1981 World Rowing Championships
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The 10th World Rowing Championships were held in 1981 at Oberschleißheim
Oberschleißheim
Oberschleißheim is a municipality in the district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located 13 km north of Munich . As of 2005 it had a population of 11,467....

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Medal summary

Event: Gold: Time Silver: Time Bronze: Time
Men's Events
M1x
Peter-Michael Kolbe
Peter-Michael Kolbe
Peter-Michael Kolbe is a German rower and is one of the greatest single scullers ever. And, with the possible exception of Australia's Stuart Mackenzie, the greatest to have never won an Olympic Gold Medal...

 
7:45.32
Rüdiger Reiche
Rüdiger Reiche
Rüdiger Reiche is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won medals at international rowing competitions, including gold in the quadruple sculls at the 1976 Summer Olympics.- References :...

 
7:48.90
John Biglow 
7:51.55
M2x
Klaus Kroeppelien (b)
Joachim Dreifke
Joachim Dreifke
Joachim Dreifke is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Greifswald.In 1976 he won the bronze medal in the single sculls event....

 (s)
6:41.99
Reima Karppinen (b)
Pertti Karppinen
Pertti Karppinen
Pertti Johannes Karppinen is a Finnish rower who is legendary for his three consecutive Olympic Gold medals in Single Sculls in 1976, 1980, and 1984. He also won World Championships in 1979 and 1985. He once held the world record in indoor rowing. Karppinen's style was to row a steady race and...

 (s)
6:44.06
Rolf Thorsen
Rolf Thorsen
Rolf Bernt Thorsen is a Norwegian former competition rower, world champion and Olympic medalist.He received a silver medal in quadruple sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Alf Hansen, Vetle Vinje, and Lars Bjønness.He also received a silver medal in quadruple sculls at the...

 (b)
Alf Hansen
Alf Hansen
Alf John Hansen is a World and Olympic champion rower from Norway.In 1976, he won a gold medal at the Montreal Olympic Games in the Men's Double Scull event with his brother Frank Hansen...

 (s)
6:44.61
M4x
Peter Kersten (b)
Karl-Heinz Bussert (2)
Uwe Heppner
Uwe Heppner
Uwe Heppner is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics...

 (3)
Martin Winter
Martin Winter (rower)
Martin Winter was a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Zerbst and died in Magdeburg....

 (s)
6:11.37
Igor Iarkov (b)
Sergei Shevtchenko (2)
Vladimir Koldishkn (3)
Alecander Sdravomislov (s)
6:14.58
Denis Gate (b)
Jean-Raymond Peltier (2)
Charles Imbert (3)
Marc Boudoux (s)
6:17.45
M2+
Carmine Abbagnale
Carmine Abbagnale
Carmine Abbagnale is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.-Career:Abbagnale received a gold medal in coxed pairs, with Giuseppe di Capua and his older brother Giuseppe, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...

 (b)
Giuseppe Abbagnale
Giuseppe Abbagnale
Giuseppe Abbagnale is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in coxed pairs, with Giuseppe di Capua and his younger brother Carmine, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...

 (s)
Giuseppe Di Capua
Giuseppe di Capua
Giuseppe di Capua is an Italian competition rower and Olympic champion.He received a gold medal in coxed pairs as cox, with Giuseppe Abbagnale and Carmine Abbagnale, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and again at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...

 (c)
7:43.73
Karsten Schmeling
Karsten Schmeling
Karsten Schmeling is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. - References :...

 (b)
Jürgen Seyfarth
Jürgen Seyfarth
Jürgen Seyfarth is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam/Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won the medals at international rowing competitions.- References :...

 (s)
Hendrik Reiher
Hendrik Reiher
Hendrik Reiher is a German rowing cox. He competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won medals at several Summer Olympics as well as at international rowing competitions.-External links:* at sports-reference.com...

