1978 World Rowing Championships

Host City	Cambridge
Country	NZL
Held	30 October – 5 November 1978
Competitors	162
Countries	17

Openweight

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	GDR	8	3	0	11
2	Soviet Union	URS	2	2	1	5
3	Bulgaria	BUL	2	0	1	3
4	Germany	GER	1	3	1	5
5	Norway	NOR	1	0	0	1
6	Great Britain	GBR	0	2	1	3
7	Canada	CAN	0	1	1	2
=	France	FRA	0	1	1	2
=	United States	USA	0	1	1	2
10	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	1	0	1
11	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1
=	Netherlands	NED	0	0	1	1
=	New Zealand	NZL	0	0	1	1
=	Poland	POL	0	0	1	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1
=	Switzerland	SUI	0	0	1	1
=	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Single Sculls, Men	Peter-Michael Kolbe	GER	Rüdiger Reiche	GDR	Milorad Stanulov	YUG
Coxless Pairs, Men	Bernd Landvoigt / Jörg Landvoigt	GDR	John Roberts / Jim Clark	GBR	Dominique Lecointe / Jean-Claude Roussel	FRA
Coxed Pairs, Men	Jürgen Pfeiffer / Olaf Beyer	GDR	Karel Mejta, Jr. / Jiří Pták	TCH	Adam Tomasiak / Ryszard Kubiak	POL
Double Sculls, Men	Frank Hansen / Alf Hansen	NOR	Chris Baillieu / Mike Hart	GBR	Bruno Saile / Jörg Weitnauer	SUI
Coxless Fours, Men	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	Great Britain	GBR
Coxed Fours, Men	East Germany	GDR	Germany	GER	Bulgaria	BUL
Quadruple Sculls, Men	East Germany	GDR	France	FRA	Germany	GER
Eights, Men	East Germany	GDR	Germany	GER	New Zealand	NZL
Single Sculls, Women	Christine Scheiblich	GDR	Anna Kondrashina	URS	Mariann Ambrus	HUN
Coxless Pairs, Women	Cornelia Klier / Ute Steindorf	GDR	Betty Craig / Susan Antoft	CAN	Joke Dierdorp / Karin Abma	NED
Double Sculls, Women	Svetla Otsetova / Zdravka Yordanova	BUL	Lyudmila Parfenova / Eleonora Kaminskaitė	URS	Liz Hills / Lisa Hansen-Stone	USA
Coxed Fours, Women	East Germany	GDR	United States	USA	Romania	ROU
Coxed Quadruple Sculls, Women	Bulgaria	BUL	Germany	GER	Soviet Union	URS
ROW-W4x+-F, Women	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	Canada	CAN