The 1982 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 28 to 29 August 1982 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M1x	East Germany Rüdiger Reiche	7:00.67	Soviet Union Vasil Yakusha	7:01.15	United States John Biglow	7:02.08
M2x	Norway Rolf Thorsen Alf Hansen	6:23.66	East Germany Klaus Kröppelien Joachim Dreifke	6:25.36	Czechoslovakia Zdeněk Pecka Václav Vochoska	6:28.08
M4x	East Germany Karl-Heinz Bußert Uwe Mund Uwe Heppner Martin Winter	5:55.50	West Germany Albert Hedderich Raimund Hörmann Dieter Wiedenmann Michael Dürsch	5:59.10	Soviet Union Viktor Rudakovich Vladimir Koldishkin Aleksandr Sdramvomislov Valeriy Kleshnyov	6:00.90
M2+	Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	6:59.63	East Germany Jürgen Seyfarth Karsten Schmeling Hendrik Reiher (c)	7:01.55	Czechoslovakia Milan Doleček Sr Milan Skopek Oldřich Hejdušek (c)	7:02.07
M2-	Norway Hans Magnus Grepperud Sverre Løken	6:41.98	East Germany Carl Ertel Ulf Sauerbrey	6:44.88	Netherlands Sjoerd Hoekstra Joost Adema	6:45.72
M4+	East Germany Thomas Greiner Hans Sennewald Ulrich Kons Ullrich Dießner Andreas Gregor (c)	6:19.04	Czechoslovakia Vojtech Caska Josef Neštický Jan Kabrhel Karel Neffe Jiří Pták (c)	6:21.69	United States Andy Sudduth Charles Altekruse John Everett Fred Borchelt Robert Jaugstetter (c)	6:25.33
M4-	Switzerland Bruno Saile Jürg Weitnauer Hans-Konrad Trümpler Stefan Netzle	6:10.41	Soviet Union Vitaliy Eliseyev Aleksandr Kulagin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksey Kamkin	6:11.82	Romania Petru Iosub Valer Toma Daniel Voiculescu Constantin Airoaie	6:12.32
M8+	New Zealand Les O'Connell Mike Stanley Andrew Stevenson George Keys Roger White-Parsons Chris White Tony Brook Dave Rodger Andy Hay (c)	5:36.99	East Germany Jens Doberschütz Hans-Peter Koppe Gert Uebeler Jörg Friedrich Ralf Brudel Harald Jährling Bernd Niesecke Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (c)	5:39.17	Soviet Union Žoržs Tikmers Dimants Krišjānis Dzintars Krišjānis Viktor Omelyanovich Viktor Diduk Vladimir Krilov Zigmantas Gudauskas Nikolai Solomakhin Juris Bērziņš (c)	5:39.52
Lightweight events
LM1x	Austria Raimund Haberl	7:12.57	United States Scott Roop	7:14.26	Italy Luca Migliaccio	7:14.58
LM2x	Italy Francesco Esposito Ruggero Verroca	06:34.85	United States Paul Fuchs William Belden	6:37.28	Switzerland Kurt Steiner Pius Z'rotz	06:38.87
LM4-[2]	Italy Marco Romano Daniele Boschin Paolo Martinelli Pasquale Aiese	6:17.79	Spain Guillermo Mueller Gascon José María de Marco Pérez Enrique Briones Luis Marina Moreno Perpina	6:19.68	Denmark Mikael Espersen Flemming Jensen Lars Porneki Kim Hagsted	6:20.33
LM8+	Italy Vittorio Valentinis Mauro Torta Franco Pantano Valentino Tontodonati Renzo Borsini Lanfranco Borsini Claudio Castiglioni Leonardo Salani Giuseppe Di Capua (c)	5:49.45	Denmark Michael Djervig Jørn Jørgensen Ivar Mølgaard Arne Højlund Søren Hansson Søren Christensen Jan Christensen Bent Fransson Jan Rasmussen (c)	5:50.47	Spain Fernando Climent Angel Sáez Bernardos Francisco Goicoechea García Antonio Elizalde Alberto Molina Castillo Ángel Viana Bravo Javier Puertas Cabezudo Dionisio Redondo González Jose Delgado (c)	5:51.90

Women's events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
W1x	Soviet Union Irina Fetisova	3:42.83	Romania Valeria Răcilă	3:42.92	New Zealand Stephanie Foster	3:44.61
W2x	Soviet Union Yelena Bratischko Antonina Makhina	3:19.47	East Germany Kerstin Kirst Martina Schröter	3:23.05	Canada Janice Mason Lisa Roy	3:26.49
W4x+[3]	Soviet Union Larisa Popova Yelena Khloptseva Olga Kaspina Tatiana Bachkatova Maria Zemskova-Korotkova (c)	3:32.41	East Germany Jutta Hampe Heidi Westphal Cornelia Linse Jutta Ploch Elke Rost (c)	3:12.48	Romania Maria Micșa Maricica Țăran Elisabeta Lipă Sofia Corban Ecaterina Oancia (c)	3:16.63
W2-[4]	East Germany Silvia Fröhlich Marita Sandig	3:32.41	Poland Małgorzata Dłużewska Czesława Kościańska	3:34.58	Canada Elizabeth Craig Tricia Smith	3:35.93
W4+[5]	Soviet Union Svetlana Semenova Valentina Semenova Galina Stepanova Larisa Zavarzina Nina Cheremisina (c)	3:17.16	United States Kathy Keeler Carol Bower Harriet Metcalf Barbara Kirch Valerie McClain-Ward (c)	3:19.55	Romania Rodica Arba Mihaela Armășescu Aurora Darko Elena Horvat Cristina Dinu (c)	3:19.71
W8+[6]	Soviet Union Elena Makushkina Ludmila Konopleva Nina Umanets Elena Tereshina Nataliya Yatsenko Marina Studneva Raissa Doligaida Sarmīte Stone Nina Frolova (c)	2:57.97	United States Liz Miles Shyril O’Steen Kristine Norelius Jan Harville Jennie Marshall Joline Esparza Jane McDougall Kristen Thorsness Nanette Bernadou (c)	3:01.50	East Germany Claudia Noack Ute Steindorf Sabine Portius Carola Hornig Steffi Götzelt Sigrid Anders Iris Rudolph Karin Metze Kirsten Wenzel (c)	3:02.89

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Soviet Union	5	2	2	9
2	East Germany	4	6	2	12
3	Italy	4	0	1	5
4	Norway	2	0	0	2
5	New Zealand	1	0	1	2
6	Austria	1	0	0	1
6	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
8	United States	0	4	2	6
9	Czechoslovakia	0	1	2	3
9	Romania	0	1	2	3
10	Denmark	0	1	1	2
10	Spain	0	1	1	2
11	West Germany	0	1	0	1
11	Poland	0	1	0	1
12	Canada	0	0	2	2
13	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54