Single sculls at the Olympics

The single sculls is a rowing event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900, and has been held every Games since. The women's competition was added in 1976.

Single sculls at the Olympic Games
Medal ceremony of the men's single sculls in 2016
Overview
Sport	Rowing
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900–2024 Women: 1976–2024
Reigning champion
Men	Oliver Zeidler (GER)
Women	Karolien Florijn (NED)

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1900 Paris	Hermann Barrelet  France	André Gaudin  France	Saint-George Ashe  Great Britain
1904 St. Louis	Frank Greer  United States	James Juvenal  United States	Constance Titus  United States
1908 London	Harry Blackstaffe  Great Britain	Alexander McCulloch  Great Britain	Bernhard von Gaza  Germany Károly Levitzky  Hungary
1912 Stockholm	Wally Kinnear  Great Britain	Polydore Veirman  Belgium	Everard Butler  Canada Mart Kuusik  Russian Empire
1920 Antwerp	John B. Kelly Sr.  United States	Jack Beresford  Great Britain	Darcy Hadfield  New Zealand
1924 Paris	Jack Beresford  Great Britain	William Gilmore  United States	Josef Schneider  Switzerland
1928 Amsterdam	Bobby Pearce  Australia	Ken Myers  United States	David Collet  Great Britain
1932 Los Angeles	Bobby Pearce  Australia	William Miller  United States	Guillermo Douglas  Uruguay
1936 Berlin	Gustav Schäfer  Germany	Josef Hasenöhrl  Austria	Dan Barrow  United States
1948 London	Mervyn Wood  Australia	Eduardo Risso  Uruguay	Romolo Catasta  Italy
1952 Helsinki	Yuriy Tyukalov Soviet Union	Mervyn Wood  Australia	Teodor Kocerka  Poland
1956 Melbourne	Vyacheslav Ivanov  Soviet Union	Stuart Mackenzie  Australia	John B. Kelly Jr.  United States
1960 Rome	Vyacheslav Ivanov  Soviet Union	Achim Hill  United Team of Germany	Teodor Kocerka  Poland
1964 Tokyo	Vyacheslav Ivanov  Soviet Union	Achim Hill  United Team of Germany	Gottfried Kottmann  Switzerland
1968 Mexico City	Jan Wienese  Netherlands	Jochen Meißner  West Germany	Alberto Demiddi  Argentina
1972 Munich	Yury Malyshev  Soviet Union	Alberto Demiddi  Argentina	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig  East Germany
1976 Montreal	Pertti Karppinen  Finland	Peter-Michael Kolbe  West Germany	Joachim Dreifke  East Germany
1980 Moscow	Pertti Karppinen  Finland	Vasil Yakusha  Soviet Union	Peter Kersten  East Germany
1984 Los Angeles	Pertti Karppinen  Finland	Peter-Michael Kolbe  West Germany	Robert Mills  Canada
1988 Seoul	Thomas Lange  East Germany	Peter-Michael Kolbe  West Germany	Eric Verdonk  New Zealand
1992 Barcelona	Thomas Lange  Germany	Václav Chalupa  Czechoslovakia	Kajetan Broniewski  Poland
1996 Atlanta	Xeno Müller  Switzerland	Derek Porter  Canada	Thomas Lange  Germany
2000 Sydney	Rob Waddell  New Zealand	Xeno Müller  Switzerland	Marcel Hacker  Germany
2004 Athens	Olaf Tufte  Norway	Jüri Jaanson  Estonia	Ivo Yanakiev  Bulgaria
2008 Beijing	Olaf Tufte  Norway	Ondřej Synek  Czech Republic	Mahé Drysdale  New Zealand
2012 London	Mahé Drysdale  New Zealand	Ondřej Synek  Czech Republic	Alan Campbell  Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Mahé Drysdale  New Zealand	Damir Martin  Croatia	Ondřej Synek  Czech Republic
2020 Tokyo	Stefanos Ntouskos  Greece	Kjetil Borch  Norway	Damir Martin  Croatia
2024 Paris	Oliver Zeidler  Germany	Yauheni Zalaty  Individual Neutral Athletes	Simon van Dorp  Netherlands

