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Single Sculls, Women

Date19 – 24 July 1976
StatusOlympic
LocationBassin olympique, Île Notre Dame, Montréal, Québec
Participants11 from 11 countries

Women’s rowing events were new to the Olympic Games, but they had been contested at the European Championships since 1954 and the World Championships since 1974. The Europeans went extinct after 1973, however, leaving the Worlds as the best predictor for Olympic success. By that metric, East Germany’s Christine Scheiblich was the strong favorite in Montreal: in 1976 she had the first two World Championship titles under her belt, and would have the next two by the end of her career. In the opening round she outperformed her nearest competitor, Joan Lind of the United States, by nearly five seconds, but the final was much more exciting. Scheiblich led for most of the way, but was seriously challenged by Lind who, after having been in fourth, made a drive to catch the East German and missed gold by only 0.65 seconds, being forced instead to accept silver. The Soviet Union’s Yelena Antonova engaged in a similarly close race for bronze with Bulgaria’s Rositsa Spasova, which she won with only 0.62 seconds to spare.

PosCompetitorNOC
1Christine ScheiblichGDRGold
2Joan LindUSASilver
3Yelena AntonovaURSBronze
4Rositsa SpasovaBUL
5Ingrid Munneke-DusseldorpNED
6Mariann AmbrusHUN
7Annick AnthoineFRA
8Christel AgrikolaFRG
9Ewa AmbroziakPOL
10Tone PahleNOR
11Colette PépinCAN

Round One

Date19 July 1976
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to final

Heat #1

Time11:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15Rositsa SpasovaBUL3:42.6752.00 (3)1:47.65 (2)2:47.35 (2)55.65 (2)59.70 (2)55.32 (1)Q OB
26Yelena AntonovaURS3:43.1551.05 (1)1:46.28 (1)2:45.92 (1)55.23 (1)59.64 (1)57.23 (2)
34Mariann AmbrusHUN3:47.9751.46 (2)1:48.26 (3)2:49.36 (3)56.80 (3)1:01.10 (4)58.61 (3)
43Annick AnthoineFRA3:55.1455.42 (5)1:53.88 (5)2:54.59 (4)58.46 (4)1:00.71 (3)1:00.55 (4)
52Ewa AmbroziakPOL3:58.0953.49 (4)1:52.20 (4)2:55.67 (5)58.71 (5)1:03.47 (5)1:02.42 (5)
61Colette PépinCAN4:05.3756.69 (6)1:58.49 (6)3:02.89 (6)1:01.80 (6)1:04.40 (6)1:02.48 (6)

Heat #2

Time11:45
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15Christine ScheiblichGDR3:36.0951.18 (1)1:46.12 (1)2:41.17 (1)54.94 (2)55.05 (1)54.92 (1)Q OB
21Joan LindUSA3:40.6751.61 (2)1:46.35 (2)2:42.91 (2)54.74 (1)56.56 (2)57.76 (3)
34Ingrid Munneke-DusseldorpNED3:49.2953.31 (3)1:51.64 (3)2:52.37 (4)58.33 (4)1:00.73 (4)56.92 (2)
42Christel AgrikolaFRG3:50.4254.75 (4)1:52.64 (4)2:51.70 (3)57.89 (3)59.06 (3)58.72 (4)
53Tone PahleNOR3:59.9356.51 (5)1:57.29 (5)2:58.15 (5)1:00.78 (5)1:00.86 (5)1:01.78 (5)

Round One Repêchage

Date21 July 1976
FormatTop two finishers in each heat advanced to final

Heat #1

Time11:15
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
12Yelena AntonovaURS4:02.4755.63 (1)1:54.95 (1)2:58.65 (1)59.32 (1)1:03.70 (3)1:03.82 (2)Q
25Ingrid Munneke-DusseldorpNED4:05.0257.87 (3)1:57.24 (2)3:00.15 (2)59.37 (2)1:02.91 (1)1:04.87 (3)Q
33Christel AgrikolaFRG4:08.3556.74 (2)2:01.22 (3)3:04.90 (3)1:04.48 (4)1:03.68 (2)1:03.45 (1)
44Ewa AmbroziakPOL4:16.7459.10 (4)2:02.26 (4)3:09.51 (4)1:03.16 (3)1:07.25 (4)1:07.23 (4)
51Colette PépinCAN4:26.231:03.54 (5)2:10.03 (5)3:18.20 (5)1:06.49 (5)1:08.17 (5)1:08.03 (5)

Heat #2

Time11:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
11Joan LindUSA4:03.8758.54 (2)1:58.23 (1)3:00.34 (1)59.69 (1)1:02.11 (1)1:03.53 (1)Q
23Mariann AmbrusHUN4:10.2058.23 (1)2:01.33 (2)3:05.43 (2)1:03.10 (2)1:04.10 (2)1:04.77 (3)Q
34Annick AnthoineFRA4:14.001:01.29 (3)2:05.24 (3)3:09.55 (3)1:03.95 (3)1:04.31 (3)1:04.45 (2)
42Tone PahleNOR4:26.191:03.31 (4)2:10.77 (4)3:18.92 (4)1:07.46 (4)1:08.15 (4)1:07.27 (4)

Final Round

Date24 July 1976

Final A

Time11:55
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
12Christine ScheiblichGDR4:05.5658.21 (2)1:59.16 (1)3:02.26 (1)1:00.95 (2)1:03.10 (1)1:03.30 (3)
26Joan LindUSA4:06.2158.99 (4)1:59.63 (2)3:03.68 (2)1:00.64 (1)1:04.05 (2)1:02.53 (2)
31Yelena AntonovaURS4:10.2458.57 (3)2:01.00 (3)3:05.97 (3)1:02.43 (4)1:04.97 (3)1:04.27 (4)
45Rositsa SpasovaBUL4:10.861:01.17 (6)2:02.83 (5)3:09.05 (5)1:01.66 (3)1:06.22 (4)1:01.81 (1)
53Ingrid Munneke-DusseldorpNED4:18.7157.83 (1)2:01.18 (4)3:08.51 (4)1:03.35 (5)1:07.33 (5)1:10.20 (6)
64Mariann AmbrusHUN4:22.591:00.19 (5)2:04.40 (6)3:14.12 (6)1:04.21 (6)1:09.72 (6)1:08.47 (5)

Final B

Time11:45
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
13Annick AnthoineFRA4:19.141:05.56 (2)2:09.51 (1)3:13.11 (1)1:03.95 (1)1:03.60 (1)1:06.03 (1)
24Christel AgrikolaFRG4:23.491:06.66 (3)2:11.52 (3)3:15.80 (2)1:04.86 (2)1:04.28 (2)1:07.69 (3)
35Ewa AmbroziakPOL4:26.601:04.05 (1)2:09.92 (2)3:17.17 (3)1:05.87 (3)1:07.25 (5)1:09.43 (5)
42Tone PahleNOR4:30.531:07.59 (4)2:15.88 (4)3:22.85 (4)1:08.29 (4)1:06.97 (4)1:07.68 (2)
51Colette PépinCAN4:34.761:10.34 (5)2:20.28 (5)3:26.52 (5)1:09.94 (5)1:06.24 (3)1:08.24 (4)