The 1976 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held in August 1976 at Villach in Austria.^[1] Since 1976 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include the 14 Olympic classes scheduled for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Only three lightweight men's events were scheduled, and all finals were raced on 16 August.^[2]

Medal summary

Medalists at the 1976 World Rowing Championships were:

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
LM1x^[3]	Austria Raimund Haberl	07:18.18	Denmark Morten Espersen	07:19.48	France Roland Weill	07:22.90
LM4-	France André Picard Michel Picard André Coupat Francis Pelegri	06:29.94	Norway Pål Børnick Olaf Solberg Per Arne Steen Edd Hillstad	06:34.35	Denmark Djon Andersen Bent Fransson Aage Hansen Torben Hansen	06:36.04
LM8+	West Germany Peter Werner Hans-Ludwig Zimmer Hans-Josef Büsken Jürgen Nentwig Lutz Neubert Dieter Meschede Peter Huck Bernd Nehmer Helmut Sassenbach (cox)	06:05.00	Great Britain Graeme Hall Nigel Read Christopher Drury Colin Cusack Stewart Fraser Mark Harris Brian Fentiman Doug Carpenter Henry Wheare (cox)	06:06.81	United States Bruce Stone Andrew Washburn Craig Drake Thomas Cook John Dunn Ralph Nauman Scott Roop Sean Colgan Joseph O'Connor (cox)	06:09.16

Finals

Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
LM1x	Austria	Denmark	France	United States	Mexico	Netherlands
LM4-	France	Norway	Denmark	Switzerland	Netherlands	Sweden
LM8+	West Germany	Great Britain	United States	Netherlands	Canada	Sweden

Event		Notes
LM1x	Peter Zeun	3rd in B Final
L4-	Paul Stuart-Bennett, Alastair Logie, Gavin Stoddart, Christopher George	5th in B Final
L8	Graeme Hall, Nigel Read, Christopher Drury, Colin Cusack, Stewart Fraser Mark Harris, Brian Fentiman, Doug Carpenter, Henry Wheare (cox)	silver medal in A Final

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