Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal featured races in 14 events, all held at the rowing basin on Notre Dame Island. Women's events held at 1000 m debuted (they would be lengthened to the men's events of 2000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul).
| Rowing at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Olympic Basin at Notre Dame Island |
| Dates | 18–25 July 1976 |
| Competitors | 593 (388 men, 205 women) from 31 nations |
There was a desire by the IOC's program commission to reduce the number of competitors and a number of recommendations were put to the IOC's executive board on 23 February 1973, which were all accepted. Rowing was the only sport where the number of competitors was increased, and women were admitted for the first time in Olympic history. The quadruple sculls events were introduced at this Olympics, without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.
Participating nations
A total of 593 rowers from 31 nations competed at the Montreal Games:
- Argentina (10)
- Australia (13)
- Austria (3)
- Belgium (7)
- Brazil (7)
- Bulgaria (33)
- Canada (46)
- Cuba (14)
- Czechoslovakia (34)
- Denmark (7)
- East Germany (54)
- Finland (7)
- France (17)
- Great Britain (31)
- Hungary (8)
- Ireland (10)
- Italy (15)
- Japan (9)
- Mexico (1)
- Netherlands (24)
- New Zealand (18)
- Norway (14)
- Poland (22)
- Romania (21)
- Soviet Union (55)
- Sweden (3)
- Switzerland (4)
- United States (54)
- Uruguay (1)
- West Germany (44)
- Yugoslavia (7)
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Germany | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Norway | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | United States | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (11 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 | |
Medal summary
Men's events
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single sculls | Pertti Karppinen Finland | Peter-Michael Kolbe West Germany | Joachim Dreifke East Germany |
| Double sculls | Frank Hansen and Alf Hansen Norway | Chris Baillieu and Michael Hart Great Britain | Jürgen Bertow and Uli Schmied East Germany |
| Quadruple sculls (coxless) | East Germany Wolfgang Güldenpfennig Rüdiger Reiche Karl-Heinz Bußert Michael Wolfgramm | Soviet Union Yevgeniy Duleyev Yuriy Yakimov Aivars Lazdenieks Vytautas Butkus | Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Hellebrand Václav Vochoska Zdeněk Pecka Vladek Lacina |
| Coxless pairs | Bernd Landvoigt and Jörg Landvoigt East Germany | Calvin Coffey and Mike Staines United States | Peter van Roye and Thomas Strauß West Germany |
| Coxed pairs | East Germany Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr | Soviet Union Dmitry Bekhterev Yuriy Shurkalov Yuriy Lorentsson | Czechoslovakia Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Ludvík Vébr |
| Coxless fours | East Germany Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Wolfgang Mager | Norway Ole Nafstad Arne Bergodd Finn Tveter Rolf Andreassen | Soviet Union Raul Arnemann Nikolay Kuznetsov Valeriy Dolinin Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov |
| Coxed four | Soviet Union Vladimir Eshinov Nikolay Ivanov Mikhail Kuznetsov Aleksandr Klepikov Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) Aleksandr Sema | East Germany Andreas Schulz Rüdiger Kunze Walter Dießner Ullrich Dießner Johannes Thomas (cox) | West Germany Hans-Johann Färber Ralph Kubail Siegfried Fricke Peter Niehusen Hartmut Wenzel (cox) |
| Eights | East Germany Bernd Baumgart Gottfried Döhn Werner Klatt Hans-Joachim Lück Dieter Wendisch Roland Kostulski Ulrich Karnatz Karl-Heinz Prudöhl Karl-Heinz Danielowski | Great Britain Richard Lester John Yallop Timothy Crooks Hugh Matheson David Maxwell Jim Clark Frederick Smallbone Lenny Robertson Patrick Sweeney | New Zealand Ivan Sutherland Trevor Coker Peter Dignan Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Dave Rodger Alec McLean Tony Hurt Simon Dickie |
Women's events
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single scull | Christine Scheiblich East Germany | Joan Lind United States | Yelena Antonova Soviet Union |
| Double scull | Svetla Otsetova and Zdravka Yordanova Bulgaria | Sabine Jahn and Petra Boesler East Germany | Eleonora Kaminskaitė and Genovaitė Ramoškienė Soviet Union |
| Quadruple scull (coxed) | East Germany Anke Borchmann Jutta Lau Viola Poley Roswietha Zobelt Liane Weigelt | Soviet Union Anna Kondrashina Mira Bryunina Larisa Alexandrova Galina Ermolaeva Nadezhda Chernyshova | Romania Ioana Tudoran Maria Micșa Felicia Afrăsiloaie Elisabeta Lazăr Elena Giurcă |
| Coxless pair | Siyka Kelbecheva and Stoyanka Gruycheva Bulgaria | Angelika Noack and Sabine Dähne East Germany | Edith Eckbauer and Thea Einöder West Germany |
| Coxed four | East Germany Karin Metze Bianka Schwede Gabriele Lohs Andrea Kurth Sabine Heß | Bulgaria Ginka Gyurova Lilyana Vaseva Reni Yordanova Mariyka Modeva Kapka Georgieva | Soviet Union Nadezhda Sevostyanova Lyudmila Krokhina Galina Mishenina Anna Pasokha Lidiya Krylova |
| Eight | East Germany Viola Goretzki Christiane Knetsch Ilona Richter Brigitte Ahrenholz Monika Kallies Henrietta Ebert Helma Lehmann Irina Müller Marina Wilke | Soviet Union Lyubov Talalaeva Nadezhda Roshchina Klavdija Koženkova Olena Zubko Olha Kolkova Nelli Tarakanova Nadiya Rozhon Olha Huzenko Olha Puhovska | United States Jackie Zoch Anita DeFrantz Carie Graves Marion Greig Anne Warner Peggy McCarthy Carol Brown Gail Ricketson Lynn Silliman |
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