Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls


The women's single sculls rowing competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Casitas in Ventura County, California, United States. It was held from 30 July to 4 August.

Background

Like all other rowing events at the 1984 Summer Olympics, the result was influenced by the absence of strong competitors due to the Eastern Bloc boycott. The last two world champions from the Soviet Union and East Germany were absent; Irina Fetisova of the Soviet Union had won the 1982 World Rowing Championships in Switzerland, and East German Jutta Behrendt had become world champion in 1983. Sanda Toma, the winner of the 1980 Olympic event and 1981 world champion, had since retired. World championship medallists competing in this event were Beryl Mitchell from Great Britain, who had come second in 1981, and Valeria Răcilă of Romania and Stephanie Foster of New Zealand, who had won silver and bronze in 1982, respectively. Of all those, the Romanian was regarded as the favourite. Another competitor to be regarded as one of the favourites was María Fernanda de la Fuente of Mexico, who had come second in the 1983 Pan American Games.

Previous W1x competitions

CompetitionGoldSilverBronze
1980 Summer Olympics
Sanda Toma

Antonina Makhina

Martina Schröter
1981 World Rowing Championships
Sanda Toma

Beryl Mitchell

Irina Fetisova
1982 World Rowing Championships
Irina Fetisova

Valeria Răcilă

Stephanie Foster
1983 World Rowing Championships
Jutta Behrendt

Irina Fetisova

Virginia Gilder

Results

Heats

The winner of each heat advanced to the semi-finals. All others went to the repechage. The heats were raced on 30 July.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Repechage

The first three of each heat advanced to the semi-final. The remaining rowers were eliminated from the competition. The repechages were raced on 1 August. The Italian rower, Antonella Corazza, did not compete in the repechage, but replaced Paola Grizzetti in the quadruple sculls team instead.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Semi-finals

The top three from each heat advanced to the A final. The others advanced to the B final. The semi-finals were raced on 2 August.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Finals

B final

The B final was raced on 3 August.
RankRowerCountryTime
7Stephanie Foster3:52.20
8Jos Compaan3:52.80
9Astrid Unger3:53.08
10Annelie Larsson3:53.39
11María Fernanda de la Fuente3:57.93
12Lisa Scheibert4:00.70

A final

The A final was raced on 4 August.
RankRowerCountryTime
Valeria Răcilă3:40.68
Charlotte Geer3:43.89
Ann Haesebrouck3:45.72
4Andrea Schreiner3:45.97
5Lise Justesen3:47.79
6Beryl Mitchell3:51.20