1989 World Rowing Championships

The 18th World Rowing Championships were held between September 2 and September 10, 1989 at Lake Bled in SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia.

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M1x	East Germany Thomas Lange	6:58.14	Czechoslovakia Václav Chalupa, Jr.	7:01.05	Soviet Union Jueri Jaanson	7:01.31
M2x	Norway Rolf Thorsen (b) Lars Bjoenness (s)	6:23.40	Netherlands Ronald Florijn (b) Nico Rienks (s)	6:24.68	Austria Christoph Zerbst (b) Arnold Jonke (s)	6:25.80
M4x	Netherlands Hans Keldermann (b) Koos Maasdijk (2) Hermanus van den Eerenbeemt (3) Ruger Arisz (s)	6:03.99	Italy Gianluca Farina (b) Filippo Soffici (2) Davide Tizzano (3) Giovanni Calabrese (s)	6:04.26	Sweden Per-Olof Claeson (b) David Svensson (2) Tommy Oesterlund (3) Fredrik Hulten (s)	6:05.66
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale (b) Giuseppe Abbagnale (s) Giuseppe di Capua (c)	6:54.81	Romania Dragos Neagu (b) Ioan Snep (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	6:56.90	Yugoslavia Milan Janša (b) Robert Krasovec (s) Gorazd Slilvnik (c)	6:57.97
M2-	East Germany Thomas Jung (b) Uwe Kellner (s)	6:39.95	Great Britain Simon Berrisford (b) Steve Redgrave (s)	6:42.84	Austria Karl Sinziger Sr (b) Herman Bauer (s)	6:43.40
M4+	Romania Vasile Nastase (b) Dimitrie Popescu (2) Valentin Robu (3) Vasile Tomoiaga (s) Marin Gheorghe (c)	6:14.90	Czechoslovakia Michal Šubrt (b) Pavel Menšík (2) Dusan Vicik (3) Dušan Macháček (s) Jiří Pták (c)	6:17.37	Great Britain Steve Turner (b) Matthew Pinsent (2) Gavin Stewart (3) Terence Dillon (s) Thomas Vaughan (c)	6:17.57
M4-	East Germany Jens Luedecke (b) Thomas Greiner (2) Ralf Brudel (3) Olaf Foerster (s)	6:06.94	United States Raul Rodriguez Jr. (b) (2) Thomas Bohrer (3) Richard Kennely Jr (s)	6:07.92	New Zealand Bill Coventry (b) Ian Wright (2) Alistair MacIntosh (3) Campbell Clayton-Greene (s)	6:08.63
M8+	West Germany Joerg Puttlitz (b) Norbert Kesslau (2) Martin Steffes-Mies (3) Dirk Balster (4) Frank Dietrich (5) Marc Mauerwerk (6) Ansgar Wessling (7) Roland Baar (s) Manfred Klein (c)	5:43.88	East Germany Stefan Schulz (b) Mario Gruessel (2) Roland Schröder (3) Thomas Woddow (4) Mario Kliesch (5) Holger Rose (6) Thomas Baensch (7) Hans Sennewald (s) Peter Thiede (c)	5:45.70	Great Britain Tim Foster (b) Matthew Brittin (2) Jim Walker (3) Anton Obholzer (4) Jonny Singfield (5) Richard Phelps (6) Jonathan Searle (7) Jonathan Hulls (s) Adrian Ellison (c)	5:47.01
LM1x	Netherlands Frans Goebel	7:17.07	Belgium Wim Van Belleghem	7:20.03	West Germany Alwin Otten	7:21.80
LM2x	Austria Christoph Schmoelzer (b) Walter Rantasa (s)	7:03.33	Spain Jose Maria De Marco Perez (b) Fernando Climet Huerta (s)	7:03.53	Czechoslovakia Petr Kovac (b) Tibor Groeppel (s)	7:04.68
LM4x	West Germany Peter Uhrig (b), Jan Fischer (2) Bjoern Gehlsen (3) Thomas Melges (s)	6:04.78	Switzerland Reto Fierz (b) Philipp Ferlber (2) Cirillo Ghielmetti (3) Markus Gier (s)	6:07.24	France Bruno Boucher (b) Bruno Lebeda (2) Rolland Galliac (3) Thierry Renault (s)	6:07.50
LM4-	West Germany Klaus Altena (b) Stephan Fahrig (2) Michael Buchheit (3) Bernhard Stomporowski (s)	6:28.70	Italy Nerio Gainotti (b) Alfredo Striani (2) Dario Longhin (3) Mauro Torta (s)	6:32.36	Great Britain Nicholas Strange (b) Nicholas Howe (2) Rob Williams (3) Stuart Forbes (s)	6:34.35
