1975 World Rowing Championships

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1975 World Rowing Championships
Holme Pierrepont.jpg
View of Holme Pierrepont over Rowing Lake
VenueHolme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre
LocationNottingham, England
Dates21–30 August 1975

The 1975 World Rowing Championships was the fifth World Rowing Championships. It was held from 21 to 30 August at Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre in Nottingham, England.[1][2]

Medal summary[]

Medalists at the 1975 World Rowing Championships were:

Men's events[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time
M1x [3][4]  West Germany
Peter-Michael Kolbe 		7:10.08  Ireland
Seán Drea 		7:12.50  East Germany
Martin Winter 		7:13.83
M2x [5][6]  Norway
Alf Hansen
Frank Hansen 		6:34.49  East Germany
Joachim Dreifke
Jürgen Bertow 		6:35.10  Great Britain
Chris Baillieu
Michael Hart 		6:39.61
M4x [7][8]  East Germany
Stefan Weiße
Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
Wolfgang Hönig
Christof Kreuziger 		5:57.44  Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Pecka
Václav Vochoska
Jaroslav Hellebrand 		 Soviet Union
Vytautas Butkus
Yuriy Yakimov
Aivars Lazdenieks
Yevgeniy Duleyev
M2- [9][10]  East Germany
Bernd Landvoigt
Jörg Landvoigt 		7:06.40  Bulgaria
Georgi Georgiev
7:10.81  Netherlands
Jan van der Horst
Willem Boeschoten 		7:11.49
M4- [11][12]  East Germany
Siegfried Brietzke
Andreas Decker
Stefan Semmler
Wolfgang Mager 		6:13.81  Soviet Union
Raul Arnemann
Nikolay Kuznetsov

Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov 		6:18.82  Romania
Nicolae Simion
Ernest Gal

6:24.09
M2+ [13][14]  East Germany
Jörg Lucke
Wolfgang Gunkel
(cox) 		7:16.24  Poland
Ryszard Stadniuk
Grzegorz Stellak
Ryszard Kubiak (cox) 		7:19.43  West Germany
Thomas Hitzbleck
Klaus Jäger
Holger Hocke (cox) 		7:20.13
M4+ [15][16]  Soviet Union
Vladimir Eshinov
Nikolay Ivanov
Aleksandr Sema
Aleksandr Klepikov
Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) 		6:31.46  East Germany
Andreas Schulz
Rüdiger Kunze
Walter Dießner
Ullrich Dießner
Wolfgang Groß (cox) 		6:36.47  West Germany
Hans-Johann Färber
Ralph Kubail

Peter Niehusen
Hartmut Wenzel (cox) 		6:40.93
M8+ [17][18]  East Germany
Jürgen Arndt
Gottfried Döhn
Dieter Wendisch
Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich
Werner Klatt
Roland Kostulski
Ulrich Karnatz
Karl-Heinz Prudöhl
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox) 		5:39.01  Soviet Union
Igor Konnov
Aleksandr Plyushkin

Vasily Potapov
Nikolay Ivanov
Vladimir Vasilyev
Antanas Čikotas

Igor Rudakov (cox) 		5:41.34  New Zealand
Grant McAuley
Alec McLean
Dave Rodger
Joe Earl
Lindsay Wilson
Ross Collinge
Trevor Coker
Peter Dignan
David Simmons (cox) 		5:43.61
Lightweight events
LM1x [19][20]   Switzerland
Reto Wyss 		7:41.69  Austria
Raimund Haberl 		7:48.04  United States
Bill Belden 		7:51.61
LM4- [21][22]  France
Francis Pelegri
Michel Picard
André Coupat
André Picard 		6:47.31  Great Britain
Nicholas Tee
Graeme Hall
Christopher Drury
Daniel Topolski 		6:49.23  Australia
Campbell Johnstone
Andrew Michelmore
Geoffrey Rees
Colin Smith 		6:52.13
LM8+ [23][24]  West Germany
Hans-Hermann Meyer
Paul Lutz
Ekkehard Braun
Gerd Maye
Wolfgang Fritsch
Volker Buhren
Günter Lobing
Bernd Kerkhoff
Frank Neumeister (cox) 		6:26.09  United States



Eric Aserlind




(cox) 		6:27.88  Great Britain
Brian Fentiman
Nigel Read
Stewart Fraser
Thomas Moffat
Mark Harris
Stephen Simpole
Christopher George
Anthony Stocking
Alan Sherman (cox) 		6:29.87

