# 1989 World Rowing Championships

The 1989 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 2 to 10 September 1989 at Lake Bled near Bled in SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| M1x | East Germany Thomas Lange | 6:58.14 | Czechoslovakia Václav Chalupa | 7:01.05 | Soviet Union Jüri Jaanson | 7:01.31 |
| M2x | Norway Rolf Thorsen Lars Bjønness | 6:23.40 | Netherlands Ronald Florijn Nico Rienks | 6:24.68 | Austria Christoph Zerbst Arnold Jonke | 6:25.80 |
| M4x | Netherlands Hans Kelderman Koos Maasdijk Herman van den Eerenbeemt Rutger Arisz | 6:03.99 | Italy Gianluca Farina Filippo Soffici Davide Tizzano Giovanni Calabrese | 6:04.26 | Sweden Per-Olof Claesson David Svensson Tommy Österlund Fredrik Hultén | 6:05.66 |
| M2+ | Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua | 6:54.81 | Romania Dragoș Neagu Ioan Șnep Marin Gheorghe | 6:56.90 | Yugoslavia Milan Janša Robert Krašovec Gorazd Slilvnik | 6:57.97 |
| M2- | East Germany Thomas Jung Uwe Kellner | 6:39.95 | Great Britain Simon Berrisford Steve Redgrave | 6:42.84 | Austria Karl Sinzinger Jr Hermann Bauer | 6:43.40 |
| M4+ | Romania Vasile Năstase Dimitrie Popescu Valentin Robu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe | 6:14.90 | Czechoslovakia Michal Šubrt Pavel Menšík Dušan Vičík Dušan Macháček Jiří Pták | 6:17.37 | Great Britain Stephen Turner Matthew Pinsent Gavin Stewart Terence Dillon Vaughan Thomas | 6:17.57 |
| M4- | East Germany Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster | 6:06.94 | United States Raoul Rodriguez Jack Rusher Thomas Bohrer Richard Kennelly | 6:07.92 | New Zealand Bill Coventry Ian Wright Alastair Mackintosh Campbell Clayton-Greene | 6:08.63 |
| M8+ | West Germany Jörg Puttlitz Norbert Keßlau Martin Steffes-Mies Dirk Balster Frank Dietrich Marc Mauerwerk Ansgar Wessling Roland Baar Manfred Klein | 5:43.88 | East Germany Stefan Schulz Mario Grüssel Roland Schröder Thomas Woddow Mario Kliesch [de] Holger Rose Thomas Bänsch Hans Sennewald Peter Thiede | 5:45.70 | Great Britain Tim Foster Matt Brittin Jim Walker Anton Obholzer Jonny Singfield Richard Phelps Jonny Searle Jonathan Hulls Adrian Ellison | 5:47.01 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Netherlands Frans Göbel | 7:17.07 | Belgium Wim Van Belleghem | 7:20.03 | West Germany Alwin Otten | 7:21.80 |
| LM2x | Austria Christoph Schmölzer Walter Rantasa | 7:03.33 | Spain José María de Marco Pérez Fernando Climent | 7:03.53 | Czechoslovakia Petr Kováč Tibor Groeppel | 7:04.68 |
| LM4x | West Germany Peter Uhrig Jan Fischer Björn Gehlsen Thomas Melges | 6:04.78 | Switzerland Reto Fierz Philipp Ferlber Cirillo Ghielmetti Markus Gier | 6:07.24 | France Bruno Boucher Bruno Lebeda Rolland Galliac Thierry Renault | 6:07.50 |
| LM4- | West Germany Klaus Altena Stephan Fahrig Michael Buchheit Bernhard Stomporowski | 6:28.70 | Italy Nerio Gainotti Alfredo Striani Dario Longhin Mauro Torta | 6:32.36 | Great Britain Nicholas Strange Nicholas Howe Rob Williams Stuart Forbes | 6:34.35 |
| LM8+ | Italy Enrico Barbaranelli Roberto Romanini Franco Falossi Danilo Fraquelli Vittorio Torcellan Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Giuseppe Lamberti | 5:47.95 | Denmark Bo Vestergaard Svend Blitskov Jens Lindhardt Lars Rasmussen Flemming Meyer Michael Sørensen Vagn Nielsen Niels Henriksen Stephen Masters | 5:49.38 | West Germany Alexander Trautmann Felix Prinz Detlef Glitsch Ingo Grevenmeyer Udo Hennig Sebastian Franke Thomas Palm Erik Ring Jörg Dederding | 5:51.15 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| W1x | Romania Elisabeta Lipă | 7:27.96 | East Germany Birgit Peter | 7:31.47 | Hungary Katalin Sarlós | 7:34.15 |
| W2x | East Germany Jana Sorgers-Rau Beate Schramm | 7:01.71 | Romania Veronica Cochela Elisabeta Lipă | 7:07.32 | Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Magdalena Georgieva | 7:11.55 |
| W4x | East Germany Kathrin Boron Sybille Schmidt Jutta Behrendt Jana Thieme | 6:16.62 | Soviet Union Nataliya Kvasha Mariya Omelianovych Svitlana Maziy Irina Kalimbet | 6:22.39 | Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Magdalena Georgieva Galina Yahorova Krasimira Tocheva | 6:23.63 |
| W2- | East Germany Kathrin Haacker Judith Zeidler | 7:26.97 | Romania Doina Șnep-Bălan Marioara Curelea | 7:30.70 | West Germany Stefani Werremeier Ingeburg Schwerzmann | 7:31.13 |
| W4- | East Germany Christiane Harzendorf Ina Justh Annegret Strauch Ute Wagner | 6:45.81 | China Cao Mianying Hu Yadong Liu Xirong Zhou Shouying | 6:48.45 | Romania Adriana Chelariu Mihaela Armășescu Livia Leonte Viorica Neculai | 6:50.58 |
| W8+ | Romania Anișoara Bălan Marioara Curelea Anca Tănase Georgeta Soare Adriana Chelariu Viorica Neculai Livia Leonte Mihaela Armășescu Ecaterina Oancia | 6:07.92 | East Germany Liane Justh Ute Wild Ina Grapenthin Annette Hohn Anja Kluge Katrin Schröder Ramona Balthasar Martina Walther Daniela Neunast | 6:08.19 | China Cao Mianying Zhou Xiuhua Liu Xirong He Yanwen Guo Guo Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua | 6:11.84 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | United States Kristine Karlson | 8:01.12 | Belgium Rita Defauw | 8:03.14 | Netherlands Laurien Vermulst | 8:04.78 |
| LW2x | United States Carey Sands-Marden Kristine Karlson | 7:11.04 | New Zealand Philippa Baker Linda de Jong | 7:13.70 | West Germany Christiane Weber Alrun Urbach | 7:14.94 |
| LW4- | China Liang Sanmei Zeng Meilan Zhang Huajie Lin Zhiai | 7:01.70 | Great Britain Sue Key Rachel Hirst Joanna Toch Katharine Brownlow | 7:04.88 | West Germany Karin Zobeley Cornelia Cichy Ute Zobeley Claudia Engels | 7:06.12 |

## Medal table

| Place | Nation | | | | Total |
| 1 | East Germany | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | Romania | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | West Germany | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | Italy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | United States | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | China | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Austria | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Belgium | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Sinzinger Sr is shown in the World Rowing database as having competed in this race, but that's wrong. The senior would have been 48 at the time; the junior was competing at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. Just one of the many errors in their database.