World Rowing Championships 1989

The 1989 World Rowing Championships were held on Lake Bled in Yugoslavia (now Slovenia ) under the rules of the World Rowing Federation (FISA). Rowing world champions were determined in 22 boat classes . The finals took place on September 9th and 10th, 1989.

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
One (M1x)	German Democratic Republic Thomas Lange	6: 58.14	Czechoslovakia Václav Chalupa	7: 01.05	Soviet Union Jueri Jaanson	7: 01.31
Lightweight One (LM1x)	Netherlands Frans Göbel	7: 17.07	Belgium Wim van Belleghem	7: 20.03	Federal Republic of Germany Alwin Otten	7: 21.80
Double scull (M2x)	Norway Rolf Thorsen Lars Bjønness	6: 23.40	Netherlands Ronald Florijn Nico Rienks	6: 24.68	Austria Christoph Zerbst Arnold Jonke	6: 25.80
Lightweight double scull (LM2x)	Austria Christoph Schmölzer Walter Rantasa	7: 03.33	Spain José María de Marco Pérez Fernando Climent Huerta	7: 03.53	Czechoslovakia Petr Kovac Tibor Groeppel	7: 04.68
Sculls (M4x)	Netherlands Hans Keldermann Koos Maasdijk Hermanus van den Eerenbeemt Rutger Arisz	6: 03.99	Italy Gianluca Farina Filippo Soffici Davide Tizzano Giovanni Calabrese	6: 04.26	Sweden Per-Olof Claesson David Svensson Tommy Oesterlund Fredrik Hulten	6: 05.66
Lightweight Quads (LM4x)	BR Germany Peter Uhrig Jan Fischer Björn Gehlsen Thomas Melges	6: 04.78	Switzerland Reto Fierz Philipp Felber Cirillo Ghielmetti Markus Gier	6: 07.24	France Bruno Boucher Bruno Lebeda Roland Galliac Thierry Renault	6: 07.50
Two without a helmsman (M2-)	German Democratic Republic Thomas Jung Uwe Kellner	6: 39.95	United Kingdom Simon Berrisford Steven Redgrave	6: 42.84	Austria Karl Sinzinger Hermann Bauer	6: 43.40
Two with helmsman (M2 +)	Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (Stm.)	6: 54.81	Romania Dragoș Neagu Ioan Șnep Marin Gheorghe (Stm.)	6: 56.90	Yugoslavia Milan Janša Robert Krasovec Gorazd Slivnik (Stm.)	6: 57.97
Foursome without a helmsman (M4-)	German Democratic Republic Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster	6: 06.94	United States Raoul Rodriguez Thomas Drill Richard Kennelly John Rusher	6: 07.92	New Zealand Bill Coventry Ian Wright Alistair MacIntosh Campbell Clayton-Greene	6: 08.63
Lightweight four without a helmsman (LM4-)	BR Germany Klaus Altena Stephan Fahrig Michael Buchheit Bernhard Stomporowski	6: 28.70	Italy Nerio Gainotti Alfredo Striani Dario Longhin Mauro Torta	6: 32.36	United Kingdom Nicholas Strange Nicholas Howe Rob Williams Stuart Forbes	6: 34.35
Foursome with helmsman (M4 +)	Romania Vasile Năstase Dimitrie Popescu Valentin Robu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe (stm.)	6: 14.90	Czechoslovakia Michal Šubrt Pavel Menšík Dušan Vičík Dušan Macháček Jiří Pták (st.)	6: 17.37	United Kingdom Steve Turner Matthew Pinsent Gavin Stewart Terence Dillon Thomas Vaughan (Stm.)	6: 17.57
Figure eight (M8 +)	BR Germany Jörg Puttlitz Norbert Keßlau Martin Steffes-Mies Dirk Balster Frank Dietrich Mark Masonry Ansgar Wessling Roland Baar Manfred Klein (Stm.)	5: 43.88	German Democratic Republic Stefan Schulz Mario Grüssel Roland Schröder Thomas Woddow Mario Kliesch Holger Rose Thomas Bänsch Hans Sennewald Peter Thiede (Stm.)	5: 45.70	United Kingdom Timothy Foster Matthew Brittin Jim Walker Anton Obholzer Jonny Singfield Richard Phelps Jonathan Searle Jonathan Hulls Adrian Ellison (stm.)	5: 47.01
Lightweight figure eight (LM8 +)	Italy Enrico Barbaranelli Roberto Romanini Franco Falossi Danilo Fraquelli Vittorio Torcellan Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Giuseppe Lamberti (stm.)	5: 47.95	Denmark Bo Vestergaard Svend Blitskov Jens Lindhardt Lars Rasmussen Flemming Meyer Michael Sørensen Vagn Nielsen Niels Henriksen Stephen Masters (stm.)	5: 49.38	BR Germany Alexander Trautmann Felix Prinz Detlef Glitsch Ingo Grevemeyer Udo Hennig Sebastian Franke Thomas Palm Erik Ring Jörg Dederding (Stm.)	5: 51.15

