# 1987 World Rowing Championships

The 1987 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 29 to 30 August 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark while it was "outrageously windy".

## Medal summary

Medalists at the 1987 World Rowing Championships were:

### Men's events

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| M1x | East Germany Thomas Lange | 7:37.48 | West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe | 7:40.76 | Finland Pertti Karppinen | 7:40.90 |
| M2- | Great Britain Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave | 7:11.20 | Romania Dragoș Neagu Dănuț Dobre | 7:12.60 | Soviet Union Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov | 7:15.98 |
| M2+ | Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) | 7:40.81 | Great Britain Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave Patrick Sweeney (cox) | 7:42.88 | Romania Dimitrie Popescu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe (cox) | 7:44.96 |
| M2x | Bulgaria Daniel Yordanov Vasil Radev | 7:03.33 | West Germany Andreas Schmelz Ralf Thienel | 7:06.33 | East Germany Uwe Sägling Uwe Heppner | 7:06.83 |
| M4- | East Germany Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster | 6:39.70 | Soviet Union Veniamin But Sigitas Kučinskas Jonas Narmontas Andrey Vasilyev | 6:41.30 | United States Ted Swinford Daniel Lyons John Riley Robert Espeseth | 6:42.46 |
| M4+ | East Germany Frank Klawonn Bernd Eichwurzel Bernd Niesecke Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (cox) | 6:41.74 | Soviet Union Viktor Omelyanovich Mykola Komarov Vladimir Romanishin Valentin Gerasimenko Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox) | 6:45.17 | Italy Antonio Maurogiovanni Giovanni Suarez Renato Gaeta Giuseppe Carando Dino Lucchetta (cox) | 6:47.30 |
| M4x | Soviet Union Valeriy Dosenko Sergey Kinyakin Mikhail Ivanov Igor Kotko | 6:11.25 | Norway Vetle Vinje Lars Bjønness Rolf Thorsen Alf Hansen | 6:13.02 | Canada Doug Hamilton Robert Mills Paul Douma Mel LaForme | 6:14.40 |
| M8+ | United States Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Michael Still Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer (cox) | 5:58.83 | East Germany Mario Kliesch [de] Dirk Rendant Thomas Bänsch Holger Rose Andreas Costrau Hans Sennewald Karsten Timm Karsten Schmeling Peter Thiede (cox) | 6:01.94 | Italy Ettore Bulgarelli Giuseppe Di Palo Antonio Baldacci Piero Carletto Giovanni Miccoli Alfredo Bollati Annibale Venier Franco Zucchi Paolo Trisciani (cox) | 6:03.61 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Belgium Wim Van Belleghem | 8:06.10 | Canada David Wright | 8:11.43 | Italy Ruggero Verroca | 8:13.80 |
| LM2x | Italy Enrico Gandola Giovanni Calabrese | 7:40.38 | France Luc Crispon Thierry Renault | 7:40.68 | Great Britain Carl Smith Allan Whitwell | 7:52.58 |
| LM4- | West Germany Thomas Palm Erik Ring Gerd Meyer Sebastian Franke | 6:42.14 | Great Britain Christopher Bates Peter Haining Neil Staite Stuart Forbes | 6:44.05 | Italy Franco Pantano Dario Longhin Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta | 6:46.10 |
| LM8+ | Italy Maurizio Losi Alfredo Striani Vittorio Torcellan Massimo Lana Stefano Spremberg Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Sebastiano Zanetti (cox) | 6:30.04 | West Germany Bernhard Stomporowski Björn Gehlsen Alwin Otten Harald Galster Detlef Glitsch Udo Hennig Andreas Hobler Wolfgang Birkner Torsten Kreis (cox) | 6:36.59 | United States Scott Petry Seymour Danberg Chris Berl Samuel Shuffler Michael Morrison John Irvine Kevin Clair Edward Hewitt Michael O'Gorman (cox) | 6:45.48 |

### Women's events

| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| W1x | Bulgaria Magdalena Georgieva | 8:59.26 | East Germany Martina Schröter | 9:14.26 | Romania Marioara Popescu | 9:20.29 |
| W2- | Romania Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi | 8:00.73 | East Germany Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild | 8:06.54 | Soviet Union Marina Pegova Nadezhda Sugako | 8:08.78 |
| W2x | Bulgaria Stefka Madina Violeta Ninova | 7:47.89 | Romania Elisabeta Lipă Liliana Genes | 7:47.99 | United States Anne Marden Barbara Kirch | 7:51.42 |
| W4+ | Romania Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Ecaterina Oancia (cox) | 7:30.12 | East Germany Birte Siech Gerlinde Doberschütz Carola Hornig Martina Walther Sylvia Müller (cox) | 7:34.09 | Bulgaria Manuela Lashilina Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Daniela Oronova Sofiya Tzvetkova (cox) | 7:40.73 |
| W4x | East Germany Kerstin Pieloth Birgit Peter Jutta Hampe Jana Sorgers | 6:58.42 | Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Krasimira Tocheva Galina Yahorova Mariana Yankulova | 7:00.90 | Soviet Union Svitlana Maziy Marina Zhukova Irina Kalimbet Antonina Zelikovich | 7:02.87 |
| W8+ | Romania Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Livia Țicanu Rodica Arba Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Olga Homeghi Lucia Toader Ecaterina Oancia (cox) | 6:55.61 | United States Anna Seaton Kristen Thorsness Christine Campbell Sarah Gengler Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Susan Broome Abigail Peck Harriet Metcalf Betsy Beard (cox) | 6:57.27 | Soviet Union Sarmīte Stone Lidiya Averyanova Irina Teterina Elena Makushkina Olena Pukhaieva Sariya Zakyrova Marina Suprun Elena Tereshina Valentina Khokhlova (cox) | 7:03.25 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Romania Maria Sava | 8:57.69 | Belgium Rita Defauw | 8:57.89 | Italy Francesca Bentivoglio | 9:05.58 |
| LW2x | Canada Janice Mason Heather Hattin | 8:36.60 | Belgium Lucia Focque Marie-Anne van der Moere | 8:41.35 | United States Carey Sands-Marden Christine Ernst | 8:51.02 |
| LW4- | United States Sandy Kendall Lindsay Burns Angela Herron Mandi Kowal | 8:08.32 | West Germany Christiane Zimmer Sonja Petri Monika Wolf Evelyn Herwegh | 8:08.66 | China Yan Dongling Long Jun Luo Hantao Zhang Xiange | 8:13.81 |