# 1959 European Rowing Championships

The 1959 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Mâcon regatta course on the Saône in Mâcon, France. The event for women was held from 14 to 16 August, and 16 races were held. The event for men was held from 20 to 23 August. Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+), and women entered in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+).

## Medal summary – women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Event | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time |
| W1x | Hungary Kornélia Pap | | Soviet Union Emiliya Mukhina | | Austria Eva Sika | |
| W2x | Soviet Union Nina Opalenko Lyudmila Otrosko | | Romania Magda Jifcu Dora Lakatos | | Czechoslovakia Svetla Bartakova Hana Musilova | |
| W4+ | Soviet Union Valentina Terekhova Nadezhda Skunkova Ella Sergeyeva Nina Shamanova Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox) | | Romania Felicia Urziceanu Maria Trinks Stela Gavan-Georgescu Marta Kardos Stefania Borisov (cox) | | Hungary Alajosne Labody Gyözöne Lukachich Zsuzsa Rakitay Ottone Nagy Rudolfne Radvanyi (cox) | |
| W4x+ | Soviet Union Olimpiada Mikhaylova Valentina Kalegina Galina Putyrskaya Larisa Pisareva Zinaida Andreyeva (cox) | | East Germany Herta Weissig Gisela Heisse Hannelore Göttlich Helga Richter Hannelore Schneider (cox) | | Romania Magda Jifcu Emilia Rigard Doina Ciolacu Stela Stanciu Angela Codreanu (cox) | |
| W8+ | Soviet Union Valentina Sirsikova Vera Rebrova Nonna Petsernikova Lidiya Zontova Sinayda Kirillina Nina Korobkova Zinaida Korotova Nadezhda Gontsarova Viktoriya Dobrodeeva (cox) | | East Germany Anita Blankenfeld Ingeborg Peter Ingrid Drews Waltraud Dinter Hilde Amelang Marianne Schulze Hella Schulz Marianne Falk Ursula Wiek (cox) | | Hungary Alajosne Labody Maria Zakaly Laszlone Halasz Magda Helmich Judit Szalatnay Zsuzsa Rakitay Gyözöne Lukachich Ottone Nagy Rudolfne Radvanyi (cox) | |

## Medal summary – men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Event | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time |
| M1x | Soviet Union Vyacheslav Ivanov | | West Germany Klaus von Fersen | | Poland Teodor Kocerka | |
| M2x | Soviet Union Aleksandr Berkutov Yuriy Tyukalov | | Czechoslovakia Václav Kozák Pavel Schmidt | | Netherlands Peter Bakker Co Rentmeester | |
| M2- | West Germany Ingo Kliefoth Bernd Kruse | | Soviet Union Oleg Golovanov Valentin Boreyko | | Austria Alfred Sageder Josef Kloimstein | |
| M2+ | West Germany Klaus Riekemann Hans-Joachim Berendes Hans-Dieter Maier (cox) | | Italy Renzo Ostino Giovanni Anselmi Vincenzo Bruno (cox) | | Romania Stelian Petrov Ion Voican Oprea Păunescu (cox) | |
| M4- | Switzerland Gottfried Kottmann Rolf Streuli Émile Ess Hansruedi Scheller | | West Germany Günter Schroers Manfred Uellner Victor Hendrix Manfred Kluth | | Czechoslovakia Ludek Musil René Líbal Miroslav Jíška Jindřich Blažek | |
| M4+ | West Germany Klaus Wegner Gerd Cintl Horst Effertz Claus Heß Michael Obst (cox) | | Netherlands Maarten Christiaan Fehmers Cornelis Jacobus Westermann Peter van Haaps Feye Meye Ivan Vanier (cox) | | Sweden Kjell Hansson Ulf Gustafsson Lennart Hansson Lars-Eric Gustafsson Bengt Gunnarsson (cox) | |
| M8+ | West Germany Hans Lenk Karl-Heinz Hopp Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Kraft Schepke Frank Schepke Walter Schröder Manfred Rulffs Willi Padge (cox) | | Czechoslovakia Pavel Hofmann Václav Jindra Bohumil Janoušek Jan Švéda Josef Švec Luděk Pojezný Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Miroslav Koníček (cox) | | Soviet Union Igor Khokhlov Boris Fyodorov Georgy Gushchenko Anatoly Antonov Yury Popov Yaroslav Cherstvy Georgiy Bryulgart Oleg Vasiliev Yuri Polyakov (cox) | |