1981 World Rowing Championships Explained

The 1981 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 30 August to 6 September 1981 at Oberschleißheim Regatta Course in Oberschleißheim near Munich, West Germany.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M1x		7:45.32		7:48.90		7:51.55
M2x	Klaus Kröppelien (b) Joachim Dreifke (s)	6:41.99	Reima Karppinen (b) Pertti Karppinen (s)	6:44.06	Rolf Thorsen (b) Alf Hansen (s)	6:44.61
M4x	Peter Kersten (b) Karl-Heinz Bußert (2) Uwe Heppner (3) Martin Winter (s)	6:11.37	Igor Yarkov (b) Sergey Shevchenko (2) Vladimir Koldishkin (3) Aleksandr Sdravomislov (s)	6:14.58	Denis Gaté (b) Jean-Raymond Peltier (2) Charles Imbert (3) Marc Boudoux (s)	6:17.45
M2+	Carmine Abbagnale (b) Giuseppe Abbagnale (s) Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	7:43.73	Karsten Schmeling (b) Jürgen Seyfarth (s) Hendrik Reiher (c)	7:46.22	Tom Cadoux-Hudson (b) Richard Budgett (s) Adrian Ellison (c)	7:47.03
M2-	Yuriy Pimenov (b) Nikolay Pimenov (s)	7:15.06	Willem Jan Atsma (b) Ted Bosman (s)	7:20.04	Antonio Baldacci (b) Ezio Pacovich (s) (s)	7:23.28
M4+	Dietmar Schiller (b) Jörg Friedrich (2) Bernd Niesecke (3) Harald Jährling (s) Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (c)	6:36.88	Andrew Sudduth (b) Thomas Woodman (2) John Everett (3) Fred Borchelt (s) Robert Jaugstetter (c)	6:39.68	Viktor Omelyanovich (b) Dimants Krišjānis (2) Dzintars Krišjānis (3) Dzorzes Tikmers (s) Juris Bērziņš (c)	6:40.52
M4-	Aleksey Kamkin (b) Valeriy Dolinin (2) Aleksandr Kulagin (3) Vitaliy Eliseyev (s)	6:35.85	Bruno Saile (b) Jürg Weitnauer (2) Hans-Konrad Trümpler (3) Stefan Netzle (s)	6:41.47	Klaus Büttner (b) Hans-Peter Koppe (2) Jens Doberschütz (3) Uwe Gasch (s)	6:43.07
M8+	Zigmas Gudauskas (b) Nikolai Solomakhin (2) Vladimir Krilov (3) Viktor Diduk (4) Stasys Narušaitis (5) Jonas Narmontas (6) Jonas Pinskus (7) Ihar Maystrenka (s) Vladimir Nizhegorodov (c)	6:02.30	Mark Andrews (b) John Bland (2) Colin Seymour (3) Christopher Mahoney (4) Andrew Justice (5) John Pritchard (6) Malcolm McGowan (7) Richard Stanhope (s) Colin Moynihan (c)	6:04.31	Daniel Lyons (b) John Zevenbergen (2) Thomas Kiefer (3) James McDougall (4) John Phinney (5) Dave Clark (6) Charles Clapp (7) Matthew Labine (s) Seth Bauer (c)	6:06.13
Lightweight events
LM1x		7:22.90		7:25.30		7:27.16
LM2x	Francesco Esposito (b) Ruggero Verroca (s)	6:42.17	Paul Fuchs Jr (b) William Belden Sr (s)	6:44.22	Leif Kruse (b) Bjarne Eltang (s)	6:48.95
LM4-	Graham Gardiner (b) Charles Bartlett (2) Clyde Hefer (3) Simon Gillett (s)	6:22.32	Peter Van Berkel (b) Richard Helsloot (2) Willem Appeldoorn (3) Paul Paulsen (s)	6:24.04	Timothy Turner (b) Edward Gibson (2) Jim Relle (3) Patrick Turner (s)	6:26.60
LM8+	Torben Knudsen Jan Jensen Ivar Mølgaard Arne Højlund Søren Hansson Søren Eriksen Mikael Espersen Bent Fransson Peter Klug-Andersen (c)	5:58.41	Franco Pantano Mauro Torta Romano Uberti Lauro Zettin Renzo Borsini Lanfranco Borsini Claudio Castiglioni Leonardo Salani Davide Lanza (c)	5:59.05	Fernando Climent Luis Arteaga Leon Carlos Sáez Bernardos José Antonio Expósito Sánchez Francisco Goicoechea García Guillermo Müller Gascón Alberto Molina Castillo José Marti Miranda Fernando Macho (c)	6:01.03

Women's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W1x		3:54.46		3:55.58		3:56.99
W2x		3:40.65		3:30.11		3:30.21
W4x+	Tatyana Danilova Olga Kaspina Yelena Khloptseva Larisa Popova Maria Zemskova-Korotkova (c)	3:19.83	Heidi Westphal Birka Brandt-Fengler Cornelia Linse Jutta Ploch Jenny Gerber (c)	3:21.65	Aneta Mihaly Valeria Răcilă Sofia Corban Olga Homeghi Ecaterina Oancia (c)	3:22.89
W2-[2]		3:45.50		3:45.77		3:50.45
W4+	Olga Pivovarova Marina Studneva Svetlana Semyonova Raisa Doligoiada Nina Cheremisina (c)	3:18.75	Viola Kestler Silvia Fröhlich-Arndt Marita Sandig-Gasch Romy Saalfeld Kirsten Wenzel (c)	3:23.95	Susan Tuttle Hope Barnes Shyril O'Steen Harriet Metcalf Nanette Bernadou (c)	3:27.35
W8+	Regina Baltutite Irina Teterina Elena Tereshina Nataliya Yatsenko Elena Makushkina Tatyana Shvetsova Nina Umanets Maria Paziun Nina Frolova (c)	3:07.58	Carol Bower Carol Brown Jeanne Flanagan Patricia Spratlin Kristine Norelius Carie Graves Elizabeth Hills-O'Leary Liz Miles Valerie McClain-Ward (c)	3:10.32	Rodica Frîntu Florica Bucur Luminata Furcila Maricica Țăran Cristina Onofrei Maria Naghiu Mariana Zaharia Elena Bondar Elena Dobrițoiu (c)	3:14.05

Medal table

Platz	Land	Gold	Silber	Bronze	Total
1		7	1	2	10
2		4	5	1	10
3		2	1	1	4
4		1	3	3	7
5		1		3	4
6		1		1	2
7		1			1
		1			1
9			2	1	3
10			2		2
11			1	2	3
12			1		1
			1		1
			1		1
15				1	1
				1	1
				1	1
				1	1
Summe		18	18	18	54

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1981 World Championships – Münich Oberschleißheim, Germany. FISA – The Official World Rowing Database.
2. Web site: (W2-) Women's Pair – Final . . 26 November 2016.