1989 World Rowing Championships

The 1989 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 2 to 10 September 1989 at Lake Bled near Bled in SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia.^[1]

1989 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Bled
Location	Bled, Yugoslavia
Dates	2 to 10 September
← 1988 Milan 1990 Tasmania →

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
M1x	East Germany Thomas Lange	6:58.14	Czechoslovakia Václav Chalupa	7:01.05	Soviet Union Jüri Jaanson	7:01.31
M2x	Norway Rolf Thorsen Lars Bjønness	6:23.40	Netherlands Ronald Florijn Nico Rienks	6:24.68	Austria Christoph Zerbst Arnold Jonke	6:25.80
M4x	Netherlands Hans Kelderman Koos Maasdijk Herman van den Eerenbeemt Rutger Arisz	6:03.99	Italy Gianluca Farina Filippo Soffici Davide Tizzano Giovanni Calabrese	6:04.26	Sweden Per-Olof Claesson David Svensson Tommy Österlund Fredrik Hultén	6:05.66
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua	6:54.81	Romania Dragoș Neagu Ioan Șnep Marin Gheorghe	6:56.90	Yugoslavia Milan Janša Robert Krašovec Gorazd Slilvnik	6:57.97
M2-	East Germany Thomas Jung Uwe Kellner	6:39.95	Great Britain Simon Berrisford Steve Redgrave	6:42.84	Austria Karl Sinzinger Jr[a] Hermann Bauer	6:43.40
M4+	Romania Vasile Năstase Dimitrie Popescu Valentin Robu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe	6:14.90	Czechoslovakia Michal Šubrt Pavel Menšík Dušan Vičík Dušan Macháček Jiří Pták	6:17.37	Great Britain Stephen Turner Matthew Pinsent Gavin Stewart Terence Dillon Vaughan Thomas	6:17.57
M4-	East Germany Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster	6:06.94	United States Raoul Rodriguez Jack Rusher[2] Thomas Bohrer Richard Kennelly	6:07.92	New Zealand Bill Coventry Ian Wright Alastair Mackintosh Campbell Clayton-Greene	6:08.63
M8+	West Germany Jörg Puttlitz Norbert Keßlau Martin Steffes-Mies Dirk Balster Frank Dietrich Marc Mauerwerk Ansgar Wessling Roland Baar Manfred Klein	5:43.88	East Germany Stefan Schulz Mario Grüssel Roland Schröder Thomas Woddow Mario Kliesch [de] Holger Rose Thomas Bänsch Hans Sennewald Peter Thiede	5:45.70	Great Britain Tim Foster Matt Brittin Jim Walker Anton Obholzer Jonny Singfield Richard Phelps Jonny Searle Jonathan Hulls Adrian Ellison	5:47.01
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Netherlands Frans Göbel	7:17.07	Belgium Wim Van Belleghem	7:20.03	West Germany Alwin Otten	7:21.80
LM2x	Austria Christoph Schmölzer Walter Rantasa	7:03.33	Spain José María de Marco Pérez Fernando Climent	7:03.53	Czechoslovakia Petr Kováč Tibor Groeppel	7:04.68
LM4x	West Germany Peter Uhrig Jan Fischer Björn Gehlsen Thomas Melges	6:04.78	Switzerland Reto Fierz Philipp Ferlber Cirillo Ghielmetti Markus Gier	6:07.24	France Bruno Boucher Bruno Lebeda Rolland Galliac Thierry Renault	6:07.50
LM4-	West Germany Klaus Altena Stephan Fahrig Michael Buchheit Bernhard Stomporowski	6:28.70	Italy Nerio Gainotti Alfredo Striani Dario Longhin Mauro Torta	6:32.36	Great Britain Nicholas Strange Nicholas Howe Rob Williams Stuart Forbes	6:34.35
LM8+	Italy Enrico Barbaranelli Roberto Romanini Franco Falossi Danilo Fraquelli Vittorio Torcellan Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Giuseppe Lamberti	5:47.95	Denmark Bo Vestergaard Svend Blitskov Jens Lindhardt Lars Rasmussen Flemming Meyer Michael Sørensen Vagn Nielsen Niels Henriksen Stephen Masters	5:49.38	West Germany Alexander Trautmann Felix Prinz Detlef Glitsch Ingo Grevenmeyer Udo Hennig Sebastian Franke Thomas Palm Erik Ring Jörg Dederding	5:51.15

Women's events

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
W1x	Romania Elisabeta Lipă	7:27.96	East Germany Birgit Peter	7:31.47	Hungary Katalin Sarlós	7:34.15
W2x	East Germany Jana Sorgers-Rau Beate Schramm	7:01.71	Romania Veronica Cochela Elisabeta Lipă	7:07.32	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Magdalena Georgieva	7:11.55
W4x	East Germany Kathrin Boron Sybille Schmidt Jutta Behrendt Jana Thieme	6:16.62	Soviet Union Nataliya Kvasha Mariya Omelianovych Svitlana Maziy Irina Kalimbet	6:22.39	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Magdalena Georgieva Galina Yahorova Krasimira Tocheva	6:23.63
W2-	East Germany Kathrin Haacker Judith Zeidler	7:26.97	Romania Doina Șnep-Bălan Marioara Curelea	7:30.70	West Germany Stefani Werremeier Ingeburg Schwerzmann	7:31.13
W4-	East Germany Christiane Harzendorf Ina Justh Annegret Strauch Ute Wagner	6:45.81	China Cao Mianying Hu Yadong Liu Xirong Zhou Shouying	6:48.45	Romania Adriana Chelariu Mihaela Armășescu Livia Leonte Viorica Neculai	6:50.58
W8+	Romania Anișoara Bălan Marioara Curelea Anca Tănase Georgeta Soare Adriana Chelariu Viorica Neculai Livia Leonte Mihaela Armășescu Ecaterina Oancia	6:07.92	East Germany Liane Justh Ute Wild Ina Grapenthin Annette Hohn Anja Kluge Katrin Schröder Ramona Balthasar Martina Walther Daniela Neunast	6:08.19	China Cao Mianying Zhou Xiuhua Liu Xirong He Yanwen Guo Guo Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua	6:11.84
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	United States Kristine Karlson	8:01.12	Belgium Rita Defauw	8:03.14	Netherlands Laurien Vermulst	8:04.78
LW2x	United States Carey Sands-Marden Kristine Karlson	7:11.04	New Zealand Philippa Baker Linda de Jong	7:13.70	West Germany Christiane Weber Alrun Urbach	7:14.94
LW4-	China Liang Sanmei Zeng Meilan Zhang Huajie Lin Zhiai	7:01.70	Great Britain Sue Key Rachel Hirst Joanna Toch Katharine Brownlow	7:04.88	West Germany Karin Zobeley Cornelia Cichy Ute Zobeley Claudia Engels	7:06.12

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	7	2	0	9
2	Romania	3	3	1	7
3	West Germany	3	1	5	9
4	Italy	2	2	0	4
5	Netherlands	2	1	1	4
6	United States	2	1	0	3
7	China	1	1	1	3
8	Austria	1	0	2	3
9	Norway	1	0	0	1
10	Great Britain	0	2	3	5
11	Czechoslovakia	0	2	1	3
12	Belgium	0	2	0	2
13	New Zealand	0	1	1	2
	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
15	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
18	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
19	France	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		22	22	22	66

Footnotes

1. Sinzinger Sr is shown in the World Rowing database as having competed in this race, but that's wrong. The senior would have been 48 at the time; the junior was competing at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. Just one of the many errors in their database.