Claim: The rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics' women's events was barely dominated by athletes from East Germany, also known as the German Democratic Republic, bringing home four gold medals out of the six events.
Evidence: Gold Sybille Reinhardt
Jutta Ploch
Jutta Lau
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Buhr Rowing Women's Quadruple Sculls Gold Ute Steindorf
Cornelia Klier Rowing Women's Coxless Pairs Gold Ramona Kapheim
Silvia Fröhlich
Angelika Noack
Romy Saalfeld
Kirsten Wenzel Rowing Women's Coxed Fours Gold Martina Boesler
Kersten Neisser
Christiane Köpke
Birgit Schütz
Gabriele Kühn
Ilona Richter
Marita Sandig
Karin Metze
Marina Wilke Rowing Women's Eights Single sculls
details Double sculls
details Quadruple sculls (coxed)
details East Germany (GDR)
Sybille Reinhardt
Jutta Ploch
Jutta Lau
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Buhr Coxless pairs
details Coxed four
details East Germany (GDR)
Ramona Kapheim
Silvia Fröhlich
Angelika Noack
Romy Saalfeld
Kirsten Wenzel Eights
details East Germany (GDR)
Martina Boesler
Christiane Knetsch
Gabriele Kühn
Karin Metze
Kersten Neisser
Ilona Richter
Marita Sandig
Birgit Schütz
Marina Wilke