1983 World Rowing Championships

The 1983 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 3 to 4 September 1983 at Wedau in Duisburg, West Germany.

1983 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Wedau
Location	Duisburg, West Germany
Dates	3 to 4 September

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
M1x	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	6:49.88	East Germany Uwe Mund	6:51.70	United States Christopher Wood	6:54.30
M2x	East Germany Thomas Lange (b) Uwe Heppner (s)	6:20.17	Norway Rolf Thorsen (b) Alf Hansen (s)	6:23.43	West Germany Andreas Schmelz (b) Georg Agrikola (s)	6:23.63
M4x	West Germany Albert Hedderich (b) Raimund Hörmann (2) Dieter Wiedenmann (3) Michael Dürsch (s)	5:45.97	East Germany Karl-Heinz Bußert (b) Martin Winter (2) Rüdiger Reiche (3) Joachim Dreifke (s)	5:47.87	Italy Piero Poli (b) Renato Gaeta (2) Antonio Dell'Aquila (3) Stefano Lari (s)	5:49.79
M2+	East Germany Thomas Greiner (b) Ullrich Dießner (s) Andreas Gregor (c)	6:49.75	Soviet Union Stasys Narušaitis (b) Ihar Maystrenka (s) Pyotr Petrinich (c)	6:53.23	Italy Carmine Abbagnale (b) Giuseppe Abbagnale (s) Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	6:55.45
M2-	East Germany Carl Ertel (b) Ulf Sauerbrey (s)	6:35.85	Soviet Union Viktor Pereverzev (b) Gennadi Kryuçkin (s)	6:37.92	Norway Hans Magnus Grepperud (b) Sverre Løken (s) (s)	6:39.72
M4+	New Zealand Conrad Robertson (b) Greg Johnston (2) Keith Trask (3) Les O'Connell (s) Brett Hollister (c)	6:13.89	East Germany Dietmar Schiller (b) Joerg Friedrich (2) Bernd Niesecke (3) Bernd Eichwurzel (s) Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (c)	6:16.29	Soviet Union Sergey Frolov (b) Jonas Pinskus (2) Jonas Narmontas (3) Vladimir Semin (s) Vladimir Nizhegorodov (c)	6:16.98
M4-	West Germany Norbert Keßlau (b) Volker Grabow (2) Jörg Puttlitz (3) Guido Grabow (s)	5:57.02	Soviet Union Nikolay Pimenov (b) Aleksandr Kulagin (2) Yuriy Pimenov (3) Žoržs Tikmers (s)	5:57.39	Sweden Anders Wilgotson (b) Hans Svensson (2) Lars-Åke Lindqvist (3) Anders Larson (s)	6:01.54
M8+	New Zealand Mike Stanley (b) Andrew Stevenson (2) Dave Rodger (3) Roger White-Parsons (4) Chris White (5) Barrie Mabbott (6) George Keys (7) Nigel Atherfold (s) Andy Hay (c)	5:34.39	East Germany Klaus Büttner (b) Uwe Gasch (2) Gert Uebeler (3) Karsten Schmeling (4) Ralf Brudel (5) Harald Jährling (6) Jürgen Seyfarth (7) Bernd Höing (s) Hendrik Reiher (c)	5:35.94	Australia Samuel Patten (b) Bruce Keynes (2) Ian Edmunds (3) David Doyle (4) James Battersby (5) Tim Willoughby (6) Ion Popa (7) John Quigley (s) Gavin Thredgold (c)	5:38.04
Lightweight events
LM1x	Denmark Bjarne Eltang	7:07.35	Great Britain John Melvin	7:09.84	West Germany Gerd Naujoks	7:10.08
LM2x	Italy Francesco Esposito (b) Ruggero Verroca (s)	06:25.42	France Luc Crispon (b) Thierry Renault (s)	6:30.73	Switzerland Roland Rosset (b) Pius Z'rotz (s)	06:31.92
LM4-	Spain Alberto Molina (b) Luis María Moreno (2) José María de Marco Pérez (3) Juan María Altuna (s)	6:16.47	Great Britain Christopher Bates (b) Carl Smith (2) Ian Wilson (3) Stuart Forbes (s)	6:19.13	Denmark Richard Biller (b) Michael Djervig (2) Vagn Nielsen (3) Karsten Kobbernagel (s)	6:19.48
LM8+	Spain Alejandro Moya (b) José Manuel Cañete (2) Eulogio Génova (3) Carlos Muniesa (4) José Crespo (5) Enrique Briones (6) Víctor Llorente (7) Benito Elizalde (s) José Rojí (c)	5:45.05	Australia Brian Digby (b) Paul Harvey (2) Greg Raszyk (3) Richard Hay (4) Peter Antonie (5) Bruce House (6) Ian Jordan (7) Stephen Spurling (s) Graeme Barns (c)	5:46.75	Denmark Mikael Espersen (b) Kim Hagsted (2) Ivar Mølgaard (3) Leif Jacobsen (4) Søren Hansson (5) Flemming Jensen (6) Jan Christensen (7) Bent Fransson (s) Henrik Kruse (c)	5:46.86

