Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

The women's eight competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at took place at Han River Regatta Course, South Korea.^[1]

Women's eight at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Date	20–25 September 1988
Competitors	63 from 7 nations
Medalists
Annegret Strauch Judith Zeidler Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild Anja Kluge Beatrix Schröer Ramona Balthasar Ute Stange Daniela Neunast  East Germany Doina Șnep-Bălan Veronica Necula Herta Anitaș Marioara Trașcă Adriana Bazon Mihaela Armășescu Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi Ecaterina Oancia  Romania Zhou Xiuhua Zhang Yali He Yanwen Han Yaqin Zhang Xianghua Zhou Shouying Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua  China
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Competition format

The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and a final) as well as a repechage. The 7 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 4 boats in one heat and 3 boats in the other. The winner of each heat (2 boats total) advanced directly to the final (for 1st through 6th place). The remaining 5 boats were placed in the repechage. The repechage featured a single heat. The top four boats advanced to the final; only the last-place boat in the repechage was eliminated (and took 7th place overall, with no need for a "B" final because only one boat did not reach the "A" final).^[2]

All races were over a 2000 metre course, unlike previous Games in which women used a 1000 metre course.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Rowers	Coxswain	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Herta Anitaș Rodica Arba Mihaela Armășescu Adriana Bazon Olga Homeghi Veronica Necula Doina Șnep-Bălan Marioara Trașcă	Ecaterina Oancia	Romania	6:15.65	Q
2	Ramona Balthasar Kathrin Haacker Anja Kluge Ute Schell Beatrix Schröer Annegret Strauch Ute Wild Judith Zeidler	Daniela Neunast	East Germany	6:16.29	R
3	Inge Althoff-Schwerzmann Meike Holländer Elke Markwort Gabriele Mehl Cerstin Petersmann Katrin Petersmann Kerstin Rehders Anja Schäfer	Kerstin Peters	West Germany	6:38.31	R
4	Nevyana Ivanova Daniela Oronova Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Rita Todorova Todorka Vasileva Teodora Zareva Violeta Zareva	Greta Georgieva	Bulgaria	6:47.99	R

Heat 2

Rank	Rowers	Coxswain	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lidiya Averyanova Sandra Brazauskaitė Nataliya Fedorenko Olena Pukhaieva Nadezhda Sugako Margarita Teselko Sariya Zakyrova Marina Znak	Aušra Gudeliūnaitė	Soviet Union	6:20.90	Q
2	Han Yaqin He Yanwen Hu Yadong Yang Xiao Zhang Xianghua Zhang Yali Zhou Shouying Zhou Xiuhua	Li Ronghua	China	6:23.33	R
3	Susan Broome Christine Campbell Peg Mallery Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Abby Peck Anna Seaton Alison Townley Juliet Thompson	Betsy Beard	United States	6:24.55	R

Repechage

Rank	Rowers	Coxswain	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ramona Balthasar Kathrin Haacker Anja Kluge Ute Schell Beatrix Schröer Annegret Strauch Ute Wild Judith Zeidler	Daniela Neunast	East Germany	6:05.50	Q
2	Nevyana Ivanova Daniela Oronova Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Rita Todorova Todorka Vasileva Teodora Zareva Violeta Zareva	Greta Georgieva	Bulgaria	6:08.26	Q
3	Han Yaqin He Yanwen Hu Yadong Yang Xiao Zhang Xianghua Zhang Yali Zhou Shouying Zhou Xiuhua	Li Ronghua	China	6:08.64	Q
4	Susan Broome Christine Campbell Peg Mallery Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Abby Peck Anna Seaton Alison Townley Juliet Thompson	Betsy Beard	United States	6:10.82	Q
5	Inge Althoff-Schwerzmann Meike Holländer Elke Markwort Gabriele Mehl Cerstin Petersmann Katrin Petersmann Kerstin Rehders Anja Schäfer	Kerstin Peters	West Germany	6:12.70

Final

Rank	Rowers	Coxswain	Nation	Time
	Ramona Balthasar Kathrin Haacker Anja Kluge Ute Schell Beatrix Schröer Annegret Strauch Ute Wild Judith Zeidler	Daniela Neunast	East Germany	6:15.17
	Herta Anitaș Rodica Arba Mihaela Armășescu Adriana Bazon Olga Homeghi Veronica Necula Doina Șnep-Bălan Marioara Trașcă	Ecaterina Oancia	Romania	6:17.44
	Han Yaqin He Yanwen Hu Yadong Yang Xiao Zhang Xianghua Zhang Yali Zhou Shouying Zhou Xiuhua	Li Ronghua	China	6:21.83
4	Lidiya Averyanova Sandra Brazauskaitė Nataliya Fedorenko Olena Pukhaieva Nadezhda Sugako Margarita Teselko Sariya Zakyrova Marina Znak	Aušra Gudeliūnaitė	Soviet Union	6:22.35
5	Nevyana Ivanova Daniela Oronova Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Rita Todorova Todorka Vasileva Teodora Zareva Violeta Zareva	Greta Georgieva	Bulgaria	6:25.02
6	Susan Broome Christine Campbell Peg Mallery Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Abby Peck Anna Seaton Alison Townley Juliet Thompson	Betsy Beard	United States	6:26.66

Final classification

Rank	Rowers	Nation
	Annegret Strauch Judith Zeidler Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild Anja Kluge Beatrix Schröer Ramona Balthasar Ute Stange Daniela Neunast	East Germany
	Doina Șnep-Bălan Veronica Necula Herta Anitaș Marioara Trașcă Adriana Bazon Mihaela Armășescu Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi Ecaterina Oancia	Romania
	Zhou Xiuhua Zhang Yali He Yanwen Han Yaqin Zhang Xianghua Zhou Shouying Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua	China
4	Margarita Teselko Marina Znak Nadezhda Sugako Sandra Brazauskaitė Olena Pukhaieva Sariya Zakyrova Nataliya Fedorenko Lidiya Averyanova Aušra Gudeliūnaitė	Soviet Union
5	Teodora Zareva Violeta Zareva Nevyana Ivanova Olya Stoichkova Todorka Vasileva Rita Todorova Mariana Stoyanova Daniela Oronova Greta Georgieva	Bulgaria
6	Juliet Thompson Christine Campbell Abby Peck Peg Mallery Susan Broome Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Anna Seaton Alison Townley Betsy Beard	United States
7	Inge Althoff-Schwerzmann Meike Holländer Elke Markwort Gabriele Mehl Kerstin Peters Cerstin Petersmann Katrin Petersmann Kerstin Rehders Anja Schäfer	West Germany