| Men Single Sculls | | 1. Pertti Karppinen |  FIN | | 2. Peter-Michael Kolbe |  FRG | | 3. Joachim Dreifke |  GDR |
| Men Double Sculls | | 1. Frank Hansen and Alf Hansen |  NOR | | 2. Chris Baillieu and Michael Hart |  GBR | | 3. Jürgen Bertow and Uli Schmied |  GDR |
| Men Quadruple Sculls Coxless | | 1. East Germany | GDR | | Wolfgang Güldenpfennig, Rüdiger Reiche, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Michael Wolfgramm | | 2. Soviet Union |  URS | | Yevgeniy Duleyev, Yuriy Yakimov, Aivars Lazdenieks, Vytautas Butkus | | 3. Czechoslovakia |  TCH | | Jaroslav Hellebrand, Václav Vochoska, Zdeněk Pecka, Vladek Lacina |
| Men Coxless Pairs | | 1. Bernd Landvoigt and Jörg Landvoigt | GDR | | 2. Calvin Coffey and Mike Staines |  USA | | 3. Peter van Roye and Thomas Strauß |  FRG |
| Men Coxed Pairs | | 1. East Germany | GDR | | Harald Jährling, Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich, Georg Spohr | | 2. Soviet Union | URS | | Dmitry Bekhterev, Yuriy Shurkalov, Yuriy Lorentsson | | 3. Czechoslovakia | TCH | | Oldřich Svojanovský, Pavel Svojanovský, Ludvík Vébr |
| Men Coxless Fours | | 1.East Germany | GDR | | Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Wolfgang Mager | | 2. Norway | NOR | | Ole Nafstad, Arne Bergodd, Finn Tveter, Rolf Andreassen | | 3. Soviet Union | URS | | Raul Arnemann, Nikolay Kuznetsov, Valeriy Dolinin, Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov |
| Men Coxed Four | | 1.Soviet Union | URS | | Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Klepikov, Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox), Aleksandr Sema | | 2. East Germany | GDR | | Andreas Schulz, Rüdiger Kunze, Walter Dießner, Ullrich Dießner, Johannes Thomas (cox) | | 3. West Germany | FRG | | Hans-Johann Färber, Ralph Kubail, Siegfried Fricke, Peter Niehusen, Hartmut Wenzel (cox) |
| Men Eights | | 1. East Germany | GDR | | Bernd Baumgart, Gottfried Döhn, Werner Klatt, Hans-Joachim Lück, Dieter Wendisch, Roland Kostulski, Ulrich Karnatz, Karl-Heinz Prudöhl, Karl-Heinz Danielowski | | 2. Great Britain | GBR | | Richard Lester, John Yallop, Timothy Crooks, Hugh Matheson, David Maxwell, Jim Clark, Frederick Smallbone, Lenny Robertson, Patrick Sweeney | | 3. New Zealand |  NZL | | Ivan Sutherland, Trevor Coker, Peter Dignan, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Dave Rodger, Alec McLean, Tony Hurt, Simon Dickie |
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| Medals | G | S | B | All | | 1. East Germany | GDR | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 | | 2. Bulgaria |  BUL | 2 | 1 | | 3 | | 3. Soviet Union | URS | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | | 4. Norway | NOR | 1 | 1 | | 2 | | 5. Finland |  FIN | 1 | | | 1 | | 6. United States | USA | | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 7. Great Britain | GBR | | 2 | | 2 | | 8. West Germany | FRG | | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 9. Czechoslovakia | TCH | | | 2 | 2 | | 10.New Zealand | NZL | | | 1 | 1 | | 10.Romania |  ROU | | | 1 | 1 | | Total | 11 nat | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |
| 593 rowers from 31 nations | | Argentina | 10 | Australia | 13 | | Austria | 3 | Belgium | 7 | | Brazil | 7 | Bulgaria | 33 | | Canada | 46 | Cuba | 14 | | Czechoslovakia | 34 | Denmark | 7 | | East Germany | 54 | Finland | 7 | | France | 17 | Great Britain | 31 | | Hungary | 8 | Ireland | 10 | | Italy | 15 | Japan | 9 | | Mexico | 1 | Netherlands | 24 | | New Zealand | 18 | Norway | 14 | | Poland | 22 | Romania | 21 | | Soviet Union | 55 | Sweden | 3 | | Switzerland | 4 | United States | 54 | | Uruguay | 1 | West Germany | 44 | | Yugoslavia | 7 |
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| Women Double Sculls | | 1. Svetla Otsetova and Zdravka Yordanova | BUL | | 2. Sabine Jahn and Petra Boesler | GDR | | 3. Eleonora Kaminskaitė and Genovaitė Ramoškienė | URS |
| Women Quadruple Sculls Coxed | | 1.East Germany | GDR | | Anke Borchmann, Jutta Lau, Viola Pole, Roswietha Zobelt, Liane Weigelt | | 2. Soviet Union | URS | | Anna Kondrachina, Mira Bryunina, Larisa Alexandrova, Galina Ermolaeva, Nadezhda Chernyshyova | | 3. Romania | ROU | | Ioana Tudoran, Maria Micșa, Felicia Afrăsiloaie, Elisabeta Lazăr, Elena Giurcă |
| Women Coxless Pairs | | 1. Siyka Kelbecheva and Stoyanka Gruycheva | BUL | | 2. Angelika Noack and Sabine Dähne | GDR | | 3. Edith Eckbauer and Thea Einöder | FRG |
| Women Coxed Four | | 1. East Germany | GDR | | Karin Metze, Bianka Schwede, Gabriele Lohs, Andrea Kurth, Sabine Heß | | 2. Bulgaria | BUL | | Ginka Gyurova, Lilyana Vaseva, Reni Yordanova, Mariyka Modeva, Kapka Georgieva | | 3. Soviet Union | URS | | Nadezhda Sevostyanova, Lyudmila Krokhina, Galina Mishenina, Anna Pasokha, Lidiya Krylova |
| Women Eights | | 1. East Germany | GDR | | Viola Goretzki, Christiane Knetsch, Ilona Richter, Brigitte Ahrenholz, Monika Kallies, Henrietta Ebert, Helma Lehmann, Irina Müller, Marina Wilke | | 2. Soviet Union | URS | | Lyubov Talalaeva, Nadezhda Roshchina, Klavdija Koženkova, Olena Zubko, Olha Kolkova, Nelli Tarakanova, Nadiya Rozhon, Olha Huzenko, Olha Puhovska | | 3. United States | USA | | Jackie Zoch, Anita DeFrantz, Carie Graves, Marion Greig, Anne Warner, Peggy McCarthy, Carol Brown, Gail Ricketson, Lynn Silliman |
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