Women's events[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time Country & rowers Time
W1x [25][26]  East Germany
Christine Scheiblich 		3:55.75  Hungary
Mariann Ambrus 		4:06.29  Soviet Union
Genovaitė Ramoškienė 		4:08.02
W2x [27][28]  Soviet Union
Yelena Antonova
Galina Yermolayeva 		3:33.70  East Germany
Sabine Jahn
Petra Boesler 		3:34.99  Bulgaria
Svetla Otsetova
Zdravka Yordanova 		3:37.40
W4x+ [29][30]  East Germany
Roswietha Zobelt
Ursula Unger
Jutta Lau
Anke Grünberg
Liane Weigelt (cox) 		3:21.61  Bulgaria
Iskra Velinova
Verka Aleksieva

Svetlana Gincheva
(cox) 		3:24.12  Soviet Union




(cox) 		3:26.33
W2- [31][32]  East Germany
Sabine Dähne
Angelika Noack 		3:49.83  Soviet Union

3:50.61  Romania

Marlene Predescu 		3:54.25
W4+ [33][34]  East Germany
Helma Lehmann
Henrietta Dobler

Irina Müller
(cox) 		3:24.18  Bulgaria
Mariyka Modeva

Lilyana Vaseva
Ginka Gyurova
(cox) 		3:27.77  West Germany
Thea Einöder
Edith Eckbauer


(cox) 		3:29.80
W8+ [35][36]  East Germany
Viola Goretzki
Christiane Knetsch
Ilona Richter
Bianka Schwede
Monika Kallies
Renate Neu
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Marina Wilke (cox) 		3:14.53  United States
Christine Ernst
Carol Brown
Nancy Storrs

Claudia Schneider
Anne Warner

Carie Graves
Lynn Silliman (cox) 		3:16.21  Romania
Elena Avram


Aurelia Marinescu


Florica Petcu
Elena Oprea
Aneta Matei (cox) 		3:18.50

Event codes[]

single sculls double sculls quadruple sculls quad sculls (coxed) pair (coxless) four (coxless) coxed pair coxed four eight (coxed)
Men's M1x [3] M2x [5] M4x [7] M2- [9] M4- [11] M2+ [13] M4+ [15] M8+ [17]
Lightweight men's LM1x [19] LM4- [21] LM8+ [23]
Women's W1x [25] W2x [27] W4x+ [29] W2- [31] W4+ [33] W8+ [35]

Medal table[]

Medals by country (including lightweight rowing events):[37][38]

Country 1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze Total
1  East Germany 10 3 1 14
2  Soviet Union 2 3 3 8
3  West Germany 2 0 3 5
4  France 1 0 0 1
 Norway 1 0 0 1
  Switzerland 1 0 0 1
7  Bulgaria 0 3 1 4
8  United States 0 2 1 3
9  Great Britain 0 1 2 3
10  Austria 0 1 0 1
 Hungary 0 1 0 1
 Ireland 0 1 0 1
 Poland 0 1 0 1
 Czechoslovakia 0 1 0 1
15  Romania 0 0 3 3
16  Australia 0 0 1 1
 Netherlands 0 0 1 1
 New Zealand 0 0 1 1
Total 17 17 17 51

Finals[]

[39]

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

Great Britain[]

[40]

Event Notes
M1x N/A no entry
M2x Chris Baillieu & Michael Hart bronze medal in A final
M4x Tom Bishop, Graeme Mulcahy, Mark Hayter, 6th in A final
M2- David Sturge & Henry Clay unplaced
M4- Bill Mason, Jim Clark, Lenny Robertson, John Yallop 4th in A final
M2+ N/A no entry
M4+ Richard Lester, Hugh Matheson, Tim Crooks, Richard Ayling, Patrick Sweeney (cox) 4th in A final
M8+ Ian Wilson, , Gordon Rankine, , David Townsend,
James MacLeod, , David Sprague, Simon Jefferies (cox) 		3rd in B final
LM1x Peter Zeun 3rd in B final
L4- Graeme Hall, Christopher Drury, Nicholas Tee, Daniel Topolski silver medal in A final
L8 Brian Fentiman, Nigel Read, Stewart Fraser, Thomas Moffat, Mark Harris
Stephen Simpole, Christopher George, Anthony Stocking, Alan Sherman (cox) 		bronze medal in A Final
W1x Diana Bishop 6th in B final
W2x N/A no entry
W4x N/A no entry
W2- N/A no entry
W4+ Beryl Mitchell, Clare Grove, Lin Clark, Gill Webb, Pauline Wright (cox) 3rd in B final
W8+ Sue Handscomb, Jackie Darling, Maggie Lambourn, Jean Guppy,
Helen McFie, Rosie Clugston, Pauline Bird, Sue Bailey (cox) 		4th in B final

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