Women

Boat class	gold		silver		bronze
One (W1x)	Romania Elisabeta Lipa	7: 27.96	German Democratic Republic Birgit Peter	7: 31.47	Hungary Katalin Sarlós	7: 34.15
Lightweight single (LW1x)	United States Kristine Karlson	8: 01.12	Belgium Rita Defauw	8: 03.14	Netherlands Laurien Vermulst	8: 04.78
Double scull (W2x)	German Democratic Republic Jana Sorgers Beate Schramm	7: 01.71	Romania Veronica Cochela Elisabeta Lipa	7: 07.32	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrowa Magdalena Georgiewa	7: 11.55
Lightweight double scull (LW2x)	United States Carey Sands-Marden Kristine Karlson	7: 11.04	New Zealand Philippa Baker Linda de Jong	7: 13.70	Federal Republic of Germany Christiane Weber Alrun Urbach	7: 14.94
Double quad (W4x)	German Democratic Republic Kathrin Boron Sybille Schmidt Jutta Behrendt Jana Thieme	6: 16.62	Soviet Union Natalia Kwasja Marja Omeljanowitsch Switlana Masij Iryna Kalimbet	6: 22.39	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrowa Magdalena Georgiewa Galina Yahorowa Krasimira Totschewa	6: 23.63
Two people without a helmsman (W2-)	German Democratic Republic Kathrin Haacker Judith Zeidler	7: 26.97	Romania Doina Bălan Marioara Traşcă	7: 30.70	BR Germany Stefani Werremeier Ingeburg Althoff	7: 31.13
Foursome without a helmsman (W4-)	German Democratic Republic Christiane Harzendorf Ina Justh Annegret Strauch Ute Wagner	6: 45.81	People's Republic of China Cao Mianying Hu Yadong Liu Xirong Zhou Shouying	6: 48.45	Romania Adriana Bazon Mihaela Armășescu Livia Leonte Viorica Neculai	6: 50.58
Lightweight foursome without helmsman (LW4-)	People's Republic of China Liang Sanmei Zeng Meilan Zhang Huajie Lin Zhi-Ai	7: 01.70	United Kingdom Sue Key Rachel Hirst Joanna Toch Katharine Brownlow	7: 04.88	BR Germany Karin Zobeley Cornelia Cichy Ute Zobeley Claudia Engels	7: 06.12
Eighth (W8 +)	Romania Doina Bălan Marioara Traşcă Anca Tănase Georgeta Soare Adriana Bazon Viorica Neculai Livia Leonte Mihaela Armășescu Ecaterina Oancia (Stf.)	6: 07.92	German Democratic Republic Liane Justh Ute Wild Ina Grapenthin Annette Hohn Anja Kluge Katrin Schröder Ramona Balthasar Martina Walther Daniela Neunast (Stf.)	6: 08.19	People's Republic of China Cao Zhou Xiuhua Liu He Yanwen Guo Guo Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua (Stf.)	6: 11.84

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	7th	3		10
2	Romania	3	3	1	7th
3	BR Germany	3		5	8th
4th	Italy	2	2		4th
5	Netherlands	2	1	1	4th
6th	United States	2	1		3
7th	People's Republic of China	1	1	1	3
8th	Austria	1		2	3
9	Norway	1			1
10	United Kingdom		2	3	5
11	Czechoslovakia		2	1	3
12	Belgium		2		2
13	New Zealand		1	1	2
	Soviet Union		1	1	2
15th	Denmark		1		1
	Spain		1		1
	Switzerland		1		1
18th	Bulgaria			2	2
19th	France			1	1
	Hungary			1	1
	Sweden			1	1
	Yugoslavia			1	1
total		22nd	22nd	22nd	66

Individual evidence

1. ↑ result of the Finals in M1x at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
2. ↑ Result of the final in LM1x at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
3. ↑ result of the Finals in M2x at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
4. ↑ result of the Finals in LM2x at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
5. ↑ result of the Finals in M4x at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
6. ^ Result of the final in LM4x at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
7. ↑ Result of the final in M2- at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
8. ↑ Result of the final in M2 + at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
9. ↑ outcome of the finals in the M4 at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
10. ↑ result of the Finals in LM4- at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
11. ^ Result of the final in the M4 + at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
12. ^ Result of the final in the M8 + at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
13. ^ Result of the final in LM8 + at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
14. ↑ Result of the final in the W1x at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
15. ↑ result of the Finals in LW1x at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
16. ↑ result of the Finals in W2x at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
17. ↑ Result of the final in LW2x at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
18. ↑ result of the Finals in W4X at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
19. ^ Result of the final in W2 at the World Rowing Championships in 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
20. ^ Result of the final in W4 at the World Rowing Championships in 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
21. ↑ result of the Finals in LW4- at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English). 
22. ^ Result of the final in the W8 + at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on October 9, 2014 (English).