Identified Athletes
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Stamp GHA (unauthorized) OG Rio de Janeiro 2016 - Painting "Olympics Rowing 01" by Miki De Goodaboom (FRA) depicting M1X Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale (NZL)
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Stamp GRE 2004 Aug. 23rd OG Athens - V. Polimeros & N. Skiathitis (GRE), LM2X bronze medal winners
MI 2249
SC 2134
SG 2297
YV 2229
MI MS 2249
SG 2297a
The stamp was issued one day after the final.
It celebrated the first Olympic rowing
medal ever for Greece.
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Stamp GUI 2012 Dec. 17th (perforated & imperforated) - OG London M4X gold medal winner crew GER
MI 9614
YV 6645
M4X GER
Karl Schulze (bow)
Phillipp Wende (2)
Lauritz Schoof (3)
Tim Grohmann (stroke)
portrait of P. Wende in foreground
M4X result OG London 2012:
1. GER 5:42,48
2. CRO 5:44,78
3. AUS 5:45,22
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Stamp GUI 2012 Dec. 17th OG London (perforated & imperforated) - M1X gold medal winner Mahe Drysdale
Photo of Mahe Drysdale at the NZL
national championships 2009
Mahe Drysdale (NZL)
M1X Olympic champion London 2012
M1X World champion at WRC Gifu 2005,
WRC Eton 2006, WRC Munich 2007,
WRC Poznan 2009, WRC Bled 2011
M1X World Best Time 6:33,35 at
WRC Poznan 2009
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Stamp GUI 2012 Dec. 17th perforated & imperforated - LM2X gold medal winners M. Rasmussen & R. Quist (DEN) OG London
Mads Rasmussen (bow) & Rasmus Quist (stroke) -
portrait of R. Quist in foreground - won the LM2X
final at OG London against the reigning Olympic
champions Mark Hunter & Zac Purchase (GBR)
with a margin of 0.6 sec)
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Stamp GUY 2000 May 15th OG Sydney - Henry Robert Pearce (AUS), Olympic champion M1X at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932
MI 6975
SC 3498a
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Stamp GUY 2022 (unauthorized issue) - Gold medal winner crew GBR OG Sydney 2000
J. Cracknell (bow), S. Redgrave,
T. Foster, M.Pinsent (stroke)
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Stamp GUY 2022 (unauthorized issue) - W8+ gold medal winner crew ROU
R. Florea, V. Susanu, A. Barascu, I. Papuc,
L. Grafencu, E. Lipa, G. Damian, D. Ignat,
cox E. Georgescu
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Stamp GUY 2022 (unauthorized issue) Helen Glover & Heather Stanning (GBR), W2- gold medal winners OG London 2012
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Stamp GUY 2022 SS (unauthorized issue) - Gold medal winner crews OG Sydney 2000 (M4- GBR) and OG Athens 2004 (W8+ ROU) + ROU)
The sculler on the right is A. Vyazovkin (ROC = RUS)
OG Tokyo 2020 M1X A-final 5th place
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Stamp GUY 2022 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Athens 2004
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Stamp GUY 2022 SS (unauthorized issue) OG London 2012
Upper left corner: W2- gold medal winner crew GBR
Upper right corner: M4X gold medal winner crew GER
Lower right corner: M2X gold medal winner crew NZL
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Stamp HAI 2024 (unauthorized issue) OG Paris - Elena Oriabinskaia & Vasilisa Stepanova (ROC = RUS), W2- silver medal winners OG Tokyo 2020
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Stamp HKG 2024 SS OG Paris - Chiu Hin Chun, sculler from Hongkong
Chiu Hin Chun (HKG) achieved second place
in the M1X final D = 20th overall
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Stamp IOM 2021 July 15th Great British Athletes - Sidney Swans + Steve Redgrave
Sidney Swans won the M8+
gold medal at OG Stockholm
1912 and the M8+ silver
medal at OG Antwerp 1920
Steve Redgrave is the most
successful Olympic rower of
all times. He won five Olympic
gold medals in five consecutive
Olympic Games 1984 - 2000.
!984: M4+
1988, 1992, 1996: M2-
2000: M4-
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Stamp ISOE (SWE) 1976 May 28th - unauthorized issue - OG Montreal depicting OG Munich 1972 M1X gold medal winner Yuri Malishev (URS)
M1X result OG Munich 1972:
1. Yuri Malishev (URS) 7:10,12
2. Alberto Demiddi (ARG) 7:11,53
3. Wolfgang Gueldenpfennig (GDR) 7:14,45
MS perforated
MS imperforated
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Stamp KGZ 2000 (unauthorized) OG Sydney - Jean-Christophe Rolland & Michel Andrieux (FRA) after their M2- gold medal win
Jean-Christophe Rolland is the current President of the World Rowing Federation FISA
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Stamp LAO 2023 (unauthorized issue) "Rowing at the Olympics 2008" - Rumyana Neykova (BUL), W1X Olympic champion
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Stamp LAO 2023 (unauthorized issue) "Rowing at the Olympics 2004" - Olaf Tufte (NOR), M1X gold medal winner at OG Athens 2004 and Rio de Janeiro 2016
Olaf Tufte won the M1x gold medal four times:
WRC Lucerne 2001 + WRC Milan 2003
OG Athens 2004 + OG Beijing 2008
M1X Rowing results OG Athens 2004
Gold medal: O. Tufte (NOR) 6:49,30
Silver medal: J. Jaanson (EST) 6:51,42
Bronze medal: I. Janakiew (BUL) 6: 52,80
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Stamp LAO 2023 (unauthorized issue) "Rowing at the Olympics 2012" - Miroslava Knapkova (CZE), W1X gold medal winner
