# Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal featured races in 14 events, all held at the rowing basin on Notre Dame Island. Women's events held at 1000 m debuted (they would be lengthened to the men's events of 2000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul).
There was a desire by the IOC's program commission to reduce the number of competitors and a number of recommendations were put to the IOC's executive board on 23 February 1973, which were all accepted. Rowing was the only sport where the number of competitors was increased, and women were admitted for the first time in Olympic history. The quadruple sculls events were introduced at this Olympics, without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.

## Participating nations

A total of 593 rowers from 31 nations competed at the Montreal Games:
* Argentina (10)
* Australia (13)
* Austria (3)
* Belgium (7)
* Brazil (7)
* Bulgaria (33)
* Canada (46)
* Cuba (14)
* Czechoslovakia (34)
* Denmark (7)
* East Germany (54)
* Finland (7)
* France (17)
* Great Britain (31)
* Hungary (8)
* Ireland (10)
* Italy (15)
* Japan (9)
* Mexico (1)
* Netherlands (24)
* New Zealand (18)
* Norway (14)
* Poland (22)
* Romania (21)
* Soviet Union (55)
* Sweden (3)
* Switzerland (4)
* United States (54)
* Uruguay (1)
* West Germany (44)
* Yugoslavia (7)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | United States (USA) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Pertti Karppinen (FIN) | Peter-Michael Kolbe (FRG) | Joachim Dreifke (GDR) |
| Double sculls details | Frank Hansen and Alf Hansen (NOR) | Chris Baillieu and Michael Hart (GBR) | Jürgen Bertow and Uli Schmied (GDR) |
| Quadruple sculls (coxless) details | East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Güldenpfennig Rüdiger Reiche Karl-Heinz Bußert Michael Wolfgramm | Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Duleyev Yuriy Yakimov Aivars Lazdenieks Vytautas Butkus | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jaroslav Hellebrand Václav Vochoska Zdeněk Pecka Vladek Lacina |
| Coxless pairs details | Bernd Landvoigt and Jörg Landvoigt (GDR) | Calvin Coffey and Mike Staines (USA) | Peter van Roye and Thomas Strauß (FRG) |
| Coxed pairs details | East Germany (GDR) Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr | Soviet Union (URS) Dmitry Bekhterev Yuriy Shurkalov Yuriy Lorentsson | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Ludvík Vébr |
| Coxless fours details | East Germany (GDR) Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Wolfgang Mager | Norway (NOR) Ole Nafstad Arne Bergodd Finn Tveter Rolf Andreassen | Soviet Union (URS) Raul Arnemann Nikolay Kuznetsov Valeriy Dolinin Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov |
| Coxed four details | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Eshinov Nikolay Ivanov Mikhail Kuznetsov Aleksandr Klepikov Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) Aleksandr Sema | East Germany (GDR) Andreas Schulz Rüdiger Kunze Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Johannes Thomas (cox) | West Germany (FRG) Hans-Johann Färber Ralph Kubail Siegfried Fricke Peter Niehusen Hartmut Wenzel (cox) |
| Eights details | East Germany (GDR) Bernd Baumgart Gottfried Döhn Werner Klatt Hans-Joachim Lück Dieter Wendisch Roland Kostulski Ulrich Karnatz Karl-Heinz Prudöhl Karl-Heinz Danielowski | Great Britain (GBR) Richard Lester John Yallop Timothy Crooks Hugh Matheson David Maxwell Jim Clark Frederick Smallbone Lenny Robertson Patrick Sweeney | New Zealand (NZL) Ivan Sutherland Trevor Coker Peter Dignan Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Dave Rodger Alec McLean Tony Hurt Simon Dickie |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single scull details | Christine Scheiblich (GDR) | Joan Lind (USA) | Yelena Antonova (URS) |
| Double scull details | Svetla Otsetova and Zdravka Yordanova (BUL) | Sabine Jahn and Petra Boesler (GDR) | Eleonora Kaminskaitė and Genovaitė Ramoškienė (URS) |
| Quadruple scull (coxed) details | East Germany (GDR) Anke Borchmann Jutta Lau Viola Poley Roswietha Zobelt Liane Weigelt | Soviet Union (URS) Anna Kondrachina Mira Bryunina Larisa Alexandrova Galina Ermolaeva Nadezhda Chernyshyova | Romania (ROU) Ioana Tudoran Maria Micșa Felicia Afrăsiloaie Elisabeta Lazăr Elena Giurcă |
| Coxless pair details | Siyka Kelbecheva and Stoyanka Gruycheva (BUL) | Angelika Noack and Sabine Dähne (GDR) | Edith Eckbauer and Thea Einöder (FRG) |
| Coxed four details | East Germany (GDR) Karin Metze Bianka Schwede Gabriele Lohs Andrea Kurth Sabine Heß | Bulgaria (BUL) Ginka Gyurova Lilyana Vaseva Reni Yordanova Mariyka Modeva Kapka Georgieva | Soviet Union (URS) Nadezhda Sevostyanova Lyudmila Krokhina Galina Mishenina Anna Pasokha Lidiya Krylova |
| Eight details | East Germany (GDR) Viola Goretzki Christiane Knetsch Ilona Richter Brigitte Ahrenholz Monika Kallies Henrietta Ebert Helma Lehmann Irina Müller Marina Wilke | Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Talalaeva Nadezhda Roshchina Klavdija Koženkova Olena Zubko Olha Kolkova Nelli Tarakanova Nadiya Rozhon Olha Huzenko Olha Puhovska | United States (USA) Jackie Zoch Anita DeFrantz Carie Graves Marion Greig Anne Warner Peggy McCarthy Carol Brown Gail Ricketson Lynn Silliman |