Rowing was contested at the 1989 Summer Universiade in Duisburg in West Germany.
| Rowing at the XV Summer Universiade | |
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| Venue | Duisburg,  West Germany |
Medal summary
editMedal table
edit| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Romania | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 |  China | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
 West Germany | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| 4 |  Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 |  Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 |  United States | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 |  Canada | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Spain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 10 |  Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 |  East Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 | |
Men's events
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single sculls | Antonov Soviet Union
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Green United States
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Anton Obholzer Great Britain
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| Double sculls | Soviet Union (URS) Grechenko Saposhikov |
Italy (ITA) Gergeri Roberto Fusaro |
Greece (GRE) Konstantinos Ditsios Pantelis Papaterpos | |||
| Lightweight single sculls | Svilen Neykov Bulgaria
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John Murphy Canada
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José María de Marco Pérez Spain
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| Lightweight quadruple sculls | China (CHN) Fang Shen Xie Xie |
Spain (ESP) Hernández Muniesa Piera Sánchez |
United States (USA) Engemann Green Petersen Phelps | |||
| Lightweight coxless four | West Germany (FRG) Bauer Kobor Stöcker Wittek |
Spain (ESP) José Luis Aguirre Juan María Altuna Víctor Llorente Eguren |
France (FRA) Balmain Camus Masson Vazart | |||
| Coxless pair | Romania (ROU) Dragoș Neagu Ioan Snep |
West Germany (FRG) Sack Richter |
Canada (CAN) Derek Porter Ian Swan | |||
| Coxed four | Romania (ROU) D. Nastase Vasile Tomoiagă Valentin Robu Dimitrie Popescu F. Micu |
West Germany (FRG) Barthold Wilk Hebbel Huber Alt |
Netherlands (NED) Rutger Arisz Van Bouzelaer Huijtirk Lubbert Jeroen Duyster | |||
| Eight | Italy (ITA)
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Soviet Union (URS)
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West Germany (FRG)
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Women's events
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single sculls | Elisabeta Lipă Romania
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Zhang China
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Alison Gill Great Britain
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| Quadruple sculls | Bulgaria (BUL) Galina Anakhrieva Daniela Oronova Gescheva Jantschev |
Soviet Union (URS) Borisova Grigoryeva Elena Voroshilova Yakutovish |
East Germany (GDR) Bohlmann Kerstin Förster Köppen Krüger | |||
| Lightweight double sculls | China (CHN) Liang Sanmei Zhang Huajie |
United States (USA) Meunier Remmler |
Poland (POL) Aleksandra Dzierzkowska Elżbieta Pakizer | |||
| Coxless pair | West Germany (FRG) Bender Sybille Schmidt |
China (CHN) Zeng Lin |
United States (USA) Kendall Reynolds | |||
| Coxed four | Romania (ROU) A. Balan Leonte Curelea Ilica ? |
Canada (CAN) Jennifer Walinga Marnie McBean Bames Kathleen Heddle ? |
China (CHN) Cao Mianying Hu Yadong Liu Xirong Zhou Shouying ? | |||