Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal featured races in 14 events, all held at the rowing basin on Notre Dame Island. 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).[1]

Rowing
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Basin at Notre Dame Island
Dates18–25 July 1976
Competitors593 (388 men, 205 women) from 31 nations
← 1972
1980 →

There was a desire by the IOC's program commission to reduce the number of competitors and a number of recommendations were put to the IOC's executive board on 23 February 1973, which were all accepted. Rowing was the only sport where the number of competitors was increased, and women were admitted for the first time in Olympic history.[2] The quadruple sculls events were introduced at this Olympics, without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.[3]

Participating nations

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A total of 593 rowers from 31 nations competed at the Montreal Games:

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  East Germany (GDR)93214
2  Bulgaria (BUL)2103
3  Soviet Union (URS)1449
4  Norway (NOR)1102
5  Finland (FIN)1001
6  United States (USA)0213
7  Great Britain (GBR)0202
8  West Germany (FRG)0134
9  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0022
10  New Zealand (NZL)0011
  Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (11 entries)14141442

Medal summary

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Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
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  Pertti Karppinen (FIN)   Peter-Michael Kolbe (FRG)   Joachim Dreifke (GDR)
Double sculls
details
  Frank Hansen
and Alf Hansen (NOR)
  Chris Baillieu
and Michael Hart (GBR)
  Jürgen Bertow
and Uli Schmied (GDR)
Quadruple sculls (coxless)
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  East Germany (GDR)
Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Rüdiger Reiche
Karl-Heinz Bußert
Michael Wolfgramm
  Soviet Union (URS)
Yevgeniy Duleyev
Yuriy Yakimov
Aivars Lazdenieks
Vytautas Butkus
  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jaroslav Hellebrand
Václav Vochoska
Zdeněk Pecka
Vladek Lacina
Coxless pairs
details
  Bernd Landvoigt
and Jörg Landvoigt (GDR)
  Calvin Coffey
and Mike Staines (USA)
  Peter van Roye
and Thomas Strauß (FRG)
Coxed pairs
details
  East Germany (GDR)
Harald Jährling
Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
Georg Spohr
  Soviet Union (URS)
Dmitry Bekhterev
Yuriy Shurkalov
Yuriy Lorentsson
  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Oldřich Svojanovský
Pavel Svojanovský
Ludvík Vébr
Coxless fours
details
  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
Valeriy Dolinin
Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov
Coxed four
details[4]
  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Eshinov
Nikolay Ivanov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Aleksandr Klepikov
Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)
Aleksandr Sema
  East Germany (GDR)
Andreas Schulz
Rüdiger Kunze
Walter Dießner
Ullrich Dießner
Johannes Thomas (cox)
  West Germany (FRG)
Hans-Johann Färber
Ralph Kubail
Siegfried Fricke
Peter Niehusen
Hartmut Wenzel (cox)
Eights
details
  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
Jim Clark
Frederick Smallbone
Lenny Robertson
Patrick Sweeney
  New Zealand (NZL)
Ivan Sutherland
Trevor Coker
Peter Dignan
Lindsay Wilson
Joe Earl
Dave Rodger
Alec McLean
Tony Hurt
Simon Dickie

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Single scull
details
  Christine Scheiblich (GDR)   Joan Lind (USA)   Yelena Antonova (URS)
Double scull
details
  Svetla Otsetova
and Zdravka Yordanova (BUL)
  Sabine Jahn
and Petra Boesler (GDR)
  Eleonora Kaminskaitė
and Genovaitė Ramoškienė (URS)
Quadruple scull (coxed)
details
  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 Chernyshyova
  Romania (ROU)
Ioana Tudoran
Maria Micșa
Felicia Afrăsiloaie
Elisabeta Lazăr
Elena Giurcă
Coxless pair
details
  Siyka Kelbecheva
and Stoyanka Gruycheva (BUL)
  Angelika Noack
and Sabine Dähne (GDR)
  Edith Eckbauer
and Thea Einöder (FRG)
Coxed four
details
  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
Eight
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  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

Notes

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  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1976 Monteral Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report of the Organising Committee 1978, p. 116.
  3. ^ "Montreal 1976: Rowing". Olympic.org. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's Coxed Fours Final Round". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2016.

References

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  • Proulx, Daniel; Mollitt, J. James (1969). Chantigny, Louis (ed.). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XXI Olympiad (PDF). Ottawa, Canada: Organizing Committee of the Games of the XXI Olympiad.
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