Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's coxless pair

The women's coxless pair 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 (heats and finals) as well as a repechage. The 11 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 6 boats in one heat and 5 boats in the other. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the "A" final (1st through 6th place). The remaining 9 boats were placed in the repechage. Two heats were held in the repechage, with 5 boats in one heat and 4 boats in the other. The top two boats in each heat of the repechage went to the "A" final as well. The remaining 5 boats (3rd, 4th, and 5th placers in the repechage heats) competed in the "B" final for 7th through 11th place.Official Report, vol. 3, p. 90.

All races were over a 1000-metre course.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes 1 3:31.01 2 3:33.24 3 3:33.91 4 3:36.26 5 3:41.05 6 3:42.53

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes 1 3:37.53 2 3:42.18 3 3:46.65 4 3:46.76 5 3:57.17

Repechage

Repechage heat 1

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes 1 3:48.73 2 3:54.58 3 4:01.18 4 4:02.54 5 4:06.81

Repechage heat 2

Rank Rowers Nation Time Notes 1 3:52.59 2 3:53.93 3 3:58.41 4 4:02.20

Finals

Final B

Rank Rowers Nation Time 7 4:02.91 8 4:03.26 9 4:05.10 10 4:07.99 11 4:11.93

Final A

Rank Rowers Nation Time 4:01.22 4:01.64 4:02.35 4 4:03.27 5 4:08.09 6 4:15.44

Final classification

RankRowersCountry Siyka KelbechevaStoyanka Gruycheva Angelika NoackSabine Dähne Edith EckbauerThea Einöder 4 Nataliya HorodilovaHanna Karnaushenko 5 Tricia SmithBetty Craig 6 Marlena Predescu-ZagoniMarinela Maxim 7 Sue MorganLaura Staines 8 Anna Krzemińska-KarbowiakMałgorzata Kawalska 9 Oldřiška PěknáZdena Tichá 10 Lin ClarkBeryl Mitchell 11 Katalin Pál-RibáryJudit Kéri-Novák

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