1981 World Rowing Championships

The 10th World Rowing Championships were held in 1981 at Oberschleißheim outside Münich, Germany.^[1]

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M1x	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	7:45.32	East Germany Rüdiger Reiche	7:48.90	United States John Biglow	7:51.55
M2x	East Germany Klaus Kroeppelien (b) Joachim Dreifke (s)	6:41.99	Finland Reima Karppinen (b) Pertti Karppinen (s)	6:44.06	Norway Rolf Thorsen (b) Alf Hansen (s)	6:44.61
M4x	East Germany Peter Kersten (b) Karl-Heinz Bussert (2) Uwe Heppner (3) Martin Winter (s)	6:11.37	Soviet Union Igor Iarkov (b) Sergei Shevtchenko (2) Vladimir Koldishkn (3) Alecander Sdravomislov (s)	6:14.58	France Denis Gate (b) Jean-Raymond Peltier (2) Charles Imbert (3) Marc Boudoux (s)	6:17.45
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale (b) Giuseppe Abbagnale (s) Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	7:43.73	East Germany Karsten Schmeling (b) Jürgen Seyfarth (s) Hendrik Reiher (c)	7:46.22	United Kingdom Thomas Cadoux-Hudson (b) Richard Budgett (s) Adrian Ellison (c)	7:47.03
M2-	Soviet Union Yuri Pimenov (b) Nikolai Pimenov (s)	7:15.06	Netherlands Willem Jan Atsma (b) Ted Bosman (s)	7:20.04	Italy Antonio Baldacci (b) Ezio Pacovich (s) (s)	7:23.28
M4+	East Germany Dietmar Schiller (b) Jörg Friedrich (2) Bernd Niesecke (3) Harald Jährling (s) Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (c)	6:36.88	United States Andy Sudduth (b) Thomas Woodman (2) John Everett (3) Fred Borchelt (s) Robert Jaugstetter (c)	6:39.68	Soviet Union Viktor Omeljanovitch (b) Dimants Krisjanis (2) Dzintars Krishyanis (3) Dzorzes Tikmers (s) Juris Berzins (c)	6:40.52
M4-	Soviet Union Alexei Kamkin (b) Valeri Dolinin (2) Aleksander Kulagin (3) Vitali Eliseev (s)	6:35.85	Switzerland Bruno Saile (b) Jürg Weitnauer (2) Hans-Konrad Trümpler (3) Stefan Netzle (s)	6:41.47	East Germany Klaus Büttner (b) Hans-Peter Koppe (2) Jens Doberschütz (3) Uwe Gasch (s)	6:43.07
M8+	Soviet Union Zigmantas Gudauskas (b) Nikolai Solomakhin (2) Vladimir Krilov (3) Viktor Deduk (4) Stasis Narushaitis (5) Ionas Narmontas (6) Ionas Pinskus (7) Igor Maistrenko (s) Vladimir Nizhegorodov (c)	6:02.30	United Kingdom Mark Andrews (b) Christopher Mahoney (2) Colin Seymour (3) John Bland (4) Andrew Justice (5) John Pritchard (6) Malcolm McGowan (7) Richard Stanhope (s) Colin Moynihan (c)	6:04.31	United States Daniel Lyons (b) John Zevenbergen (2) Thomas Kiefer (3) James McDougall (4) John Phinney (5) Dave Clark (6) Charles Clapp III (7) Matthew Labine (s) Seth Bauer (c)	6:06.13
Mens's Lightweight Events
LM1x	United States Scott Roop	7:22.90	Austria Raimund Haberl	7:25.30	Canada Brian Thorne	7:27.16
LM2x	Italy Francesco Esposito (b) Ruggero Verroca (s)	6:42.17	United States Paul Fuchs Jr (b) William Belden Sr (s)	6:44.22	Denmark Leif Kruse (b) Bjarne Eltang (s)	6:48.95
LM4-	Australia Graham Gardiner (b) Charles Bartlett (2) Clyde Hefer (3) Simon Gillett (s)	6:22.32	Netherlands Peter Van Berkel (b) Richard Helsloot (2) Willem Appeldoorn (3) Paul Paulsen (s)	6:24.04	Canada Robert Gibson (b) Timothy Turner (2) James Relle (3) Patrick Turner (s)	6:26.60
LM8+	(b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)
Women's Events
W1x	'
W2x	(b) (s)		(b) (s)		(b) (s)
W4x+	(b) (2) (3) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (s) (c)
W2-	(b) (s)		(b) (s)		(b) (s)
W4+	(b) (2) (3) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (s) (c)
W8+	(b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)		(b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
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Total

Preceded by Hazewinkel 1980

World Rowing Championships Münich 1981

Succeeded by Lucerne 1982

References

1. ^ FISA - The Official World Rowing Database. "1981 World Championships - Münich Oberschleißheim, Germany". http://80.83.47.230/n_results.fwx?p_idcompet=252&p_sexe=all&p_class=finalists&p_boat=oui&p_auto=1. 

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