 (c)
7:46.22
Thomas Cadoux-Hudson (b)
Richard Budgett
Richard Budgett
Dr Richard Gordon McBride Budgett OBE is a British Olympic rower and chief medical officer to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to be held in London....

 (s)
Adrian Ellison
Adrian Ellison
Adrian Ellison was born on 11 September 1958 and is a retired English rowing cox. He coxed the men's four which brought Steve Redgrave his first Olympic gold in Los Angeles in 1984. He also won gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, again in the men's coxed fours.He attended Reading University and...

 (c)
7:47.03
M2-
Yuri Pimenov
Yuri Pimenov
Yuri Igorevich Pimenov is a Russian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for the Unified Team in the 1992 Summer Olympics.He is the twin brother of Nikolay Pimenov....

 (b)
Nikolai Pimenov (s)
7:15.06
Willem Jan Atsma (b)
Ted Bosman (s)
7:20.04
Antonio Baldacci (b)
Ezio Pacovich (s) (s)
7:23.28
M4+
Dietmar Schiller
Dietmar Schiller
Dietmar Schiller is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won the medals at the international rowing competitions.- References :...

 (b)
Jörg Friedrich
Jörg Friedrich
Jörg Friedrich is a German author and historian. Friedrich is best known for his publication Der Brand , in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder...

 (2)
Bernd Niesecke
Bernd Niesecke
Bernd Niesecke is a German rower, who competed for the SC Dynamo Potsdam/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo. He won the medals at the international rowing competitions.- References :...

 (3)
Harald Jährling
Harald Jährling
Harald Jährling is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Burg bei Magdeburg. He was the husband of Marina Wilke but they are divorced...

 (s)
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Züllichau....

 (c)
6:36.88
Andy Sudduth (b)
Thomas Woodman (2)
John Everett (3)
Fred Borchelt
Fred Borchelt
Earl Frederick "Fred" Borchelt is a former American competitive rower and Olympic silver medalist. He was a member of the American men's eights team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...

 (s)
Robert Jaugstetter (c)
6:39.68
Viktor Omeljanovitch (b)
Dimants Krisjanis
Dimants Krišjanis
Dimants Yutvaldovits Krišjānis is a Latvian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Riga and is the younger brother of Dzintars Krišjānis....

 (2)
Dzintars Krishyanis (3)
Dzorzes Tikmers (s)
Juris Berzins
Juris Berzinš
Juris Bērziņš is a Latvian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1980 he was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event....

 (c)
6:40.52
M4-
Alexei Kamkin (b)
Valeri Dolinin
Valeri Dolinin
Valeri Alekseevich Dolinin is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1976 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the coxless fours event....

 (2)
Aleksander Kulagin (3)
Vitali Eliseev
Vitali Eliseev
Vitali Mikhaylovich Eliseev is a Russian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the coxless fours event.-External links:*...

 (s)
6:35.85
Bruno Saile (b)
Jürg Weitnauer (2)
Hans-Konrad Trümpler (3)
Stefan Netzle (s)
6:41.47
Klaus Büttner (b)
Hans-Peter Koppe
Hans-Peter Koppe
Hans-Peter Koppe is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Leipzig.In 1980 he won the gold medal as crew member of the East German boat in the eights competition.-External links:...

 (2)
Jens Doberschütz
Jens Doberschütz
Jens Doberschütz is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics.He was born in Dresden and is the husband of Gerlinde Doberschütz and the father of Johannes Doberschütz....

 (3)
Uwe Gasch (s)
6:43.07
M8+
Zigmantas Gudauskas (b)
Nikolai Solomakhin (2)
Vladimir Krilov (3)
Viktor Deduk (4)
Stasis Narushaitis (5)
Ionas Narmontas (6)
Ionas Pinskus (7)
Igor Maistrenko (s)
Vladimir Nizhegorodov (c)
6:02.30
Mark Andrews (b)
Christopher Mahoney (2)
Colin Seymour (3)
John Bland
John Bland
John Louis Bland is a South African professional golfer who has won more than thirty professional tournaments around the world....

