R: 1. TCH 2. POL 3. ARC 4. USA 1/2 FI: 1. ITA 2. GDR 3. FRG 4. NED 5. ARG 6. HUN 1/2 FII: 1. NOR 2. URS 3. AUS 4. TCH 5. POL 6. CAN 8 +: 10 crews El: 1. URS 2. CAN 3. GRR 4. ITA 5. KOR Eli: 1. FRG 2. AUS 3. USA 4. BUL 5. JPN RI: 1. USA 2. CAN 3. ITA 4. JPN RII: 1. GBR 2. AUS 3. BUL 4. KOR Finals 4 + : 1. GDR 2. ROM 3. NZL 4. GBR 5. USA 6. YUG The world champions refused to cede their place. 7. FRG 8. TCH 9. CAN 10. ITA - URS and SUI (scratched) 2x: 1. NED 2. SUI 3. URS 4. FRG 5. GDR 6. DEN A pleasant surprise for the West Europeans: the Dutch men, Ronald Florijn and Nicolas Rienks, who had been sculling together for little more, than a year, beat the Swiss on the line. 7. ESP 8. BUL 9. ITA 10. CAN 11. NOR 12. FIN 2-: 1. GBR 2. ROM 3. YUG 4. BEL 5. GDR 6. URS H.R.H. the Princess Royal, president of the Internation al Equestrian Federation and membev of the Interna tional Olympic Committee, sat in the FISA jeep with x President Keller at the wheel.- She thus had a perfect op portunity to follow over the whole 2,000 metres the vic tory of her compatriots, Andrew Holmes and Steven Redgrave, as they won their third FISA gold medal. 7. FRG 8. FRA 9. USA 10. BRA 11. FIN 12. AUT lx: 1. GDR 2. FRG 3. NZL 4. AUS 5. POL 6. USA Thomas Lange proved himself worthy of his four previ ous world tides - in 2x, then in lx. Kolbe, who finished second at the age of 35, was never to win an Olympic ti de. 7. FIN 8. FRG 9. NZL 10. AUS 11. POL 12. USA During the presentation ceremony, the FISA medal of honour was presented to P. Karpinnen, three times Olympic champion in single sculls (1976, 1980, 1984) for his exemplary attitude during a long and exceptional career. 2 + : 1. ITA 2. GDR 3. GBR 4. ROM 5. BUL 6. URS The Abbagnale brothers with di Capua retained their Olympic crown and passed into legend. The British pair, Holmes and Redgrave, gold medallists in the 2-, won the bronze medal in the 2 +. 7. TCH 8. YUG 9. POL 10. CAN 11. USA 240 4-: 1. GDR 2. USA 3. FRG 4. GBR 5. ITA 6. URS Thomas Greiner and his fellow crew members, Roland Schroder, Ralf Brudel and Olaf Forster, remained the best in the world. 7. NZL 8. FRA 9. NED 10. SWE 11. CAN 12. GRE 4x: 1. ITA 2. NOR 3. GDR 4. URS 5. AUS 6. FRG A perfect performance by Piero Poli, Gianluca Farina, Davide Tizzano — former world junior single sculls champion - and Agostino Abbagnale at stroke, who thus made his family’s success complete. What a career!: Alf Hansen, approaching his 40th birth day, won another medal with his fellow Norwegians. Olympic champion in 1976, he had been third in the world championships in 1970. 7. POL 8. NED 9. CAN 10. HUN 11. TCH 12. ARG 8 + : 1. FRG 2. URS 3. USA 4. GBR 5. AUS 6. CAN After a screw had come loose on the boat of the West German crew, who were favourites, all the other finalists patiently waited for the repair to be completed. Without any objection being raised, the start was delayed for 25 minutes. It was an example of real sporting spirit. The West Germans carried on the tradition of their brilliant past with a well deserved win. 7. ITA 8. BUL 9. JPN 10. KOR In the words of that most experienced of officials, Tho mas Keller, this regatta had been exceptional and fault less from the sporting point of view. It had taken place in perfectly fair conditions. At the end of the closing ceremony, the FISA president congratulated the ar chitect of the course, C.S.Lee, and presented, as a token of gratitude, the FISA medal of honour to Huh Shin-Koo, the official in charge of rowing at the Games, and Young- Joon Han the director of rowing. Comments on fair play, by Denis Oswald In life, there is nothing perfectly pure, nor do we make that claim for rowing. Nevertheless, it can be maintained that this sport is charac terised by a healthy spirit, and that loyalty and honesty prevail in competitions. The recent Olympic Games in Seoul have proved this once again, notably at a time when there is a marked absence of fair play in sport. We must, then, be grateful for the spirit of fairness and impartiality which typifies our regattas. Our sport is certainly one of those which best represent the Olympic spirit advocated by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, himself a keen oarsman. In Seoul, many sports personalities came to watch the racing, since for once the rowing course was not too far from the city. We were sur prised by their reactions. Most of them were forcibly struck, for ex ample, by the fact that a heat should be held up to wait for a crew whose boat had suffered equipment failure. They quoted examples of other sports in which the race programme had been rigidly ad hered to, without reference, for example, to the religious obligations of some athletes, who were eliminated without having had the op portunity to compete. Equally, these officials were amazed that a crew should offer to lend its boat to rivals in another heat, whose own boat had been damaged in a collision just before the start.
