1979 World Rowing Championships

1979 World Rowing Championships
1979 World Rowing Championships
	Yugoslav stamp dedicated to the 1979 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Lake Bled
Location	Bled, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
Dates	30 August – 9 September
	← 1978 Cambridge 1980 Hazewinkel →

The 1979 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 30 August – 9 September 1979 at Bled in Slovenia, Yugoslavia.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medal summary

Men's events

Lightweight events
Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M1x	Finland Pertti Karppinen	06:58.27	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	07:04.60	East Germany Rüdiger Reiche	07:06.55
M2x	Norway Alf Hansen (b) Frank Hansen (s)	06:26.98	Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Pecka (b) Václav Vochoska (s)	06:30.46	East Germany Uwe Heppner (b) Martin Winter (s)	06:32.01
M4x	East Germany Peter Kersten (b) Klaus Kröppelien (2) Karl-Heinz Bußert (3) Joachim Dreifke (s)	05:50.70	West Germany Albert Hedderich (b) Raimund Hörmann (2) Dieter Wiedenmann (3) Michael Dürsch(s)	05:54.16	France Christian Marquis (b) Jean-Raymond Peltier (2) Charles Imbert (3) Roland Weill (s)	05:57.80
M2-	East Germany Bernd Landvoigt (b) Jörg Landvoigt (s)	06:42.63	Soviet Union Yuriy Pimenov (b) Nikolay Pimenov (s)	06:45.76	Switzerland Stefan Netzle (b) Hans Trümpler (s)	06:48.67
M2+	East Germany Gert Uebeler (b) Jürgen Pfeiffer (s) Georg Spohr (c)	07:06.35	Czechoslovakia Milan Škopek (b) Josef Plamínek (s) Oldřich Hejdušek (c)	07:06.95	United States Mark Borchelt (b) Fred Borchelt (s) Christopher Wells (c)	07:09.90
M4-	East Germany Wolfgang Mager (b) Stefan Semmler (2) Andreas Decker (3) Siegfried Brietzke (s)	06:00.64	Czechoslovakia Vojtěch Caska (b) Josef Neštický (2) Lubomir Zapletal (3) Jiří Prudil (s)	06:05.30	Great Britain Martin Cross (b) David Townsend (2) Ian McNuff (3) John Beattie (s)	06:06.65
M4+	East Germany Bernd Schlufter (b) Walter Dießner (2) Jens Doberschütz (3) Ullrich Dießner (s) Werner Lutz (c)	06:27.24	Soviet Union Artūrs Garonskis (b) Dzintars Krišjānis (2) Dimants Krišjānis (3) Žoržs Tikmers (s) Juris Bērziņš (c)	06:29.23	West Germany Andreas Görlich (b) Frank Schütze (2) Wolfram Thiem (3) Wolf-Dieter Oschlies (s) Manfred Klein (c)	06:31.32
M8+^[4]	East Germany Dietmar Schiller (b) Jörg Friedrich (2) Werner Wenzel (3) Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich (4) Bernd Höing (5) Ulrich Karnatz (6) Bernd Krauß (7) Ortwin Rodewald Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (c)	05:36.41	New Zealand Grant McAuley (b) Tony Brook (2) Tim Logan (3) Gregory Johnston (4) Conrad Robertson (5) Peter Jansen (6) Mark James (7) Robert Robinson (s) Alan Cotter (c)	05:39.92	Soviet Union Viktor Kokoshina (b) Ihar Maystrenka (2) Aleksandr Manzevitch (3) Vitaliy Moroz (4) Andrey Ruditsin (5) Oleksandr Tkachenko (6) Andriy Tishchenko (7) Andrey Luhin (s) Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (c)	05:40.69
LM1x^[5]	United States Bill Belden	7:19.96	Canada Brian Thorne	7:21.78	Austria Raimund Haberl	7:25.02
LM2x^[6]	Norway Arne Gilje Pål Børnick	6:38.08	Netherlands Harald Punt Roel Michels	6:44.15	Italy Mauro Torta Romano Uberti	6:45.90
LM4-^[7]	Great Britain Ian Wilson (b) Stuart Wilson (2) Colin Barratt (3) Nicholas Howe (s)	06:23.46	Netherlands Peter van Berkel Willem Appeldoorn Richard Helsloot Paul Paulsen	06:23.99	Switzerland Reto Wyss Thomas von Weissenfluh Pierre Zentner Pierre Kovacs	06:25.12
LM8+^[8]	Spain Francisco Goicoechea García Luis Arteaga Leon Jaime Uriarte García José Antonio Expósito Sánchez Antonio Elizalde Dionisio Redondo González Javier Puertas Cabezudo Fernando Climent Pedro Olasagasti Arruti (cox)	5:53.10	United States Stephen Schmitt Scott Strong Thomas Phillips Jeff Kroesen Craig Drake John Fletcher Bryan Lewis William Bater Robert Brody (cox)	5:53.28	Netherlands Mark Emke Henk van der Kwast Hans Pieterman Hans Lycklama Hans Povel Bert van Baal Rob Uilenbroek Ron Velthuis Gelle Klein Ikkink (cox)	5:55.06

