Olympic Regattas

Stamp TAN (ZANZIBAR) SS unauthorized & undated issue - GBR M4- crew, gold medal winner at OG Beijing 2008

This crew - with Alex Gregory replacing Steve Williams - repeated its gold medal win at OG London 2012

Stamp TAN (ZANZIBAR) SS unauthorized & undated issue - Mahé Drysdale (NZL), M1X Olympic champion at OG London 2012 and OG Rio de Janeiro 2016

Stamp TAN ZANZIBAR unauthorized undated issue Mahe Drysdale NZL M1X Olympic champion

Mahé Drysdale dominated the

single sculls competitions for 11 years:

2005 WRC Gifu - gold medal

2006 WRC Eton - gold medal

2007 WRC Munich - gold medal

2008 OG Beijing - bronze medal

2009 WRC Poznan - gold medal

2010 WRC Karapiro - silver medal

2011 WC Bled - gold medal

2012 OG London - gold medal

2014 WRC Amsterdam - silver medal

2015 WRC Aiguebelette - silver medal

2016 OG Rio de Janeiro - gold medal

Stamp TAN (ZANZIBAR) SS unauthorized & undated issue - Mark Hunter & Zac Purchase (GBR), LM2X gold medal winners at OG Beijing 2008

Stamp TAN ZANZIBAR Unauthorized undated issue GBR LW2X crew Mark Hunter bow Zac Purchase stroke

LM2X gold medal OG Beijing 2008

LM2X gold medal WRC Karapiro 2010

LM2X gold medal WRC Bled 2011

LM2X silver medal OG London 2012

Zac Purchase also won the LM1X

gold medal at WRC Eton 2006

Stamp TAN 1985 Oct. 22nd SS OG Los Angeles (Olympic pictogram No. 5 in lower margin)

MI SS 45

SC 278a

MI SS 37 with stamps overprinted "Gold medal winners..."
Stamp TAN 1992 Nov. 16th OG Barcelona - Carl Smith & Allan Whitwell (GBR), LM2X gold medal winners WRC Nottingham 1986

MI 1355
Stamp TAN 2022 (unauthorized issue) - Pertti Karppinen (FIN)

P. Karppinen won the M1X gold medal at three consecutive Olympic Games (1976 Montreal, 1980 Moscow, and 1984 Los Angeles).

He became M1X world champion in 1979 (Bled) and in 1985 (Hazewinkel)

Stamp TAN 2022 (unauthorized issue) OG Tokyo 2020 - competitors from RUS (set of six)

Russian athletes did not start as RUS but as ROC (= Russian Olympic Committee)
Hanna Prakatsen	Hanna Prakatsen W1X silver medal winner	Alexander Vyazovkin M1X 5th place in the A-final
Vasilisa Stepanova Elena Oriabinskaia	W2- silver medal winners	Presenting their silver medals

Stamp TAN 2023 (unauthorized issue) - OG Paris 2024
Stamp TAN 2023 SS (unauthorized issue) - "Olympics in Paris 2024"
Stamp TCH 1960 June 15th OG Rome

       MI 1208

       SC 969

       SG 1165

       YV 1091
Stamp TCH 1964 Sept. 2nd OG Tokyo

       MI 1491

       SC 1261

       SG 1443

       YV 1357
Stamp TCH 1965 Apr. 16th - M2X gold medal win for Dr. Pavel Schmidt & Vaclav Kozak (TCH) at OG Rome 1960

       MI 1527

       SC 1301

       SG 1478
Stamp TCH 1984 Sept. 9th - °The Olympic Idea°

     MI 2784

       SC 2529

       SG 2750

       YV 2602

       MI SS 60

       SC 2530a

       SG MS 2752

       YV BF 64

At first the stamp had the inscription "LOS ANGELES 1984" in the upper margin. After the decision to

boycott the Games the designer erased this indication and the stamp was issued as shown.
Stamp TGA NIUAFO'OU OG London 2012 (personalized issue)

SG 370
Stamp TJK 2000 (unauthorized) MS OG Sydney - perforated & imperforated - gold and silver medals of FRA

Michel Andrieux

M2- gold medal winners FRA Rolland & Andrieux -

They both also won the M2- gold medal at the

WRC Aiguebelette 1997 - J.-C. Rolland became

FISA president in 2014
Stamp TKM 1992 Dec. 25th OG Barcelona (perforated & imperforated)

       MI 18

       SC 33 d

       YV 18

       MI 15-19

       YV 15-19
Stamp TKM 1992 Dec. 25th SS OG Barcelona with Olympic pictogram No. 3

MI SS 2

SC 23
Stamp TKM 1993 Apr. 7th - OG Barcelona (re-valued)

   MI 27

       SC 33d

       SG 29

       YV 37

       MI 25-29

MI 2784 SC 2529 SG 2750 YV 2602	MI SS 60 SC 2530a SG MS 2752 YV BF 64

Stamp TOG 1980 Febr. 29th SS OG Moscow (perforated & imperforated)

The Olympic rowing regatta 1980 took place

at Moscow, not at Tallinn where the sailing

contests were held

MI SS 155 A

MI SS 155 B

Photo from book °Montreal 1976° by H.

Rosendahl, published by Corvus Verlag 1976, page 97

The decisive moment in the M1X final at OG Montreal 1976:

The favourite P. M. Kolbe (GER) in the foreground

is no longer able to defend his leading position against

P. Karppinen (FIN) and has to rest content with the silver medal.

Stamp TOG 1984 Oct. 15th SS - OG Los Angeles: NZL M8+ crew, gold medal winner OG Munich 1972

MI SS 247 (stamp MI 1786)

SC C499

NZL crews wear black singlets!

Just a small wave and the boat is waterlogged!

NZL: Tony Hurt, Wybo Veldman, Dick Joyce,

John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Trevor

Coker, Gary Robertson, cox Simon Dickie

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Michel Andrieux
	M2- gold medal winners FRA Rolland & Andrieux - They both also won the M2- gold medal at the WRC Aiguebelette 1997 - J.-C. Rolland became FISA president in 2014