Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed pair
| Men's coxed pairs at the Games of the II Olympiad
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| Venue | River Seine | |||||||||
| Dates | August 25–26 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 3 nations | |||||||||
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Minerva Amsterdam Mixed team
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Société nautique de la Marne France
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Rowing Club Castillon France
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The coxed pairs was one of the competitions in the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris. It was held on 25 August and 26 August 1900. 7 boats, involving 22 rowers from 3 nations, competed.
The top two boats in each semifinal advanced to the final.
In the semi-finals, the Dutch team had been coxed by Hermanus Brockmann, who weighed 60 kg. They saw that the French teams made use of young light-weighted boys of about 25 kg, and decided to switch coxswains to reduce weight, recruiting a young Parisian boy for the job. In the final, the Dutch team took the lead from the start. In the end, the French team came very close, but the Dutch team won a tight race with the French boat sent by the Marne society.
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