# Rowing at the 1987 Summer Universiade

Rowing was contested at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb in Yugoslavia.

## Medal summary
### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Romania | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | West Germany | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | China | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 14 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls | Steffen Zühlke East Germany 7:28.57 | Vasil Radev Bulgaria 7:35.34 | Marco Savino Italy 7:38.85 |
| Quadruple sculls | Poland (POL) Tomasz Świątek Mirosław Mruk Sławomir Cieślakowski Andrzej Krzepiński 6:15.07 | Soviet Union (URS) Pavel Krupko Gennady Martisov Oleg Kiz Valery Andrusenko 6:18.52 | Yugoslavia (YUG) Marko Banović Goran Mikalacki Davor Duricković Nikša Prizmić 6:21.40 |
| Lightweight single sculls | Frans Göbel Netherlands 7:32.98 | Ruggero Verroca Italy 7:33.80 | John Murphy Canada 7:35.21 |
| Lightweight double sculls | Italy (ITA) Giovanni Calabrese Enrico Gandola 6:56.09 | West Germany (FRG) Roland Ehrenfels Hartmut Schäfer 7:00.88 | Netherlands (NED) Theo Nieuweboer Jan van Bekkum 7:08.13 |
| Lightweight coxless four | Italy (ITA) Marco Bordin Franco Pantano Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta 6:43.29 | West Germany (FRG) Uwe-Karl Bender Jürgen Schäfer Norbert Schmidt Herbert Rapp 6:50.91 | France (FRA) Luc Montignon Stephane Hennebert Christophe Pacchiano Denis Viquerat 6:52.34 |
| Coxless pair | Romania (ROU) Dragoș Neagu Dănuț Dobre 7:12.42 | Brazil (BRA) Ricardo de Carvalho Ronaldo de Carvalho 7:19.92 | Italy (ITA) Marco Romano Pasquale Aiese 7:23.97 |
| Coxed four | Romania (ROU) Valentin Robu Dorel Nastase Vasile Tomoiagă Dimitrie Popescu Florin Micu 6:36.08 | Italy (ITA) Giovanni Miccoli Antonio Maurogiovanni Giuseppe Carrando Giovanni Suarez Franco Zucchi 6:38.75 | Canada (CAN) Robert Marland Jamie Schaffer Harold Backer Terrence Paul Brian Saunderson 6:40.83 |
| Eight | Italy (ITA) Sergio Caropreso Michele Savoia Walter Molea Giuseppe Di Palo Leonardo Massa Alberto Mancini Paolo Marostica Piero Carletto Vincenzo Buttino 6:04.23 | West Germany (FRG) Uwe-Wolfgang Birkner Harald Galster Detlef Glitsch Udo Hennig Thomas Palm Erik Ring Andreas Hobler Carsten Krüger Thorsten Kreis 6:05.36 | Yugoslavia (YUG) Dragan Bicanin Mirko Milakov Milan Janša Robert Krašovec Sašo Mirjanič Sadik Mujkič Bojan Prešern Daniel Ferčej Saša Mimić 6:06.00 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls | Marioara Popescu Romania 7:35.37 | Magdalena Georgieva Bulgaria 7:37.19 | Silken Laumann Canada 7:53.32 |
| Quadruple sculls | Romania (ROU) Anişoara Bălan Veronica Gogeanu Doina Ciucanu Anişoara Minea 6:32.02 | Bulgaria (BUL) Violeta Ninova Lalka Berberova Galina Anakhrieva Stefka Madina 6:37.79 | East Germany (GDR) Kriemhild Gierke Sybille Schmidt Ramona Balthasar Jana Geracik 6:41.00 |
| Lightweight single sculls | Maria Sava Romania 8:01.16 | Sanja Vermezović Yugoslavia 8:24.35 | Kris Karlson United States 8:28.08 |
| Lightweight double sculls | China (CHN) Liang Sanmei Zeng Meilan 7:43.02 | United States (USA) Nancy Dimich Cornelia Streeter 7:44.98 | West Germany (FRG) Ute-Lucie Zobeley Claudia Engels 7:51.18 |
| Lightweight coxless four | West Germany (FRG) Kristiane Zimmer Evelyn Herwegh Monika Wolf Claudia Fachinger 7:23.56 | Netherlands (NED) Daphne van der Pool Ans van Dalen Ada van der Graaff Yvette van Kooijk 7:29.77 | China (CHN) Qui Shuli Wang Renjao Wang Pingmei Yi Duanxiang 7:34.31 |
| Coxless pair | Bulgaria (BUL) Violeta Zareva Teodora Zareva 7:40.01 | Romania (ROU) Mihaela Armășescu Adriana Chelariu 7:42.98 | Netherlands (NED) Greet Hellemans Harriet van Ettekoven 7:49.20 |