Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

All events took place at the Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin in Krylatskoye

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.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Pertti Karppinen Finland (FIN)	Vasil Yakusha Soviet Union (URS)	Peter Kersten East Germany (GDR)
Double sculls details	East Germany (GDR) Joachim Dreifke Klaus Kröppelien	Yugoslavia (YUG) Zoran Pančić Milorad Stanulov	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Zdeněk Pecka Václav Vochoska
Quadruple sculls details	East Germany (GDR) Frank Dundr Carsten Bunk Uwe Heppner Martin Winter	Soviet Union (URS) Yuriy Shapochka Evgeni Barbakov Valeri Kleshnyov Mykola Dovhan	Bulgaria (BUL) Mincho Nikolov Lyubomir Petrov Ivo Rusev Bogdan Dobrev
Coxless pairs details	East Germany (GDR) Jörg Landvoigt Bernd Landvoigt	Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov	Great Britain (GBR) Charles Wiggin Malcolm Carmichael
Coxed pairs details	East Germany (GDR) Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov	Yugoslavia (YUG) Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent Josip Reić
Coxless fours details	East Germany (GDR) Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Jürgen Thiele	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksey Kamkin Valeri Dolinin Aleksandr Kulagin Vitali Eliseev	Great Britain (GBR) John Beattie Ian McNuff David Townsend Martin Cross
Coxed fours details	East Germany (GDR) Dieter Wendisch Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Gottfried Döhn Andreas Gregor	Soviet Union (URS) Artūrs Garonskis Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Žoržs Tikmers Juris Bērziņš	Poland (POL) Grzegorz Stellak Adam Tomasiak Grzegorz Nowak Ryszard Stadniuk Ryszard Kubiak
Eights details	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Krauß Hans-Peter Koppe Ulrich Kons Jörg Friedrich Jens Doberschütz Ulrich Karnatz Uwe Dühring Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig	Great Britain (GBR) Duncan McDougall Allan Whitwell Henry Clay Chris Mahoney Andrew Justice John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Richard Stanhope Colin Moynihan	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Kokoshyn Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko Jonas Pinskus Jonas Narmontas Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenko Hrihoriy Dmytrenko

Women's events

Four-oars with coxswain

Double sculls

Coxswainless pair-oars

Single sculls

Quadruple sculls with coxswain

Eight-oars with coxswain

Participating nations

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	11	1	2	14
2	Soviet Union (URS)	1	9	2	12
3	Romania (ROU)	1	0	2	3
4	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	3	4
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

References

• International Olympic Committee medal database

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