The men's coxless pair rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 20 to 27 July.
Heats The three fastest teams in each heat advanced to the semifinals. The remaining teams must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the semifinals.Rowing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games: Men's Coxless Pairs Round One. Sports Reference. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
Heat One RankAthletes namesCountryTime 1 Bernd LandvoigtJörg Landvoigt 7:19.05 2 Constantin PostoiuValer Toma 7:30.90 3 Wilfried AuerbachThomas Linemayr 7:39.48 4 Michael JessenErik Christiansen 7:43.04 5 Nikolaos IoannidisGeorgios Kourkoumbas 7:58.37
Heat Two RankAthletes namesCountryTime 1 Yuriy PimenovNikolay Pimenov 7:25.09 2 Charles WigginMalcolm Carmichael 7:30.57 3 Miroslav VraštilMiroslav Knapek 7:34.83 4 José PardasLuis Miguel Oliver 7:46.00 5 Robert LangJohn Bolt 7:50.05
Heat Three RankAthletes namesCountryTime 1 Franco ValtortaAntonio Baldacci 7:28.77 2 Jean-Claude RousselDominique Lecointe 7:33.20 3 Pat GannonWillie Ryan 7:35.10 4 Anders LarsonAnders Wilgotson 7:44.16 5 Edgar NanneAlberik de Suremain 8:06.53
Repechage The three fastest teams in the repechage advanced to the semifinals.Rowing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games: Men's Coxless Pairs Round One Repêchage. Sports Reference. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
RankAthletes namesCountryTime 1 Michael JessenErik Christiansen 7:08.21 2 Anders LarsonAnders Wilgotson 7:09.51 3 Robert LangJohn Bolt 7:13.24 4 José PardasLuis Miguel Oliver 7:18.45 5 Nikolaos IoannidisGeorgios Kourkoumbas 7:24.93 6 Edgar NanneAlberik de Suremain 7:34.09
Semifinals The three fastest teams in each semifinal advanced to the final.Rowing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games: Men's Coxless Pairs Semi-Finals. Sports Reference. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
Semifinal One RankAthletes namesCountryTime 1 Bernd LandvoigtJörg Landvoigt 6:40.54 2 Charles WigginMalcolm Carmichael 6:51.47 3 Anders LarsonAnders Wilgotson 6:54.12 4 Franco ValtortaAntonio Baldacci 7:00.79 5 Pat GannonWillie Ryan 7:02.11 6 Wilfried AuerbachThomas Linemayr 7:04.48
Semifinal Two RankAthletes namesCountryTime 1 Yuriy PimenovNikolay Pimenov 6:52.11 2 Constantin PostoiuValer Toma 6:52.70 3 Miroslav VraštilMiroslav Knapek 6:56.70 4 Michael JessenErik Christiansen 6:56.90 5 Jean-Claude RousselDominique Lecointe 7:10.26 6 Robert LangJohn Bolt 7:11.76
Finals
Finals A RankAthletes namesCountryTime Bernd LandvoigtJörg Landvoigt 6:48.01 Yuriy PimenovNikolay Pimenov 6:50.50 Charles WigginMalcolm Carmichael 6:51.47 4 Constantin PostoiuValer Toma 6:53.49 5 Miroslav VraštilMiroslav Knapek 7:01.54 6 Anders LarsonAnders Wilgotson 7:02.52
This is still the only Olympic final where two sets of twins finished on the podium.
Finals B RankAthletes namesCountryTime 7 Pat GannonWillie Ryan 6:54.60 8 Jean-Claude RousselDominique Lecointe 6:55.22 9 Wilfried AuerbachThomas Linemayr 6:58.96 10 Robert LangJohn Bolt 6:59.13 11 Franco ValtortaAntonio Baldacci 7:00.71 – Michael JessenErik Christiansen np
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