Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed pair

Men's coxless pairs at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin
Date	20–27 July
Competitors	33 from 11 nations
Medalists
Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich and Georg Spohr  East Germany Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin and Aleksandr Lukyanov  Soviet Union Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent and Josip Reić  Yugoslavia

The men's coxed pairs 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 20 to 27 July.

Heats

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

Heat One

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Petre Ceapura Gabriel Bularda Ladislau Lovrenschi	Romania (ROM)	7:50.12
2	Tsvetan Petkov Rumen Khristov Todor Kishev	Bulgaria (BUL)	7:58.31
3	Antonio Dell'Aquila Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua	Italy (ITA)	7:59.39
4	Serge Fornara Hervé Bourquel Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent	France (FRA)	8:09.11
5	Denis Rice Christy O'Brien Liam Williams	Ireland (IRL)	8:13.16
6	Danilo Mora Alfredo Valladares Silvio Rosabal	Cuba (CUB)	8:28.82

Heat Two

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr	East Germany (GDR)	7:32.89
2	Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov	Soviet Union (URS)	7:38.49
3	Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent Josip Reić	Yugoslavia (YUG)	7:39.39
4	James MacLeod Neil Christie David Webb	Great Britain (GBR)	7:42.39
5	Josef Plamínek Milan Škopek Oldřich Hejdušek	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:47.71

Repechage

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to final

Heat One

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent Josip Reić	Yugoslavia (YUG)	7:19.22
2	Tsvetan Petkov Rumen Khristov Todor Kishev	Bulgaria (BUL)	7:25.77
3	James MacLeod Neil Christie David Webb	Great Britain (GBR)	7:29.97
4	Denis Rice Christy O'Brien	Ireland (IRL)	7:35.65
5	Danilo Mora Alfredo Valladares Silvio Rosabal	Cuba (CUB)	7:52.87

Heat Two

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov	Soviet Union (URS)	7:15.38
2	Josef Plamínek Milan Škopek Oldřich Hejdušek	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:21.52
3	Antonio Dell'Aquila Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua	Italy (ITA)	7:27.93
4	Serge Fornara Hervé Bourquel Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent	France (FRA)	7:41.29

Finals

Finals A

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
	Harald Jährling Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich Georg Spohr	East Germany (GDR)	7:02.54
	Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin Aleksandr Lukyanov	Soviet Union (URS)	7:03.35
	Duško Mrduljaš Zlatko Celent Josip Reić	Yugoslavia (YUG)	7:04.92
4	Petre Ceapura Gabriel Bularda Ladislau Lovrenschi	Romania (ROU)	7:07.17
5	Tsvetan Petkov Rumen Khristov Todor Kishev	Bulgaria (BUL)	7:09.21
6	Josef Plamínek Milan Škopek Oldřich Hejdušek	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7:09.41

Finals B

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
7	Antonio Dell'Aquila Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua	Italy (ITA)	7:18.87
8	Serge Fornara Hervé Bourquel Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent	France (FRA)	7:21.27
9	James MacLeod Neil Christie David Webb	Great Britain (GBR)	7:23.18
10	Danilo Mora Alfredo Valladares Silvio Rosabal	Cuba (CUB)	7:47.57

Sources

• Fizkultura i sport (ed.). The Official Report of the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume Three (PDF) (PDF). p. 106. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007.