Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four

Men's coxless four
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Men's coxless four; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Krylatskoye Rowing Canal
Date	20–27 July
Competitors	44 from 11 nations
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

Heats

Winner of each heat advanced to final. The remaining teams must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the final.

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
1	Aleksey Kamkin, Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitali Eliseev	Soviet Union (URS)	6:31.71
2	Vojtěch Caska, Jiří Prudil, Josef Neštický, Lubomír Zapletal	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:43.30
3	Georgi Georgiev, Lachezar Boychev, Kiril Kirchev, Valentin Stoev	Bulgaria (BUL)	6:47.21
4	Jean-Pierre Bremer, Nicolas Lourdaux, Bernard Bruand, Dominique Basset	France (FRA)	6:50.18
5	Mirosław Jarzembowski, Mariusz Trzciński, Henryk Trzciński, Marek Niedziałkowski	Poland (POL)	6:55.28
6	Wenceslao Borroto, Ismael Carbonell, Jorge Álvarez, Hermenegildo Palacio	Cuba (CUB)	7:02.83

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
1	Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Jürgen Thiele	East Germany (GDR)	6:19.93
2	Daniel Voiculescu, Carolică Ilieş, Petru Iosub, Nicolae Simion	Romania (ROM)	6:32.16
3	Jürg Weitnauer, Bruno Saile, Hans-Konrad Trümpler, Stefan Netzle	Switzerland (SUI)	6:32.74
4	John Beattie, Ian McNuff, David Townsend, Martin Cross	Great Britain (GBR)	6:42.73
5	Kent Larsson, Pär Hurtig, Jan Nicklasson, Göran Johansson	Sweden (SWE)	6:49.78

The top two teams in each repechage heat qualified for the final.^[2]

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
1	Jürg Weitnauer, Bruno Saile, Hans-Konrad Trümpler, Stefan Netzle	Switzerland (SUI)	6:16.07
2	Vojtěch Caska, Jiří Prudil, Josef Neštický, Lubomír Zapletal	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:18.49
3	Jean-Pierre Bremer, Nicolas Lourdaux, Bernard Bruand, Dominique Basset	France (FRA)	6:19.21
4	Kent Larsson, Pär Hurtig, Jan Nicklasson, Göran Johansson	Sweden (SWE)	6:29.33
5	Wenceslao Borroto, Ismael Carbonell, Jorge Álvarez, Hermenegildo Palacio	Cuba (CUB)	6:40.84

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
1	John Beattie, Ian McNuff, David Townsend, Martin Cross	Great Britain (GBR)	6:12.71
2	Daniel Voiculescu, Carolică Ilieş, Petru Iosub, Nicolae Simion	Romania (ROM)	6:13.31
3	Georgi Georgiev, Lachezar Boychev, Kiril Kirchev, Valentin Stoev	Bulgaria (BUL)	6:22.57
4	Mirosław Jarzembowski, Mariusz Trzciński, Henryk Trzciński, Marek Niedziałkowski	Poland (POL)	6:30.26

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
	Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Jürgen Thiele	East Germany (GDR)	6:08.17
	Aleksey Kamkin, Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitali Eliseev	Soviet Union (URS)	6:11.81
	John Beattie, Ian McNuff, David Townsend, Martin Cross	Great Britain (GBR)	6:16.58
4	Vojtěch Caska, Jiří Prudil, Josef Neštický, Lubomír Zapletal	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	6:18.63
5	Daniel Voiculescu, Carolică Ilieş, Petru Iosub, Nicolae Simion	Romania (ROM)	6:19.45
6	Jürg Weitnauer, Bruno Saile, Hans-Konrad Trümpler, Stefan Netzle	Switzerland (SUI)	6:26.46

Rank	Rowers	Country	Time
7	Jean-Pierre Bremer, Nicolas Lourdaux, Bernard Bruand, Dominique Basset	France (FRA)	6:19.06
8	Mirosław Jarzembowski, Mariusz Trzciński, Henryk Trzciński, Marek Niedziałkowski	Poland (POL)	6:22.31
9	Georgi Georgiev, Lachezar Boychev, Kiril Kirchev, Valentin Stoev	Bulgaria (BUL)	6:22.49
10	Kent Larsson, Pär Hurtig, Jan Nicklasson, Göran Johansson	Sweden (SWE)	6:23.61
11	Wenceslao Borroto, Ismael Carbonell, Jorge Álvarez, Hermenegildo Palacio	Cuba (CUB)	6:36.20