Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics explained

See main article: Rowing at the Summer Olympics.

Event:	Rowing
Games:	1980 Summer
Venue:	Krylatskoye Rowing Canal
Dates:	20–27 July 1980
Nations:	25
Competitors:	470 (313 men, 150 women)
Prev:	1976
Next:	1984

Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events.^[1] It took place in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow).^[2] The rowing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 27 July.

Due to the Western 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.

The quadruple sculls events, introduced in 1976, were again held without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.^{[3] [4]}

Participating nations

A total of 470 rowers from 25 nations competed at the Moscow Games:

Medal summary

Men's events

Single sculls
Double sculls
Quadruple sculls (coxless)	Frank Dundr Carsten Bunk Uwe Heppner Martin Winter	Yuriy Shapochka Evgeniy Barbakov Valeriy Kleshnyov Mykola Dovhan	Mincho Nikolov Lyubomir Petrov Ivo Rusev Bogdan Dobrev
Coxless pairs
Coxed pairs	Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr (cox)	Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)	Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent Josip Reić (cox)
Coxless fours	Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Jürgen Thiele	Aleksey Kamkin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksandr Kulagin Vitali Eliseev	John Beattie Ian McNuff David Townsend Martin Cross
Coxed four	Dieter Wendisch Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Gottfried Döhn Andreas Gregor (cox)	Artūrs Garonskis Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Žoržs Tikmers Juris Bērziņš (cox)	Grzegorz Stellak Adam Tomasiak Grzegorz Nowak Ryszard Stadniuk Ryszard Kubiak (cox)
Eights	Bernd Krauß Hans-Peter Koppe Ulrich Kons Jörg Friedrich Jens Doberschütz Ulrich Karnatz Uwe Dühring Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)	Duncan McDougall Allan Whitwell Henry Clay Chris Mahoney Andrew Justice John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Richard Stanhope Colin Moynihan (cox)	Viktor Kokoshyn Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko Jonas Pinskus Jonas Narmontas Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenka Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox)

Women's events

Single sculls
Double sculls
Quadruple sculls (coxed)	Sybille Reinhardt Jutta Ploch Jutta Lau Roswietha Zobelt Liane Buhr	Antonina Pustovit Yelena Matiyevskaya Olga Vasilchenko Nadezhda Lyubimova Nina Cheremisina	Mariana Serbezova Rumelyana Boncheva Dolores Nakova Anka Bakova Anka Georgieva
Coxless pairs
Coxed four	Ramona Kapheim Silvia Fröhlich Angelika Noack Romy Saalfeld Kirsten Wenzel	Ginka Gyurova Mariyka Modeva Rita Todorova Iskra Velinova Nadiya Filipova	Mariya Fadeyeva Galina Sovetnikova Marina Studneva Svetlana Semyonova Nina Cheremisina
Eights	Martina Boesler Christiane Knetsch Gabriele Kühn Karin Metze Kersten Neisser Ilona Richter Marita Sandig Birgit Schütz Marina Wilke	Nina Frolova Mariya Payun Olga Pivovarova Nina Preobrazhenskaya Nadezhda Prishchepa Tatyana Stetsenko Elena Tereshina Nina Umanets Valentina Zhulina	Angelica Aposteanu Elena Bondar Florica Bucur Maria Constantinescu Elena Dobrițoiu Rodica Frîntu Ana Iliuță Rodica Pușcatu Marlena Zagoni

Notes and References

1. Book: The Official Report of the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume Three. 97.
2. Web site: Rowing at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053439/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1980/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 27 August 2018.
3. Web site: Moscow 1980: Rowing . Olympic.org . 13 March 2016.
4. Web site: 1980 Olympic Games / Results - worldrowing.com. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190905113416/http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1980-olympic-games/schedule-results . 5 September 2019 .