Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's single sculls

Men's single sculls at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Regatta Course, Oberschleißheim
Date	27 August – 2 September
Competitors	18 from 18 nations
Winning time	7:10.12
Medalists
Yury Malyshev  Soviet Union Alberto Demiddi  Argentina Wolfgang Güldenpfennig  East Germany

Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Single sculls		men
Double sculls		men
Coxless pair		men
Coxed pair		men
Coxless four		men
Coxed four		men
Eight		men

The men's single sculls competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from 27 August to 2 September at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.

Results

Heats

Winner of each of the three heats (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.

Heat 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Alberto Demiddi	Argentina	7:46.09
2	Udo Hild	West Germany	7:48.12
3	Melchior Bürgin	Switzerland	8:00.20
4	Janis Rodmanis	Chile	8:23.38
5	James Butterfield	23x15px Bermuda	8:29.20
6	Guillermo Spamer	Mexico	8:38.63

Heat 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Yury Malyshev	Soviet Union	7:42.67
2	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	East Germany	7:46.31
3	Seán Drea	Ireland	7:47.64
4	James Dietz	United States	7:57.85
5	Jaroslav Hellebrand	Czechoslovakia	7:58.15
6	Lennart Bälter	Sweden	8:12.92

Heat 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Yordan Valchev	Bulgaria	7:50.29
2	Murray Watkinson	New Zealand	7:51.29
3	Kenneth Dwan	Great Britain	7:57.49
4	Kim Børgesen	Denmark	7:58.94
5	Hideo Okamoto	Japan	8:20.82
6	José Margues	Portugal	8:39.73

Repechage

Top three finishers in each heat qualify to the semifinal round.

Repechage 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Udo Hild	West Germany	7:48.11
2	Seán Drea	Ireland	7:50.27
3	Kim Børgesen	Denmark	7:56.66
4	Lennart Bälter	Sweden	8:11.07
5	James Butterfield	23x15px Bermuda	8:26.16

Repechage 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	East Germany	8:05.19
2	Kenneth Dwan	Great Britain	8:10.32
3	Jaroslav Hellebrand	Czechoslovakia	8:19.28
4	Janis Rodmanis	Chile	8:29.66
5	José Marques	Portugal	8:54.27

Repechage 3

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	James Dietz	United States	7:59.13
2	Melchior Bürgin	Switzerland	8:04.81
3	Murray Watkinson	New Zealand	8:11.51
4	Hideo Okamoto	Japan	8:27.36
5	Guillermo Spamer	Mexico	8:40.76

Semifinals

Semifinal A/B

First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Alberto Demiddi	Argentina	8:10.01
2	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	East Germany	8:16.35
3	Melchior Bürgin	Switzerland	8:16.95
4	Yordan Valchev	Bulgaria	8:17.64
5	Seán Drea	Ireland	8:27.70
6	Jaroslav Hellebrand	Czechoslovakia	8:44.60

Semifinal 2

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Yury Malyshev	Soviet Union	8:13.49
2	James Dietz	United States	8:21.54
3	Udo Hild	West Germany	8:26.37
4	Kim Børgesen	Denmark	8:27.93
5	Murray Watkinson	New Zealand	8:30.88
6	Kenneth Dwan	Great Britain	8:38.62

Finals

Final B

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
1	Seán Drea	Ireland	7:55.33
2	Yordan Valchev	Bulgaria	7:59.55
3	Kenneth Dwan	Great Britain	8:00.38
4	Murray Watkinson	New Zealand	8:05.42
5	Kim Børgesen	Denmark	8:09.04
6	Jaroslav Hellebrand	Czechoslovakia	8:11.04

Final A

Rank	Rower	Country	Time
	Yury Malyshev	Soviet Union	7:10.12
	Alberto Demiddi	Argentina	7:11.53
	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	East Germany	7:14.45
4	Udo Hild	West Germany	7:20.81
5	James Dietz	United States	7:24.81
6	Melchior Bürgin	Switzerland	7:31.99

References

• Official reports of the 1972 Summer Olympics