| Event: | Rowing |
| Games: | 1986 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Misari Regatta |
| Dates: | 22–25 September 1986 |
| Prev: | 1982 |
| Next: | 1990 |
For the Rowing competition at the 1986 Asian Games in Misari Regatta, South Korea, men's and women's singles, doubles, and fours competed from September 22 to September 25.
| Single sculls | ||||
| Coxless pair | Satoru Miyoshi Tadashi Abe | Gu Jiahong Tang Hongwei | Lee Sang-gyu Yoo Seong-joon | |
| Coxed pair | Chen Lianjia Wang Hongbing Yan Jun | Hidekazu Hayashi Hiroyoshi Matsui Tokuhisa Watai | Chung In-kyo Sin Seung-ho Hyun Song-in | |
| Coxed four | Li Jianxin Gao Yuhua Wang Hongbing Yan Jun Chen Zhiqiang | Lee Bong-su Lee Hae-dal Lee Sung-kyun Kim Woong-hak Sun Woo-sang | Akihisa Hirata Hiromitsu Fukagawa Kunihiko Obayashi Masahiko Nomura Tomoyuki Okano | |
| Eight | Li Jianxin Gao Yuhua Chen Zhiqiang Zheng Kangsheng Yu Hanqiao Xu Quan Wang Xinyue He Dongjiang Zhu Ledan | Eiichi Tsukinoki Hideaki Maeguchi Iwayuki Hirota Katsuyuki Kato Motohisa Kyuno Setsuo Morizane Toshihiko Yagi Toshihiro Murakami Yukiyori Ishita | Chung Boo-young Kim Gyu-hwan Lee Hong-keun Lim Jong-soon Lee Jung-kwea Park Seung-deuk Park Sung-lae Park Sung-kuk Jeong Yeon-kil |
| Single sculls | ||||
| Coxless pair | Yang Xiao Zhang Xiuying | Kong Jeong-bae Kim Hae-kyung | Yoshiko Kawamori Yuri Yajima | |
| Coxed four | Li Ronghua He Li Zhou Xiuhua Ma Yumin Li Hongbing | Lee Byung-in Kook In-sook Kang Min-heung Joung Mong-ock Nam Sang-lan | Kaoru Seki Mayumi Oku Mieko Sakurai Miki Fujiyama Sayoko Enoki |