1986 World Rowing Championships

1986 World Rowing Championships
Venue	National Watersports Centre
Location	Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dates	17 to 24 August

The 15th World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 17 to 24 August 1986 at Nottingham in the United Kingdom.^[1][2]

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's events
M1x	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	6:54.90	Finland Pertti Karppinen	6:58.90	Soviet Union V Yakousca	7:00.13
M2x	Italy	6:30.33	Bulgaria	6:32.22	East Germany	6:33.64
M4x	Soviet Union	5:47.41	Poland	5:49.51	Canada	5:50.52
M2+	Great Britain Andy Holmes (b) Steve Redgrave (s) Patrick Sweeney (c)	6:51.66	Italy Carmine Abbagnale (b) Giuseppe Abbagnale (s) Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	6:52.90	East Germany	6:54.58
M2-	Soviet Union	6:42.37	Italy	6:44.52	East Germany	6:44.70
M4+	East Germany	6:03.81	New Zealand Nigel Atherfold (b) Bruce Holden (2) Greg Johnston (3) Chris White (s) Andrew Bird (c)	6:05.77	United States	6:08.58
M4-	United States	6:03.53	West Germany	6:03.63	East Germany	6:06.25
M8+	Australia	5:33.54	Soviet Union	5:37.61	United States	5:38.20
Men's lightweight events
LM1x	Australia Peter Antonie	7:18.10	Denmark Bjarne Eltang	7:18.12	United States G Florio	7:20.87
LM2x	Great Britain Alan Whitwell Carl Smith	6:41.73	France	6:44.76	Canada	6:45.46
LM4-	Italy	6:18.26	Great Britain	6:20.79	Spain	6:21.68
LM8+	Italy	5:44.63	West Germany	5:46.58	Denmark	5:50.05
Women's events
W1x	East Germany J Hampe	7:29.60	Bulgaria Magdalena Georgieva	7:32.22	Soviet Union A Doumitcheva	7:35.08
W2x	East Germany	6:57.71	Romania	7:00.96	New Zealand Robin Clarke (b) Stephanie Foster (s)	7:03.35
W4x	East Germany	6:13.91	Romania	6:20.56	Netherlands	6:24.85
W2-	Romania	7:12.20	Soviet Union	7:17.06	East Germany	7:18.84
W4+	Romania	6:43.86	East Germany	6:48.46	Canada	6:51.27
W8+	Soviet Union	6:08.76	East Germany	6:09.77	Romania	6:11.26
Women's lightweight events
LW1x	Romania M Sava	7:33.28	Belgium R De Fauw	7:35.24	United States A Herron	7:37.11
LW2x	United States	7:17.13	Great Britain  Netherlands	7:19.12	tie for second place
LW4-	United States	6:53.92	Great Britain	6:56.36	West Germany	6:56.64

References

1. British Rowing Almanack. Amateur Rowing Association. 1987.
2. "1986 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 March 2016.