Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Rowing
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Rowing ; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Han River Regatta Course
Date	19?25 September 1988
No. of events	14
Competitors	593 (399 men, 194 women) from 38 nations
	← 1984 1992 →

Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul featured 14 events in total, for men and women, held on the Han River Regatta Course. ^[1]

The women's quadruple sculls event was held without coxswain for the first time at this Olympics (from its debut in 1976 through 1984 it was coxed for women and coxless for men). ^[2]

Medal table [ edit ]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	8	1	1	10
2	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
3	Romania (ROU)	1	4	2	7
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
6	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	1	3
7	United States (USA)	0	2	1	3
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	2	3
10	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
11	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
11	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
13	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	3	3
14	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events [ edit ]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls (1x) ^[2]^[3] details	Thomas Lange East Germany	Peter-Michael Kolbe West Germany	Eric Verdonk New Zealand
Double sculls (2x) ^[2]^[4] details	Nico Rienks and Ronald Florijn ( NED )	Beat Schwerzmann and Ueli Bodenmann ( SUI )	Oleksandr Marchenko and Vasil Yakusha ( URS )
Quadruple sculls (4x) ^[2]^[5] details	Italy (ITA) Agostino Abbagnale Davide Tizzano Gianluca Farina Piero Poli	Norway (NOR) Alf Hansen Rolf Thorsen Lars Bjønness Vetle Vinje	East Germany (GDR) Jens Koppen Steffen Zuhlke Steffen Bogs Heiko Habermann
Coxless pair (2-) ^[2]^[6] details	Andy Holmes and Steve Redgrave ( GBR )	D?nu? Dobre and Drago? Neagu ( ROU )	Sadik Mujki? and Bojan Pre?ern ( YUG )
Coxed pair (2+) ^[2]^[7] details	Italy (ITA) Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (cox)	East Germany (GDR) Mario Streit Detlef Kirchhoff Rene Rensch (cox)	Great Britain (GBR) Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave Patrick Sweeney (cox)
Coxless four (4-) ^[2]^[8] details	East Germany (GDR) Roland Schroder Ralf Brudel Olaf Forster Thomas Greiner	United States (USA) Raoul Rodriguez Thomas Bohrer Richard Kennelly David Krmpotich	West Germany (FRG) Guido Grabow Volker Grabow Norbert Keßlau Jorg Puttlitz
Coxed four (4+) ^[2]^[9] details	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Niesecke Hendrik Reiher (cox) Karsten Schmeling Bernd Eichwurzel Frank Klawonn	Romania (ROU) Dimitrie Popescu Ioan Snep Vasile Tomoiag? Ladislau Lovrenschi (cox) Valentin Robu	New Zealand (NZL) Chris White Ian Wright Andrew Bird (cox) Greg Johnston George Keys
Eight (8+) ^[2]^[10] details	West Germany (FRG) Bahne Rabe Eckhardt Schultz Ansgar Wessling Wolfgang Maennig Matthias Mellinghaus Thomas Mollenkamp Thomas Domian Armin Eichholz Manfred Klein (cox)	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Omelyanovich Vasily Tikhonov Andrey Vasilyev Pavlo Hurkovskiy Nikolay Komarov Veniamin But Viktor Diduk Aleksandr Dumchev Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)	United States (USA) Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Jack Rusher Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer (cox)

Women's events [ edit ]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls (1x) ^[2]^[11] details	Jutta Behrendt East Germany	Anne Marden United States	Magdalena Georgieva Bulgaria
Double sculls (2x) ^[2]^[12] details	Birgit Peter and Martina Schroter ( GDR )	Elisabeta Lip? and Veronica Cogeanu ( ROU )	Violeta Ninova and Stefka Madina ( BUL )
Quadruple sculls (4x) ^[2]^[13] details	East Germany (GDR) Kerstin Forster Kristina Mundt Beate Schramm Jana Sorgers	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Kalimbet Svitlana Maziy Inna Frolova Antonina Zelikovich	Romania (ROU) Ani?oara B?lan Ani?oara Minea Veronica Cogeanu Elisabeta Lip?
Coxless pair (2-) ^[2]^[14] details	Rodica Arba and Olga Homeghi ( ROU )	Radka Stoyanova and Lalka Berberova ( BUL )	Nikki Payne and Lynley Hannen ( NZL )
Coxed four (4+) ^[2]^[15] details	East Germany (GDR) Martina Walther Gerlinde Doberschutz Carola Hornig Birte Siech Sylvia Rose	China (CHN) Zhang Xianghua Hu Yadong Yang Xiao Zhou Shouying Li Ronghua	Romania (ROU) Marioara Tra?c? Veronica Necula Herta Anita? Doina ?nep-B?lan Ecaterina Oancia
Eight (8+) ^[2]^[16] details	East Germany (GDR) Annegret Strauch Judith Zeidler Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild Anja Kluge Beatrix Schroer Ramona Balthasar Ute Stange Daniela Neunast	Romania (ROU) Doina ?nep-B?lan Veronica Necula Herta Anita? Marioara Tra?c? Adriana Bazon Mihaela Arm??escu Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi Ecaterina Oancia	China (CHN) Zhou Xiuhua Zhang Yali He Yanwen Han Yaqin Zhang Xianghua Zhou Shouying Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua

References [ edit ]

^ "Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games" . Sports Reference . Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 . Retrieved 6 September 2018 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Seoul 1988: Rowing" . Olympic.org . International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2016-03-13 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M1x) Men's Single Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M2x) Men's Double Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M2-) Men's Pair ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M2+) Men's Coxed Pair ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M4-) Men's Four ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M4+) Men's Coxed Four ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (M8+) Men's Eight ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (W1x) Women's Single Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (W2x) Women's Double Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (W2-) Women's Pair ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (W4+) Women's Coxed Four ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .
^ "1988 Olympic Games: (W8+) Women's Eight ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

"Official Olympic Reports" . LA84 Foundation . Archived from the original on 2013-01-30.

"Seoul Olympic Games Official Report Volume Two, 1988" (PDF) . LA84 Foundation . pp. 513?534 . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[SR-1] "Rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games" . Sports Reference . Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 . Retrieved 6 September 2018 .

[Olympic.org-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Seoul 1988: Rowing" . Olympic.org . International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2016-03-13 .

[M1x-3] "1988 Olympic Games: (M1x) Men's Single Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M2x-4] "1988 Olympic Games: (M2x) Men's Double Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M4x-5] "1988 Olympic Games: (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M2--6] "1988 Olympic Games: (M2-) Men's Pair ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M2+-7] "1988 Olympic Games: (M2+) Men's Coxed Pair ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M4--8] "1988 Olympic Games: (M4-) Men's Four ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M4+-9] "1988 Olympic Games: (M4+) Men's Coxed Four ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[M8+-10] "1988 Olympic Games: (M8+) Men's Eight ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[W1x-11] "1988 Olympic Games: (W1x) Women's Single Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[W2x-12] "1988 Olympic Games: (W2x) Women's Double Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[W4x-13] "1988 Olympic Games: (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[W2--14] "1988 Olympic Games: (W2-) Women's Pair ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[W4+-15] "1988 Olympic Games: (W4+) Women's Coxed Four ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

[W8+-16] "1988 Olympic Games: (W8+) Women's Eight ? Final" . WorldRowing.com . FISA . Retrieved 2016-03-23 .

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Medal table [ edit ]

Men's events [ edit ]

Women's events [ edit ]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]