Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four

Men's coxed fours
at the Games of the II Olympiad
VenueRiver Seine
DatesAugust 25–27
Competitors50 from 4 nations
Medalists
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rowing at the
1900 Summer Olympics
Single sculls men
Coxed pairs men
Coxed fours men
Eights men

The coxed fours was one of the competitions in the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris. The competition was plagued by controversy involving which boats should advance to the final. In one of the most unusual decisions in Olympic history, two separate finals were held for the event, each of which are still considered Olympic championships by the International Olympic Committee. The crew of all six boats to compete in the two finals are Olympic medallists.

The coxed fours event was held on 25 August, 26 August and 27 August 1900. 10 boats, involving 50 rowers from 4 nations, competed.

Results

Semifinals

Initially, the top boat in each semifinal plus the runner-up in the third semifinal (which had four boats instead of the three boats competing in each of the other two), were to advance. Following protests which ensued after the runner-up in the second semifinal and the third-place boat in the third semifinal each posted better times than the winner of the first, the qualification rules for the final were altered. Eventually, the six boats were broken into two groups and competed in separate finals. The runners-up in semifinals 2 and 3 as well as the third-place boat in semifinal 3 competed in the first final, while the three semifinal winners competed in the second.

Semifinal 1

Place Boat Rowers Nation Time
1 Ludwigshafener Ruder Verein Ernst Felle
Otto Fickeisen
Carl Lehle
Hermann Wilker
Franz Kröwerath (cox)
 Germany 6:14.0
2 Réal Club Barcelona Juan Camps Mas
José Fórmica Corsi
Ricardo Margarit Calvet
Orestes Quintana
Antonio Vela Vivó (cox)
 Spain 6:38.4
3 Club Nautique de France René Beslaud
Léon Deslinières
Peyronnie
Saurel
Unknown cox
 France 6:40.0

Semifinal 2

Place Boat Rowers Nation Time
1 Minerva Amsterdam Coenraad Hiebendaal
Geert Lotsij
Paul Lotsij
Johannes Terwogt
Hermanus Brockmann (cox)
 Netherlands 6:02.0
2 Club Nautique de Lyon Georges Lumpp
Charles Perrin
Daniel Soubeyran
Émile Wegelin
Unknown cox
 France 6:06.2
Société Nautique de la Marne Paul Cocuet
Jules Demaré
Clément Dorlia
René Waleff
Unknown cox
 France Did not
finish

Semifinal 3

Place Boat Rowers Nation Time
1 Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg Gustav Goßler
Oskar Goßler
Walter Katzenstein
Waldemar Tietgens
Carl Goßler (cox)
 Germany 5:56.2
2 Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix Henri Bouckaert
Jean Cau
Émile Delchambre
Henri Hazebrouck
Charlot (cox)
 France 5:59.0
3 Favorite Hammonia Wilhelm Carstens
Julius Körner
Adolf Möller
Hugo Rüster
Gustav Moths (cox)[1]
 Germany 6:03.0
4 Club Nautique de Dieppe Angot
Henri Delabarre
Robert Gelée
Maison
Unknown cox
 France 6:20.0

Finals

Final A

Place Boat Rowers Nation Time
1 Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix Henri Bouckaert
Jean Cau
Émile Delchambre
Henri Hazebrouck
Charlot (cox)
 France 7:11.0
2 Club Nautique de Lyon Georges Lumpp
Charles Perrin
Daniel Soubeyran
Émile Wegelin
Unknown cox
 France 7:18.0
3 Favorite Hammonia Wilhelm Carstens
Julius Körner
Adolf Möller
Hugo Rüster
Max Ammermann (cox)[1]
 Germany 7:18.2

Final B

Place Boat Rowers Nation Time
1 Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg Gustav Goßler
Oskar Goßler
Walter Katzenstein
Waldemar Tietgens
Carl Goßler (cox)
 Germany 5:59.0
2 Minerva Amsterdam Coenraad Hiebendaal
Geert Lotsij
Paul Lotsij
Johannes Terwogt
Hermanus Brockmann (cox)
 Netherlands 6:03.0
3 Ludwigshafener Ruder Verein Ernst Felle
Otto Fickeisen
Carl Lehle
Hermann Wilker
Franz Kröwerath (cox)
 Germany 6:05.0
  1. 1 2 The German team changed the coxswain after the semi-final. Gustav Moths participated only in the semi-final and Max Ammermann participated in the final. However, the IOC medal database credits the gold medal only to Gustav Moths.

References

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