Women's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W1x	Romania Sanda Toma	03:35.44	East Germany Martina Schröter	03:38.67	Netherlands Hette Borrias	03:39.61
W2x	East Germany Cornelia Linse (b) Heidi Westphal (s)	03:15.95	Bulgaria Svetla Otsetova (b) Sdravka Jordanova (s)	03:16.31	Romania Valeria Răcilă (b) Olga Homeghi (s)	03:17.68
W4x+	East Germany Sybille Tietze (b) Christine Röpke (2) Jutta Lau (3) Roswietha Zobelt (s) Liane Buhr (c)	03:06.75	Bulgaria Anka Bakova (b) Dolores Nakova (2) Rumelyana Boncheva (3) Mariana Serbezova (s) Ani Filipova (c)	03:07.04	Romania Maria Micșa (b) Aneta Mihaly (2) Sofia Corban (3) Veronica Juganaru (s) Elena Giurcă (c)	03:08.06
W2-	East Germany Cornelia Bügel (b) Ute Steindorf (s)	03:27.74	Romania Florica Dospinescu (b) Elena Oprea (s)	03:30.44	Poland Małgorzata Dłużewska (b) Czesława Kościańska (s)	03:32.30
W4+	Soviet Union Valentina Semenova (b) Svetlana Semyonova (2) Galina Stepanova (3) Maria Fadeyeva (s) Nina Cheremisina (c)	03:17.03	East Germany Marita Sandig (b) Ute Skorupski (2) Angelika Noack (3) Kersten Neisser (s) Kirsten Wenzel (c)	03:18.25	Romania Georgeta Militaru-Mașca (b) Florica Silaghi (2) Maria Fricioiu (3) Elena Avram (s) Aneta Matei (c)	03:19.98
W8+	Soviet Union Nina Antoniuk (b) Tatyana Bunjak (2) Nadezhda Dergatchenko (3) Valentina Yermakova (4) Maria Paziun (5) Elena Tereshina (6) Nina Umanets (7) Olga Pivovarova (s) Nina Frolova (c)	02:58.09	East Germany Martina Boesler (b) Silvia Fröhlich (2) Petra Köhler (3) Jutta Raeck (4) Renate Neu (5) Ilona Richter (6) Ramona Kapheim (7) Karin Metze (s) Marina Wilke (c)	02:59.36	United States Carol Brown (b) Carol Bower (2) Susan Tuttle (3) Jeanne Flanagan (4) Patricia Brink (5) Patricia Spratlin (6) Jan Harville (7) Mary O'Connor (s) Hollis Hatton (c)	02:59.91

Medal table

This table does not include the lightweight results.

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	9	3	2	14
2	Soviet Union	2	2	1	5
3	Romania	1	1	3	5
4	Finland	1	0	0	1
4	Norway	1	0	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia	0	3	0	3
7	West Germany	0	2	1	3
8	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
9	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
10	United States	0	0	2	2
11	France	0	0	1	1
11	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
11	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
11	Poland	0	0	1	1
11	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

