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The 1987 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 29 to 30 August 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark while it was "outrageously windy".

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1987 World Rowing Championships were:

Men's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M1x	East Germany Thomas Lange	7:37.48	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	7:40.76	Finland Pertti Karppinen	7:40.90
M2-	Great Britain Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave	7:11.20	Romania Dragoș Neagu Dănuț Dobre	7:12.60	Soviet Union Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov	7:15.98
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (cox)	7:40.81	Great Britain Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave Patrick Sweeney (cox)	7:42.88	Romania Dimitrie Popescu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe (cox)	7:44.96
M2x	Bulgaria Daniel Yordanov Vasil Radev	7:03.33	West Germany Andreas Schmelz Ralf Thienel	7:06.33	East Germany Uwe Sägling Uwe Heppner	7:06.83
M4-	East Germany Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster	6:39.70	Soviet Union Veniamin But Sigitas Kučinskas Jonas Narmontas Andrey Vasilyev	6:41.30	United States Ted Swinford Daniel Lyons John Riley Robert Espeseth	6:42.46
M4+	East Germany Frank Klawonn Bernd Eichwurzel Bernd Niesecke Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (cox)	6:41.74	Soviet Union Viktor Omelyanovich Mykola Komarov Vladimir Romanishin Valentin Gerasimenko Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox)	6:45.17	Italy Antonio Maurogiovanni Giovanni Suarez Renato Gaeta Giuseppe Carando Dino Lucchetta (cox)	6:47.30
M4x	Soviet Union Valeriy Dosenko Sergey Kinyakin Mikhail Ivanov Igor Kotko	6:11.25	Norway Vetle Vinje Lars Bjønness Rolf Thorsen Alf Hansen	6:13.02	Canada Doug Hamilton Robert Mills Paul Douma Mel LaForme	6:14.40
M8+	United States Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Michael Still Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer (cox)	5:58.83	East Germany Mario Kliesch [de] Dirk Rendant Thomas Bänsch Holger Rose Andreas Costrau Hans Sennewald Karsten Timm Karsten Schmeling Peter Thiede (cox)	6:01.94	Italy Ettore Bulgarelli Giuseppe Di Palo Antonio Baldacci Piero Carletto Giovanni Miccoli Alfredo Bollati Annibale Venier Franco Zucchi Paolo Trisciani (cox)	6:03.61
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Belgium Wim Van Belleghem	8:06.10	Canada David Wright	8:11.43	Italy Ruggero Verroca	8:13.80
LM2x	Italy Enrico Gandola Giovanni Calabrese	7:40.38	France Luc Crispon Thierry Renault	7:40.68	Great Britain Carl Smith Allan Whitwell	7:52.58
LM4-	West Germany Thomas Palm Erik Ring Gerd Meyer Sebastian Franke	6:42.14	Great Britain Christopher Bates Peter Haining Neil Staite Stuart Forbes	6:44.05	Italy Franco Pantano Dario Longhin Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta	6:46.10
LM8+	Italy Maurizio Losi Alfredo Striani Vittorio Torcellan Massimo Lana Stefano Spremberg Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Sebastiano Zanetti (cox)	6:30.04	West Germany Bernhard Stomporowski Björn Gehlsen Alwin Otten Harald Galster Detlef Glitsch Udo Hennig Andreas Hobler Wolfgang Birkner Torsten Kreis (cox)	6:36.59	United States Scott Petry Seymour Danberg Chris Berl Samuel Shuffler Michael Morrison John Irvine Kevin Clair Edward Hewitt Michael O'Gorman (cox)	6:45.48

Women's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W1x	Bulgaria Magdalena Georgieva	8:59.26	East Germany Martina Schröter	9:14.26	Romania Marioara Popescu	9:20.29
W2-	Romania Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi	8:00.73	East Germany Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild	8:06.54	Soviet Union Marina Pegova Nadezhda Sugako	8:08.78
W2x	Bulgaria Stefka Madina Violeta Ninova	7:47.89	Romania Elisabeta Lipă Liliana Genes	7:47.99	United States Anne Marden Barbara Kirch	7:51.42
W4+	Romania Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Ecaterina Oancia (cox)	7:30.12	East Germany Birte Siech Gerlinde Doberschütz Carola Hornig Martina Walther Sylvia Müller (cox)	7:34.09	Bulgaria Manuela Lashilina Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Daniela Oronova Sofiya Tzvetkova (cox)	7:40.73
W4x	East Germany Kerstin Pieloth Birgit Peter Jutta Hampe Jana Sorgers	6:58.42	Bulgaria Pavlina Alexandrova Krasimira Tocheva Galina Yahorova Mariana Yankulova	7:00.90	Soviet Union Svitlana Maziy Marina Zhukova Irina Kalimbet Antonina Zelikovich	7:02.87
W8+	Romania Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Livia Țicanu Rodica Arba Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Olga Homeghi Lucia Toader Ecaterina Oancia (cox)	6:55.61	United States Anna Seaton Kristen Thorsness Christine Campbell Sarah Gengler Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Susan Broome Abigail Peck Harriet Metcalf Betsy Beard (cox)	6:57.27	Soviet Union Sarmīte Stone Lidiya Averyanova Irina Teterina Elena Makushkina Olena Pukhaieva Sariya Zakyrova Marina Suprun Elena Tereshina Valentina Khokhlova (cox)	7:03.25
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Romania Maria Sava	8:57.69	Belgium Rita Defauw	8:57.89	Italy Francesca Bentivoglio	9:05.58
LW2x	Canada Janice Mason Heather Hattin	8:36.60	Belgium Lucia Focque Marie-Anne van der Moere	8:41.35	United States Carey Sands-Marden Christine Ernst	8:51.02
LW4-	United States Sandy Kendall Lindsay Burns Angela Herron Mandi Kowal	8:08.32	West Germany Christiane Zimmer Sonja Petri Monika Wolf Evelyn Herwegh	8:08.66	China Yan Dongling Long Jun Luo Hantao Zhang Xiange	8:13.81

References

1. "1987 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
2. "Sue Key". Rowing Story. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
3. "(M1x) Men's Single Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
4. "(M2-) Men's Pair – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
5. "(M2+) Men's Coxed Pair – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
6. "(M2x) Men's Double Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
7. "(M4-) Men's Four – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
8. "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
9. "(M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
10. "(M8+) Men's Eight – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
11. "(LM1x) Lightweight Men's Single Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
12. "(LM2x) Lightweight Men's Double Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
13. "Rudern – Leichtgewichte – Weltmeisterschaften: Doppelzweier – Herren" (in German). Sport-Komplett. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
14. "(LM4-) Lightweight Men's Four – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
15. "(LM8+) Lightweight Men's Eight – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
16. "(W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
17. "(W2-) Women's Pair – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
18. "(W2x) Women's Double Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
19. "(W4+) Women's Coxed Four – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
20. "(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
21. "(W8+) Women's Eight – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
22. "(LW1x) Lightweight Women's Single Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
23. "(LW2x) Lightweight Women's Double Sculls – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
24. "(LW4-) Lightweight Women's Four – Final". FISA. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
25. "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften – Leichtgewichte: Damen" (in German). Sport-Komplett. Retrieved 6 December 2016.

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