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 Thomas Lange 7:37.48 Peter-Michael Kolbe 7:40.76 Pertti Karppinen 7:40.90 M2- Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave 7:11.20 Dragoș Neagu Dănuț Dobre 7:12.60 Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov 7:15.98 M2+ Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) 7:40.81 Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave Patrick Sweeney (cox) 7:42.88 Dimitrie Popescu Vasile Tomoiagă Marin Gheorghe (cox) 7:44.96 M2x Daniel Yordanov Vasil Radev 7:03.33 Andreas Schmelz Ralf Thienel 7:06.33 Uwe Sägling Uwe Heppner 7:06.83 M4- Jens Luedecke Thomas Greiner Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster 6:39.70 Veniamin But Sigitas Kučinskas Jonas Narmontas Andrey Vasilyev 6:41.30 Ted Swinford Daniel Lyons John Riley Robert Espeseth 6:42.46 M4+ Frank Klawonn Bernd Eichwurzel Bernd Niesecke Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (cox) 6:41.74 Viktor Omelyanovich Mykola Komarov Vladimir Romanishin Valentin Gerasimenko Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (cox) 6:45.17 Antonio Maurogiovanni Giovanni Suarez Renato Gaeta Giuseppe Carando Dino Lucchetta (cox) 6:47.30 M4x Valeriy Dosenko Sergey Kinyakin Mikhail Ivanov Igor Kotko 6:11.25 Vetle Vinje Lars Bjønness Rolf Thorsen Alf Hansen 6:13.02 Doug Hamilton Robert Mills Paul Douma Mel LaForme 6:14.40 M8+ Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Michael Still Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer (cox) 5:58.83 Dirk Rendant Thomas Bänsch Holger Rose Andreas Costrau Hans Sennewald Karsten Timm Karsten Schmeling Peter Thiede (cox) 6:01.94 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 Wim Van Belleghem 8:06.10 David Wright 8:11.43 Ruggero Verroca 8:13.80 LM2x Enrico Gandola Giovanni Calabrese 7:40.38 Luc Crispon Thierry Renault 7:40.68 Carl Smith Allan Whitwell 7:52.58 LM4- Thomas Palm Erik Ring Gerd Meyer Sebastian Franke 6:42.14 Christopher Bates Peter Haining Neil Staite Stuart Forbes 6:44.05 Franco Pantano Dario Longhin Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta 6:46.10 LM8+ Maurizio Losi Alfredo Striani Vittorio Torcellan Massimo Lana Stefano Spremberg Carlo Gaddi Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Sebastiano Zanetti (cox) 6:30.04 Bernhard Stomporowski Björn Gehlsen Alwin Otten Harald Galster Detlef Glitsch Udo Hennig Andreas Hobler Wolfgang Birkner Torsten Kreis (cox) 6:36.59 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 Magdalena Georgieva 8:59.26 Martina Schröter 9:14.26 Marioara Popescu 9:20.29 W2- Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi 8:00.73 Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild 8:06.54 Marina Pegova Nadezhda Sugako 8:08.78 W2x Stefka Madina Violeta Ninova 7:47.89 Elisabeta Lipă Liliana Genes 7:47.99 Anne Marden Barbara Kirch 7:51.42 W4+ Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Ecaterina Oancia (cox) 7:30.12 Birte Siech Gerlinde Doberschütz Carola Hornig Martina Walther Sylvia Müller (cox) 7:34.09 Manuela Lashilina Olya Stoichkova Mariana Stoyanova Daniela Oronova Sofiya Tzvetkova (cox) 7:40.73 W4x Kerstin Pieloth Birgit Peter Jutta Hampe Jana Sorgers 6:58.42 Pavlina Alexandrova Krasimira Tocheva Galina Yahorova Mariana Yankulova 7:00.90 Svitlana Maziy Marina Zhukova Irina Kalimbet Antonina Zelikovich 7:02.87 W8+ Valentina Virlan Marioara Trașcă Livia Țicanu Rodica Arba Adriana Chelariu Veronica Necula Olga Homeghi Lucia Toader Ecaterina Oancia (cox) 6:55.61 Anna Seaton Kristen Thorsness Christine Campbell Sarah Gengler Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson Susan Broome Abigail Peck Harriet Metcalf Betsy Beard (cox) 6:57.27 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 Maria Sava 8:57.69 Rita Defauw 8:57.89 Francesca Bentivoglio 9:05.58 LW2x Janice Mason Heather Hattin 8:36.60 Lucia Focque Marie-Anne van der Moere 8:41.35 Carey Sands-Marden Christine Ernst 8:51.02 LW4- Sandy Kendall Lindsay Burns Angela Herron Mandi Kowal 8:08.32 Christiane Zimmer Sonja Petri Monika Wolf Evelyn Herwegh 8:08.66 Yan Dongling Long Jun Luo Hantao Zhang Xiange 8:13.81

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