Identified Athletes
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Stamp GAM 1992 Aug. 10th - Lin Clark & Beryl Crockford (GBR), LW2X gold medal winners WRC Hazewinkel 1985
MI 1387
SC 1266
YV 1205
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Stamp GAM 1995 Aug. 17th - OG Atlanta 1996 - Pertti Karppinen, three times M1X Olympic champion (1976, 1980 and 1984)
MI 2154
SC 1652
SG 2068
YV 1873
Pertti Karppinen also won the M1X gold medal
at WRC Bled 1979 and WRC Hazewinkel 1985
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Stamp GAM 2008 Sept. 15th (personalized) - OG London 1908 - M8+ final - GBR (Leander Club) beats BEL (Royal Club Nautique de Gand) by two lengths
Gold medal: GBR (Leander Club) Albert Gladstone, Frederick Kelly, Banner Johnstone,
Guy Nickalls, Charles Burnell, Ronald Sanderson, Raymond Etherington-Smith, Henry
Bucknall, cox Gilchrist MacLagan
Silver medal: BEL (Royal Club Nautique de Gand) Oscar Taelmann, Marcel Morimont,
Rémy Orban, Georges Mijs, Francois Vergucht, Polydore Veirman, Oscar de Somville,
Rudolphe Poma, cox Alfred Vanlandeghem
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Stamp GAM 2025 (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - M1X silver medal winner Peter-Michael Kolbe (GER)
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Stamp GAM 2025 (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - M2- bronze medal winners Peter van Roye & Thomas Strauss (GER)
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) - Rowing at OG Montreal 1976 - Peter-Michael Kolbe (GER), M1X silver medal winner
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - Frank & Als Hansen (NOR), M2X gold medal winners
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - Harald Jaehrling & Ulrich Friedrich, cox Georg Spohr (on the left side) and medal winning M4+ crews (on the stamp)
The crew in red vests is
the M4+ gold medal winner URS,
below the GER crew (bronze medal)
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - M4+ bronze medal winner crew GER
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - Peter van Roye & Thomas Strauss (GER), M2- bronze medal winners
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Stamp GBR 2005 Oct. 4th with "British Gold Medal Winners Beijing 2008" - LM2X + M4- on tab
MI 2341 -
Stamp GBR 2009 Mi 2455 II (issued 2006 Oct. 17th) with victorious Cambridge crew 2004 on tab - detail from MS Cambridge University 800th anniversary
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 2nd - OG London - W2- gold medal winners Helen Glover & Heather Stanning (GBR)
MI 3294
SC 3047
SG 3342
YV 3687
The first British women ever to win rowing gold
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 4th - OG London - W2X gold medal for Katherine Grainger & Anna Watkins (GBR)
MI 3299
SC 3052
SG 3347
YV 3694
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 5th - OG London - LW2X gold medal for Katherine Copeland & Sophie Hosking (GBR)
MI 3303
SC 3056
SG 3351
YV 3699
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 5th - OG London - M4- gold medal for Alex Gregory, Tom James, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge (GBR)
MI 3302
SC 3055
SG 3350
YV 3700
SG 3350a
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Stamp GBR 2012 Sept. 4th - Paralympic Games London - LTAMix4+ gold medal for P. Relph, N. Riches, J. Roe & D. Smith, cox L. van den Broecke (GBR)
MI 3336
SC 3086
SG 3381
YV 3729
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Stamp GBR-IOM 2004 July 1st - GBR M4- crew after their gold medal win at OG Sydney 2000
MI 1142
SC 1049
YV 1171
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Stamp GBS 2009 March 10th SS - OG Beijing 2008 Chinese gold medal winners - W4X - perforated & imperforated
MI 4053-58
YV 2768-73
MI 4053
YV 2768
MI 4054
YV 2769
MI 4056
YV 2771
MI 4057
YV 2772
TANG Bin, JIN Ziwei, XI Aihua & ZHANG Yangyang (CHN)
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Stamp GBS 2023 (unauthorized issue) - OG Atlanta 1996 - Rob Waddell (NZL)
Rob Waddell won the M1X B-final at
OG Atlanta 1996 (= 7th place),
became M1X World champion in 1998,
defended his title in 1999 and crowned
his career with the M1X gold medal win
at OG Sydney 2000.