Rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

The men's double sculls competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place are at Henley Royal Regatta Course on the Henley-on-Thames.

Men's double sculls at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Date	5–9 August
Competitors	24 from 12 nations
Medalists
Dickie Burnell Bert Bushnell  Great Britain Ebbe Parsner Aage Larsen  Denmark Juan Rodríguez William Jones  Uruguay

Schedule

Date	Round
5 August 1948	Heats
6 August 1948	Repechage
7 August 1948	Semifinal
9 August 1948	Final

Results

Heats

First boat of each heat qualified to the semifinal, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jacques Maillet Christian Guilbert	France	6:47.8	Q
2	Dickie Burnell Bert Bushnell	Great Britain	6:56.9
3	Mario Ustolin Francesco Dapiran	Italy	6:59.2

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ebbe Parsner Aage Larsen	Denmark	6:50.1	Q
2	Maurice Gueissaz Maurice Matthey	Switzerland	6:58.7
3	Gabriel Beaudry Fred Graves	Canada	7:09.3

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ben Piessens Willy Collet	Belgium	6:50.9	Q
2	Tom Neumeier Henk van der Meer	Netherlands	6:56.1
3	Juan Rodríguez William Jones	Uruguay	7:14.0

Heat 4

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Joe Angyal Arthur Gallagher	United States	7:01.3	Q
2	Ángel Malvicino Teodoro Nölting	Argentina	7:08.0
3	Sándor Ormándi József Simó	Hungary	7:12.1

Repechage

First boat of each heat qualified to the semifinal.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dickie Burnell Bert Bushnell	Great Britain	?	Q
2	Tom Neumeier Henk van der Meer	Netherlands	7:00.2
3	Ángel Malvicino Teodoro Nölting	Argentina	7:07.1

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mario Ustolin Francesco Dapiran	Italy	6:53.9	Q
2	Maurice Gueissaz Maurice Matthey	Switzerland	7:00.2
3	Sándor Ormándi József Simó	Hungary	7:09.3

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Juan Rodríguez William Jones	Uruguay	7:02.1	Q
2	Gabriel Beaudry Fred Graves	Canada	7:08.7

Semifinal

First boat of each heat qualified to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dickie Burnell Bert Bushnell	Great Britain	7:55.7	Q
2	Joe Angyal Arthur Gallagher	United States	8:07.3
3	Ben Piessens Willy Collet	Belgium	8:17.2

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ebbe Parsner Aage Larsen	Denmark	7:48.3	Q
2	Mario Ustolin Francesco Dapiran	Italy	7:58.2

Heat 3

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
1	Juan Rodríguez William Jones	Uruguay	8:02.2	Q
2	Jacques Maillet Christian Guilbert	France	8:33.2

Final

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time	Notes
	Dickie Burnell Bert Bushnell	Great Britain	6:51.3
	Ebbe Parsner Aage Larsen	Denmark	6:55.3
	Juan Rodríguez William Jones	Uruguay	7:12.4

External links

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 (PDF). Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)