Rowing at the Friendship Games took place at the Man-made Basin, located within the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 24 and 26 August 1984. 14 events (8 men's and 6 women's) were contested.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Single sculls	Vasil Yakusha ( URS)	7:14.23	Heiko Habermann ( GDR)	7:21.30	Vladek Lacina ( TCH)	7:26.59
Double sculls	Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Kinyakin Pyetr Kinyakin	6:35.98	Bulgaria (BUL) Ivan Midyurov Mincho Nikolov	6:37.33	Poland (POL) Kajetan Broniewski Andrzej Krzepiński	6:44.66
Quadruple sculls	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Kalisch Uwe Mund Klaus Kröppelien Karl-Heinz Bußert	5:58.82	Poland (POL) Sławomir Cieślakowski Mirosław Szymanowski Marek Bałdyga Mirosław Mruk	5:59.67	Soviet Union (URS) Alexander Zdravomyslov Igor Antonov Saulius Krasauskas Gintautas Giedrajtis	6:04.28
Coxless pair	Soviet Union (URS) Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov	7:06.65	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Ivan Kafka Miroslav Laholik	7:19.15	Bulgaria (BUL) Todor Vindeliyev Emil Groncov	7:26.39
Coxed pair	Soviet Union (URS) Ihar Maystrenka Stasis Noruszajtis Pyetr Petrynich	7:10.81	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Milan Doleček Sr. Milan Škopek Oldřich Hejdušek	7:15.21	East Germany (GDR) Karsten Schmeling Dietmar Schiller Hendrik Reiher	7:23.93
Coxless four	Soviet Union (URS) Gennadi Kryuçkin Viktor Pereverzev Sergey Smirnov Jonas Narmontas	6:17.94	East Germany (GDR) Ullrich Dießner Olaf Förster Thomas Greiner Thomas Bänsch	6:24.55	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Petr Hlídek Pavel Konvička Miroslav Vraštil Lubomír Zapletal	6:29.98
Coxed four	Soviet Union (URS) Zigmantas Gaudauskas Vladimir Romanishin Igor Zotov Ivan Vysotsky Mikhail Sassov	6:22.64	East Germany (GDR) Ole Pingel Karsten Timm Hans-Peter Koppe Dirk Rendant Michael Schimming	6:26.86	Bulgaria (BUL) Cvetan Petkov Mikhail Petrov Matei Khristov Petr Yovchev Nenko Dobrev	6:30.82
Eights	Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Vasiliyev Aleksandr Voloshin Nikolay Komarov Pavlo Hurkovskiy Viktor Diduk Viktor Omelyanovich Veniamin But Jonas Pinskus Vladimir Nizhegorodov	5:54.16	East Germany (GDR) Uwe Gash Bernd Niesecke Jörg Friedrich Siegfried Schallkovski Hans Sennewald Jörg Timmermann Mario Minge Jürgen Thiele Klaus-Dieter Ludwig	5:56.81	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Mihal Slani(?) Jiří Mák Pavel Pevný Jiří Prudil Dušan Novotník Dušan Vičík Hubert Ševela Milan Kyselý Antonín Barák	5:59.08

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Single sculls	Mariya Danilyuk ( URS)	3:52.77	Birgit Peter ( GDR)	3:53.09	Magdalena Gueorguieva ( BUL)	3:57.73
Double sculls	Kirsten Peters Ramona Balthasar ( GDR)	3:30.27	Margarita Dobcheva Anka Ruseva ( BUL)	3:32.93	Tatyana Bashkatova Mariya Zalite ( URS)	3:33.16
Coxless pair	Soviet Union (URS) Vida Cecyunaite Raisa Doligoyda	3:36.51	East Germany (GDR) Susann Heinicke Heike Winkler	3:40.75	Bulgaria (BUL) Rita Todorova Teodora Zareva	3:44.16
Quadruple sculls	Soviet Union (URS) Antonina Dumcheva Yelena Bratishko Yelena Khlopceva Irina Fetisova Maria Zemskova-Korotkova	3:18.41	Bulgaria (BUL) Rumyana Pochilyeva Violeta Ninova Stefka Madina Teodora Nikolova-Lazarova Greta Georgieva	3:20.73	Hungary (HUN) Erzsébet Sarlós Klára Pétervári Kamilla Kosztolányi Erika Bertényi Erika Polgár	3:35.58
Coxed four	Soviet Union (URS) Angele Kulikauskaite Svetlana Semyonova Valentina Semenova Marina Studneva Nina Cheresimina	3:23.37	Bulgaria (BUL) Olya Stoichkova Lilyana Koleva Todorka Vasileva Nadiya Filipova	3:28.42	East Germany (GDR) Andro Rutgers Katrin Dinstbir Ramona Haim Kerstin Tussen Sikle Kretchmar	3:30.06
Eights	Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Makushkina Nataliya Yatsenko Nina Umanyec Elena Tereshina Sarmīte Stone Irina Teterina Lidiya Averyanova Lyudmila Konopliyeva Valentina Khokhlova	3:09.27	Bulgaria (BUL) Valentina Usherova Antonina Vladimirova Valentina Aleksandrova Snyezhana Ilieyva Radka Stoyanova Lalka Berberova Daniela Oronova Nevyana Ivanova Vania Moisova	3:13.92	none*	–

* – only two teams competed

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Soviet Union)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)*	12	0	2	14
2	East Germany (GDR)	2	6	2	10
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	5	4	9
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	3	5
5	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		14	14	13	41

See also

• Rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

References

• Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 182, 220–221. ISBN  83-217-2610-0.
• Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. p. 93. ISBN  83-03-01177-4.