The rowing competition was held on April 28 on the Jurubatuba course. Due to the small number of competitors all races were finals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	1	1	6
2	Argentina	1	2	2	5
3	Uruguay	1	0	1	2
4	Canada	1	0	0	1
5	Brazil	0	4	2	6
Totals (5 entries)		7	7	6	20

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Seymour Cromwell  United States	Ivan Pital  Brazil	None awarded
Double sculls details	Bill Knecht Robert Lea[1]  United States	Alberto Demiddi Antonio Nestar Soma  Argentina	Ventura Rebarl Antonio Salvagno  Brazil
Coxed pair-oared shells details	Edward Ferry Conn Findlay Charles Blitzer (cox)[2]  United States	Natalia Pablo Rossi Pedro Juan Lier Oscar Carlos A. Rampani (cox)  Argentina	Antemidia Anselma Julioo Audifax Barbosa Adriana Monteiro Soares (cox)  Brazil
Coxless pair-oared shells details	Mariana Coulin Gustava Perez  Uruguay	Daniel B. Watts Robert Brayton  United States	Ricardo Duran Carlos R. Montaldo  Argentina
Coxed four-oared shells details	Juan Jose Retegui Ismael Santana Juan Manuel Diaz Roberto Anibal Gilardi Gustava Adrian de Marzi (cox)  Argentina	Antemidio Anselma Julioo Audifax Barbosa Assis Garcia Ramos Alberto Blemer Silvia Augusta de Souza (cox)  Brazil	Roy Rubin Gene Philips Walter Wiberg William Flint Bernard Horton (cox)  United States
Coxless four-oared shells details	Geza Berger Charles Bower Charles Haltz Ted Nash  United States	Brazil  Brazil	Argentina  Argentina
Eight-oared shells details	Canada  Canada	Brazil  Brazil	Uruguay  Uruguay