Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events. It took place in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The rowing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 27 July.
Participating nations
A total of 470 rowers from 25 nations competed at the Moscow Games:
Medal table
thumb|250px|All events took place at the [[Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin in Krylatskoye]]
Medal summary
Men's events
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| Double sculls<br />
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| Quadruple sculls (coxless)<br />
| <br />Frank Dundr<br />Carsten Bunk<br />Uwe Heppner<br />Martin Winter
| <br />Yuriy Shapochka<br />Evgeniy Barbakov<br />Valeriy Kleshnyov<br />Mykola Dovhan
| <br />Mincho Nikolov<br />Lyubomir Petrov<br />Ivo Rusev<br />Bogdan Dobrev
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| Coxless pairs<br />
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| Coxed pairs<br />
| <br />Harald Jährling<br />Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich<br />Georg Spohr (cox)
| <br />Viktor Pereverzev<br />Gennadi Kryuçkin<br />Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)
| <br />Duško Mrduljaš<br />Zlatko Celent<br />Josip Reić (cox)
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| Coxless fours<br />
| <br />Siegfried Brietzke<br />Andreas Decker<br />Stefan Semmler<br />Jürgen Thiele
| <br />Aleksey Kamkin<br />Valeriy Dolinin<br />Aleksandr Kulagin<br />Vitali Eliseev
| <br />John Beattie<br />Ian McNuff<br />David Townsend<br />Martin Cross
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|Coxed four<br />
| <br />Dieter Wendisch<br />Walter Dießner<br />Ullrich Dießner<br />Gottfried Döhn<br />Andreas Gregor (cox)
| <br />Artūrs Garonskis<br />Dimants Krišjānis<br />Dzintars Krišjānis<br />Žoržs Tikmers<br />Juris Bērziņš (cox)
| <br />Grzegorz Stellak<br />Adam Tomasiak<br />Grzegorz Nowak<br />Ryszard Stadniuk<br />Ryszard Kubiak (cox)
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| Eights<br />
| <br />Bernd Krauß<br />Hans-Peter Koppe<br />Ulrich Kons<br />Jörg Friedrich<br />Jens Doberschütz<br />Ulrich Karnatz<br />Uwe Dühring<br />Bernd Höing<br />Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)
| <br />Duncan McDougall<br />Allan Whitwell<br />Henry Clay<br />Chris Mahoney<br />Andrew Justice<br />John Pritchard<br />Malcolm McGowan<br />Richard Stanhope<br />Colin Moynihan (cox)
| <br />Viktor Kokoshyn<br />Andriy Tishchenko<br />Oleksandr Tkachenko<br />Jonas Pinskus<br />Jonas Narmontas<br />Andrey Luhin<br />Oleksandr Mantsevych<br />Ihar Maystrenka<br />Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox)
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Women's events
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| <br />Sybille Reinhardt<br />Jutta Ploch<br />Jutta Lau<br />Roswietha Zobelt<br />Liane Buhr
| <br />Antonina Pustovit<br />Yelena Matiyevskaya<br />Olga Vasilchenko<br />Nadezhda Lyubimova<br />Nina Cheremisina
| <br />Mariana Serbezova<br />Rumelyana Boncheva<br />Dolores Nakova<br />Anka Bakova<br />Anka Georgieva
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|Coxed four<br />
| <br />Ramona Kapheim<br />Silvia Fröhlich<br />Angelika Noack<br />Romy Saalfeld<br />Kirsten Wenzel
| <br />Ginka Gyurova<br />Mariyka Modeva<br />Rita Todorova<br />Iskra Velinova<br />Nadiya Filipova
| <br />Mariya Fadeyeva<br />Galina Sovetnikova<br />Marina Studneva<br />Svetlana Semyonova<br />Nina Cheremisina
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| Eights<br />
| <br />Martina Boesler<br />Christiane Knetsch<br />Gabriele Kühn<br />Karin Metze<br />Kersten Neisser<br />Ilona Richter<br />Marita Sandig<br />Birgit Schütz<br />Marina Wilke
| <br />Nina Frolova<br />Mariya Payun<br />Olga Pivovarova<br />Nina Preobrazhenskaya<br />Nadezhda Prishchepa<br />Tatyana Stetsenko<br />Elena Tereshina<br />Nina Umanets<br />Valentina Zhulina
| <br />Angelica Aposteanu<br />Elena Bondar<br />Florica Bucur<br />Maria Constantinescu<br />Elena Dobrițoiu<br />Rodica Frîntu<br />Ana Iliuță<br />Rodica Pușcatu<br />Marlena Zagoni
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