Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four

Men's coxed four at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Sloten
Competitors	55 from 11 nations
Medalists
01 !  Italy Valerio Perentin, Giliante D'Este, Nicolò Vittori, Giovanni Delise, Renato Petronio 02 !  Switzerland Ernst Haas, Joseph Meyer, Otto Bucher, Karl Schwegler, Fritz Bösch 03 !  Poland Franciszek Bronikowski, Edmund Jankowski, Leon Birkholc, Bernard Ormanowski, Bolesław Drewek
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01 !		Italy Valerio Perentin, Giliante D'Este, Nicolò Vittori, Giovanni Delise, Renato Petronio
02 !		Switzerland Ernst Haas, Joseph Meyer, Otto Bucher, Karl Schwegler, Fritz Bösch
03 !		Poland Franciszek Bronikowski, Edmund Jankowski, Leon Birkholc, Bernard Ormanowski, Bolesław Drewek

The men's coxed four event was part of the rowing programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was one of seven rowing events for men and was the fifth appearance of the event.

Source: Official results; De Wael

Winners advanced to the second round. Losers competed in the first repechage.

Winners advanced to the second round, but were ineligible for a second repechage if they lost there. Losers were eliminated. Great Britain did not compete.

Winners advanced to the third round. Losers competed in the second repechage, if they had advanced by winning in the first round, or were eliminated if they had advanced through the first repechage.

The winner advanced to the third round, while the loser was eliminated.

The competition became single-elimination from this point, with losers being eliminated even if they had not previously had to advance through a repechage.

In an unusual procedure, unexplained in the official report, the loser of the first semifinal raced against the team that had a bye in the second semifinal. The winner of this third semifinal advanced to the gold medal final (against the first semifinal's winner), while the loser took the bronze medal.