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 American-led 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.

## Medals

|**Pos**|**Country:**|!align="center" bgcolor="gold"|**Gold:**|!align="center" bgcolor="silver"|**Silver:**|!align="center" bgcolor="CC9966"|**Bronze:**|**Total: **|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|GDR|11|1|2|14||||
|2|USSR|1|9|2|12||||
|3|Romania|1|0|2|3||||
|4|Finland|1|0|0|1||||
|5|Bulgaria|0|1|3|4||||
|6|Great Britain|0|1|2|3||||
|7|Poland|0|1|1|2||||
|Yugoslavia|0|1|1|2|||||
|9|Czechoslovakia|0|0|1|1||||

### Four-oars with coxswain

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Dieter Wendisch,Ullrich Diessner,Walter Diessner,Gottfried Dohn,Andreas Gregor|GDR|6'14"51|
|2|Artur Garonskis,Dimant Krishianis,Dzintars Krishianis,Zhorzh Tikmers,Yuris Berzynsh|USSR|6'19"05|
|3|Grzegorz Stellak,Adam Tomasiak,Grzegorz Nowak,Ryszard Stadniuk,Ryszard Kubiak|Poland|6'22"52|

### Double sculls

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Joachim Dreifke,Klaus Kroppelien|GDR|6'24"33|
|2|Zoran Pancic,Milorad Stanulov|Yugoslavia|6'26"34|
|3|Zdenek Pecka,Vaclav Vochoska|Czechoslovakia|6'29"07|

### Coxswainless pair-oars

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Bernd Landvoigt,Jörg Landvoigt|GDR|6'48"01|
|2|Yury Pimenov,Nikolay Pimenov|USSR|6'50"50|
|3|Charles Wiggin,Malcolm Carmichael|Great Britain|6'51"47|

### Single sculls

|**Final Rank**|**Athlete**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Pertti Karppinen|Finland|7'09"61|
|2|Vasily Yakusha|USSR|7'11"66|
|3|Peter Kersten|GDR|7'14"88|

### Pair-oars with coxswain

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Harald Jahrling,Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich,Georg Spohr|GDR|7'02"54|
|2|Viktor Pereverzev,Gennady Kryuchkin,Aleksandr Lukyanov|USSR|7'03"35|
|3|Dusko Mrduljas,Zlatko Celent,Josip Reic|Yugoslavia|7'04"92|

### Coxswainless four-oars

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Jurgen Thiele,Andreas Decker,Stefan Semmler,Siegfried Brietzke|GDR|6'08"17|
|2|Aleksei Kamkin,Valery Dolinin,Aleksandr Kulagin,Vitaly Yeliseyev|USSR|6'11"81|
|3|John Beattie,Ian Monuff,David Townsend,Martin Cross|Great Britain|6'16"58|

### Coxswainless quadruple sculls

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Frank Dundr,Karsten Bunk,Uwe Heppner,Martin Winter|GDR|5'49"81|
|2|Yuri Shapochka,Yevgeny Barbakov,Valery Kleshnev,Nikolai Dovgan|USSR|5'51"47|
|3|Mintcho Nikolov,Lubomir Petrov,Ivo Roussev,Bogdan Dobrev|Bulgaria|5'52"38|

### Eight-oars with coxswain

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Bernd Krauss,Hans-Peter Koppe,Ulrich Kons,Jorg Friedrich,Jens Doberschutz,Ulrich Karnatz,Uwe Duhring,Berno Hoing,Klaus-Dieter Ludwig|GDR|5'49"05|
|2|Duncan McDougall,Allan Whitwell,Henry Clay,Chris Mahoney,Andrew Justice,John Pritchard,Malcolm McGowan,Richard Stanhope,Colin Moynihan|Great Britain|5'51"92|
|3|Viktor Kokdshin,Andrey Tishchenko,Aleksandr Tkachenko,Jonas Pintskus,Jonas Normantas,Andrei Lugin,Aleksandr Mantsevich,Igor Maistrenko,Grigory Dmitrienko|USSR|5'52"66|

### Four-oars with coxswain

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Ramona Kapheim,Silvia Frohlich,Angelika Noack,Romy Saalfeld,Kirsten Wenzel|GDR|3'19"27|
|2|Ghinka Ghurova,Mariika Modeva,Rita Todorova,Iskra Velinova,Nadejda Filipova|Bulgaria|3'20"92|
|3|Mariya Fadeyeva,Galina Sovetnikova,Marina Studneva,Svetlana Semyonova,Nina Cheremisina|USSR|3'20"92|

### Double sculls

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Yelena Khloptseva,Larisa Popova|USSR|3'16"27|
|2|Cornelia Linse,Heidi Westphal|GDR|3'17"63|
|3|Olga Homeghi,Valeria Rosca Racila|Romania|3'18"91|

### Coxswainless pair-oars

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Ute Steindorf,Cornelia Klier|GDR|3'30"49|
|2|Malgorzata Dluzewska,Czeslawa Koscianska|Poland|3'30"95|
|3|Siika Barboulova,Stoyanka Kubatova|Bulgaria|3'32"39|

### Single sculls

|**Final Rank**|**Athlete**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Sanda Toma|Romania|3'40"69|
|2|Antonina Makhina|USSR|3'41"65|
|3|Martina Schroter|GDR|3'43"54|

### Quadruple sculls with coxswain

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Subille Reinhardt,Jutta Ploch,Jutta Lau,Roswietha Zobelt,Liane Buhr|GDR|3'15"32|
|2|Antonina Pustovit,Yelena Matievskaya,Olga Vasilchenko,Nadezhda Lyubimova,Nina Cheremisina|USSR|3'15"73|
|3|Mariana Serbezova,Roumeliana Bontcheva,Doloress Nakova,Anka Bakova,Anka Gheorghieva|Bulgaria|3'16"10|

### Eight-oars with coxswain

|**Final Rank**|**Athletes**|**Country**|**Time**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Martina Boesler,Kersten Neisser,Christiane Kopke,Birgit Schutz,Gabriele Kuhn,Ilona Richter,Marita Sandig,Karin Metze,Marina Wilke|GDR|3'03"32|
|2|Olga Pivovarova,Nina Umanets,Nadezhda Prishchepa,Valentina Zhulina,Tatyana Stetsenko,Yelena Tereshina,Nina Preobrazhenskaya,Mariya Pazyun,Nina Frolova|USSR|3'04"29|
|3|Angelica Aposteanu,Marlena Zagoni,Rodica Frintu,Florica Bucur,Rodica Puscatu,Ana lliuta,Maria Constantinescu,Elena Bondar,Elena Dobritoiu|Romania|3'05"63|
Note:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.