Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's eight at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Sloten
Competitors	99 from 11 nations
Medalists
01 !  United States Marvin Stalder, John Brinck, Francis Frederick, William Thompson, William Dally, James Workman, Hubert A. Caldwell, Peter Donlon, Donald Blessing 02 !  Great Britain Jamie Hamilton, Guy Oliver Nickalls, John Badcock, Donald Gollan, Harold Lane, Gordon Killick, Jack Beresford, Harold West, Arthur Sulley 03 !  Canada Frederick Hedges, Frank Fiddes, John Hand, Herbert Richardson, Jack Murdoch, Athol Meech, Edgar Norris, William Ross, John Donnelly
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01 !		United States Marvin Stalder, John Brinck, Francis Frederick, William Thompson, William Dally, James Workman, Hubert A. Caldwell, Peter Donlon, Donald Blessing
02 !		Great Britain Jamie Hamilton, Guy Oliver Nickalls, John Badcock, Donald Gollan, Harold Lane, Gordon Killick, Jack Beresford, Harold West, Arthur Sulley
03 !		Canada Frederick Hedges, Frank Fiddes, John Hand, Herbert Richardson, Jack Murdoch, Athol Meech, Edgar Norris, William Ross, John Donnelly

The men's eight event was part of the rowing programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was one of seven rowing events for men and was the seventh appearance of the event, which had been on the programme for every Olympic Games since rowing was added in 1900.

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.

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.

Great Britain advanced uncontested to the gold medal final, and was joined by the United States after the United States won the only semifinal against Canada. Canada received the bronze medal.