1978 World Rowing Championships

Host City Cambridge
Country NZL
Held 30 October – 5 November 1978
Events 14
Competitors 162
Countries 17

Openweight

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Single Sculls, Men Men — Medal 3 3
Coxless Pairs, Men Men — Medal 6 3
Coxed Pairs, Men Men — Medal 9 3
Double Sculls, Men Men — Medal 6 3
Coxless Fours, Men Men — Medal 12 3
Coxed Fours, Men Men — Medal 15 3
Quadruple Sculls, Men Men — Medal 12 3
Eights, Men Men — Medal 27 3
Single Sculls, Women Women — Medal 3 3
Coxless Pairs, Women Women — Medal 6 3
Double Sculls, Women Women — Medal 6 3
Coxed Fours, Women Women — Medal 15 3
Coxed Quadruple Sculls, Women Women — Medal 15 3
Eights, Women Women — Medal 27 3

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 East Germany GDR Czechoslovakia TCH Poland 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
Eights, Women Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR Canada CAN