Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events. It took place in the Man-made Basin, located at the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The rowing schedule began on 20 July and ended on 27 July.
Due to the American-led boycott some strong rowing nations were not present. In that situation East Germany dominated the competition: they won 14 medals, including 11 golds, from 14 events.
Medals
| Pos | Country: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | Total: |
| 1 |  GDR | 11 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 |  USSR | 1 | 9 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | .svg.png){kind=small} Romania | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 |  Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | .svg.png){kind=small} Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 |  Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 9 |  Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Men's events
Four-oars with coxswain
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Dieter Wendisch,Ullrich Diessner,Walter Diessner,Gottfried Dohn,Andreas Gregor | GDR | 6'14"51 |
| 2 | Artur Garonskis,Dimant Krishianis,Dzintars Krishianis,Zhorzh Tikmers,Yuris Berzynsh | USSR | 6'19"05 |
| 3 | Grzegorz Stellak,Adam Tomasiak,Grzegorz Nowak,Ryszard Stadniuk,Ryszard Kubiak | Poland | 6'22"52 |
Double sculls
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Joachim Dreifke,Klaus Kroppelien | GDR | 6'24"33 |
| 2 | Zoran Pancic,Milorad Stanulov | Yugoslavia | 6'26"34 |
| 3 | Zdenek Pecka,Vaclav Vochoska | Czechoslovakia | 6'29"07 |
Coxswainless pair-oars
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Bernd Landvoigt,Jörg Landvoigt | GDR | 6'48"01 |
| 2 | Yury Pimenov,Nikolay Pimenov | USSR | 6'50"50 |
| 3 | Charles Wiggin,Malcolm Carmichael | Great Britain | 6'51"47 |
Single sculls
| Final Rank |
Athlete | Country | Time |
| 1 | Pertti Karppinen | Finland | 7'09"61 |
| 2 | Vasily Yakusha | USSR | 7'11"66 |
| 3 | Peter Kersten | GDR | 7'14"88 |
Pair-oars with coxswain
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Harald Jahrling,Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich,Georg Spohr | GDR | 7'02"54 |
| 2 | Viktor Pereverzev,Gennady Kryuchkin,Aleksandr Lukyanov | USSR | 7'03"35 |
| 3 | Dusko Mrduljas,Zlatko Celent,Josip Reic | Yugoslavia | 7'04"92 |
Coxswainless four-oars
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Jurgen Thiele,Andreas Decker,Stefan Semmler,Siegfried Brietzke | GDR | 6'08"17 |
| 2 | Aleksei Kamkin,Valery Dolinin,Aleksandr Kulagin,Vitaly Yeliseyev | USSR | 6'11"81 |
| 3 | John Beattie,Ian Monuff,David Townsend,Martin Cross | Great Britain | 6'16"58 |
Coxswainless quadruple sculls
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Frank Dundr,Karsten Bunk,Uwe Heppner,Martin Winter | GDR | 5'49"81 |
| 2 | Yuri Shapochka,Yevgeny Barbakov,Valery Kleshnev,Nikolai Dovgan | USSR | 5'51"47 |
| 3 | Mintcho Nikolov,Lubomir Petrov,Ivo Roussev,Bogdan Dobrev | Bulgaria | 5'52"38 |
Eight-oars with coxswain
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Bernd Krauss,Hans-Peter Koppe,Ulrich Kons,Jorg Friedrich,Jens Doberschutz,Ulrich Karnatz,Uwe Duhring,Berno Hoing,Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | GDR | 5'49"05 |
| 2 | Duncan McDougall,Allan Whitwell,Henry Clay,Chris Mahoney,Andrew Justice,John Pritchard,Malcolm McGowan,Richard Stanhope,Colin Moynihan | Great Britain | 5'51"92 |
| 3 | Viktor Kokdshin,Andrey Tishchenko,Aleksandr Tkachenko,Jonas Pintskus,Jonas Normantas,Andrei Lugin,Aleksandr Mantsevich,Igor Maistrenko,Grigory Dmitrienko | USSR | 5'52"66 |
Women's events
Four-oars with coxswain
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Ramona Kapheim,Silvia Frohlich,Angelika Noack,Romy Saalfeld,Kirsten Wenzel | GDR | 3'19"27 |
| 2 | Ghinka Ghurova,Mariika Modeva,Rita Todorova,Iskra Velinova,Nadejda Filipova | Bulgaria | 3'20"92 |
| 3 | Mariya Fadeyeva,Galina Sovetnikova,Marina Studneva,Svetlana Semyonova,Nina Cheremisina | USSR | 3'20"92 |
Double sculls
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Yelena Khloptseva,Larisa Popova | USSR | 3'16"27 |
| 2 | Cornelia Linse,Heidi Westphal | GDR | 3'17"63 |
| 3 | Olga Homeghi,Valeria Rosca Racila | Romania | 3'18"91 |
Coxswainless pair-oars
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Ute Steindorf,Cornelia Klier | GDR | 3'30"49 |
| 2 | Malgorzata Dluzewska,Czeslawa Koscianska | Poland | 3'30"95 |
| 3 | Siika Barboulova,Stoyanka Kubatova | Bulgaria | 3'32"39 |
Single sculls
| Final Rank |
Athlete | Country | Time |
| 1 | Sanda Toma | Romania | 3'40"69 |
| 2 | Antonina Makhina | USSR | 3'41"65 |
| 3 | Martina Schroter | GDR | 3'43"54 |
Quadruple sculls with coxswain
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Subille Reinhardt,Jutta Ploch,Jutta Lau,Roswietha Zobelt,Liane Buhr | GDR | 3'15"32 |
| 2 | Antonina Pustovit,Yelena Matievskaya,Olga Vasilchenko,Nadezhda Lyubimova,Nina Cheremisina | USSR | 3'15"73 |
| 3 | Mariana Serbezova,Roumeliana Bontcheva,Doloress Nakova,Anka Bakova,Anka Gheorghieva | Bulgaria | 3'16"10 |
Eight-oars with coxswain
| Final Rank |
Athletes | Country | Time |
| 1 | Martina Boesler,Kersten Neisser,Christiane Kopke,Birgit Schutz,Gabriele Kuhn,Ilona Richter,Marita Sandig,Karin Metze,Marina Wilke | GDR | 3'03"32 |
| 2 | Olga Pivovarova,Nina Umanets,Nadezhda Prishchepa,Valentina Zhulina,Tatyana Stetsenko,Yelena Tereshina,Nina Preobrazhenskaya,Mariya Pazyun,Nina Frolova | USSR | 3'04"29 |
| 3 | Angelica Aposteanu,Marlena Zagoni,Rodica Frintu,Florica Bucur,Rodica Puscatu,Ana lliuta,Maria Constantinescu,Elena Bondar,Elena Dobritoiu | Romania | 3'05"63 |
Note:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.