Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four

Men's coxed four at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Toda Rowing Course
Date	11–15 October
Competitors	80 from 16 nations
Teams	16
Medalists
Peter Neusel Bernhard Britting Joachim Werner Egbert Hirschfelder Jürgen Oelke (cox)   United Team of Germany   Renato Bosatta Emilio Trivini Giuseppe Galante Franco De Pedrina Giovanni Spinola (cox)   Italy   Lex Mullink Jan van de Graaff Freek van de Graaff Bobbie van de Graaf Marius Klumperbeek (cox)   Netherlands

Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men
Double sculls	men
Coxless pairs	men
Coxed pairs	men
Coxless fours	men
Coxed fours	men
Eights	men

The coxed four event was a rowing event conducted as part of the Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United Team of Germany (EUA)	Italy (ITA)	Netherlands (NED)

Results

Heats

The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	6:44.12	QF
2.	United States (USA)	6:48.19	QR
3.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:55.59	QR
4.	Australia (AUS)	7:00.16	QR
5.	Japan (JPN)	7:10.77	QR
6.	Cuba (CUB)	7:17.11	QR
Heat 2
1.	Italy (ITA)	6:47.06	QF
2.	Netherlands (NED)	6:48.72	QR
3.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:50.81	QR
4.	Norway (NOR)	6:57.35	QR
5.	Egypt (EGY)	7:28.96	QR
Heat 3
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	6:45.35	QF
2.	France (FRA)	6:53.52	QR
3.	Poland (POL)	6:58.64	QR
4.	Finland (FIN)	7:03.85	QR
4.	Denmark (DEN)	7:04.48	QR

Repechages

The top finisher in each of the three repechages joined the finalists. The second and third place finishers competed in a consolation final for 7th-12th places. All other crews were eliminated.

Repechage 1
1.	Poland (POL)	7:11.74	QF
2.	United States (USA)	7:12.82	QC
3.	Norway (NOR)	7:18.57	QC
4.	Egypt (EGY)	10:44.94
Repechage 2
1.	Netherlands (NED)	7:04.85	QF
2.	Denmark (DEN)	7:12.45	QC
3.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:12.91	QC
4.	Finland (FIN)	7:21.16
—	Cuba (CUB)	Did not start
Repechage 3
1.	France (FRA)	7:05.78	QF
2.	New Zealand (NZL)	7:09.26	QC
3.	Australia (AUS)	7:17.06	QC
4.	Japan (JPN)	7:31.60

Consolation final

The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.

7.	United States (USA)	6:43.68
8.	New Zealand (NZL)	6:45.16
9.	Norway (NOR)	6:48.38
10.	Australia (AUS)	6:48.45
11.	Denmark (DEN)	6:52.83
12.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Did not start

Final

	United Team of Germany (EUA)	7:00.44
	Italy (ITA)	7:02.84
	Netherlands (NED)	7:06.46
4.	France (FRA)	7:13.92
5.	Soviet Union (URS)	7:16.05
6.	Poland (POL)	7:28.15

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.