1988 World Rowing Championships

The 1988 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held on 6 August 1988 at Milan in Italy.^[1] Since 1988 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include Olympic events scheduled for the 1988 Summer Olympics, but instead the lightweight events were held in conjunction with the World Junior Championships, which ran from 3 to 7 August.

Medalists at the 1988 World Rowing Championships were:

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
LM1x[2]	West Germany Alwin Otten	7:05.60	Netherlands Frans Göbel	7:09.86	Italy Ruggero Verroca	7:10.57
LM2x[3]	Italy Enrico Gandola Francesco Esposito	6:30.42	West Germany Hartmut Schäfer Roland Ehrenfels	6:32.83	Netherlands Theo Nieuweboer Jan van Bekkum	6:33.61
LM4-[4]	Italy Mauro Torta Dario Longhin Massimo Lana Nerio Gainotti	6:09.48	Great Britain Rob Williams Nicholas Howe Richard Metcalf Michael Diserens	6:13.31	West Germany Thomas Palm Erik Ring Gerd Meyer Sebastian Franke	6:15.98
LM8+[5]	Italy Alfredo Striani Andrea Re Stefano Spremberg Maurizio Losi Fabrizio Ravasi Enrico Barbaranelli Sabino Bellomo Vittorio Torcellan Luigi Velotti (cox)	5:43.35	United States Jeff Pfaendtner Mike Tuchen Luke Nelson John Irvine Tom White Edward Hewitt Tim Howell Tim O'Brien Michael O'Gorman (cox)	5:45.88	Denmark Peter Lund Bo Vestergaard Niels Henriksen Jesper Vedel Flemming Meyer Lars Rasmussen Vagn Nielsen Svend Blitskov Stephen Masters (cox)	5:46.05

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
LW1x[6]	United States Kristine Karlson	7:45.25	West Germany Angela Schuster	7:48.13	Romania Maria Sava	7:48.62
LW2x[7]	Netherlands Laurien Vermulst Ellen Meliesie	7:11.85	France Christine Liegeois Aline Peyrat	7:14.87	Great Britain Gillian Bond Caroline Lucas	7:15.94
LW4-[8]	China Zeng Meilan Zhang Huajie Lin Zhi-ai Liang Sanmei	6:51.47	Australia Brigid Cassells Leeanne Whitehouse Marina Cade Justine Carroll	6:54.98	West Germany Christiane Zimmer Claudia Engels Sonja Petri Kathrin Schamck	6:56.67