Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls


The women's quadruple sculls competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics took place at Notre Dame Island Olympic Basin, Canada. It was the first time the event was contested for women.

Competition format

The competition consisted of two main rounds as well as a repechage. The 9 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 5 boats in one heat and 4 boats in the other. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the "A" final. The remaining 7 boats were placed in the repechage. Two heats were held in the repechage, with 4 boats in one heat and 3 boats in the other. The top two boats in each heat of the repechage went to the "A" final as well. The remaining 3 boats competed in the "B" final for 7th through 9th place.
All races were over a 1000 metre course. The 1976 event featured a coxswain in each boat; later editions dropped the coxswain.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Nadezhda Chernyshyova3:11.74
2Elena Giurcă3:14.86
3Alena Svobodová3:15.51
4Irene Moreno3:18.02
5Kirsten Plum Jensen3:19.95

Heat 2

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Liane Buhr3:08.49
2Stanka Georgieva3:12.13
3Ágnes Szijj3:15.51
4Johanne Delisle3:29.37

Repechage

Repechage heat 1

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Elena Giurcă3:27.48
2Kirsten Plum Jensen3:31.61
3Ágnes Szijj3:37.29
4Johanne Delisle3:38.22

Repechage heat 2

RankRowersCoxswainNationTimeNotes
1Stanka Georgieva3:22.43
2Alena Svobodová3:26.75
3Irene Moreno3:27.82

Finals

Final B

RankRowersCoxswainNationTime
7Irene Moreno3:46.06
8Ágnes Szijj3:55.33
9Johanne Delisle3:57.72

Final A

RankRowersCoxswainNationTime
Liane Buhr3:29.99
Nadezhda Chernyshyova3:32.49
Elena Giurcă3:32.76
4Stanka Georgieva3:34.13
5Alena Svobodová3:42.53
6Kirsten Plum Jensen3:46.99

Final classification

RankRowersCountry
Anke Borchmann
Jutta Lau
Viola Poley
Roswietha Zobelt
Liane Weigelt
Anna Kondrachina
Mira Bryunina
Larisa Alexandrova
Galina Ermolaeva
Nadezhda Chernyshyova
Ioana Tudoran
Maria Micșa
Felicia Afrăsiloaie
Elisabeta Lazăr
Elena Giurcă
4Iskra Velinova
Verka Aleksieva
Troyanka Vasileva
Svetlana Gincheva
Stanka Georgieva
5Anna Marešová
Marie Bartáková
Jarmila Pátková
Hana Kavková
Alena Svobodová
6Kirsten Thomsen
Else Mærsk-Kristensen
Judith Andersen
Karen Margrethe Nielsen
Kirsten Plum Jensen
7Karen McCloskey
Lisa Hansen
Liz Hills
Claudia Schneider
Irene Moreno
8Ilona Bata
Kamilla Kosztolányi
Valéria Gyimesi
Ágnes Szijj
Erzsébet Nagy
9Sandra Kirby
Elaine Bourbeau
Guylaine Bernier
Barbara Boettcher
Johanne Delisle