| Men's double sculls at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Toda Rowing Course | ||||||||||||
| Date | 12–15 October | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 7:10.66 | ||||||||||||
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| Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics | |
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| Single sculls | men |
| Double sculls | men |
| Coxless pair | men |
| Coxed pair | men |
| Coxless four | men |
| Coxed four | men |
| Eight | men |
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The double sculls event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.[1]
 Gold
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 Silver
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 Bronze
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 Oleg Tyurin Boris Dubrovskiy (URS) |
 Seymour Cromwell Jim Storm (USA) |
 Vladimír Andrs Pavel Hofmann (TCH) |
The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.
| Heat 1 | |||
| 1. | Seymour Cromwell and Jim Storm (USA) |
6:31.63 | QF |
| 2. |  Helmut Lebert and Josef Steffes-Mies (EUA) |
6:41.24 | QR |
| 3. |  Melchior Bürgin and Martin Studach (SUI) |
6:45.58 | QR |
| 4. |  Arnold Cooke and Peter Webb (GBR) |
6:49.83 | QR |
| 5. |  Barclay Wade and Gary Pearce (AUS) |
7:01.21 | QR |
| Heat 2 | |||
| 1. | Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrovskiy (URS) |
6:51.03 | QF |
| 2. |  Max Alwin and Peter Bots (NED) |
7:07.52 | QR |
| 3. |  Susumi Hosoya and Yasushi Murase (JPN) |
7:25.64 | QR |
| 4. |  Roberto Friedrich and Fernando Scheffler (MEX) |
7:34.34 | QR |
| Heat 3 | |||
| 1. | Vladimír Andrs and Pavel Hofmann (TCH) |
6:39.67 | QF |
| 2. |  M. de Meulemeester and Gerard Higny (BEL) |
6:45.69 | QR |
| 3. |  René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau (FRA) |
6:48.70 | QR |
| 4. |  Juan Carlos Gómez and José María Robledo (ARG) |
6:58.08 | QR |
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. The fourth-place finisher, in the only repechage with that many competitors, was eliminated.
| Repechage 1 | |||
| 1. | Melchir Burgin and Martin Studach (SUI) |
6:47.18 | QF |
| 2. | M. de Meulemeester and Gerard Higny (BEL) |
6:49.28 | QC |
| 3. | Roberto Friedrich and Fernando Scheffler (MEX) |
7:35.14 | QC |
| Repechage 2 | |||
| 1. | Helmut Lebert and Josef Steffes-Mies (EUA) |
6:39.92 | QF |
| 2. | Juan Gomez and Jose Robledo (ARG) |
7:05.02 | QC |
| 3. | Hosoya Susumu and Murase Yasushi (JPN) |
7:18.98 | QC |
| Repechage 3 | |||
| 1. | René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau (FRA) |
6:49.38 | QF |
| 2. | Arnold Cooke and Peter Webb (GBR) |
6:50.48 | QC |
| 3. | Max Alwin and Peter Bots (NED) |
6:56.59 | QC |
| 4. | Barclay Wade and Gary Pearce (AUS) |
7:07.12 | 13th |
The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.
| 7. | Arnold Cooke and Peter Webb (GBR) |
6:44.39 |
| 8. | Max Alwin and Peter Bots (NED) |
6:47.07 |
| 9. | M. de Meulemeester and Gerard Higny (BEL) |
6:49.70 |
| 10. | Hosoya Susumu and Murase Yasushi (JPN) |
7:15.22 |
| 11. | Roberto Friedrich and Fernando Scheffler (MEX) |
7:27.47 |
| 12. | Juan Gomez and Jose Robledo (ARG) |
Did not start |
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Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrovskiy (URS) |
7:10.66 |
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Seymour Cromwell and Jim Storm (USA) |
7:13.16 |
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Vladimír Andrs and Pavel Hofmann (TCH) |
7:14.23 |
| 4. | Melchior Burgin and Martin Studach (SUI) |
7:24.97 |
| 5. | Helmut Lebert and Josef Steffes-Mies (EUA) |
7:30.03 |
| 6. | René Duhamel and Bernard Monnereau (FRA) |
7:41.80 |
