| Event: | Women's coxed four |
| Games: | 1988 Summer |
| Date: | 19–24 September |
| Competitors: | 55 |
| Nations: | 10 |
| Gold: | Martina Walther Gerlinde Doberschütz Carola Hornig Birte Siech Sylvia Rose |
| Goldnoc: | GDR |
| Silver: | Zhang Xianghua Hu Yadong Yang Xiao Zhou Shouying Li Ronghua |
| Silvernoc: | CHN |
| Bronze: | Marioara Trașcă Veronica Necula Herta Anitaș Doina Șnep-Bălan Ecaterina Oancia |
| Bronzenoc: | ROU |
| Prev: | 1984 |
The women's coxed four competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.[1]
The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and finals) as well as a repechage. The 10 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 5 boats in each heat. The winner of each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the "A" final (for 1st through 6th place). The remaining 8 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured two heats, with 4 boats in each heat. The top two boats in each repechage heat (4 boats total) advanced to the "A" final. The remaining 4 boats (3rd and 4th placers in the repechage heats) were eliminated from medal contention and competed in the "B" final for 7th through 10th place.[2]
All races were over a 2000 metre course, unlike previous Games in which women used a 1000 metre course.
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left data-sort-value="Doberschütz, Gerlinde" | align=left data-sort-value="Rose, Sylvia" | 7:11.01 | ||||
| 2 | align=left data-sort-value="Stoichkova, Olya" | align=left data-sort-value="Georgieva, Greta" | Greta Georgieva[3] | 7:11.59 | |||
| 3 | 7:17.15 | ||||||
| 4 | align=left data-sort-value="Clarke, Heather" | align=left data-sort-value="Thompson-Willie, Lesley" | 7:31.02 | ||||
| 5 | 8:09.58 |
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left data-sort-value="Armasescu, Mihaela" | align=left data-sort-value="Oancia, Ecaterina" | 7:21.43 | |||||
| 2 | align=left data-sort-value="Ribinskaitė, Reda" | align=left data-sort-value="Khoklova, Valentina" | 7:28.73 | |||||
| 3 | align=left data-sort-value="Jankowska, Elżbieta" | align=left data-sort-value="Błąd, Grażyna" | 7:29.72 | |||||
| 4 | align=left data-sort-value="Bradley, Elizabeth" | align=left data-sort-value="Santiago, Kim" | 7:33.42 | |||||
| 5 | align=left data-sort-value="Gough, Joanne" | align=left data-sort-value="Norrish, Alison" | 7:38.01 |
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left data-sort-value="Durchova, Svetla" | align=left data-sort-value="Georgieva, Greta" | 7:20.78 | |||||
| 2 | align=left data-sort-value="Gough, Joanne" | align=left data-sort-value="Norrish, Alison" | 7:25.63 | |||||
| 3 | align=left data-sort-value="Clarke, Heather" | align=left data-sort-value="Thompson-Willie, Lesley" | 7:29.71 | |||||
| 4 | align=left data-sort-value="Jankowska, Elżbieta" | align=left data-sort-value="Błąd, Grażyna" | 7:32.55 |
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7:23.80 | ||||||
| 2 | align=left data-sort-value="Bradley, Elizabeth" | align=left data-sort-value="Santiago, Kim" | 7:28.01 | ||||
| 3 | align=left data-sort-value="Ribinskaitė, Reda" | align=left data-sort-value="Khoklova, Valentina" | 7:35.22 | ||||
| 4 | 8:13.07 |
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | align=left data-sort-value="Clarke, Heather" | align=left data-sort-value="Thompson-Willie, Lesley" | 7:19.86 | |||
| 8 | align=left data-sort-value="Jankowska, Elżbieta" | align=left data-sort-value="Błąd, Grażyna" | 7:22.59 | |||
| 9 | align=left data-sort-value="Ribinskaitė, Reda" | align=left data-sort-value="Khoklova, Valentina" | 7:27.20 | |||
| 10 | 8:07.71 |
| Rank | Rowers | Coxswain | Nation | Time | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left data-sort-value="Doberschütz, Gerlinde" | align=left data-sort-value="Rose, Sylvia" | 6:56.00 | ||||||
| 6:58.78 | ||||||||
| align=left data-sort-value="Anitaș, Herta" | align=left data-sort-value="Oancia, Ecaterina" | 7:01.13 | ||||||
| 4 | align=left data-sort-value="Durchova, Svetla" | align=left data-sort-value="Georgieva, Greta" | 7:02.27 | |||||
| 5 | align=left data-sort-value="Bradley, Elizabeth" | align=left data-sort-value="Santiago, Kim" | 7:09.12 | |||||
| 6 | align=left data-sort-value="Gough, Joanne" | align=left data-sort-value="Norrish, Alison" | 7:10.80 |