# 1954 European Rowing Championships

The 1954 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bosbaan regatta course in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. This edition is particularly notable for the fact that it was the first time that women were allowed to compete as part of the championships, after three years of trial regattas for them. Women from 13 countries were represented with 34 boats, and they competed in five boat classes (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+) from 20 to 22 August. The men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+) a week later, from 26 to 29 August. It would be another 22 years until women would first be allowed to compete at Olympic level in 1976.

## Medal summary – women's events

For the 1954 regatta, the Bosbaan was widened from five lanes to six. All of the boat classes had single-digit entries (five crews each for the eight and quad, and nine for the singles), just four of the lanes were used in the races so that there were heats, repêchages, and a final.
| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Event | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time |
| W1x | Soviet Union Roza Chumakova | | Austria Eva Sika | | Netherlands Agnes Reuter | |
| W2x | Soviet Union Larissa Tsausova Zoja Rakickaya | | West Germany Maritta Golz Hermine Heyden | | Czechoslovakia Svetla Bartakova Hana Musilova | |
| W4+ | Soviet Union Lidia Walshuk Lyudmila Blasko Lidja Kirsanova Natalya Morozova Valentina Ogorodnikova (cox) | | Netherlands Berbertje Vochteloo Ans de Mey Marjolijne van Lith Everdina Lafeber Liesbeth de Wit (cox) | | Great Britain Iris Simpson Bette Shubrook Barbara Benzing Marjorie Lutz Rita Walkerdine (cox) | |
| W4x+ | Soviet Union Yelena Serbasova Tamara Tarskova Natalia Sanina Klavdija Ulogova Rosa Seremetyeva (cox) | | Austria Lisbeth Kaibitsch Lore Kafka Sigrid Freuis Hilde Unterberger Irma Roth (cox) | | Netherlands Hendrika Teuben Grieta Paulen Frida van der Hoop Helena Koster Sonja van de Kastelen (cox) | |
| W8+ | Soviet Union Irina Lobnyeva Nina Martinova Ekaterina Kopilova Marina Schirtladse Larissa Koncewaja Alexandra Sonnova Nina Sevruk Jelena Lukatyna Valentina Okorodnikova (cox) | | Romania Maria Maimon Laura Mitroi Ghizela Rostas Elisabeta Gyorgy Rita Schob Mariana Vatan Marta Kardos Sonia Bulugioiu Angela Codreanu (cox) | | Netherlands Jacoba Stefels Janneke Loman Willemijn Domhoff Gwendoline van der Feltz Johanna Moltzer Magda Schepers Helena Kouwenaar Johanna Minnema Jeanette Molenaar (cox) | |

## Medal summary – men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Event | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time | Country & rowers | Time |
| M1x | Switzerland Alain Colomb | | Poland Teodor Kocerka | | Soviet Union Aleksandr Berkutov | |
| M2x | West Germany Thomas Schneider Gerhard Häge | | Switzerland Peter Stebler Erich Schriever | | Soviet Union Heorhiy Zhylin Ihor Yemchuk | |
| M2- | Denmark Finn Pedersen Kjeld Østrøm | | Soviet Union Igor Buldakov Viktor Ivanov | | United Kingdom Christopher Davidge David Macklin | |
| M2+ | Switzerland Gottfried Kottmann Rolf Streuli Walter Ludin (cox) | | France Claude Martin Édouard Leguery Daniel Forget (cox) | | Belgium René Verhoeven Joseph van Thillo Willy Vlaminckx (cox) | |
| M4- | Italy Giuseppe Moioli Giovanni Zucchi Francesco Lazzari Attilio Cantoni | | United Kingdom Gavin Sorrell Colin Porter Sidney Rand Michael Beresford | | Switzerland Rico Bianchi Karl Weidmann Émile Ess Heini Scheller | |
| M4+ | Soviet Union Yuriy Tyukalov Yevgeny Kuznetsov Fyodor Suo Yevgeny Stirotinsky Yuri Nosov (cox) | | Denmark Knud Jensen Poul Locht Eigil Krogh Börge Krogh Ejvind Christensen (cox) | | Czechoslovakia Karel Mejta Jiří Havlis Jan Jindra Stanislav Lusk Radomír Plšek (cox) | |
| M8+ | Soviet Union Yevgeny Brago Vladimir Rodimushkin Slava Amiragov Yevgeny Samsonov Igor Borisov Leonid Gissen Aleksey Komarov Vladimir Kryukov Nikolai Kolosovsky (cox) | | Denmark Flemming Nimb Kjeld Larsen Børge Hougaard Svend Erik Schougaard Wesley Ernest Pedersen Walter Schröder Kurt Andersen Krog Aage Nielsen Drejer Finn Hansen Aabye (cox) | | Yugoslavia Ivo Sirisević Ante Marinović Filip Kozulić Zsivko Kraljić Joszip Biliškov Veljko Kukolj Bozsidar Makjanić Mihajlo Obradović Zdenko Bego (cox) | |