| Event: | Rowing |
| Games: | 1989 Summer |
| Venue: | Duisburg, West Germany |
| Prev: | 1987 |
| Next: | 1993 |
Rowing was contested at the 1989 Summer Universiade in Duisburg in West Germany.
| Single sculls | ||||||
| Double sculls | Grechenko Saposhikov | Gergeri Roberto Fusaro | Konstantinos Ditsios Pantelis Papaterpos | |||
| Lightweight single sculls | ||||||
| Lightweight quadruple sculls | Fang Shen Xie Xie | Hernández Muniesa Piera Sánchez | Engemann Green Petersen Phelps | |||
| Lightweight coxless four | Bauer Kobor Stöcker Wittek | José Luis Aguirre Juan María Altuna Víctor Llorente Eguren | Balmain Camus Masson Vazart | |||
| Coxless pair | Dragoș Neagu Ioan Snep | Sack Richter | Derek Porter Ian Swan | |||
| Coxed four | D. Nastase Vasile Tomoiagă Valentin Robu Dimitrie Popescu F. Micu | Barthold Wilk Hebbel Huber Alt | ||||
| Eight | ||||||
| Single sculls | ||||||
| Quadruple sculls | Galina Anakhrieva Daniela Oronova Gescheva Jantschev | Borisova Grigoryeva Elena Voroshilova Yakutovish | Bohlmann Kerstin Förster Köppen Krüger | |||
| Lightweight double sculls | Liang Sanmei Zhang Huajie | Meunier Remmler | Aleksandra Dzierzkowska Elżbieta Pakizer | |||
| Coxless pair | Bender Sybille Schmidt | Zeng Lin | Kendall Reynolds | |||
| Coxed four | A. Balan Leonte Curelea Ilica ? | Jennifer Walinga Marnie McBean Bames Kathleen Heddle ? | Cao Mianying Hu Yadong Liu Xirong Zhou Shouying ? | |||