Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls

The women's quadruple sculls competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics took place at Notre Dame Island Olympic Basin, Canada.[1] It was the first time the event was contested for women.[1]

Women's quadruple sculls
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Date19–24 July
Competitors45 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Anke Borchmann
Jutta Lau
Viola Poley
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Weigelt
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Anna Kondrachina
Mira Bryunina
Larisa Alexandrova
Galina Ermolaeva
Nadezhda Chernyshyova
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ioana Tudoran
Maria Micșa
Felicia Afrăsiloaie
Elisabeta Lazăr
Elena Giurcă
 Romania
1980 →

Competition format

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The competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and finals) as well as a repechage. The 9 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 5 boats in one heat and 4 boats in the other. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the "A" final (1st through 6th place). The remaining 7 boats were placed in the repechage. Two heats were held in the repechage, with 4 boats in one heat and 3 boats in the other. The top two boats in each heat of the repechage went to the "A" final as well. The remaining 3 boats (3rd and 4th placers in the repechage heats) competed in the "B" final for 7th through 9th place.[2]

All races were over a 1000 metre course. The 1976 event (along with the 1980 and 1984 competitions) featured a coxswain in each boat; later editions dropped the coxswain.

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Nadezhda Chernyshyova   Soviet Union 3:11.74 QA
2 Elena Giurcă   Romania 3:14.86 R
3 Alena Svobodová   Czechoslovakia 3:15.51 R
4 Irene Moreno   United States 3:18.02 R
5 Kirsten Plum Jensen   Denmark 3:19.95 R

Heat 2

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Liane Buhr   East Germany 3:08.49 QA
2 Stanka Georgieva   Bulgaria 3:12.13 R
3 Ágnes Szijj   Hungary 3:15.51 R
4 Johanne Delisle   Canada 3:29.37 R

Repechage

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Repechage heat 1

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Elena Giurcă   Romania 3:27.48 QA
2 Kirsten Plum Jensen   Denmark 3:31.61 QA
3 Ágnes Szijj   Hungary 3:37.29 QB
4 Johanne Delisle   Canada 3:38.22 QB

Repechage heat 2

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes
1 Stanka Georgieva   Bulgaria 3:22.43 QA
2 Alena Svobodová   Czechoslovakia 3:26.75 QA
3 Irene Moreno   United States 3:27.82 QB

Finals

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Final B

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time
7 Irene Moreno   United States 3:46.06
8 Ágnes Szijj   Hungary 3:55.33
9 Johanne Delisle   Canada 3:57.72

Final A

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Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time
  Liane Buhr   East Germany 3:29.99
  Nadezhda Chernyshyova   Soviet Union 3:32.49
  Elena Giurcă   Romania 3:32.76
4 Stanka Georgieva   Bulgaria 3:34.13
5 Alena Svobodová   Czechoslovakia 3:42.53
6 Kirsten Plum Jensen   Denmark 3:46.99

Final classification

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Rank Rowers Country
  Anke Borchmann
Jutta Lau
Viola Poley
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Weigelt
  East Germany
  Anna Kondrachina
Mira Bryunina
Larisa Alexandrova
Galina Ermolaeva
Nadezhda Chernyshyova
  Soviet Union
  Ioana Tudoran
Maria Micșa
Felicia Afrăsiloaie
Elisabeta Lazăr
Elena Giurcă
  Romania
4 Iskra Velinova
Verka Aleksieva
Troyanka Vasileva
Svetlana Gincheva
Stanka Georgieva
  Bulgaria
5 Anna Marešová
Marie Bartáková
Jarmila Pátková
Hana Kavková
Alena Svobodová
  Czechoslovakia
6 Kirsten Thomsen
Else Mærsk-Kristensen
Judith Andersen
Karen Margrethe Nielsen
Kirsten Plum Jensen
  Denmark
7 Karen McCloskey
Lisa Hansen
Liz Hills
Claudia Schneider
Irene Moreno
  United States
8 Ilona Bata
Kamilla Kosztolányi
Valéria Gyimesi
Ágnes Szijj
Erzsébet Nagy
  Hungary
9 Sandra Kirby
Elaine Bourbeau
Guylaine Bernier
Barbara Boettcher
Johanne Delisle
  Canada

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rowing at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Women's Coxed Fours". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 91.