1982 World Rowing Championships

1982 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Rotsee
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Dates	28 to 29 August

The 1982 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 28 to 29 August 1982 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
M1x	East Germany Rüdiger Reiche	7:00.67	Soviet Union Vasil Yakusha	7:01.15	United States John Biglow	7:02.08
M2x	Norway Rolf Thorsen Alf Hansen	6:23.66	East Germany Klaus Kröppelien Joachim Dreifke	6:25.36	Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Pecka Václav Vochoska	6:28.08
M4x	East Germany Karl-Heinz Bußert Uwe Mund Uwe Heppner Martin Winter	5:55.50	West Germany Albert Hedderich Raimund Hörmann Dieter Wiedenmann Michael Dürsch	5:59.10	Soviet Union Viktor Rudakovich Vladimir Koldishkin Aleksandr Sdramvomislov Valeriy Kleshnyov	6:00.90
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	6:59.63	East Germany Jürgen Seyfarth Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (c)	7:01.55	Czechoslovakia Milan Doleček Sr Milan Skopek Oldřich Hejdušek (c)	7:02.07
M2-	Norway Hans Magnus Grepperud Sverre Løken	6:41.98	East Germany Carl Ertel Ulf Sauerbrey	6:44.88	Netherlands Sjoerd Hoekstra Joost Adema	6:45.72
M4+	East Germany Thomas Greiner Hans Sennewald Ulrich Kons Ullrich Dießner Andreas Gregor (c)	6:19.04	Czechoslovakia Vojtech Caska Josef Neštický Jan Kabrhel Karel Neffe Jiří Pták (c)	6:21.69	United States Andy Sudduth Charles Altekruse John Everett Fred Borchelt Robert Jaugstetter (c)	6:25.33
M4-	Switzerland Bruno Saile Jürg Weitnauer Hans-Konrad Trümpler Stefan Netzle	6:10.41	Soviet Union Vitaliy Eliseyev Aleksandr Kulagin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksey Kamkin	6:11.82	Romania Petru Iosub Valer Toma Daniel Voiculescu Constantin Airoaie	6:12.32
M8+	New Zealand Les O'Connell Mike Stanley Andrew Stevenson George Keys Roger White-Parsons Chris White Tony Brook Dave Rodger Andy Hay (c)	5:36.99	East Germany Jens Doberschütz Hans-Peter Koppe Gert Uebeler Jörg Friedrich Ralf Brudel Harald Jährling Bernd Niesecke Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (c)	5:39.17	Soviet Union Žoržs Tikmers Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Viktor Omelyanovich Viktor Diduk Vladimir Krilov Zigmantas Gudauskas Nikolai Solomakhin Juris Bērziņš (c)	5:39.52
Lightweight events
LM1x	Austria Raimund Haberl	7:12.57	United States Scott Roop	7:14.26	Italy Luca Migliaccio	7:14.58
LM2x	Italy Francesco Esposito Ruggero Verroca	06:34.85	United States Paul Fuchs William Belden	6:37.28	Switzerland Kurt Steiner Pius Z'rotz	06:38.87
LM4-	Italy Marco Romano Daniele Boschin Paolo Martinelli Pasquale Aiese	6:17.79	Spain Guillermo Mueller Gascon José María de Marco Pérez Enrique Briones Luis Marina Moreno Perpina	6:19.68	Denmark Mikael Espersen Flemming Jensen Lars Porneki Kim Hagsted	6:20.33
LM8+	Italy Vittorio Valentinis Mauro Torta Franco Pantano Valentino Tontodonati Renzo Borsini Lanfranco Borsini Claudio Castiglioni Leonardo Salani Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	5:49.45	Denmark Michael Djervig Jørn Jørgensen Ivar Mølgaard Arne Højlund Søren Hansson Søren Christensen Jan Christensen Bent Fransson Jan Rasmussen (c)	5:50.47	Spain Fernando Climent Angel Sáez Bernardos Francisco Goicoechea García Antonio Elizalde Alberto Molina Castillo Ángel Viana Bravo Javier Puertas Cabezudo Dionisio Redondo González Jose Delgado (c)	5:51.90

Women's events

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
W1x	Soviet Union Irina Fetisova	3:42.83	Romania Valeria Răcilă	3:42.92	New Zealand Stephanie Foster	3:44.61
W2x	Soviet Union Yelena Bratischko Antonina Makhina	3:19.47	East Germany Kerstin Kirst Martina Schröter	3:23.05	Canada Janice Mason Lisa Roy	3:26.49
W4x+	Soviet Union Larisa Popova Yelena Khloptseva Olga Kaspina Tatiana Bachkatova Maria Zemskova-Korotkova (c)	3:32.41	East Germany Jutta Hampe Heidi Westphal Cornelia Linse Jutta Ploch Elke Rost (c)	3:12.48	Romania Maria Micșa Maricica Țăran Elisabeta Lipă Sofia Corban Ecaterina Oancia (c)	3:16.63
W2-	East Germany Silvia Fröhlich Marita Sandig	3:32.41	Poland Małgorzata Dłużewska Czesława Kościańska	3:34.58	Canada Elizabeth Craig Tricia Smith	3:35.93
W4+	Soviet Union Svetlana Semenova Valentina Semenova Galina Stepanova Larisa Zavarzina Nina Cheremisina (c)	3:17.16	United States Kathy Keeler Carol Bower Harriet Metcalf Barbara Kirch Valerie McClain-Ward (c)	3:19.55	Romania Rodica Arba Mihaela Armășescu Aurora Darko Elena Horvat Cristina Dinu (c)	3:19.71
W8+	Soviet Union Elena Makushkina Ludmila Konopleva Nina Umanets Elena Tereshina Nataliya Yatsenko Marina Studneva Raissa Doligaida Sarmīte Stone Nina Frolova (c)	2:57.97	United States Liz Miles Shyril O'Steen Kristine Norelius Jan Harville Jennie Marshall Joline Esparza Jane McDougall Kristen Thorsness Nanette Bernadou (c)	3:01.50	East Germany Claudia Noack Ute Steindorf Sabine Portius Carola Hornig Steffi Götzelt Sigrid Anders Iris Rudolph Karin Metze Kirsten Wenzel (c)	3:02.89

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Soviet Union	5	2	2	9
2	East Germany	4	6	2	12
3	Italy	4	0	1	5
4	Norway	2	0	0	2
5	New Zealand	1	0	1	2
6	Austria	1	0	0	1
6	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
8	United States	0	4	2	6
9	Czechoslovakia	0	1	2	3
9	Romania	0	1	2	3
10	Denmark	0	1	1	2
10	Spain	0	1	1	2
11	West Germany	0	1	0	1
11	Poland	0	1	0	1
12	Canada	0	0	2	2
13	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54