Finals

Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
M1x	Finland	West Germany	East Germany	Sweden	Great Britain	Soviet Union
M2-	East Germany	Soviet Union	Switzerland	Great Britain	West Germany	Denmark
M2+	East Germany	Czechoslovakia	United States	Yugoslavia	Romania	Bulgaria
M2x	Norway	Czechoslovakia	East Germany	Great Britain	Switzerland	West Germany
M4-	East Germany	Czechoslovakia	Great Britain	Soviet Union	Netherlands	Switzerland
M4+	East Germany	Soviet Union	West Germany	United States	Spain	Bulgaria
M4x	East Germany	West Germany	France	Yugoslavia	United States	Bulgaria
M8+	East Germany	New Zealand	Soviet Union	Australia	United States	Great Britain
LM1x	United States	Canada	Austria	West Germany	Spain	Switzerland
LM2x	Norway	Netherlands	Italy	United States	Switzerland	Spain
LM4-	Great Britain	Netherlands	Switzerland	West Germany	Denmark	Australia
LM8+	Spain	United States	Netherlands	West Germany	Great Britain	Australia
W1x	Romania	East Germany	Netherlands	Canada	United States	Bulgaria
W2-	East Germany	Romania	Poland	Netherlands	United States	Bulgaria
W2x	East Germany	Bulgaria	Romania	Soviet Union	United States	Poland
W4+	Soviet Union	East Germany	Romania	Bulgaria	Australia	West Germany
W4x+	East Germany	Bulgaria	Romania	Soviet Union	Hungary	United States
W8+	Soviet Union	East Germany	United States	Romania	Canada	Bulgaria

Great Britain

Nine men's teams (three lightweight) and four women's teams from Great Britain competed at the championships.^[9]^[10]

Event		Notes
M1x	Hugh Matheson	5th in A final
M2-	Charles Wiggin & Malcolm Carmichael	4th in A final
M2+	N/A	no entry
M2x	Chris Baillieu & Jim Clark	4th in A final
M4-	Martin Cross, David Townsend, Ian McNuff, John Beattie	Bronze medal
M4+	James Svenson-Taylor, Peter Hope, Simon Leifer, Paul Reynolds	1st in B final (7th overall)
M4x	N/A	no entry
M8+	Lenny Robertson, Eric Sims, Mark Bathurst, Neil Christie, James MacLeod Gordon Rankine, Colin Seymour, John Roberts, Alan Inns (cox)	6th in A final
LM1x	N/A	no entry
LM2x	Mark Cushway & Peter Boosey	2nd in B final
LM4-	Ian Wilson, Stuart Wilson, Colin Barratt, Nicholas Howe	Gold medal
LM8+	Stephen Simpole, Nigel Read, Christopher Drury, Colin Cusack, John Melvin Peter Zeun, Duncan Innes, Richard Stuart, Paul Jenkinson (cox)	5th in A final
W1x	Beryl Mitchell	13th place
W2-	N/A	no entry
W2x	Pauline Hart & Astrid Ayling	1st in B final
W4+	Yvonne Earl, Bernadette Casey, Lin Clark, Gillian Webb, Nicky Mason (cox)	4th in B final
W4x+	N/A	no entry
W8+	Jean Genchi, Nicola Boyes, Stephanie Price, Liz Paton, Sue Handscomb Rosemary Clugston, Clara Bayles, Beverly Jones, Nicky Zarach (cox)	3rd in B final

References

^ "1979 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
^ "1979 World Championships—Bled Yugoslavia". RowingHistory-Aus.info. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "1979 WORLD ROWING LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS". World Rowing. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^ "(M8+) Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
^ "(LM1x) Lightweight Men's Single Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^ "(LM2x) Lightweight Men's Double Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^ "(LM4-) Lightweight Men's Four – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^ "(LM8+) Lightweight Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^ Ramsbottom, Mike (7 September 1979). "Rowing". Daily Mirror. p. 31 – via British Newspaper Archives.
^ "1979 World Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[1] "1979 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 6 October 2015.

[2] "1979 World Championships—Bled Yugoslavia". RowingHistory-Aus.info. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[3] "1979 WORLD ROWING LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS". World Rowing. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[4] "(M8+) Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2018.

[5] "(LM1x) Lightweight Men's Single Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

[6] "(LM2x) Lightweight Men's Double Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

[7] "(LM4-) Lightweight Men's Four – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

[8] "(LM8+) Lightweight Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

[9] Ramsbottom, Mike (7 September 1979). "Rowing". Daily Mirror. p. 31 – via British Newspaper Archives.

[10] "1979 World Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

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