 (4)
Andrew Justice
Andrew Justice
Andrew Justice was a British rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.In 1976 he was a crew member of the British boat which finished ninth in the quadruple sculls event....

 (5)
John Pritchard
John Pritchard (rower)
John Martin Pritchard is a British rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal, and in the 1984 Summer Olympics....

 (6)
Malcolm McGowan
Malcolm McGowan
Malcolm R. McGowan is a British rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.He was born in London.In 1980 he was a crew member of the British boat which won the silver medal in the eights event....

 (7)
Richard Stanhope
Richard Stanhope
Richard Courtney Stanhope is a British rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.He was born in Blackpool....

 (s)
Colin Moynihan
Colin Moynihan
Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan PC is a former Olympic coxswain who became a businessman, politician and sports administrator.-Early life:...

 (c)
6:04.31
Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and is now a writer at Newsweek.-Career:He has written a book of short stories, The Last Good Man , a novel, Dog Days , and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody...

 (b)
John Zevenbergen (2)
Thomas Kiefer
Thomas Kiefer
Thomas Nisbit Kiefer is a former American competitive rower and Olympic silver medalist.-Career:...

 (3)
James McDougall (4)
John Phinney (5)
Dave Clark
David Clark (rower)
David Robert Clark is a United States rower who currently lives in Longmont, Colorado. Clark was the stroke on the U.S. national crew which finished third in the World Rowing Championships in Munich, Germany in 1981. He also rowed on the four-oared crew that finished 7th in the World Rowing...

 (6)
Charles Clapp III (7)
Matthew Labine
Matthew Labine
Matthew Labine is an American soap opera writer, the son of Claire Labine and the brother of Eleanor Labine Mancusi.In spring 1996, Claire Labine was offered the Head Writer role at CBS Daytime's As the World Turns but turned it down because she and Matthew Labine were trying to get Heart And Soul...

 (s)
Seth Bauer
Seth Bauer
Seth Bauer is an American rowing cox. He is Jewish. In 1998, he won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games, and he wond a bronze at the 1981 world championships and a gold a the 1987 world championships.-External links:* at sports-reference.com...

 (c)
6:06.13
Mens's Lightweight Events
LM1x
Scott Roop 
7:22.90
Raimund Haberl 
7:25.30
Brian Thorne 
7:27.16
LM2x
Francesco Esposito (b)
Ruggero Verroca (s)
6:42.17
Paul Fuchs Jr (b)
William Belden Sr (s)
6:44.22
Leif Kruse (b)
Bjarne Eltang
Bjarne Eltang
Bjarne Eltang is a Danish rower.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...

 (s)
6:48.95
LM4-
Graham Gardiner (b)
Charles Bartlett (2)
Clyde Hefer
Clyde Hefer
Clyde Hefer is an Australian rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...

 (3)
Simon Gillett
Simon Gillett
Simon James Gillett is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Doncaster Rovers.-Career:From August 2006, he spent three months on loan to Blackpool. It was with the Fylde Coast club that he scored his first league goal, on 12 September, in a 1–1 draw with Chesterfield at Bloomfield Road...

 (s)
6:22.32
Peter Van Berkel (b)
Richard Helsloot (2)
Willem Appeldoorn (3)
Paul Paulsen (s)
6:24.04
Robert Gibson
Robert Gibson (rower)
Robert Gibson is a Canadian rower.- References :...

 (b)
Timothy Turner
Timothy Turner
Sir Timothy Turner SL JP was an English judge.Turner was the eldest son of the Shropshire barrister Thomas Turner. He was a member of Staple Inn and then joined Gray's Inn on 8 March 1607, being called to the bar on 30 October 1611...

 (2)
James Relle (3)
Patrick Turner
Patrick Turner
Patrick Turner is an American football wide receiver for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft...

 (s)
6:26.60
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Women's Events
W1x
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Medals table

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