1996 World Rowing Championships

The 1996 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held on 11 August 1996 in conjunction with the World Junior Rowing Championships in Motherwell, Strathclyde, United Kingdom.^[1] The event took place at Strathclyde Country Park. Since 1996 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M4+	Romania Dorin Alupei Gabriel Marin Iulică Ruican Viorel Talapan (c)	6:25.74	Czech Republic Dusan Businsky Michal Dalecký Oldřich Hejdušek (c)	6:26.76	Russia Aleksandr Litvinchev (c)	6:28.17
M2+	France Yannick Schulte (c)	7:18.26	Romania Dimitrie Popescu Nicolae Țaga Dumitru Răducanu (c)	7:18.96	Netherlands Chun Wei Cheung (c)	7:22.33
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Denmark Karsten Nielsen	7:35.72	Czech Republic Tomáš Kacovský	7:36.01	Finland	7:37.15
LM4x	Italy Lorenzo Bertini Paolo Pittino Franco Sancassani Massimo Guglielmi	06:10.11	Germany Oliver Ibielski Alexander Lutz Andreas Lutz	6:11.53	France Frédéric Dufour Pascal Touron	6:11.82
LM2-	Denmark Thomas Ebert Bo Helleberg	7:06.34	Ireland Neville Maxwell Tony O'Connor	7:09.25	Germany Oliver Rau	7:10.73
LM8+	Germany Andreas Bech Matthias Edeler Dirk Jenny Stefan Locher Marcus Mielke Teja Töpfer Vladimir Vukelic Uwe Maerz Klaus Klotz (c)	5:55.06	Denmark Thomas Croft Buck Søren Henrichsen Jeppe Jensen Kollat Michael Jensen Dennis Larsen (c)	5:56.96	Canada Jon Beare Chris Davidson Ben Storey Bryan Thompson Edward Winchester Chris Taylor (c)	5:59.47

Women's events[]

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W4-	United States Emily Dirksen Sara Field Amy Turner Rosana Zegarra	6:49.48	Romania Liliana Gafencu Doina Ignat Elisabeta Lipă Marioara Ciobanu-Popescu	6:51.36	Germany Claudia Barth Lenka Wech	6:55.15
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Romania Constanța Burcică	8:06.90	France Benedicte Dorfman - Luzuy	8:07.66	United States Sarah Garner	8:09.74
LW2-	United States Christine Smith-Collins	7:56.66	Great Britain Alison Brownless Jane Hall	8:02.71	Romania Camelia Macoviciuc Maria Sava	8:03.31
LW4-[2]	China Liu Bili Liu Mei Ling Wang Fang Zhong Aifang	7:08.56	Great Britain Malindi Myers	7:09.55	United States Whitney Post Sarah Simmons	7:11.10

Medal table[]

Place	Nation				Total
1	Romania	2	2	1	5
2	Denmark	2	1	0	3
3	United States	2	0	1	3
4	Germany	1	1	2	4
5	France	1	1	1	3
6	Italy	1	0	0	1
7	Czech Republic	0	2	0	2
8	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
10	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Total		9	9	9	27

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