1987 World Rowing Championships

1987 World Rowing Championships
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	29 to 30 August

The 16th World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 29 to 30 August 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[1]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1987 World Rowing Championships were:

Men's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M1x[2]	East Germany Thomas Lange	7:37.48	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	7:40.76	Finland Pertti Karppinen	7:40.90
M2-[3]	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+[4]	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[5]	Bulgaria Danajil Jordanov Vassili Radev	7:03.33	West Germany Andreas Schmelz Ralf Thienel	7:06.33	East Germany Uwe Sägling Uwe Heppner	7:06.83
M4-[6]	East Germany Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster	6:39.70	Soviet Union Veniamin But Sigitas Kutshinskas Ionas Narmontas Andrei Vassiljev	6:41.30	United States Ted Swinford Daniel Lyons John Riley Robert Espeseth	6:42.46
M4+[7]	East Germany Frank Klawonn Bernd Eichwurzel Bernd Niesecke Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (cox)	6:41.74	Soviet Union Viktor Omeljanovitch Mykola Komarov Vassili Romanishin Valentin Gerasimenko Hrihoriy Dmytrenko (cox)	6:45.17	Italy Antonio Maurogiovanni Giovanni Suarez Renato Gaeta Giuseppe Carando Dino Lucchetta (cox)	6:47.30
M4x[8]	Soviet Union Valeri Dossenko 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 Melvin LaForme	6:14.40
M8+[9]	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 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

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
LM1x[10]	Belgium Wim van Belleghem	8:06.10	Canada David Wright	8:11.43	Italy Ruggero Verroca	8:13.80
LM2x[11][12]	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-[13]	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+[14]	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 Bjoern 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 Schuffler 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[15]	Bulgaria Magdalena Georgieva	8:59.26	East Germany Martina Schröter	9:14.26	Romania Marioara Popescu	9:20.29
W2-[16]	Romania
W2x[17]	Bulgaria
W4+[18]	Romania
W4x[19]	East Germany
W8+[20]	Romania

Women's lightweight events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
LW1x[21]	Romania
LW2x[22]	Canada
LW4-[23]	United States

References

1. "1987 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
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3. "(M2-) Men's Pair - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
4. "(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
5. "(M2x) Men's Double Sculls - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
6. "(M4-) Men's Four - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
7. "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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13. "(LM4-) Lightweight Men's Four - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
14. "(LM8+) Lightweight Men's Eight - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
15. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
16. "(W2-) Women's Pair - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
17. "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
18. "(W4+) Women's Coxed Four - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
19. "(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
20. "(W8+) Women's Eight - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
21. "(LW1x) Lightweight Women's Single Sculls - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
22. "(LW2x) Lightweight Women's Double Sculls - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
23. "(LW4-) Lightweight Women's Four - Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.