Rowing at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Basin at Notre Dame Island
Dates	18?25 July 1976
Competitors	593 (388 men, 205 women) from 31 nations
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Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Single sculls	men	women
Double sculls	men	women
Coxless pair	men	women
Coxed pair	men
Quadruple sculls	men	women
Coxless four	men
Coxed four	men	women
Eight	men	women
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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]

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 [ edit ]

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

Medal table [ edit ]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany   (GDR)	9	3	2	14
2	Bulgaria   (BUL)	2	1	0	3
3	Soviet Union   (URS)	1	4	4	9
4	Norway   (NOR)	1	1	0	2
5	Finland   (FIN)	1	0	0	1
6	United States   (USA)	0	2	1	3
7	Great Britain   (GBR)	0	2	0	2
8	West Germany   (FRG)	0	1	3	4
9	Czechoslovakia   (TCH)	0	0	2	2
10	New Zealand   (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania   (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		14	14	14	42

Medal summary [ edit ]

Men's events [ edit ]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	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 )	Jurgen Bertow and Uli Schmied   ( GDR )
Quadruple sculls (coxless) details	East Germany   (GDR) Wolfgang Guldenpfennig Rudiger Reiche Karl-Heinz Bußert Michael Wolfgramm	Soviet Union   (URS) Yevgeniy Duleyev Yuriy Yakimov Aivars Lazdenieks Vytautas Butkus	Czechoslovakia   (TCH) Jaroslav Hellebrand Vaclav Vochoska Zden?k Pecka Vladek Lacina
Coxless pairs details	Bernd Landvoigt and Jorg Landvoigt   ( GDR )	Calvin Coffey and Mike Staines   ( USA )	Peter van Roye and Thomas Strauß   ( FRG )
Coxed pairs details	East Germany   (GDR) Harald Jahrling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr	Soviet Union   (URS) Dmitry Bekhterev Yuriy Shurkalov Yuriy Lorentsson	Czechoslovakia   (TCH) Old?ich Svojanovsky Pavel Svojanovsky Ludvik Vebr
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 Rudiger Kunze Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Johannes Thomas (cox)	West Germany   (FRG) Hans-Johann Farber Ralph Kubail Siegfried Fricke Peter Niehusen Hartmut Wenzel (cox)
Eights details	East Germany   (GDR) Bernd Baumgart Gottfried Dohn Werner Klatt Hans-Joachim Luck Dieter Wendisch Roland Kostulski Ulrich Karnatz Karl-Heinz Prudohl 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 [ edit ]

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 Kaminskait? and Genovait? Ramo?kien?   ( 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 Mic?a Felicia Afr?siloaie Elisabeta Laz?r Elena Giurc?
Coxless pair details	Siyka Kelbecheva and Stoyanka Gruycheva   ( BUL )	Angelika Noack and Sabine Dahne   ( GDR )	Edith Eckbauer and Thea Einoder   ( 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 details	East Germany   (GDR) Viola Goretzki Christiane Knetsch Ilona Richter Brigitte Ahrenholz Monika Kallies Henrietta Ebert Helma Lehmann Irina Muller Marina Wilke	Soviet Union   (URS) Lyubov Talalaeva Nadezhda Roshchina Klavdija Ko?enkova 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 [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

• 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.

• Volume 1 Part 1 (up to page 279)
• Volume 1 Part 2 (from page 280)
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

External links [ edit ]

• International Olympic Committee medal database