvet Patrick Vibert-Vichet Jacques Taborski Jean-Jacques Martigne Olivier Pons Bernard Chevalier Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent (cox)	France	5:59.81	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chip Lubsen Andrew Sudduth John Terwilliger Christopher Penny Tom Darling Fred Borchelt Charles Clapp Bruce Ibbetson Bob Jaugstetter (cox)	United States	5:51.95	FA
2	Craig Muller Clyde Hefer Samuel Patten Tim Willoughby Ian Edmunds James Battersby Ion Popa Stephen Evans Gavin Thredgold (cox)	Australia	5:56.61	R
3	Rodrigo Abasolo (cox)^{[nb 1]} Mario Castro Víctor Contreras Zibor Llanos Rodolfo Pereira Alejandro Rojas Marcelo Rojas Giorgio Vallebuona Carlos Neyra	Chile	6:20.71	R

Repechage

One heat was rowed in the repechage on 2 August. All five teams advanced to the final.^[12]^[13]

Rank	Rower	Country	Time	Notes
1	Craig Muller Clyde Hefer Samuel Patten Tim Willoughby Ian Edmunds James Battersby Ion Popa Stephen Evans Gavin Thredgold (cox)	Australia	5:51.68	FA
2	Blair Horn Dean Crawford Michael Evans Paul Steele Grant Main Mark Evans Kevin Neufeld Pat Turner Brian McMahon (cox)	Canada	5:56.44	FA
3	Duncan McDougall Chris Mahoney Salih Hassan Clive Roberts Adam Clift John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Allan Whitwell Colin Moynihan (cox)	Great Britain	6:00.45	FA
4	Mario Castro Carlos Neyra Zibor Llanos Giorgio Vallebuona Alejandro Rojas Víctor Contreras Rodolfo Pereira Marcelo Rojas Rodrigo Abasolo (cox)	Chile	6:10.98	FA
5	Alain Duprat Dominique Lecointe Thierry Louvet Patrick Vibert-Vichet Jacques Taborski Jean-Jacques Martigne Olivier Pons Bernard Chevalier Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent (cox)	France	6:18.71	FA

Final

All seven teams that entered the competition rowed in a single final on 5 August.^[14]

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
01 !	Blair Horn Dean Crawford Michael Evans Paul Steele Grant Main Mark Evans Kevin Neufeld Pat Turner Brian McMahon (cox)	Canada	5:41.32
02 !	Chip Lubsen Andrew Sudduth John Terwilliger Christopher Penny Tom Darling Fred Borchelt Charles Clapp Bruce Ibbetson Bob Jaugstetter (cox)	United States	5:41.74
03 !	Craig Muller Clyde Hefer Samuel Patten Tim Willoughby Ian Edmunds James Battersby Ion Popa Stephen Evans Gavin Thredgold (cox)	Australia	5:43.40
4	Nigel Atherfold Dave Rodger Roger White-Parsons George Keys Greg Johnston Chris White Andrew Stevenson Mike Stanley Andy Hay (cox)	New Zealand	5:44.14
5	Duncan McDougall Chris Mahoney Salih Hassan Clive Roberts Adam Clift John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Allan Whitwell Colin Moynihan (cox)	Great Britain	5:47.01
6	Alain Duprat Dominique Lecointe Thierry Louvet Patrick Vibert-Vichet Jacques Taborski Jean-Jacques Martigne Olivier Pons Bernard Chevalier Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent (cox)	France	5:49.52
7	Mario Castro Carlos Neyra Zibor Llanos Giorgio Vallebuona Alejandro Rojas Víctor Contreras Rodolfo Pereira Marcelo Rojas Rodrigo Abasolo (cox)	Chile	6:07.03

Footnotes

↑ The Chilean rowers are listed as per the official Olympic record, but the listing is wrong, as it has the cox in seat one, when he should be listed for seat nine^[11]

Notes

1 2 3 "Rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
1 2 "Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "1977 World Rowing Championships: (M8+) Men's Eight - Final". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "1978 World Rowing Championships: (M8+) Men's Eight - Final". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "1979 World Rowing Championships: (M8+) Men's Eight - Final". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "Rowing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "1981 World Rowing Championships: (M8+) Men's Eight - Final". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "1982 World Rowing Championships: (M8+) Men's Eight - Final". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
1 2 "1983 World Rowing Championships: (M8+) Men's Eight - Final". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
↑ "Rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights Round One". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
↑ Perelman 1985b, p. 529.
↑ "Rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights Round One Repêchage". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
↑ Perelman 1985b, p. 530.
↑ "Rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights Final Round". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 November 2016.

References

Perelman, Richard B., ed. (1985). Official Report Los Angeles 1984, Volume 1: Organization and Planning (PDF)|format= requires |url= (help). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Perelman, Richard B., ed. (1985). Official Report Los Angeles 1984, Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (PDF)|format= requires |url= (help). Los Angeles: Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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