1991 World Rowing Championships

The 20th World Rowing Championships were held between August 21 and August 24, 1991 in Vienna, Austria.

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M1x	Germany Thomas Lange	6:41.29	Czechoslovakia Václav Chalupa, Jr.	6:45.26	Poland Kajetan Broniewski	6:48.91
M2x	Netherlands Nico Rienks (b) Henk Jan Zwolle (s)	6:06.14	Soviet Union Ugis Lasmanis (b) Leonid Shaposhnykov (s)	6:07.49	Germany Oliver Gruener (b) André Steiner (s)	6:08.36
M4x	Soviet Union Valeri Dossenko (b) Sergei Kinjakin (2) Nikolai Tchuprina (3) Guirts Vilks (s)	6:08.39	Italy Alessandro Corona (b) Gianluca Farina (2) Massimo Paradiso (3) Filippo Soffici (s)	6:11.21	Netherlands Rutger Arisz (b) Koos Maasdijk (2) Hans Keldermann (3) Ronald Florijn (s)	6:13.03
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale (b) Giuseppe Abbagnale (s) Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	7:34.39	Poland Piotr Basta (b) Tomasz Mruczkowski (s) Bartosz Sroga (c)	7:35.83	Czechoslovakia Michal Dalecky (b) Dusan Machacek (s) Oldrich Hejdusek (c)	7:38.02
M2-	Great Britain Steve Redgrave (b) Matthew Pinsent (s)	6:21.35	Yugoslavia Iztok Čop (b) Denis Žvegelj (s)	6:24.18	Austria Hermann Bauer (b) Karl Sinzinger Jr (s)	6:24.51
M4+	Germany Armin Eichholz (b) Bahne Rabe (2) Matthias Ungemach (3) Armin Weyrauch (s) Joerg Dedering (c)	5:58.96	Romania Danut Dobre (b) Dragos Neagu (2) Valentin Robu (3) Ioan Snep (s) Dumitru Răducanu (c)	6:00.29	Poland Wojciech Jankowski (b) Maciej Lasicki (2) Jacek Streich (3) Tomasz Tomiak (s) Michal Cieslak (c)	6:01.30
M4-	Australia Andrew Cooper (b) Nick Green (2) Mike McKay (3) James Tomkins (s)	6:29.69	United States Thomas Bohrer (b) Patrick Manning Jr (2) Jeffrey McLaughlin (3) Michael Porterfield (s)	6:32.22	Germany Markus Braeuer (b) Andreas Luetkefels (2) Stefan Scholz (3) Markus Vogt (s)	6:34.43
M8+	Germany Roland Baar (b) Dirk Balster (2) Jürgen Hecht (3) Wolfgang Klapheck (4) Martin Steffes-Mies (5) Thorsten Streppelhoff (6) Ansgar Wessling (7)  ?? (s) Manfred Klein (c)	5:50.98	Canada Darren Barber (b) Andy Crosby (2) Robert Bob Marland (3) Derek Porter (4) Michael Mike Rascher (5) Bruce Robertson (6) Don Telfer (7) John Wallace (s) Terry Paul (c)	5:51.68	Great Britain Martin Cross (b) Tim Foster (2) Anton Obholzer (3) Richard Phelps (4) Greg Searle (5) Jonny Searle (6) Jonny Singfield (7) Richard Stanhope (s) Garry Herbert (c)	5:52.74
LM1x	Ireland Niall O'Toole	6:49.17	Germany Peter Uhrig	6:49.96	Belgium Wim Van Belleghem	6:52.26
LM2x	Germany Michael Buchheit (b) Kai Von Warburg (s)	6:20.04	Austria Walter Rantasa (b) Christoph Schmoelzer (s)	6:25.29	Netherlands Jan van Bekkum (b) Daan Boddeke (s)	6:26.22
LM4x	Australia Steve Hawkins (b) Bruce Hick (2) Gary Lynagh (3) ?? (s)	6:37.02	Sweden Joakim Brischewski (b) Bo Ekros (2) Lars-Johan Flodin (3) Per Lundberg (s)	6:37.25	France Roland Gaillac (b) Patrick Maiore (2) Laurent Porchier (3) Thierry Renault (s)	6:38.02
LM4-	Great Britain Christopher Bates (b) Toby Hessian (2) Tom Kay (3) Carl Smith (s)	5:57.60	Italy Sabino Bellomo (b) Franco Cattaneo (2) Danilo Fraquelli (3) Alfredo Striani (s)	5:58.61	Spain Juan Luis Aguierre Barco (b) Fernando Climent Huerta (2) Jose Maria De Marco Perez (3) Fernando Molina Castillo (s)	6:00.85