LM8+	Italy Enrico Barbaranelli (b) Roberto Romanini (2) Franco Falossi (3) Danilo Fraquelli (4) Vittorio Torcellan (5) Carlo Gaddi (6) Andrea Re (7) Fabrizio Ravasi (s) Giuseppe Lamberti (c)	5:47.95	Denmark Bo Vestergaard (b) Sven Blitskov (2) Jens Lindhardt (3) Lars Rasmussen (4) Flemming Meyer (5) Michael Soeresen (6) Vagn Nielsen (7) Niels Henriksen (s) Stephen Masters (c)	5:49.38	West Germany Alexander Trautmann (b) Felix Prinz (2) Detlef Glitsch (3) Ingo Grevenmeyer (4) Udo Hennig (5) Sebastian Franke (6) Thomas Palm (7) Erik Ring (s) Joerg Dederding (c)	5:51.15
Women's Events
W1x	Romania Elisabeta Lipa-Oleniuc	7:27.96	East Germany Birgit Peter	7:31.47	Hungary Katalin Sarlos	7:34.15
W2x	East Germany Jana Rau (b) Beate Schramm	7:01.71	Romania Veronica Cochela - Cogeanu (b) Elisabeta Lipa - Oleniuc (s)	7:07.32	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova (b) Magdalena Georgieva (s)	7:11.55
W4x	East Germany Katrin Boron (b) Sybille Schmidt (2) Jutta Hampe (3) Jana Thieme (s)	6:16.62	Soviet Union Natalia Kvasja (b) Maria Omeljanovitch (2) Svitlana Mazii (3) Irina Kalimbet (s)	6:22.39	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova (b) Magdalena Georgieva (2) Galina Yahorova (3) Krasmira Dobreva Tosheva (s)	6:23.63
W2-	East Germany Kathrin Haacker (b) Judith Ungemach-Zeidler (s)	7:26.97	Romania Doina Snep-Balan (b) Marioara Curelea (s)	7:30.70	West Germany Stefanie Werremeier (b) Ingeburg Schwerzmann-Althoff (s)	7:31.13
W4-	East Germany Christiane Harzendorf (b) Ina Justh (2) Annegret Strauch (3) Ute Wild (s)	6:45.81	China Mianying Cao (b) Yadong Hu (2) Xirong Liu (3) Shouying Zhou (s)	6:48.45	Romania Jeanette Barth (b) Antje Frank (2) Kathrin Haacker (3) Judith Ungemach-Zeidler (s)	6:50.58
W8+	Romania Anisoara Balan-Dobre (b) Marioara Curelea (2) Anca Tanase (3) Georgeta Soare (4) Adriana Chelariu (5) Viorica Neculai-Ilica (6) Livia Leonte(7) Mihaela Armasescu (s) Ecaterina Oancia (c)	6:07.92	West Germany Liane Justh (b) Ute Wild (2) Ina Grapenthin (3) Anette Hohn (4) Anja Kluge (5) Katrin Schröder (6) Ramona Balthasar (7) Martina Walther (s) Daniela Neunast (c)	6:08.19	China (b) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (s) (c)	6:11.84
LW1x	United States Kristine Karlson	8:01.12	Belgium Rita Defauw	8:03.14	Netherlands Laurien Vermulst	8:04.78
LW2x	United States Carey Sands-Marden (b) Kristine Karlson (s)	7:11.04	New Zealand Phillipa Baker-Hogan (b) Linda De Jong (s)	7:13.70	West Germany Christiane Weber (b) Alrun Urbach (s)	7:14.94
LW4-	China Sanmei Liang (b) Meilan Zeng (2) Huajie Zhang (3) Zhi-ai Lin (s)	7:01.70	Great Britain Sue Key (b) Rachel Hirst (2) Joanna Toch (3) Katharine Brownlow (s)	7:04.88	West Germany Karin Zobeley (b) Cornelia Cichy (2) Ute Zobeley (3) Claudia Engels (s)	7:06.12

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	7	2	0	9
2	Romania	3	3	1	7
3	West Germany	3	1	5	9
4	Italy	2	2	0	4
5	Netherlands	2	1	1	4
6	United States	2	1	0	3
7	China	1	1	1	3
8	Austria	1	0	2	3
9	Norway	1	0	0	1
10	United Kingdom	0	2	3	5
11	Czechoslovakia	0	2	1	3
12	Belgium	0	2	0	2
13	New Zealand	0	1	1	2
	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
15	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
18	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
19	France	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		22	22	22	66

Preceded by 1988

World Rowing Championships 1989

Succeeded by 1990

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