Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's eight

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Women's eights
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue
Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin
Date21–26 July
Competitors54 from 6 nations
Winning time3:03.32
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) (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

Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 21 to 26 July.[1]

Heats

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

Rank Rowers Country Time
1 Frolova, Paziun, Pivovarova, Preobrazhenskaya, Prishchepa, Stetsenko, Tereshina, Umanets, Zhulina  Soviet Union (URS) 3:11.72
2
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

Rank Rowers Country Time
1  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

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
Clugston, Boyes, Jones, Wright
 Great Britain (GBR) 3:15.77
4
Rózanska
(cox)
 Poland (POL) 3:24.04

Final

Rank Rowers Country Time
1 (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
Clugston, Boyes, Jones, Wright
(cox)
 Great Britain 3:13.85

References

  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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