Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Main article: Rowing at the Summer Olympics

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]

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
← 1972 1980 →

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

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

•  Argentina (10)
•  Australia (13)
•  Austria (3)
•  Belgium (7)
•  Brazil (7)
•  Bulgaria (33)
•  Canada (46)
•  Cuba (14)
•  Czechoslovakia (34)
•  Denmark (7)
•  East Germany (54)
•  Finland (7)
•  France (17)
•  Great Britain (31)
•  Hungary (8)
•  Ireland (10)
•  Italy (15)
•  Japan (9)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Netherlands (24)
•  New Zealand (18)
•  Norway (14)
•  Poland (22)
•  Romania (21)
•  Soviet Union (55)
•  Sweden (3)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  United States (54)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  West Germany (44)
•  Yugoslavia (7)

Medal table

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

Men's events

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)	Jürgen Bertow and Uli Schmied (GDR)
Quadruple sculls (coxless) details	East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Güldenpfennig Rüdiger Reiche Karl-Heinz Bußert Michael Wolfgramm	Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Duleyev Yuriy Yakimov Aivars Lazdenieks Vytautas Butkus	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jaroslav Hellebrand Václav Vochoska Zdeněk Pecka Vladek Lacina
Coxless pairs details	Bernd Landvoigt and Jörg Landvoigt (GDR)	Calvin Coffey and Mike Staines (USA)	Peter van Roye and Thomas Strauß (FRG)
Coxed pairs details	East Germany (GDR) Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr	Soviet Union (URS) Dmitry Bekhterev Yuriy Shurkalov Yuriy Lorentsson	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Ludvík Vébr
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 Rüdiger Kunze Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Johannes Thomas (cox)	West Germany (FRG) Hans-Johann Färber Ralph Kubail Siegfried Fricke Peter Niehusen Hartmut Wenzel (cox)
Eights details	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Baumgart Gottfried Döhn Werner Klatt Hans-Joachim Lück Dieter Wendisch Roland Kostulski Ulrich Karnatz Karl-Heinz Prudöhl 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

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 Kaminskaitė and Genovaitė Ramoškienė (URS)
Quadruple scull (coxed) details	East Germany (GDR) Anke Borchmann Jutta Lau Viola Poley Roswietha Zobelt Liane Weigelt	Soviet Union (URS) Anna Kondrashina Mira Bryunina Larisa Alexandrova Galina Ermolaeva Nadezhda Chernyshova	Romania (ROU) Ioana Tudoran Maria Micșa Felicia Afrăsiloaie Elisabeta Lazăr Elena Giurcă
Coxless pair details	Siyka Kelbecheva and Stoyanka Gruycheva (BUL)	Angelika Noack and Sabine Dähne (GDR)	Edith Eckbauer and Thea Einöder (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 Müller Marina Wilke	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Talalaeva Nadezhda Roshchina Klavdija Koženkova 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