# Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events. It took place in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The rowing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 27 July.
Due to the Western boycott some strong rowing nations were not present. In that situation East Germany dominated the competition: they won 14 medals, including 11 golds, from 14 events.
The quadruple sculls events, introduced in 1976, were again held without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.

## Participating nations

A total of 470 rowers from 25 nations competed at the Moscow Games:
* Australia (16)
* Austria (7)
* Brazil (10)
* Bulgaria (52)
* Cuba (17)
* Czechoslovakia (26)
* Denmark (7)
* East Germany (55)
* Spain (13)
* Finland (1)
* France (16)
* Great Britain (43)
* Greece (3)
* Guatemala (2)
* Hungary (20)
* Ireland (11)
* Italy (5)
* Mexico (1)
* Netherlands (10)
* Poland (37)
* Romania (33)
* Soviet Union (54)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (10)
* Yugoslavia (14)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 11 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 9 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Pertti Karppinen (FIN) | Vasil Yakusha (URS) | Peter Kersten (GDR) |
| Double sculls details | Joachim Dreifke and Klaus Kröppelien (GDR) | Zoran Pančić and Milorad Stanulov (YUG) | Zdeněk Pecka and Václav Vochoska (TCH) |
| Quadruple sculls (coxless) details | East Germany (GDR) Frank Dundr Carsten Bunk Uwe Heppner Martin Winter | Soviet Union (URS) Yuriy Shapochka Evgeniy Barbakov Valeriy Kleshnyov Mykola Dovhan | Bulgaria (BUL) Mincho Nikolov Lyubomir Petrov Ivo Rusev Bogdan Dobrev |
| Coxless pairs details | Bernd Landvoigt and Jörg Landvoigt (GDR) | Yuriy Pimenov and Nikolay Pimenov (URS) | Charles Wiggin and Malcolm Carmichael (GBR) |
| Coxed pairs details | East Germany (GDR) Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr (cox) | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) | Yugoslavia (YUG) Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent Josip Reić (cox) |
| Coxless fours details | East Germany (GDR) Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Jürgen Thiele | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksey Kamkin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksandr Kulagin Vitali Eliseev | Great Britain (GBR) John Beattie Ian McNuff David Townsend Martin Cross |
| Coxed four details | East Germany (GDR) Dieter Wendisch Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Gottfried Döhn Andreas Gregor (cox) | Soviet Union (URS) Artūrs Garonskis Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Žoržs Tikmers Juris Bērziņš (cox) | Poland (POL) Grzegorz Stellak Adam Tomasiak Grzegorz Nowak Ryszard Stadniuk Ryszard Kubiak (cox) |
| Eights details | East Germany (GDR) Bernd Krauß Hans-Peter Koppe Ulrich Kons Jörg Friedrich Jens Doberschütz Ulrich Karnatz Uwe Dühring Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox) | Great Britain (GBR) Duncan McDougall Allan Whitwell Henry Clay Chris Mahoney Andrew Justice John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Richard Stanhope Colin Moynihan (cox) | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Kokoshyn Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko Jonas Pinskus Jonas Narmontas Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenka Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox) |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Sanda Toma (ROM) | Antonina Zelikovich (URS) | Martina Schröter (GDR) |
| Double sculls details | Yelena Khloptseva and Larisa Popova (URS) | Cornelia Linse and Heidi Westphal (GDR) | Olga Homeghi and Valeria Răcilă (ROM) |
| Quadruple sculls (coxed) details | East Germany (GDR) Sybille Reinhardt Jutta Ploch Jutta Lau Roswietha Zobelt Liane Buhr | Soviet Union (URS) Antonina Pustovit Yelena Matiyevskaya Olga Vasilchenko Nadezhda Lyubimova Nina Cheremisina | Bulgaria (BUL) Mariana Serbezova Rumelyana Boncheva Dolores Nakova Anka Bakova Anka Georgieva |
| Coxless pairs details | Ute Steindorf and Cornelia Klier (GDR) | Małgorzata Dłużewska and Czesława Kościańska (POL) | Siika Barboulova and Stoyanka Kurbatova (BUL) |
| Coxed four details | East Germany (GDR) Ramona Kapheim Silvia Fröhlich Angelika Noack Romy Saalfeld Kirsten Wenzel | Bulgaria (BUL) Ginka Gyurova Mariyka Modeva Rita Todorova Iskra Velinova Nadiya Filipova | Soviet Union (URS) Mariya Fadeyeva Galina Sovetnikova Marina Studneva Svetlana Semyonova Nina Cheremisina |
| Eights details | East Germany (GDR) Martina Boesler Christiane Knetsch Gabriele Kühn Karin Metze Kersten Neisser Ilona Richter Marita Sandig Birgit Schütz Marina Wilke | Soviet Union (URS) Nina Frolova Mariya Payun Olga Pivovarova Nina Preobrazhenskaya Nadezhda Prishchepa Tatyana Stetsenko Elena Tereshina Nina Umanets Valentina Zhulina | Romania (ROM) Angelica Aposteanu Elena Bondar Florica Bucur Maria Constantinescu Elena Dobrițoiu Rodica Frîntu Ana Iliuță Rodica Pușcatu Marlena Zagoni |