The cachet depicts a 4X+, but there is no event for
this class of boat at World Rowing Championships.
The answer is wrong:
M. Wood won 1948 (London)
and came second 1952 (Helsinki)
Gold medal: URS 7:10,66
Silver medal: USA 7:13,16
Bronze medal: TCH 7:14,23
Where are the riggers?
The Boat Race is a sweep oar race - this illustration shows three 8X+!
Sculler cannot stretch his legs!
The German text indicates that Vladimir Ivanov
won the M1X gold medal and the M2- silver medal
The German M4+ won the gold medal, not the silver medal.
It was the German M4- crew who came second in the final.
"Regatta in Henley" is wrong.
The Oxford-Cambridge Boat
Race course is in London on
the Thames (Putney to Chiswick)
Monaco 72? Munich 72!
"Red October" was a Russian
confectionary manufacturer
Sculler cannot stretch his legs
8X+ at Olympic Games?
The coin shows a M2X - not a "Rowing Pair"!
TIllustrated is a M4- race during the start strokes -
wrong type of boat on the photo!
The illustration shows the crew in national jerseys of GDR
The drawing of the single sculls
is incorrect: The riggers are fixed
far too much towards the bow!
The GDR M8+ crew won the silver medal
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