Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's coxed four

The women's coxed four 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 8 boats were divided into two heats for the first round, with 4 boats in each heat. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the "A" final (1st through 6th place). The remaining 6 boats were placed in the repechage. A single repechage heat was held. The top 4 boats in the repechage went to the "A" final as well. The remaining 2 boats (5th and 6th place in the repechage) competed in the "B" final for 7th and 8th place.Official Report, vol. 3, p. 93.

All races were over a 1000 metre course.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Sabine Heß 3:22.55 2 Aneta Matei 3:26.42 3 Mimi Kellogg 3:32.77 4 Pauline Wright 3:33.90

Heat 2

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Kapka Georgieva 3:20.98 2 Monique Pronk 3:23.94 3 Barbara Mutch 3:24.23 4 Lidiya Krylova 3:25.92

Repechage

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Notes 1 Monique Pronk 3:39.88 2 Aneta Matei 3:40.96 3 Lidiya Krylova 3:42.44 4 Mimi Kellogg 3:43.27 5 Barbara Mutch 3:44.41 6 Pauline Wright 3:45.53

Finals

Final B

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time 7 Barbara Mutch 3:46.18 8 Pauline Wright 3:45.53

Final A

Rank Rowers Coxswain Nation Time Sabine Heß 3:45.08 Kapka Georgieva 3:48.24 Lidiya Krylova 3:49.38 4 Aneta Matei 3:51.17 5 Monique Pronk 3:54.36 6 Mimi Kellogg 3:56.50

Final classification

RankRowersCountry Karin MetzeBianka SchwedeGabriele LohsAndrea KurthSabine Heß Ginka GyurovaLilyana VasevaReni YordanovaMariyka ModevaKapka Georgieva Nadezhda SevostyanovaLyudmila KrokhinaGalina MisheninaAnna PasokhaLidiya Krylova 4 Elena OpreaFlorica Petcu-DospinescuFiligonia TolAurelia MarinescuAneta Matei 5 Liesbeth Vosmaer-de BruinHette BorriasMyriam van Rooyen-SteenmanAns GravesteijnMonique Pronk 6 Pam BehrensCatherine MengesNancy StorrsJudy GeerMimi Kellogg 7 Linda SchaumleffelDolores YoungMonika DraegerJoy FeraBarbara Mutch 8 Gillian WebbPauline Bird-HartClare GroveDiana BishopPauline Wright

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