| Event: | Rowing |
| Games: | 1987 Summer |
| Venue: | Zagreb, Yugoslavia |
| Next: | 1989 |
Rowing was contested at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb in Yugoslavia.
| Single sculls | 7:28.57 | 7:35.34 | 7:38.85 | |||
| Quadruple sculls | Tomasz Świątek Mirosław Mruk Sławomir Cieślakowski Andrzej Krzepiński 6:15.07 | Pavel Krupko Gennady Martisov Oleg Kiz Valery Andrusenko 6:18.52 | Marko Banović Goran Mikalacki Davor Duricković Nikša Prizmić 6:21.40 | |||
| Lightweight single sculls | 7:32.98 | 7:33.80 | 7:35.21 | |||
| Lightweight double sculls | Giovanni Calabrese Enrico Gandola 6:56.09 | Roland Ehrenfels Hartmut Schäfer 7:00.88 | Theo Nieuweboer Jan van Bekkum 7:08.13 | |||
| Lightweight coxless four | Marco Bordin Franco Pantano Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta 6:43.29 | Uwe-Karl Bender Jürgen Schäfer Norbert Schmidt Herbert Rapp 6:50.91 | Luc Montignon Stephane Hennebert Christophe Pacchiano Denis Viquerat 6:52.34 | |||
| Coxless pair | Dragoș Neagu Dănuț Dobre 7:12.42 | Ricardo de Carvalho Ronaldo de Carvalho 7:19.92 | Marco Romano Pasquale Aiese 7:23.97 | |||
| Coxed four | Valentin Robu Dorel Nastase Vasile Tomoiagă Dimitrie Popescu Florin Micu 6:36.08 | Giovanni Miccoli Antonio Maurogiovanni Giuseppe Carrando Giovanni Suarez Franco Zucchi 6:38.75 | Robert Marland Jamie Schaffer Harold Backer Terrence Paul Brian Saunderson 6:40.83 | |||
| Eight | Sergio Caropreso Michele Savoia Walter Molea Giuseppe Di Palo Leonardo Massa Alberto Mancini Paolo Marostica Piero Carletto Vincenzo Buttino 6:04.23 | Uwe-Wolfgang Birkner Harald Galster Detlef Glitsch Udo Hennig Thomas Palm Erik Ring Andreas Hobler Carsten Krüger Thorsten Kreis 6:05.36 | Dragan Bicanin Mirko Milakov Milan Janša Robert Krašovec Sašo Mirjanič Sadik Mujkič Bojan Prešern Daniel Ferčej Saša Mimić 6:06.00 | |||
| Single sculls | 7:35.37 | 7:37.19 | 7:53.32 | |||
| Quadruple sculls | Anişoara Bălan Veronica Gogeanu Doina Ciucanu Anişoara Minea 6:32.02 | Violeta Ninova Lalka Berberova Galina Anakhrieva Stefka Madina 6:37.79 | Kriemhild Gierke Sybille Schmidt Ramona Balthasar Jana Geracik 6:41.00 | |||
| Lightweight single sculls | 8:01.16 | 8:24.35 | 8:28.08 | |||
| Lightweight double sculls | Liang Sanmei Zeng Meilan 7:43.02 | Nancy Dimich Cornelia Streeter 7:44.98 | Ute-Lucie Zobeley Claudia Engels 7:51.18 | |||
| Lightweight coxless four | Kristiane Zimmer Evelyn Herwegh Monika Wolf Claudia Fachinger 7:23.56 | Daphne van der Pool Ans van Dalen Ada van der Graaff Yvette van Kooijk 7:29.77 | Qui Shuli Wang Renjao Wang Pingmei Yi Duanxiang 7:34.31 | |||
| Coxless pair | Violeta Zareva Teodora Zareva 7:40.01 | Mihaela Armășescu Adriana Chelariu 7:42.98 | Greet Hellemans Harriet van Ettekoven 7:49.20 | |||