Rowing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the fifth appearance of Rowing at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition featured six events being held at Llyn Padarn in Llanberis, Wales.

England topped the rowing medal table with three gold medals.

Medal table

Medal winners Single scullsDouble ScullsCoxless pairCoxless fourCoxed fourEights

Single sculls

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Stuart Mackenzie 8:29.12 David Meineke 8:30.93 Tony Biernacki 8:53.5

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 James Hill 8:36.82 Russell Carver

Final PosAthleteTime1 Mackenzie 7:20.12 Hill 7:23.93 Carver 7:26.84 Meineke 7:33.3

Double sculls

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Mike Spracklen & Geoffrey Baker 7:49.32 Jon Pearce & Larry Stephan 7:58.23 8:18.4

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 Mervyn Wood & Stuart Mackenzie 2 Norm Suckling & James Hill 7:50.9

Final PosAthleteTime1 Spracklen & Baker 6:56.42 Wood & Mackenzie 7:01.43 Suckling & Hill 4 Pearce & Stephan

Coxless pair PosAthleteTime1 Bob Parker & Reg Douglas 7.11.12 Tom Christie & Nicholas Clack 7:13.73 Dave Anderson & Geoff Williamson 7:32.54 David Edwards & John Edwards dnf

Coxless four No heats

Final PosAthleteTime1 Roger Pope, Keith Shackell, David Young & Creighton Redman 6:34.42 Glen Smith, Malcolm Turnbull, Richard McClure & John Madden 6:38.93 David Edwards, John Fage, David Prichard & John Edwards 6:47.94 Victor Schweikert, Kenneth Railton, Bruce Evans, Neville Clinton 7:11.7

Coxed four

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Canada 7:21.42 England 7:27.93 New Zealand 7:51.7

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 Australia 7:55.32 Scotland 7:57.4

Final PosAthleteTime1 Colin Porter, John Vigurs, Simon Crosse, Michael Beresford & Richard Gabriel (cox) 6:46.52 Donald Arnold, Walter D'Hondt, David Helliwell, Lawrence Stapleton & Sohen Biln (cox) 6:53.23 Mick Allan, Ralfe Currall, Kevin Evans, Roland Waddington & Lionel Robberds (cox) 4 Donald Gemmell, Peter Aitchison, Frank Crotty, Graeme Moran & Richard Tuffin (cox)

Eights

Heat 1 PosTeamTime1 Canada 6:36.12 England 7:05.83 Northern Ireland 7:30.1

Heat 2 PosTeamTime1 Australia 2 Scotland 6:55.0

Final PosAthleteTime1 Archibald MacKinnon, Donald Arnold, Wayne Pretty, Glen Mervyn, Walter D'Hondt, Lorne Loomer, Robert Wilson, Bill McKerlich, Sohen Biln (cox) 5:55.12 Bruce Evans, Mick Allan, Kenneth Railton, Kevin Evans, Neville Clinton, Ralfe Currall, Peter Waddington, Victor Schweikert, Lionel Robberds (cox) 5:56.13 Tony Hancox, Don Elliot, Dennis Mount, Hilali Wober, John A Stephenson, Felix Badcock, J. P. M. Thomson, Dick Workman, Raymond Penney (cox) 6:10.24 A. G. Cross, T. Gillies, G. F. Gray, I. G. Inglis, A. Lindsay, A. T. Nelson, J. Ross, Ken J. Scott, B. Parsonage (cox) 6:15.5

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