1989 World Rowing Championships

1989 World Rowing Championships
1989 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Bled
Location	Bled, Yugoslavia
Dates	2 to 10 September

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]

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 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
13	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

↑ 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.

References

↑ "1989 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ Diane Pucin (3 September 1989). "Penn Ac Four Is Best Hope For U. S. In Yugoslavia". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2013.

[2] 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.

[overview-1] "1989 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 March 2016.

[3] Diane Pucin (3 September 1989). "Penn Ac Four Is Best Hope For U. S. In Yugoslavia". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2013.

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