World Rowing Championships 1980

The 1980 World Rowing Championships were held on the Hazewinkel regatta course near Mechelen , Belgium under the rules of the World Rowing Federation (FISA). The 14 Olympic boat classes were not used because of the Olympic rowing regatta in Moscow in 1980, so that the rowing world champions were only determined in four non-Olympic lightweight boat classes for men . The finals took place on August 16, 1980. At the same time, World Junior Championships in rowing were held on the Hazewinkel regatta course .

Results

The medal winners from the A finals are listed here. These were manned by six boats, which had to qualify for the finals through preliminary runs, hope runs and semi-finals. The length of the course was 2000 meters in all races.

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
Lightweight - One (LM1x)	Federal Republic of Germany Christian-Georg Warlich	7: 00.94	United States William Belden	7: 06.32	Spain José Antonio Montosa Ortega	7: 08.80
Lightweight double scull (LM2x)	Italy Francesco Esposito Ruggero Verroca	6: 29.18	United States Scott Roop Lawrence Klecatsky	6: 31.10	Switzerland Kurt Steiner Reto Wyss	6: 33.44
Lightweight foursome without a helmsman (LM4-)	Australia Graham Gardiner Charles Bartlett Clyde Hefer Simon Gillett	6: 12.35	Denmark Mogens Rasmussen Juul Søren Christensen Jan Christensen Kim Hagsted	6: 23.75	United Kingdom Antony Richardson Andrew Cusack Duncan Innes Colin Cusack	6: 25.76
Lightweight figure eight (LM8 +)	United Kingdom Colin Barratt David Hosking Robert Downie Nicholas Howe Peter Zeun Clive Roberts Nigel Read Stephen Simpole Simon Jefferies (Stm.)	5: 42.76	France Bernard Gronchi Thierry Farelle Bertrand Razat Serge Grenier Jean-François Razat Gerard Avril Maxime Mantovani Laurent Fritsch Bertrand Le Cossec (stm.)	5: 45.62	Spain Felix Alonso Muñoz Carlos Sáez Bernardos José Marti Miranda Francisco Goicoechea García Luis Arteaga Leon José Rojí Blanco Angel Sáez Bernardos Fernando Climent Huerta Javier Sabriá (stm.)	5: 45.87

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United Kingdom	1		1	2
2	Australia	1			1
	BR Germany	1			1
	Italy	1			1
5	United States		2		2
6th	Denmark		1		1
	France		1		1
8th	Spain			2	2
9	Switzerland			1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result of the final in LM1x at the Rowing World Championships 1980 near Mechelen, Belgium. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
2. ↑ Result of the final in the LM2x at the 1980 World Rowing Championships near Mechelen, Belgium. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
3. ↑ result of the Finals in LM4- at the World Rowing Championships in 1980 near Mechelen, Belgium. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
4. ↑ Result of the final in LM8 + at the Rowing World Championships 1980 near Mechelen, Belgium. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).