1979 World Rowing Championships

The 8th World Rowing Championships were held in 1979 at Bled in Slovenia, Yugoslavia.^[1]

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M1x	Finland Pertti Karppinen	06:58.27	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	07:04.60	East Germany Ruediger Reiche	07:06.55
M2x	Norway Alf Hansen(b) Frank Hansen (s)	06:26.98	Czechoslovakia Zdenek Pecka (b) Vaclav Vochoska (s)	06:30.46	East Germany Moll (b) Martin Winter (s)	06:32.01
M4x	East Germany Peter KERSTEN(b) Klaus KROEPPELIEN(2) Karl-Heinz BUSSERT(3) Joachim DREIFKE(s)	05:50.70	West Germany (b) (2) (3) (s)	05:54.16	France (b) (2) (3) (s)	05:57.80
M2-	East Germany Bernd Landvoigt (b) Jörg Landvoigt (s)	06:42.63	Soviet Union Yuri Pimenov (b) Nikolay Pimenov (s)	06:45.76	Switzerland Stefan Netzle (b) Hans Trümpler(s)	06:48.67
M2+	East Germany Gert UEBELER (b) Hermann PFEIFER(s) Georg SPOHR(c)	07:06.35	Czechoslovakia (b) (s) ] (c)	07:06.95	United States (b) (s) (c)	07:09.90
M4-	East Germany Wolfgang MAGER(b) Stefan SEMMLER(2) Andreas DECKER(3) Siegfried BRIETZKE(s)	06:00.64	Czechoslovakia (b) (2) (3) (s)	06:05.30	United Kingdom (b) (2) (3) (s)	06:06.65
M4+	East Germany Bernd SCHLUFTER (b) Walter DIESSNER(2) Jens DOBERSCHUETZ(3) Ullrich DIESSNER(s) Werner LUTZ(c)	06:27.24	Soviet Union (b) (2) (3) (s) (c)	06:29.23	West Germany (b) (2) (3) (s) (c)	06:31.32
M8+	East Germany Dietmar SCHILLER (b) Joerg FRIEDRICH(2) Werner WENZEL(3) Friedrich ULLRICH(4) Bernd HOEING(5) Ulrich KARNATZ(6) Bernd KRAUSS(7) (s) Ortwin RODEWALD(c)	05:36.41	New Zealand (b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)	05:39.92	Soviet Union (b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)	05:40.69
Women's Events
W1x	Romania Sandra Toma	03:35.44	East Germany Martina Schroeter	03:38.67	Netherlands Borrias	03:39.61
W2x	East Germany Cornelia Linse (b) Heidi Westphal (s)	03:15.95	Bulgaria Svetla Otsetova (b) Sdravka Jordanova (s)	03:16.31	Romania Valeria Racila (b) Olga Homeghi (s)	03:17.68
W4x+	East Germany Sybille REINHARDT - TIETZE (b) Christine ROEPKE(2) Jutta LAU(3) Roswietha REICHEL - ZOBELT(s) Liane BUHR - WEIGEL (c)	03:06.75	Bulgaria NN[disambiguation needed ] (b) NN2 (2) NN3 (3) NN4 (s) NN5 (c)	03:07.04	Romania NN[disambiguation needed ] (b) NN2 (2) NN3 (3) NN4 (s) NN5 (c)	03:08.06
W2-	East Germany Cornelia Buegel(b) Ute Steindorf (s)	03:27.74	Romania Florica Dospinescu (b) Elena Oprea (s)	03:30.44	Poland Malgzata Dluzewska (b) Czeslawa Koscianska (s)	03:32.30
W4+	Soviet Union Valentina SEMENOVA(b) Svetlana SEMENOVA(2) Galina STEPANOVA(3) Maria FADEJEVA(s) Nina TCHEREMISINA(c)	03:17.03	East Germany NN[disambiguation needed ] (b) NN2 (2) NN3 (3) NN4 (s) NN5 (c)	03:18.25	Romania NN[disambiguation needed ] (b) NN2 (2) NN3 (3) NN4 (s) NN5 (c)	03:19.98
W8+	Soviet Union Nina ANTONIUK (b) Tatiana BUNJAK(2) Nadejda DERGATCHENKO(3) Valentina JERMAKOVA(4) Maria PAZJUN(5) Elena TERESHINA(6) Nina UMANETS(7) Olga PIVOVAROVA(s) Nina FROLOVA(c)	02:58.09	East Germany NN[disambiguation needed ] (b) NN2 (2) NN3 (3) NN4 (4) NN5 (5) NN6 (6) NN7 (7) NN8 (s) NN9 (c)	02:59.36	United States NN[disambiguation needed ] (b) NN2 (2) NN3 (3) NN4 (4) NN5 (5) NN6 (6) NN7 (7) NN8 (s) NN9 (c)	02:59.91

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	9	3	2	14
2	Soviet Union	2	2	1	5
3	Romania	1	1	3	5
4	Finland	1	0	0	1
4	Norway	1	0	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia	0	3	0	3
7	West Germany	0	2	1	3
8	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
9	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
10	United States	0	0	2	2
11	France	0	0	1	1
11	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
11	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
11	Poland	0	0	1	1
11	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

Preceded by Hamilton 1978

World Rowing Championships Bled 1979

Succeeded by Hazewinkel 1980

References

1. ^ FISA - The Official World Rowing Database. "1979 World Championships - Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia" (in English). http://80.83.47.230/n_results_details.fwx?mclass=M1x&mid_compet=244&mracenr=&Cname=1979%20World%20Championships%20-%20Bled%20Blejsko%20jezero,%20Slovenia. 

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