LM8+	Italy Enrico Barbaranelli (b) Domenico Cantoni (2) Carlo Gaddi (3) Pasquale Marigliano (4) Fabrizio Ranieri (5) Fabrizio Ravasi (6) Andrea Re (7) Roberto Romanini (s) Gaetano Iannuzzi (c)	6:13.21	France Stephane Barre (b) Sebastien Bel (2) Bruno Boucher (3) Stephane Guerinot (4) Laurent Irazusta (5) Benoit Masson (6) Antoine Orieux (7) Jose Oyarzabal (s) Philippe Spinelli (c)	6:13.40	United States Eduardo Montalvo (b) Tom Hartley (2) Robert Hermann (3) Brian Varga (4) David Collins (5) Dale Hurley (6) Tom Auth (7) James Manson (s) Michael O'Gorman (c)	6:15.25
Women's Events
W1x	Canada Silken Laumann	8:17.58	Romania Elisabeta Lipă	8:20.53	Belgium Annelies Bredael	8:21.96
W2x	Germany Kathrin Boron (b) Beate Schramm	6:44.71	Romania Anisoara Balan-Dobre (b) Elisabeta Lipă (s)	6:46.40	Soviet Union Ekaterina Karsten - Khodotovitch (b) Saria Zakirova (s)	6:47.36
W4x	Germany Kerstin Koeppen (b) Claudia Krüger (2) Sybille Schmidt (3) Jana Rau-Sorgers (s)	6:55.85	Soviet Union Elena Khloptseva (b) Maria Omeljanovitch (2) Tatjana Ustiujanina (3) Mira Vaganova (s)	7:00.37	Romania Constanţa Burcică (b) Anisoara Balan-Dobre (2) Doina Ignat (3) Fanica Costea (s)	7:04.86
W2-	Canada Kathleen Heddle (b) Marnie McBean (s)	6:57.42	Germany Stefanie Werremeier (b) Ingeburg Schwerzmann-Althoff (s)	6:59.55	Great Britain Miriam Batten (b) Fiona Freckleton (s)	7:02.28
W4-	Canada Kirsten Barnes (b) Jennifer Doey (2) Jessica Monroe (3) Brenda Taylor (s)	6:25.47	United States Shelagh Donohoe (b) Cynthia Eckert (2) Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson (3) Anna Seaton (s)	6:27.39	Germany Kathrin Haacker (b) Gebriele Mehl (2) Cerstin Petersmann (3) Judith Ungemach-Zeidler (s)	6:30.30
W8+	Canada Kirsten Barnes (b) Megan Delehanty (2) Jennifer Doey (3) Kathleen Heddle (4) Kelly Mahon (5) Marnie McBean (6) Jessica Monroe (7) Brenda Taylor (s) Lesley Thompson-Willie (c)	6:28.20	Soviet Union Irina Gribko (b) Natalia Grigorjeva (2) Ekaterina Kotko (3) Tomas Smitas (4) Natalia Stasiuk (5) Sarmite Stone (6) Marina Suprun (7) Marina Znak (s) Elena Medvedeva (c)	6:28.73	Romania Doina Snep-Balan (b) Adriana Chelariu-Bazon (2) Iulia Bobeica-Bulie (3) Veronica Cochela-Cogeanu (4) Marioara Curela (5) Viorica Neculai (6) Maria Padurariu (7) Doina Ciucanu-Robu (s) Elena Georgescu-Nedelc (c)	6:34.07
LW1x	New Zealand Philippa Baker-Hogan	7:29.99	Netherlands Laurien Vermulst	7:32.41	Denmark Mette Bloch Jensen	7:33.17
LW2x	Germany Claudia Waldi (b) Christiane Weber (s)	7:58.53	United States Lindsay Burns (b) Teresa Zarzeczny (s)	8:00.16	Denmark Elisabeth Fraas (b) Ulla Jensen (s)	8:06.32
LW4-	China Fei Li (b) Sanmei Liang (2) Xiaoli Liao (3) Shaoyan Ou (s)	7:37.06	Great Britain Alison Brownless (b) Katharine Brownlow (2) Anna Marie Dryden (3) Claire Davies (s)	7:41.15	United States Christine Smith-Collins (b) Ellen Minzner (2) Alison Shaw (3) Kelly Sherman (s)	7:43.99

Medals table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Germany	7	2	3	12
2	Canada	4	1	0	5
3	Italy	2	2	0	4
4	Great Britain	2	1	2	5
5	Australia	2	0	0	2
6	Soviet Union	1	3	1	5
7	Denmark	1	1	2	4
8	China	1	0	0	1
	Ireland	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
11	Romania	0	3	2	5
	United States	0	3	2	5
13	Poland	0	1	2	3
14	Austria	0	1	1	2
	France	0	1	1	2
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
17	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
19	Belgium	0	0	2	2
	Denmark	0	0	2	2
21	Spain	0	0	1	1
Total		22	22	22	66

Preceded by 1990

World Rowing Championships 1991

Succeeded by 1992