Rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's eight at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Toda Rowing Course
Date	12–15 October
Competitors	126 from 14 nations
Teams	14
Winning time	6:18.23
Medalists
01 ! Joseph Amlong Thomas Amlong Harold Budd Emory Clark Stanley Cwiklinski Hugh Foley William Knecht William Stowe Róbert Zimonyi (cox)  United States 02 ! Klaus Aeffke Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Jürgen Schröder Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)  United Team of Germany 03 ! Petr Čermák Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Július Toček Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Bohumil Janoušek Richard Nový Miroslav Koníček (cox)  Czechoslovakia
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01 !		Joseph Amlong Thomas Amlong Harold Budd Emory Clark Stanley Cwiklinski Hugh Foley William Knecht William Stowe Róbert Zimonyi (cox)	United States
02 !		Klaus Aeffke Klaus Bittner Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht Klaus Behrens Jürgen Schröder Jürgen Plagemann Horst Meyer Thomas Ahrens (cox)	United Team of Germany
03 !		Petr Čermák Jiří Lundák Jan Mrvík Július Toček Josef Věntus Luděk Pojezný Bohumil Janoušek Richard Nový Miroslav Koníček (cox)	Czechoslovakia

The eights (plus cox) event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.

The top crew in each heat advanced to the final, with all others sent to the repechages.

The top finisher in each of the three repechages joined the finalists. The second and third-place finishers competed in a consolation final for 7th-12th places. All other crews were eliminated.

The consolation final determined places from 7th to 12th.