1977 World Rowing Championships

Host City Amsterdam
Country NED
Held 24 – 28 August 1977
Competitors 203
Countries 18

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Single Sculls Men — Medal 3 3
Coxless Pairs Men — Medal 6 3
Coxed Pairs Men — Medal 9 3
Double Sculls Men — Medal 6 3
Coxless Fours Men — Medal 12 3
Coxed Fours Men — Medal 15 3
Quadruple Sculls Men — Medal 12 3
Eights Men — Medal 27 3
Lightweight Single Sculls Men — Medal 3 3
Lightweight Coxless Fours Men — Medal 12 3
Lightweight Eights Men — Medal 27 3
Single Sculls Women — Medal 3 3
Coxless Pairs Women — Medal 6 3
Double Sculls Women — Medal 6 3
Coxed Fours Women — Medal 15 3
Coxed Quadruple Sculls Women — Medal 15 3
ROW-W4x+-F Women — Medal 27 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 East Germany GDR 11 2 1 14
2 Great Britain GBR 2 1 0 3
3 Soviet Union URS 1 3 2 6
4 Bulgaria BUL 1 2 3 6
5 France FRA 1 0 0 1
= Switzerland SUI 1 0 0 1
7 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 1 2 3
8 Australia AUS 0 1 1 2
= Germany GER 0 1 1 2
= Netherlands NED 0 1 1 2
= Romania ROU 0 1 1 2
12 Denmark DEN 0 1 0 1
= Finland FIN 0 1 0 1
= New Zealand NZL 0 1 0 1
= Spain ESP 0 1 0 1
16 Canada CAN 0 0 2 2
= United States USA 0 0 2 2
18 Hungary HUN 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Single Sculls, Men Joachim Dreifke GDR Pertti Karppinen FIN Nikolay Dovgan URS
Coxless Pairs, Men Aleksandr Kulagin / Aleksandr Kulagin URS Jim Clark / Jim Clark GBR Bernd Krauß / Bernd Krauß GDR
Coxed Pairs, Men Dimitar Yanakiev / Dimitar Yanakiev BUL Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich / Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich GDR Karel Mejta, Jr. / Karel Mejta, Jr. TCH
Double Sculls, Men Chris Baillieu / Chris Baillieu GBR Rüdiger Reiche / Rüdiger Reiche GDR Yevgeny Shorny / Yevgeny Shorny URS
Coxless Fours, Men East Germany GDR New Zealand NZL Czechoslovakia TCH
Coxed Fours, Men East Germany GDR Germany GER Bulgaria BUL
Quadruple Sculls, Men East Germany GDR Czechoslovakia TCH Bulgaria BUL
Eights, Men East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Germany GER
Lightweight Single Sculls, Men Reto Wyss SUI Morten Espersen DEN Lawrence Klecatsky USA
Lightweight Coxless Fours, Men France FRA Australia AUS Netherlands NED
Lightweight Eights, Men Great Britain GBR Spain ESP Australia AUS
Single Sculls, Women Christine Scheiblich GDR Iskra Velinova BUL Mariann Ambrus HUN
Coxless Pairs, Women Sabine Dähne / Sabine Dähne GDR Karin Abma / Karin Abma NED Betty Craig / Betty Craig CAN
Double Sculls, Women Anke Borchmann / Anke Borchmann GDR Svetla Otsetova / Svetla Otsetova BUL Liz Hills / Liz Hills USA
Coxed Fours, Women East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Romania ROU
Coxed Quadruple Sculls, Women East Germany GDR Romania ROU Bulgaria BUL
ROW-W4x+-F, Women East Germany GDR Soviet Union URS Canada CAN