Internat. Championships - 1951 - 1960

Badge BEL 1955 ERC Ghent

The badge on the right (blue background) comes from #Coll. MM#
Badge DEN 1953 ERC Copenhagen
Badge GBR 1960 WERC Willesden
Badge GER 1957 ERC Duisburg
Badge POL 1958 ERC Poznan
Badge YUG 1956 ERC Bled
Cachet FRA 1951 ERC Macon
CC AUS 1962 Nabisco Pty Ltd. - British Empire & Commomwealth Games 1958 Lake Padarn North Wales - CAN wins the M8+ event by one second
CC FIN 1978 Editions Rencontre - Veli Lehtelae & Toimi Pitkaenen (FIN), M4+ gold medal winners ERC 1956 Bled and M2- ERC 1958 Poznan, M2- bronze medal winners OG Rome 1960

CC GDR 1957 OG Melbourne - M2- silver medal winners Igor Buldakov & Viktor Ivanov (URS), M2- European champions 1953, 1955 and 1956

The explanation on the back is wrong: It was **Viatcheslav** Ivanov who won the single sculls event whereas the M2- sliver medal was won by **Viktor** Ivanov - an incidental uniformity of surnames
	The German text indicates that Vladimir Ivanov won the M1X gold medal and the M2- silver medal

CC GER 1959 unknown editor No. 71 - Klaus von Fersen (GER), four times silver medal winner single sculls ERC 1956-59
CC NED 1952 UW PLANTA PLANTENMARGARINE °Olympische Spelen 1952° No. 64 - The sculler Robert van Mesdag (NED), M1X bronze medal winner ERC Ghent 1955
CC SUI 1960 GUSTO-KRAFTHAFERFLOECKLI °Schweizer Sport° No. 72 Goepf Kottmann (SUI)

M2+ European Champion 1954 + 1955

(with Rolf Struli and cox Walter Ludin)

M1X bronze medal winner OG Tokyo 1964
Crew card TCH - Jan Jindra (TCH)

Gold medal M4+ OG Helsinki 1952

Gold medal M4+ ERC Copenhagen 1953

Gold medal M8+ ERC Bled 1956

Bronze medal M8+ OG Rome 1960
Crew card TCH - Jiri Havlis (TCH), M4+ gold medal winner OG Helsinki 1952 and ERC Copenhagen 1953
Crew card TCH - Karel Mejta (TCH), M4+ gold medal winner OG Helsinki 1952 and ERC Copenhagen 1953
FDC ARG 1959 Sept. 5th Buenos Aires - Panamerican Games Chicago
FDC ROU 1955 Aug. 20th - WERC Bucharest

According to the MICHEL catalogue the

first day of issue was Aug. 22nd but here

the postmark shows a date two day earlier.
Illustrated card GER 1957 ERC Duisburg with PM Sept. 1st = day of finals
Illustrated card GER 1957 WERC Duisburg with PM Aug. 25th = day of finals)

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