Melbourne 1956 - Rowing - Men: Eights - Semi-finals

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	Tom Charlton; Dave Wight; John Cooke; Don Beer; Caldwell Esselstyn; Charles Grimes; Rusty Wailes; Jack Morey; William Becklean (Coxswain)	USA	6:55.1
2	Michael Aikman; David Boykett; Fred Benfield; Jim Howden; Garth Manton; Walter Howell; Adrian Monger; Brian Doyle; Harold Hewitt (Coxswain)	AUS	6:55.6
3	Ernest Verbin; Boris Fyodorov; Slava Amiragov; Leonid Gissen; Yevgeny Samsonov; Anatoly Antonov; Georgy Gushchenko; Vladimir Kryukov; Vladimir Petrov (Coxswain)	URS	7:18.3
4	Yozo Iwasaki; Yasukuni Watanabe; Sadahiro Sunaga; Yoshiki Hiki; Takashi Imamura; Yasuhiko Takeda; Masao Hara; Junichi Kato; Toshiji Eda (Coxswain)	JPN	7:24.5

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	Philip Kueber; Richard McClure; Robert Wilson; David Helliwell; Donald Pretty; Bill McKerlich; Douglas McDonald; Lawrence West; Carlton Ogawa (Coxswain)	CAN	6:57.0
2	Olle Larsson; Lennart Andersson; Kjell Hansson; Rune Andersson; Lennart Hansson; Gösta Eriksson; Ivar Aronsson; Evert Gunnarsson; Bertil Göransson (Coxswain)	SWE	7:08.4
3	Josef Věntus; Eduard Antoch; Ctibor Reiskup; Jan Švéda; Josef Švec; Zdeněk Žára; Jan Jindra; Stanislav Lusk; Miroslav Koranda (Coxswain)	TCH	7:12.9
4	Antonio Amato; Salvatore Nuvoli; Cosimo Campiato; Livio Tesconi; Antonio Casuar; Giancarlo Casalini; Sergio Tagliapietra; Arrigo Menicocci; Vincenzo Rubolotta (Coxswain)	ITA	7:19.8