Single sculls | Vasily Yakusha|URS}} | 7:14.23 | Heiko Habermann|GDR}} | 7:21.30 | Vladek Lacina|TCH}} | 7:26.59 |
Double sculls | URS}} Sergey Kinyakin Pyetr Kinyakin | 6:35.98 | BUL|1971}} Ivan Midyurov Mincho Nikolov | 6:37.33 | POL}} Kajetan Broniewski Andrzej Krzepiński | 6:44.66 |
Quadruple sculls | GDR}} Bernd Kalisch Uwe Mund Klaus Kröppelien Karl-Heinz Bußert | 5:58.82 | POL}} Sławomir Cieślakowski Mirosław Szymanowski Marek Bałdyga Mirosław Mruk | 5:59.67 | URS}} Alexander Zdravomyslov Igor Antonov Saulius Krasauskas Gintautas Giedrajtis | 6:04.28 |
Coxless pair | URS}} Yuriy Pimenov Nikolay Pimenov | 7:06.65 | TCH}} Ivan Kafka Miroslav Laholik | 7:19.15 | BUL|1971}} Todor Vindeliyev Emil Groncov | 7:26.39 |
Coxed pair | URS}} Ihar Maystrenka Stasis Noruszajtis Pyetr Petrynich | 7:10.81 | TCH}} Milan Doleček Sr. Milan Škopek Oldřich Hejdušek | 7:15.21 | GDR}} Karsten Schmeling Dietmar Schiller Hendrik Reiher | 7:23.93 |
Coxless four | URS}} Gennadi Kryuçkin Viktor Pereverzev Sergey Smirnov Jonas Narmontas | 6:17.94 | GDR}} Ullrich Dießner Olaf Förster Thomas Greiner Thomas Bänsch | 6:24.55 | TCH}} Petr Hlídek Pavel Konvička Miroslav Vraštil Lubomír Zapletal | 6:29.98 |
Coxed four | URS}} Zigmantas Gaudauskas Vladimir Romanishin Igor Zotov Ivan Vysotsky Mikhail Sassov | 6:22.64 | GDR}} Ole Pingel Karsten Timm Hans-Peter Koppe Dirk Rendant Michael Schimming | 6:26.86 | BUL|1971}} Cvetan Petkov Mikhail Petrov Matei Khristov Petr Yovchev Nenko Dobrev | 6:30.82 |
Eights | URS}} Andrey Vasiliyev Aleksandr Voloshin Nikolay Komarov Pavlo Hurkovskiy Viktor Diduk Viktor Omelyanovich Veniamin But Jonas Pinskus Vladimir Nizhegorodov | 5:54.16 | GDR}} Uwe Gash Bernd Niesecke Jörg Friedrich Siegfried Schallkovski Hans Sennewald Jörg Timmermann Mario Minge Jürgen Thiele Klaus-Dieter Ludwig | 5:56.81 | TCH}} Mihal Slani Jiri Mak Pavel Pevný Jiří Prudil Dusan Novotnik Dušan Vičík Hubert Sevela Milan Kyselý Antonín Barák | 5:59.08 |
Single sculls | Mariya Danilyuk|URS}} | 3:52.77 | Birgit Peter|GDR}} | 3:53.09 | Magdalena Gueorguieva|BUL|1971}} | 3:57.73 |
Double sculls | Kirsten Peters Ramona Balthasar|GDR}} | 3:30.27 | Margarita Dobcheva Anka Ruseva|BUL|1971}} | 3:32.93 | Tatyana Bashkatova Mariya Zalite|URS}} | 3:33.16 |
Coxless pair | URS}} Vida Cecyunaite Raisa Doligoyda | 3:36.51 | GDR}} Susann Hajnike Haike Winkler | 3:40.75 | BUL|1971}} Rita Todorova Teodora Zareva | 3:44.16 |
Quadruple sculls | URS}} Antonina Dumcheva Yelena Bratishko Yelena Khlopceva Irina Fetisova Maria Zemskova-Korotkova | 3:18.41 | BUL|1971}} Rumyana Pochilyeva Violeta Ninova Stefka Madina Teodora Nikolova-Lazarova Greta Georgieva | 3:20.73 | HUN}} Erzsébet Sarlós Klára Pétervári Kamilla Kosztolányi Erika Bertényi Erika Polgár | 3:35.58 |
Coxed four | URS}} Angele Kulikauskaite Svetlana Semyonova Valentina Semenova Marina Studneva Nina Cheresimina | 3:23.37 | BUL|1971}} Olya Stoichkova Lilyana Koleva Todorka Vasileva Nadiya Filipova | 3:28.42 | GDR}} Andro Rutgers Katrin Dinstbir Ramona Haim Kerstin Tussen Sikle Kretchmar | 3:30.06 |
Eights | URS}} Yelena Makushkina Nataliya Yatsenko Nina Umanyec Elena Tereshina Sarmīte Stone Irina Teterina Lidiya Averyanova Lyudmila Konopliyeva Valentina Khokhlova | 3:09.27 | BUL|1971}} Valentina Usherova Antonina Vladimirova Valentina Aleksandrova Snyezhana Ilieyva Radka Stoyanova Lalka Berberova Daniela Oronova Nevyana Ivanova Vania Moisova | 3:13.92 | none* | – |