# 1996 World Rowing Championships

The 1996 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held on 11 August 1996 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Motherwell, Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. The event took place at Strathclyde Country Park. Since 1996 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| M4+ | Romania Dorin Alupei Gabriel Marin Iulică Ruican Viorel Talapan Alexei Raducanu (c) | 6:25.74 | Czech Republic Dusan Businsky Michal Dalecký Pavel Malinsky Lubomir Skalicky Oldřich Hejdušek (c) | 6:26.76 | Russia Vladimir Andreyev Aleksandr Litvinchev Gennadiy Mulitsa Evgeniy Ovtcharov Aleksey Mitienko (c) | 6:28.17 |
| M2+ | France Luc Prévot Yannick Schulte Christophe Tellier (c) | 7:18.26 | Romania Dimitrie Popescu Nicolae Țaga Dumitru Răducanu (c) | 7:18.96 | Netherlands Remco Schnieders Leofwin Visman Chun Wei Cheung (c) | 7:22.33 |
| Men's lightweight events |||||||
| LM1x | Denmark Karsten Nielsen | 7:35.72 | Czech Republic Tomáš Kacovský | 7:36.01 | Finland Heikki Haavikko | 7:37.15 |
| LM4x | Italy Lorenzo Bertini Paolo Pittino Franco Sancassani Massimo Guglielmi | 06:10.11 | Germany Oliver Ibielski Alexander Lutz Andreas Lutz Frank Mager | 6:11.53 | France Frederic Ceresoli Frédéric Dufour Thierry Richard Pascal Touron | 6:11.82 |
| LM2- | Denmark Thomas Ebert Bo Helleberg | 7:06.34 | Ireland Neville Maxwell Tony O'Connor | 7:09.25 | Germany Tobias Müller Oliver Rau | 7:10.73 |
| LM8+ | Germany Andreas Bech Matthias Edeler Dirk Jenny Stefan Locher Marcus Mielke Teja Töpfer Vladimir Vukelic Uwe Maerz Klaus Klotz (c) | 5:55.06 | Denmark Jens Christensen Thomas Croft Buck Wilhelm Drexel Jorn Hamdorf Morten Hansen Skov Søren Henrichsen Jeppe Jensen Kollat Michael Jensen Dennis Larsen (c) | 5:56.96 | Canada Jon Beare Ross Beattie Chris Davidson Len Diplock Graham Mclaren Ben Storey Bryan Thompson Edward Winchester Chris Taylor (c) | 5:59.47 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| W4- | United States Emily Dirksen Sara Field Amy Turner Rosana Zegarra | 6:49.48 | Romania Liliana Gafencu Doina Ignat Elisabeta Lipă Marioara Ciobanu-Popescu | 6:51.36 | Germany Claudia Barth Gerte John Doreen Martin Lenka Wech | 6:55.15 |
| Women's lightweight events |||||||
| LW1x | Romania Constanța Burcică | 8:06.90 | France Benedicte Dorfman - Luzuy | 8:07.66 | United States Sarah Garner | 8:09.74 |
| LW2- | United States Christine Smith-Collins Ellen Minzner | 7:56.66 | Great Britain Alison Brownless Jane Hall | 8:02.71 | Romania Camelia Macoviciuc Maria Sava | 8:03.31 |
| LW4- | China Liu Bili Liu Mei Ling Wang Fang Zhong Aifang | 7:08.56 | Great Britain Patricia Corless Robyn Morris Malindi Myers Jo Nitsch | 7:09.55 | United States Kari Green Julie McCleery Whitney Post Sarah Simmons | 7:11.10 |

## Medal table

| Place | Nation | | | | Total |
| 1 | Romania | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Denmark | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | United States | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |