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 |
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[]
| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| M1x |  FinlandPertti 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) (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) (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 (b) Fred Borchelt (s) (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 (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) (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 (b) Ihar Maystrenka (2) (3) (4) (5) Oleksandr Tkachenko (6) Andriy Tishchenko (7) Andrey Luhin (s) Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (c) |
05:40.69 |
| Lightweight events | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LM1x[5] | United States William Belden |
7:19.96 |  Canada |
7:21.78 |  Austria Raimund Haberl |
7:25.02 |
| LM2x[6] | Norway Arne Gilje Pål Børnick |
6:38.08 |  Netherlands Harald Punt |
6:44.15 |  Italy Mauro Torta |
6:45.90 |
| LM4-[7] | Great Britain Ian Wilson (b) Stuart Wilson (2) Colin Barratt (3) Nicholas Howe (s) |
06:23.46 | Netherlands |
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 (cox) |
5:53.28 | Netherlands Mark Emke Hans Pieterman Hans Lycklama Hans Povel (cox) |
5:55.06 |
Women's events[]
| Event: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze: | Time |
| W1x |  RomaniaSanda 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) (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) (c) |
03:07.04 | Romania Maria Micșa (b) Aneta Mihaly (2) Sofia Corban (3) (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 (b) Svetlana Semyonova (2) Galina Stepanova (3) (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) (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) (3) Jeanne Flanagan (4) (5) (6) Jan Harville (7) (s) (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.
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