World Rowing Championships 1988

The 1988 World Rowing Championships were held on Lake Idroscalo in Milan , Italy under the rules of the World Rowing Federation (FISA). The 14 Olympic boat classes were not deployed because of the Olympic rowing regatta in Seoul in 1988, so that the rowing world champions were only determined in seven non-Olympic lightweight boat classes . The finals took place on August 6, 1988.

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.

Men

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
Lightweight - One (LM1x)	Federal Republic of Germany Alwin Otten	7: 05.60	Netherlands Frans Göbel	7: 09.86	Italy Ruggero Verroca	7: 10.57
Lightweight double scull (LM2x)	Italy Enrico Gandola Francesco Esposito	6: 30.42	Federal Republic of Germany Hartmut Schäfer Roland Ehrenfels	6: 32.83	Netherlands Theo Nieuweboer Jan van Bekkum	6: 33.61
Lightweight foursome without a helmsman (LM4-)	Italy Mauro Torta Dario Longhin Massimo Lana Nerio Gainotti	6: 09.48	United Kingdom Rob Williams Nicholas Howe Richard Metcalf Michael Diserens	6: 13.31	BR Germany Thomas Palm Erik Ring Gerd Meyer Sebastian Franke	6: 15.98
Lightweight figure eight (LM8 +)	Italy Alfredo Striani Andrea Re Stefano Spremberg Maurizio Losi Fabrizio Ravasi Enrico Barbaranelli Sabino Bellomo Vittorio Torcellan Luigi Velotti (stm.)	5: 43.35	United States Jeffrey Pfaendtner Mike Tuchen Luke Nelson John Irvine Tom White Edward Hewitt Tim Howell Tim O'Brien Mike Gorman (Stm.)	5: 45.88	Denmark Peter Lund Bo Vestergaard Niels Henriksen Jesper Vedel Flemming Meyer Lars Rasmussen Vagn Nielsen Svend Blitskov Stephen Masters (stm.)	5: 46.05

Women

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
Lightweight single (LW1x)	United States Kristine Karlson	7: 45.25	Federal Republic of Germany Angela Schuster	7: 48.13	Romania Maria Sava	7: 48.62
Lightweight double scull (LW2x)	Netherlands Laurien Vermulst Ellen Meliesie	7: 11.85	France Christine Liegeois Aline Peyrat	7: 14.87	United Kingdom Gillian Bond Caroline Lucas	7: 15.94
Lightweight foursome without helmsman (LW4-)	People's Republic of China Meilan Zeng Huajie Zhang Zhi-Ai Lin Sanmei Liang	6: 51.47	Australia Brigid Cassells Leeanne Whitehouse Marina Cade Justine Carrol	6: 54.98	BR Germany Christiane Zimmer Claudia Engels Sonja Petri Kathrin Schmack	6: 56.67

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	3		1	4th
2	BR Germany	1	2	2	5
3	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
4th	United States	1	1		2
5	People's Republic of China	1			1
6th	United Kingdom		1	1	2
7th	Australia		1		1
	France		1		1
9	Denmark			1	1
	Romania			1	1
total		7th	7th	7th	21st

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result of the final in LM1x at the World Rowing Championships in 1988 in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
2. ↑ result of the Finals in LM2x at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
3. ↑ result of the Finals in LM4- at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
4. ^ Result of the final in LM8 + at the World Rowing Championships 1988 in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
5. ↑ result of the Finals in LW1x at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
6. ↑ result of the Finals in LW2x at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
7. ↑ result of the Finals in LW4- at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan, Italy. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).