1977 World Rowing Championships

About 556 rowers from 28 countries competed at the event.^[3] Medallists at the 1977 World Rowing Championships were:

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
M1x[5]	East Germany Joachim Dreifke	7:12.22	Finland Pertti Karppinen	7:15.53	Soviet Union Mykola Dovhan	7:20.23
M2x[6]	Great Britain Chris Baillieu Michael Hart	6:42.83	East Germany Rüdiger Reiche Uli Schmied	6:44.70	Soviet Union Evgeni Shorniy Gennadi Korshikov	6:45.93
M4x[7]	East Germany Frank Dundr Martin Winter Karl-Heinz Bußert Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	5:57.44	Czechoslovakia Karel Černý Filip Koudela Zdeněk Pecka Václav Vochoska	6:01.37	Bulgaria Khristo Zhelev Lyubomir Petrov Bogdan Dobrev Eftim Stoyanov	6:04.43
M2- [8]	Soviet Union Aleksandr Kulagin Vitaliy Eliseyev	7:06.19	Great Britain Jim Clark John Roberts	7:09.63	East Germany Bernd Krauß Ortwin Rodewald	7:13.36
M4- [9]	East Germany Wolfgang Mager Stefan Semmler Andreas Decker Siegfried Brietzke	6:16.73	New Zealand Dave Rodger Des Lock Ivan Sutherland David Lindstrom	6:19.14	Czechoslovakia Pavel Konvička Josef Neštický Vlastimil Beránek Lubomír Zapletal	6:21.10
M2+ [4]	Bulgaria Dimitar Yanakiev Todor Mrankov Stefan Stoykov (cox)	7:21.72	East Germany Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Harald Jährling Georg Spohr (cox)	7:24.60	Czechoslovakia Karel Mejta Karel Neffe Jiří Pták (cox)	7:28.72
M4+ [10]	East Germany Dieter Wendisch Walter Dießner Gottfried Döhn Ullrich Dießner Andreas Gregor (cox)	6:39.16	West Germany Gabriel Konertz Wolfram Thiem Frank Schütze[11] Klaus Meyer Helmut Sassenbach (cox)	6:41.76	Bulgaria Tsvetan Petkov Rumen Khristov Nasko Markov Ivan Botev Nenko Dobrev (cox)	6:49.63
M8+ [12]	East Germany Gerd Sredzki Bernd Lindner Frank Gottschalt Ulrich Kons Hans-Joachim Lück Bernd Frieberg Ulrich Karnatz Wolfgang Gunkel Frank Jahncke (cox)	5:45.36	Soviet Union Raul Arnemann Mikhail Kuznetsov Valeriy Dolinin Alexander Beljaev Anatoly Ivanov Vasily Potapov Aleksandr Klepikov Vladimir Eshinov Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)	5:50.71	West Germany Fritz Schuster Diethelm Maxrath Thomas Scholl Klaus Roloff Gerhard Reinert Winfried Ringwald Volker Sauer Wolf-Dieter Oschlies Hartmut Wenzel (cox)	5:52.83
Lightweight events
LM1x[13]	Switzerland Reto Wyss	7:18.58	Denmark Morten Espersen	7:18.59	United States Lawrence Klecatsky	7:19.28
LM4- [14]	France André Picard Michel Picard André Coupat Francis Pelegri	6:30.00	Australia Colin Smith Peter Antonie Simon Gillett Geoffrey Rees	6:31.44	Netherlands Hans Lycklama Hans Povel Hans Pieterman Ge Schous	6:34.11
LM8+ [15]	Great Britain Nigel Read Paul Stuart-Bennett Christopher George Stephen Simpole Colin Cusack Duncan Innes Daniel Topolski Christopher Drury Patrick Sweeney (cox)	5:57.37	Spain Antonio Elizalde Javier Puertas Dionisio Redondo Jose Mas Jose Marti Rafael Gomez Fernando Climent José Rojí Carmelo Lafuente (cox)	5:57.44	Australia Phillip Gardiner Malcolm Robertson Phillip Ainsworth Rodney Stewart Ian Porter Alan de Belin Richard Garrard John Hawkins David England (cox)	6:00.51

In the coxed four, the Bulgarian team was one of the favourites. After two false starts in the final they were disqualified.^[16]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time	Country & rowers	Time
W1x[17]	East Germany Christine Scheiblich	3:34.31	Bulgaria Iskra Velinova	3:36.31	Hungary Mariann Ambrus	3:37.27
W2x[18]	East Germany Anke Borchmann Roswietha Zobelt	3:16.83	Bulgaria Svetla Otsetova Zdravka Yordanova	3:20.04	United States Elizabeth Hills-O'Leary Lisa Hansen	3:22.48
W4x+ [19]	East Germany Sybille Tietze Viola Kowalschek Petra Boesler Sabine Gust Elke Rost (cox)	3:10.11	Romania Maria Mosneagu Felicia Afrăsiloaie Aneta Marin Veronica Juganaru Elena Giurcă (cox)	3:12.55	Bulgaria Rositsa Spasova Anka Bakova Rumelyana Boncheva Penka Gotcheva Stanka Georgieva (cox)	3:16.21
W2- [20]	East Germany Sabine Dähne Angelika Noack	3:27.89	Netherlands Karin Abma Joke Dierdorp	3:30.54	Canada Elizabeth Craig Susan Antoft	3:32.89
W4+ [21]	East Germany Marion Rohs Ilona Richter Katja Rothe Bärbel Bendiks Marina Wilke (cox)	3:20.59	Soviet Union Raisa Tsarkova Valentina Alekseeva Sofia Shurkalova Nina Abramova Nina Frolova (cox)	3:23.14	Romania Florica Zamfir Georgeta Militaru-Mașca Florica Silaghi Elena Avram Elena Giurcă (cox)	3:25.29
W8+ [22]	East Germany Cornelia Klier Ute Steindorf Gabriele Lohs Kersten Neisser Marita Sandig Andrea Kurth Bianka Schwede Karin Metze Sabine Heß (cox)	3:00.23	Soviet Union Olga Pivovarova Nina Antoniuk Tatyana Bunjak Nadezhda Dergatchenko Nataliya Horodilova Nina Umanets Maria Paziun Olga Krishevich Raisa Kirilova (cox)	3:02.37	Canada Joy Fera Christine Neuland Jacklin Kelly Nancy Higgins Dolores Young Tricia Smith Mazina Delure Carol Eastmore Ilona Smith (cox)	3:05.72