Women's events

Event	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
W1x	East Germany Jutta Hampe	3:36.51	Soviet Union Irina Fetisova	3:37.79	United States Virginia Gilder	3:39.05
W2x	East Germany Jutta Schenk (b) Martina Schröter (s)	3:13.44	Soviet Union Yelena Bratishko (b) Antonina Makhina-Dumtcheva (s)	3:14.28	Romania Marioara Ciobanu-Popescu (b) Elisabeta Lipă (s)	3:15.45
W4x+	Soviet Union Tatiana Bachkatova (b) Olga Kaspina (2) Yelena Khloptseva (3) Larisa Popova (s) Maria Zemskova-Korotkova (c)	3:02.48	East Germany Kerstin Kirst (b) Kerstin Pieloth (2) Cornelia Linse (3) Sylvia Schwabe (s) Andrea Rost (c)	3:04.51	Bulgaria Stefka Madina (b) Teodora Lazarova (2) Margarita Dobtcheva (3) Violeta Ninova (s) Greta Georgieva (c)	3:10.69
W2-	East Germany Marita Sandig (b) Silvia Fröhlich (s)	3:26.68	Romania Rodica Arba (b) Elena Horvat (s)	3:32.13	Canada Tricia Smith (b) Elizabeth Craig-Eaton (s)	3:33.52
W4+	East Germany Claudia Noack (b) Iris Rudolph (2) Sigrid Anders (3) Carola Miseler (s) Carolina Richter (c)	3:11.18	Romania Florica Lavric (b) Maria Tanase-Fricioiu (2) Chira Apostol (3) Olga Homegi-Bularda (s) Viorica Veres (c)	3:14.11	Soviet Union Feodossia Kaleinikova (b) Valentina Semenova (2) Svetlana Semyonova (3) Angelina Kaolikauskaite (s) Nina Cheremisina (c)	3:14.36
W8+	Soviet Union Sarmīte Stone (b) Lidiya Averyanova (2) Ludmila Konopleva (3) Marina Studneva (4) Nina Umanets (5) Elena Tereshina (6) Nataliya Yatsenko (7) Elena Makushkina (s) Valentina Khokhlova (c)	2:56.22	United States Kristen Thorsness (b) Patricia Spratlin (2) Shyril O'Steen (3) Carie Graves (4) Carol Bower (5) Kristine Norelius (6) Jan Harville (7) Harriet Metcalf (s) Valerie McClain-Ward (c)	2:58.14	East Germany Susann Heinicke (b) Viola Kestler (2) Annekatrin Jage (3) Karin Metze-Ullbricht (4) Steffi Götzelt (5) Carola Lichey (6) Sabine Portius (7) Ramona Hein (s) Kirsten Strohbach (c)	2:59.06

Medals table

Seventeen nations won medals of the championships.

Place	Nation				Total
1	East Germany	7	5	1	13
2	West Germany	3	0	2	5
3	Soviet Union	2	5	2	9
4	Spain	2	0	0	2
4	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
6	Denmark	1	0	2	3
6	Italy	1	0	2	3
8	Romania	0	2	1	3
9	Great Britain	0	2	0	2
10	United States	0	1	2	3
11	Australia	0	1	1	2
11	Norway	0	1	1	2
13	France	0	1	0	1
14	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
14	Canada	0	0	1	1
14	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
14	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54