1987 World Rowing Championships

1987 World Rowing Championships
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	29 to 30 August
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The 1987 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 29 to 30 August 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark ^[1] while it was "outrageously windy". ^[2]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1987 World Rowing Championships were:

Men's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M1x [3]	East Germany Thomas Lange	7:37.48	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	7:40.76	Finland Pertti Karppinen	7:40.90
M2- [4]	Great Britain Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave	7:11.20	Romania Dragoș Neagu Dănuț Dobre	7:12.60	Soviet Union Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov	7:15.98
M2+ [5]	Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (cox)	7:40.81	Great Britain Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave Patrick Sweeney (cox)	7:42.88	Romania Dimitrie Popescu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe (cox)	7:44.96
M2x [6]	Bulgaria Daniel Yordanov Vasil Radev	7:03.33	West Germany Andreas Schmelz Ralf Thienel	7:06.33	East Germany Uwe Sägling Uwe Heppner	7:06.83
M4- [7]	East Germany Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster	6:39.70	Soviet Union Veniamin But Sigitas Kučinskas Jonas Narmontas Andrey Vasilyev	6:41.30	United States Ted Swinford Daniel Lyons John Riley Robert Espeseth	6:42.46
M4+ [8]	East Germany Frank Klawonn Bernd Eichwurzel Bernd Niesecke Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (cox)	6:41.74	Soviet Union Viktor Omelyanovich Mykola Komarov Vladimir Romanishin Valentin Gerasimenko Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox)	6:45.17	Italy Antonio Maurogiovanni Giovanni Suarez Renato Gaeta Giuseppe Carando Dino Lucchetta (cox)	6:47.30
M4x [9]	Soviet Union Valeriy Dosenko Sergey Kinyakin Mikhail Ivanov Igor Kotko	6:11.25	Norway Vetle Vinje Lars Bjønness Rolf Thorsen Alf Hansen	6:13.02	Canada Doug Hamilton Robert Mills Paul Douma Mel LaForme	6:14.40
M8+ [10]	United States Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Michael Still Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer (cox)	5:58.83	East Germany Mario Kliesch  [ de ] Dirk Rendant Thomas Bänsch Holger Rose Andreas Costrau Hans Sennewald Karsten Timm Karsten Schmeling Peter Thiede (cox)	6:01.94	Italy Ettore Bulgarelli Giuseppe Di Palo Antonio Baldacci Piero Carletto Giovanni Miccoli Alfredo Bollati Annibale Venier Franco Zucchi Paolo Trisciani (cox)	6:03.61
Men's lightweight events
LM1x [11]	Belgium Wim Van Belleghem	8:06.10	Canada David Wright	8:11.43	Italy Ruggero Verroca	8:13.80
LM2x [12] [13]	Italy Enrico Gandola Giovanni Calabrese	7:40.38	France Luc Crispon Thierry Renault	7:40.68	Great Britain Carl Smith Allan Whitwell	7:52.58
LM4- [14]	West Germany Thomas Palm Erik Ring Gerd Meyer Sebastian Franke	6:42.14	Great Britain Christopher Bates Peter Haining Neil Staite Stuart Forbes	6:44.05	Italy Franco Pantano Dario Longhin Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta	6:46.10
LM8+ [15]	Italy Maurizio Losi Alfredo Striani Vittorio Torcellan Massimo Lana Stefano Spremberg Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Sebastiano Zanetti (cox)	6:30.04	West Germany Bernhard Stomporowski Björn Gehlsen Alwin Otten Harald Galster Detlef Glitsch Udo Hennig Andreas Hobler Wolfgang Birkner Torsten Kreis (cox)	6:36.59	United States Scott Petry Seymour Danberg Chris Berl Samuel Shuffler Michael Morrison John Irvine Kevin Clair Edward Hewitt Michael O'Gorman (cox)	6:45.48

Women's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W1x [16]	Bulgaria Magdalena Georgieva	8:59.26	East Germany Martina Schröter	9:14.26	Romania Marioara Popescu	9:20.29
W2- [17]	Romania Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi	8:00.73	East Germany Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild	8:06.54	Soviet Union Marina Pegova Nadezhda Sugako	8:08.78
W2x [18]	Bulgaria Stefka Madina Violeta Ninova	7:47.89	Romania Elisabeta Lipă Liliana Genes	7:47.99	United States Anne Marden Barbara Kirch	7:51.42
W4+ [19]	Romania Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Ecaterina Oancia (cox)	7:30.12	East Germany Birte Siech Gerlinde Doberschütz Carola Hornig Martina Walther Sylvia Müller (cox)	7:34.09	Bulgaria Manuela Lashilina Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Daniela Oronova Sofiya Tzvetkova (cox)	7:40.73
W4x [20]	East Germany Kerstin Pieloth Birgit Peter Jutta Hampe Jana Sorgers	6:58.42	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Krasimira Tocheva Galina Yahorova Mariana Yankulova	7:00.90	Soviet Union Svitlana Maziy Marina Zhukova Irina Kalimbet Antonina Zelikovich	7:02.87
W8+ [21]	Romania Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Livia Țicanu Rodica Arba Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Olga Homeghi Lucia Toader Ecaterina Oancia (cox)	6:55.61	United States Anna Seaton Kristen Thorsness Christine Campbell Sarah Gengler Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Susan Broome Abigail Peck Harriet Metcalf Betsy Beard (cox)	6:57.27	Soviet Union Sarmīte Stone Lidiya Averyanova Irina Teterina Elena Makushkina Olena Pukhaieva Sariya Zakyrova Marina Suprun Elena Tereshina Valentina Khokhlova (cox)	7:03.25
Women's lightweight events
LW1x [22]	Romania Maria Sava	8:57.69	Belgium Rita Defauw	8:57.89	Italy Francesca Bentivoglio	9:05.58
LW2x [23]	Canada Janice Mason Heather Hattin	8:36.60	Belgium Lucia Focque Marie-Anne van der Moere	8:41.35	United States Carey Sands-Marden Christine Ernst	8:51.02
LW4- [24] [25]	United States Sandy Kendall Lindsay Burns Angela Herron Mandi Kowal	8:08.32	West Germany Christiane Zimmer Sonja Petri Monika Wolf Evelyn Herwegh	8:08.66	China Yan Dongling Long Jun Luo Hantao Zhang Xiange	8:13.81

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