| Men coxless pairs | | 1. Canada |  CAN | | George Hungerfor, Roger Jackson | | 2. Netherlands |  NED | | Steven Blaisse, Ernst Veenemans | | 3. UT Germany |  EUA | | Michael Schwan, Wolfgang Hottenrott |
| Men Coxed Pair | | 1. United States |  USA | | Edward Ferry, Conn Findlay, Kent Mitchell (cox) | | 2. France |  FRA | | Jacques Morel, Georges Morel, Jean-Claude Darouy (cox) | | 3. Netherlands | NED | | Herman Rouwé, Erik Hartsuiker, Jan Just Bos (cox) |
| Men Coxless Fours | | 1. Denmark |  DEN | | John Hansen, Bjørn Hasløv, Erik Petersen, Kurt Helmudt | | 2. Great Britain |  GBR | | John Russell, Hugh Wardell-Yerburg, hWilliam Barry, John James | | 3. United States | USA | | Geoffrey Picard, Dick Lyon, Ted Mittet, Ted Nash |
| Men Coxed Fours | | 1. UT Germany | EUA | | Peter Neusel, Bernhard Britting, Joachim Werner, Egbert Hirschfelder, Jürgen Oelke | | 2. Italy |  ITA | | Renato Bosatta, Emilio Trivini, Giuseppe Galante, Franco De Pedrina, Giovanni Spinola | | 3. Netherlands | NED | | Lex Mullink, Jan van de Graaff, Freek van de Graaff, Bobbie van de Graaf, Marius Klumperbeek |
| Men Eights | | 1. United States | USA | | Joseph Amlong, Thomas Amlong, Boyce Budd, Emory Clark, Stanley Cwiklinski, Hugh Foley, Bill Knecht, William Stowe, Róbert Zimonyi | | 2. UT of Germany | EUA | | Klaus Aeffke, Klaus Bittner, Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht, Klaus Behrens, Jürgen Schröder, Jürgen Plagemann, Horst Meyer, Thomas Ahrens | | 3. Czechoslovakia |  TCH | | Petr Čermák, Jiří Lundák, Jan Mrvík, Július Toček, Josef Věntus, Luděk Pojezný, Bohumil Janoušek, Richard Nový, Miroslav Koníček |
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| Men Single Sculls | | 1. Vyacheslav Ivanov |  Soviet Union | | 2. Achim Hill | UT Germany | | 3. Gottfried Kottmann |  Switzerland |
| Men Double Sculls | | 1. Soviet Union | URS | | Oleg Tyurin, Boris Dubrovskiy | | 2. United States | USA | | Seymour Cromwell, Jim Storm | | 3. Czechoslovakia | TCH | | Vladimír Andrs, Pavel Hofmann |
| Medals | G | S | B | All | | 1. United States | USA | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | | 2. Soviet Union | URS | 2 | | | 2 | | 3. UT Germany | EUA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | | 4. Canada | CAN | 1 | | | 1 | | 4. Denmark | DEN | 1 | | | 1 | | 6. Netherlands | NED | | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 7. France | FRA | | 1 | | 1 | | 4. Great Britain | GBR | | 1 | | 1 | | 4. Italy | ITA | | 1 | | 1 | | 10.Czechoslovakia | TCH | | | 2 | 2 | | 11.Switzerland | SUI | | | 1 | 1 | | Total | 11 nat | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
| 370 rowers from 27 nations. | | Argentina | 12 | Australia | 26 | | Austria | 7 | Belgium | 2 | | Canada | 16 | Cuba | 9 | | Czechoslovakia | 20 | Denmark | 14 | | Egypt | 16 | Finland | 7 | | France | 22 | Great Britain | 8 | | UT Germany | 26 | Italy | 18 | | Japan | 26 | South Korea | 9 | | Mexico | 3 | Netherlands | 17 | | Norway | 5 | New Zealand | 15 | | Poland | 11 | Romania | 7 | | Switzerland | 8 | Soviet Union | 26 | | United States | 27 | Uruguay | 2 | | Yugoslavia | 11 | |
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