# Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four

The men's coxless four (M4-) rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 20 to 27 July.

## Heats

Winner of each heat advanced to final. The remaining teams must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the final.

### Heat One

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| 1 | Aleksey Kamkin, Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitali Eliseev | Soviet Union (URS) | 6:31.71 |
| 2 | Vojtěch Caska, Jiří Prudil, Josef Neštický, Lubomír Zapletal | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 6:43.30 |
| 3 | Georgi Georgiev, Lachezar Boychev, Kiril Kirchev, Valentin Stoev | Bulgaria (BUL) | 6:47.21 |
| 4 | Jean-Pierre Bremer, Nicolas Lourdaux, Bernard Bruand, Dominique Basset | France (FRA) | 6:50.18 |
| 5 | Mirosław Jarzembowski, Mariusz Trzciński, Henryk Trzciński, Marek Niedziałkowski | Poland (POL) | 6:55.28 |
| 6 | Wenceslao Borroto, Ismael Carbonell, Jorge Álvarez, Hermenegildo Palacio | Cuba (CUB) | 7:02.83 |

### Heat Two

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| 1 | Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Jürgen Thiele | East Germany (GDR) | 6:19.93 |
| 2 | Daniel Voiculescu, Carolică Ilieş, Petru Iosub, Nicolae Simion | Romania (ROM) | 6:32.16 |
| 3 | Jürg Weitnauer, Bruno Saile, Hans-Konrad Trümpler, Stefan Netzle | Switzerland (SUI) | 6:32.74 |
| 4 | John Beattie, Ian McNuff, David Townsend, Martin Cross | Great Britain (GBR) | 6:42.73 |
| 5 | Kent Larsson, Pär Hurtig, Jan Nicklasson, Göran Johansson | Sweden (SWE) | 6:49.78 |

## Repechage

The top two teams in each repechage heat qualified for the final.

### Heat One

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| 1 | Jürg Weitnauer, Bruno Saile, Hans-Konrad Trümpler, Stefan Netzle | Switzerland (SUI) | 6:16.07 |
| 2 | Vojtěch Caska, Jiří Prudil, Josef Neštický, Lubomír Zapletal | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 6:18.49 |
| 3 | Jean-Pierre Bremer, Nicolas Lourdaux, Bernard Bruand, Dominique Basset | France (FRA) | 6:19.21 |
| 4 | Kent Larsson, Pär Hurtig, Jan Nicklasson, Göran Johansson | Sweden (SWE) | 6:29.33 |
| 5 | Wenceslao Borroto, Ismael Carbonell, Jorge Álvarez, Hermenegildo Palacio | Cuba (CUB) | 6:40.84 |

### Heat Two

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| 1 | John Beattie, Ian McNuff, David Townsend, Martin Cross | Great Britain (GBR) | 6:12.71 |
| 2 | Daniel Voiculescu, Carolică Ilieş, Petru Iosub, Nicolae Simion | Romania (ROM) | 6:13.31 |
| 3 | Georgi Georgiev, Lachezar Boychev, Kiril Kirchev, Valentin Stoev | Bulgaria (BUL) | 6:22.57 |
| 4 | Mirosław Jarzembowski, Mariusz Trzciński, Henryk Trzciński, Marek Niedziałkowski | Poland (POL) | 6:30.26 |

## Finals
### Finals A

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| | Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Jürgen Thiele | East Germany (GDR) | 6:08.17 |
| | Aleksey Kamkin, Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitali Eliseev | Soviet Union (URS) | 6:11.81 |
| | John Beattie, Ian McNuff, David Townsend, Martin Cross | Great Britain (GBR) | 6:16.58 |
| 4 | Vojtěch Caska, Jiří Prudil, Josef Neštický, Lubomír Zapletal | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 6:18.63 |
| 5 | Daniel Voiculescu, Carolică Ilieş, Petru Iosub, Nicolae Simion | Romania (ROM) | 6:19.45 |
| 6 | Jürg Weitnauer, Bruno Saile, Hans-Konrad Trümpler, Stefan Netzle | Switzerland (SUI) | 6:26.46 |

### Finals B

| Rank | Rowers | Country | Time |
| 7 | Jean-Pierre Bremer, Nicolas Lourdaux, Bernard Bruand, Dominique Basset | France (FRA) | 6:19.06 |
| 8 | Mirosław Jarzembowski, Mariusz Trzciński, Henryk Trzciński, Marek Niedziałkowski | Poland (POL) | 6:22.31 |
| 9 | Georgi Georgiev, Lachezar Boychev, Kiril Kirchev, Valentin Stoev | Bulgaria (BUL) | 6:22.49 |
| 10 | Kent Larsson, Pär Hurtig, Jan Nicklasson, Göran Johansson | Sweden (SWE) | 6:23.61 |
| 11 | Wenceslao Borroto, Ismael Carbonell, Jorge Álvarez, Hermenegildo Palacio | Cuba (CUB) | 6:36.20 |