Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Basin at Île Notre-Dame
Dates17 July-24 July
Competitors531 (388 men, 205 women) from 31 nations

Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal featured races in 14 events, all held at the rowing basin on Île Notre-Dame. Women's events held at 1000 m debuted (They would be lengthened to the men's events of 2000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
 Pertti Karppinen (FIN)  Peter-Michael Kolbe (FRG)  Joachim Dreifke (GDR)
Double sculls
 Frank Hansen
and Alf Hansen (NOR)
 Chris Baillieu
and Michael Hart (GBR)
 Jurgen Bertov
and Hans Ulrich Schmied (GDR)
Quadruple sculls
 East Germany (GDR)
Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Rüdiger Reiche
Karl-Heinz Bußert
Michael Wolfgramm
 Soviet Union (URS)
Evgeni Duleev
Yuri Yakimov
Aivars Lazdenieks
Vytautas Butkus
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jaroslav Helebrand
Václav Vochoska
Zdeněk Pecka
Vladek Lacina
Coxless pairs
 Bernd Landvoigt
and Jörg Landvoigt (GDR)
 Calvin Coffey
and Mike Staines (USA)
 Peter van Roye
and Thomas Strauß (FRG)
Coxed pairs
 East Germany (GDR)
Harald Jährling
Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
Georg Spohr
 Soviet Union (URS)
Dmitri Bekhterev
Yuri Shurkalov
Yuri Lorentsson
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Oldřich Svojanovský
Pavel Svojanovský
Ludvík Vébr
Coxless fours
 East Germany (GDR)
Siegfried Brietzke
Andreas Decker
Stefan Semmler
Wolfgang Mager
 Norway (NOR)
Ole Nafstad
Arne Bergodd
Finn Tveter
Rolf Andreassen
 Soviet Union (URS)
Raul Arnemann
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Valery Dolinin
Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalilov
Coxed fours
 Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Eshinov
Nikolai Ivanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Aleksandr Klepikov
Aleksandr Lukyanov
 East Germany (GDR)
Andreas Schulz
Rüdiger Kunze
Walter Dießner
Ullrich Dießner
Johannes Thomas
 West Germany (FRG)
Hans-Johann Färber
Ralph Kubail
Siegfried Fricke
Peter Niehusen
Hartmut Wenzel
Eights
 East Germany (GDR)
Bernd Baumgart
Gottfried Döhn
Werner Klatt
Hans-Joachim Lück
Dieter Wendisch
Roland Kostulski
Ulrich Karnatz
Karl-Heinz Prudöhl
Karl-Heinz Danielowski
 Great Britain (GBR)
Richard Lester
John Yallop
Timothy Crooks
Hugh Matheson
David Maxwell
James Clark
Frederick Smallbone
Leonard Robertson
Patrick Sweeney
 New Zealand (NZL)
Ivan Sutherland
Trevor Coker
Peter Dignan
Lindsay Wilson
Athol Earl
Dave Rodger
Alex McLean
Tony Hurt
Simon Dickie

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
 Christine Scheiblich (GDR)  Joan Lind (USA)  Yelena Antonova (URS)
Double sculls
 Svetlana Otsetova
and Zdravka Yordanova (BUL)
 Sabine Jahn
and Petra Boesler (GDR)
 Leonora Kaminskaitė
and Genovaitė Ramoškienė (URS)
Quadruple sculls
 East Germany (GDR)
Anke Borchmann
Jutta Lau
Viola Poley
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Weigelt
 Soviet Union (URS)
Anna Kondrachina
Mira Bryunina
Larisa Alexandrova
Galina Ermolaeva
Nadezhda Chernyshova
 Romania (ROU)
Ioana Tudoran
Maria Micşa
Felicia Afrăsiloaie
Elisabeta Lazăr
Elena Giurcă
Coxless pairs
 Siyka Kelbecheva
and Stoyanka Gruycheva (BUL)
 Angelika Noack
and Sabine Dähne (GDR)
 Edith Eckbauer
and Thea Einöder (FRG)
Coxed fours
 East Germany (GDR)
Karin Metze
Bianka Schwede
Gabriele Lohs
Andrea Kurth
Sabine Heß
 Bulgaria (BUL)
Ginka Gyurova
Lilyana Vaseva
Reni Yordanova
Mariyka Modeva
Kapka Georgieva
 Soviet Union (URS)
Nadezhda Sevostyanova
Lyudmila Krokhina
Galina Mishenina
Anna Pasokha
Lidiya Krylova
Eights
 East Germany (GDR)
Viola Goretzki
Christiane Knetsch
Ilona Richter
Brigitte Ahrenholz
Monika Kallies
Henrietta Ebert
Helma Lehmann
Irina Müller
Marina Wilke
 Soviet Union (URS)
Lyubov Talalaeva
Nadezhda Roshchina
Klavdija Koženkova
Olena Zubko
Olha Kolkova
Nelli Tarakanova
Nadiya Rozhon
Olha Huzenko
Olha Puhovska
 United States (USA)
Jackie Zoch
Anita DeFrantz
Carie Graves
Marion Greig
Anne Warner
Peggy McCarthy
Carol Brown
Gail Ricketson
Lynn Silliman

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  East Germany (GDR) 9 3 2 14
2  Bulgaria (BUL) 2 1 0 3
3  Soviet Union (URS) 1 4 4 9
4  Norway (NOR) 1 1 0 2
5  Finland (FIN) 1 0 0 1
6  United States (USA) 0 2 1 3
7  Great Britain (GBR) 0 2 0 2
8  West Germany (FRG) 0 1 3 4
9  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 0 0 2 2
10  Romania (ROU) 0 0 1 1
 New Zealand (NZL) 0 0 1 1
Total 14 14 14 42

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