The men's eightrowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Krylatskoye Rowing Canal in Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 21 to 26 July.[1] There were 9 boats (81 competitors) from 9 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event.[2] The first two places were the same as in 1976, with East Germany successfully defending its title (the third nation to do so, after the United States and Great Britain) and Great Britain repeating as runner-up. The 1976 bronze medalist, New Zealand, was not competing; the Soviet Union took bronze in 1980.
This was the 18th appearance of the event. Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather. The men's eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested, beginning in 1900.[2]
Beginning with an Olympic bronze medal in 1972 and running through the 1970s, East Germany had risen to take a dominant place in men's eight competitions. By the time of the Moscow Games, the East Germans were the reigning (1976) Olympic champions and four-time reigning (1975, 1977, 1978, and 1979) World champions. Two major competitors, New Zealand and West Germany, were absent in 1980; East Germany was thus heavily favoured over the nearest competitors (host Soviet Union).[2]
Bulgaria made its debut in the event. Great Britain made its 14th appearance, most among nations competing in 1980 and tied with the absent Canada for second-most behind the also-absent United States at 15.
Competition format
The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). This rowing competition consisted of two main rounds (semifinals and finals), as well as a repechage round after the semifinals. The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 (with the exception of 1948).[3] Races were held in up to six lanes.
Semifinals: Two heats with four or five boats each. The top boat in each semifinal (2 boats total) went to the "A" final, while the remaining boats (7 total) went to the repechage.
Repechage: Two heats with three or four boats each. The top two boats in each heat (4 boats total) advanced to the "A" final, with the remainder (3 boats) to the "B" final (out of medal contention).
Finals: The "A" final consisted of the top six boats, competing for the medals and 4th through 6th place. The "B" final had the next three boats; they competed for 7th through 9th place.
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The men s eight rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Krylatskoye Rowing Canal in Moscow Soviet Union The event was held from 21 to 26 July 1 There were 9 boats 81 competitors from 9 nations with each nation limited to a single boat in the event 2 The first two places were the same as in 1976 with East Germany successfully defending its title the third nation to do so after the United States and Great Britain and Great Britain repeating as runner up The 1976 bronze medalist New Zealand was not competing the Soviet Union took bronze in 1980 Men s eightsat the Games of the XXII OlympiadVenueKrylatskoye Rowing CanalDates21 26 JulyCompetitors81 from 9 nationsWinning time5 49 05Medalists East Germany Bernd KraussHans Peter KoppeUlrich KonsJorg FriedrichJens DoberschutzUlrich KarnatzUwe DuhringBernd HoingKlaus Dieter Ludwig cox Great Britain Duncan McDougallAllan WhitwellHenry ClayChris MahoneyAndrew JusticeJohn PritchardMalcolm McGowanRichard StanhopeColin Moynihan cox Soviet Union Viktor KokoshynAndriy TishchenkoOleksandr TkachenkoJonas PinskusJonas NarmontasAndrey LuhinOleksandr MantsevychIhar MaystrenkaHryhoriy Dmytrenko cox 19761984 Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format 3 Schedule 4 Results 4 1 Semifinals 4 1 1 Semifinal 1 4 1 2 Semifinal 2 4 2 Repechage 4 2 1 Repechage heat 1 4 2 2 Repechage heat 2 4 3 Finals 4 3 1 Final B 4 3 2 Final A 5 References 6 SourcesBackground EditThis was the 18th appearance of the event Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather The men s eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested beginning in 1900 2 Beginning with an Olympic bronze medal in 1972 and running through the 1970s East Germany had risen to take a dominant place in men s eight competitions By the time of the Moscow Games the East Germans were the reigning 1976 Olympic champions and four time reigning 1975 1977 1978 and 1979 World champions Two major competitors New Zealand and West Germany were absent in 1980 East Germany was thus heavily favoured over the nearest competitors host Soviet Union 2 Bulgaria made its debut in the event Great Britain made its 14th appearance most among nations competing in 1980 and tied with the absent Canada for second most behind the also absent United States at 15 Competition format EditThe eight event featured nine person boats with eight rowers and a coxswain It was a sweep rowing event with the rowers each having one oar and thus each rowing on one side This rowing competition consisted of two main rounds semifinals and finals as well as a repechage round after the semifinals The course used the 2000 metres distance that became the Olympic standard in 1912 with the exception of 1948 3 Races were held in up to six lanes Semifinals Two heats with four or five boats each The top boat in each semifinal 2 boats total went to the A final while the remaining boats 7 total went to the repechage Repechage Two heats with three or four boats each The top two boats in each heat 4 boats