Multiple medalists

Rank	Rower	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Vyacheslav Ivanov	Soviet Union (URS)	1956–1964	3	0	0	3
	Pertti Karppinen	Finland (FIN)	1976–1984	3	0	0	3
3	Thomas Lange	East Germany (GDR)  Germany (GER)	1988–1996	2	0	1	3
	Mahé Drysdale	New Zealand (NZL)	2008–2016	2	0	1	3
5	Bobby Pearce	Australia (AUS)	1928–1932	2	0	0	2
	Olaf Tufte	Norway (NOR)	2004–2008	2	0	0	2
7	Jack Beresford	Great Britain (GBR)	1920–1924	1	1	0	2
	Mervyn Wood	Australia (AUS)	1948–1952	1	1	0	2
	Xeno Müller	Switzerland (SUI)	1996–2000	1	1	0	2
10	Peter-Michael Kolbe	West Germany (FRG)	1976, 1984–1988	0	3	0	3
11	Ondřej Synek	Czech Republic (CZE)	2008–2016	0	2	1	3
12	Achim Hill	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1960–1964	0	2	0	2
13	Alberto Demiddi	Argentina (ARG)	1968–1972	0	1	1	2
14	Teodor Kocerka	Poland (POL)	1952, 1960	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	1	0	6
2	Great Britain (GBR)	3	2	3	8
3	Australia (AUS)	3	2	0	5
4	Finland (FIN)	3	0	0	3
5	United States (USA)	2	4	3	9
6	New Zealand (NZL)	2	0	3	5
7	Germany (GER)	2	0	2	4
8	Norway (NOR)	2	0	0	2
9	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
10	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	3	4
11	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	2	3
12	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
13	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
14	West Germany (FRG)	0	4	0	4
15	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	2	1	3
16	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	2	0	2
17	Canada (CAN)	0	1	2	3
18	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	1	2
	Uruguay (URU)	0	1	1	2
20	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
25	Poland (POL)	0	0	3	3
26	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Russian Empire (RU1)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1976 Montreal	Christine Scheiblich  East Germany	Joan Lind  United States	Yelena Antonova  Soviet Union
1980 Moscow	Sanda Toma  Romania	Antonina Makhina  Soviet Union	Martina Schröter  East Germany
1984 Los Angeles	Valeria Răcilă  Romania	Charlotte Geer  United States	Ann Haesebrouck  Belgium
1988 Seoul	Jutta Behrendt  East Germany	Anne Marden  United States	Magdalena Georgieva  Bulgaria
1992 Barcelona	Elisabeta Lipă  Romania	Annelies Bredael  Belgium	Silken Laumann  Canada
1996 Atlanta	Ekaterina Karsten  Belarus	Silken Laumann  Canada	Trine Hansen  Denmark
2000 Sydney	Ekaterina Karsten  Belarus	Rumyana Neykova  Bulgaria	Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski  Germany
2004 Athens	Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski  Germany	Ekaterina Karsten  Belarus	Rumyana Neykova  Bulgaria
2008 Beijing	Rumyana Neykova  Bulgaria	Michelle Guerette  United States	Ekaterina Karsten  Belarus
2012 London	Miroslava Knapková  Czech Republic	Fie Udby Erichsen  Denmark	Kim Brennan  Australia
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Kim Brennan  Australia	Genevra Stone  United States	Duan Jingli  China
2020 Tokyo	Emma Twigg  New Zealand	Hanna Prakatsen  ROC	Magdalena Lobnig  Austria
2024 Paris	Karolien Florijn  Netherlands	Emma Twigg  New Zealand	Viktorija Senkutė  Lithuania

Multiple medalists

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ekaterina Karsten	Belarus (BLR)	1996–2008	2	1	1	4
2	Rumyana Neykova	Bulgaria (BUL)	2000–2008	1	1	1	3
3	Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski	Germany (GER)	2000–2004	1	0	1	2
	Kim Brennan	Australia (AUS)	2012–2016	1	0	1	2
5	Silken Laumann	Canada (CAN)	1992–1996	0	1	1	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	3	0	0	3
2	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
3	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	1	3
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	2	4
5	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
	Germany (GER)	1	0	1	2
7	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
8	United States (USA)	0	5	0	5
9	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	1	2
13	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1