Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

Women's eights
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
VenueKrylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin
Date21–26 July
Competitors54 from 6 nations
Winning time3:03.32
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Martina Boesler
Christiane Knetsch
Gabriele Kühn
Karin Metze
Kersten Neisser
Ilona Richter
Marita Sandig
Birgit Schütz
Marina Wilke (cox)
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nina Frolova (cox)
Maria Paziun
Olga Pivovarova
Nina Preobrazhenskaya
Nadezhda Prishchepa
Tatyana Stetsenko
Elena Tereshina
Nina Umanets
Valentina Zhulina
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Angelica Aposteanu
Elena Bondar
Florica Bucur
Maria Constantinescu
Elena Dobrițoiu (cox)
Rodica Frîntu
Ana Iliuță
Rodica Puscatu
Marlena Zagoni
 Romania
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The women's eights rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 21 to 26 July.[1]

Heats

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The fastest team in each heat advanced to the final. The remaining teams must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the final.

Heat 1

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Rank Rowers Country Time
1 Frolova, Paziun, Pivovarova, Preobrazhenskaya, Prishchepa, Stetsenko, Tereshina, Umanets, Zhulina  Soviet Union (URS) 3:11.72
2 Hodges, Toch, Sweet, Clark, Paton, Clugston, Boyes, Jones, Wright  Great Britain (GBR) 3:18.18
3 Niebrzydowska, Lewandowska, Piatkowska, Kamuda, Modlińska, Soroka, Ambros, Kiełsznia, Różańska  Poland (POL) 3:25.15

Heat 2

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Rank Rowers Country Time
1 Boesler, Knetsch, Kühn, Metze, Neisser, Richter, Sandig, Schütz, Wilke  East Germany (GDR) 3:13.41
2 Aposteanu, Bondar, Bucur, Constantinescu, Dobritoiu, Frîntu, Iliuta, Puscatu, Zagoni  Romania (ROM) 3:16.21
3 Stavreva, Koleva, Vasileva, Khristeva, Kostova, Karamandzhukova, Mincheva, Aleksandrova, Georgieva  Bulgaria (BUL) 3:20.25

Repechage

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Three fastest teams in the repechage advanced to the final.

Rank Rowers Country Time
1 Aposteanu, Bondar, Bucur, Constantinescu, Dobritoiu, Frîntu, Iliuta, Puscatu, Zagoni  Romania (ROM) 3:10.24
2 Stavreva, Koleva, Vasileva, Khristeva, Kostova, Karamandzhukova, Mincheva, Aleksandrova, Georgieva  Bulgaria (BUL) 3:15.49
3 Hodges, Toch, Sweet, Clark, Paton, Clugston, Boyes, Jones, Wright  Great Britain (GBR) 3:15.77
4 Niebrzydowska, Lewandowska, Piatkowska, Kamuda, Modlinska, Soroka, Ambros, Kielsznia, Rózanska (cox)  Poland (POL) 3:24.04

Final

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Rank Rowers Country Time
1 Boesler, Knetsch, Kühn, Metze, Neisser, Richter, Sandig, Schütz, Wilke (cox)  East Germany 3:03.32
2 Paziun, Pivovarova, Preobrazhenskaya, Prishchepa, Stetsenko, Tereshina, Umanets, Zhulina, Frolova (cox)  Soviet Union 3:04.29
3 Aposteanu, Bondar, Bucur, Constantinescu, Frîntu, Iliuta, Puscatu, Zagoni, Dobritoiu (cox)  Romania 3:05.63
4 Stavreva, Koleva, Vasileva, Khristeva, Kostova, Karamandzhukova, Mincheva, Aleksandrova, Georgieva (cox)  Bulgaria 3:10.03
5 Hodges, Toch, Sweet, Clark, Paton, Clugston, Boyes, Jones, Wright (cox)  Great Britain 3:13.85

References

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  1. ^ "Rowing at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Women's Coxed Eights". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2018.

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