total advanced to the A final with the remainder 3 boats to the B final out of medal contention Finals The A final consisted of the top six boats competing for the medals and 4th through 6th place The B final had the next three boats they competed for 7th through 9th place Schedule EditAll times are Moscow Time UTC 3 Date Time RoundSunday 20 July 1980 13 10 SemifinalsThursday 24 July 1980 12 10 RepechageSunday 27 July 1980 13 30 FinalsResults EditSemifinals Edit The fastest team in each heat advanced to the A final The remaining teams competed in the repechage for the remaining spots in the final Semifinal 1 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Viktor KokoshynAndriy TishchenkoOleksandr TkachenkoJonas PinskusJonas NarmontasAndrey LuhinOleksandr MantsevychIhar Maystrenka Hryhoriy Dmytrenko Soviet Union 5 50 76 QA2 Duncan McDougallAllan WhitwellHenry ClayChris MahoneyAndrew JusticeJohn PritchardMalcolm McGowanRichard Stanhope Colin Moynihan Great Britain 5 53 38 R3 Pawel BorkowskiWieslaw KujdaGrzegorz StellakAdam TomasiakGrzegorz NowakRyszard StadniukMiroslaw KowalewskiWladyslaw Beszterda Ryszard Kubiak Poland 6 00 43 R4 Dimitar YanakievTodor MrankovBozhidar RangelovIvan BotevYani IgnatovMikhail PetrovPetar PatsevVeselin Shterev Ventseslav Kanchev Bulgaria 6 03 99 R5 Ferenc KissPeter TovariRobert SassAttila StrochmayerAndras KormosZoltan SztarcsevicsKalman ToronyiLaszlo Kiss Miklos Balint Hungary 6 04 32 RSemifinal 2 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Bernd KraussHans Peter KoppeUlrich KonsJorg FriedrichJens DoberschutzUlrich KarnatzUwe DuhringBernd Hoing Klaus Dieter Ludwig East Germany 5 55 89 QA2 Pavel PevnyLubomir JankoCtirad JungmannKarel NeffeKarel Mejta JrDusan VicikMilan DolecekMilan Kysely Jiri Ptak Czechoslovakia 6 01 68 R3 Islay LeeSteve HandleyBill DankbaarAndrew WithersTim WilloughbyJames LoweTim YoungBrian Richardson David England Australia 6 05 12 R4 Wenceslao BorrotoIsmael CarbonellJuan AlfonsoJuan BuenoFrancisco MoraHermenegildo PalacioJorge AlvarezAntonio Riano Enrique Carrillo Cuba 6 26 53 RRepechage Edit The two fastest teams in each repechage heat advanced to the A final Repechage heat 1 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Islay LeeSteve HandleyBill DankbaarAndrew WithersTim WilloughbyJames LoweTim YoungBrian Richardson David England Australia 5 45 04 QA2 Duncan McDougallAllan WhitwellHenry ClayChris MahoneyAndrew JusticeJohn PritchardMalcolm McGowanRichard Stanhope Colin Moynihan Great Britain 5 49 35 QA3 Wenceslao BorrotoIsmael CarbonellJuan AlfonsoJuan BuenoFrancisco MoraHermenegildo PalacioJorge AlvarezAntonio Riano Enrique Carrillo Cuba 5 56 19 QB4 Ferenc KissPeter TovariRobert SassAttila StrochmayerAndras KormosZoltan SztarcsevicsKalman ToronyiLaszlo Kiss Miklos Balint Hungary 5 59 53 QBRepechage heat 2 Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes1 Pavel PevnyLubomir JankoCtirad JungmannKarel NeffeKarel Mejta JrDusan VicikMilan DolecekMilan Kysely Jiri Ptak Czechoslovakia 5 44 80 QA2 Dimitar YanakievTodor MrankovBozhidar RangelovIvan BotevYani IgnatovMikhail PetrovPetar PatsevVeselin Shterev Ventseslav Kanchev Bulgaria 5 46 28 QA3 Pawel BorkowskiWieslaw KujdaGrzegorz StellakAdam TomasiakGrzegorz NowakRyszard StadniukMiroslaw KowalewskiWladyslaw Beszterda Ryszard Kubiak Poland 5 47 35 QBFinals Edit Final B Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time7 Ferenc KissPeter TovariRobert SassAttila StrochmayerAndras KormosZoltan SztarcsevicsKalman ToronyiLaszlo Kiss Miklos Balint Hungary 5 57 618 Wenceslao BorrotoIsmael CarbonellJuan AlfonsoJuan BuenoFrancisco MoraHermenegildo PalacioJorge AlvarezAntonio Riano Enrique Carrillo Cuba 6 14 98 Pawel BorkowskiWieslaw KujdaGrzegorz StellakAdam TomasiakGrzegorz NowakRyszard StadniukMiroslaw KowalewskiWladyslaw Beszterda Ryszard Kubiak Poland DNSFinal A Edit Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Bernd KraussHans Peter KoppeUlrich KonsJorg FriedrichJens DoberschutzUlrich KarnatzUwe DuhringBernd Hoing Klaus Dieter Ludwig East Germany 5 49 05 Duncan McDougallAllan WhitwellHenry ClayChris MahoneyAndrew JusticeJohn PritchardMalcolm McGowanRichard Stanhope Colin Moynihan Great Britain 5 51 92 Viktor KokoshynAndriy TishchenkoOleksandr TkachenkoJonas PinskusJonas NarmontasAndrey LuhinOleksandr MantsevychIhar Maystrenka Hryhoriy Dmytrenko Soviet Union 5 52 664 Pavel PevnyLubomir JankoCtirad JungmannKarel NeffeKarel Mejta JrDusan VicikMilan DolecekMilan Kysely Jiri Ptak Czechoslovakia 5 53 735 Islay LeeSteve HandleyBill DankbaarAndrew WithersTim WilloughbyJames LoweTim YoungBrian Richardson David England Australia 5 56 746 Dimitar YanakievTodor MrankovBozhidar RangelovIvan BotevYani IgnatovMikhail PetrovPetar PatsevVeselin Shterev Ventseslav Kanchev Bulgaria 6 04 05References Edit Rowing at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games Men s Coxed Eights Sports Reference Archived from the original on 18 April 2020 Retrieved 31 August 2018 a b c Eight Men Olympedia Retrieved 8 June 2021 Why Do We Race 2000m The History Behind the Distance World Rowing 1 May 2017 Retrieved 19 April 2021 Sources EditThe Official Report of the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume Three PDF PDF pp 112 113 Archived from the original PDF on 27 September 2007 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics Men 27s eight amp oldid 1112323277, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
