| Event |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
| M1x |
Finland Pertti Karppinen | 6:48.08 |
United States Andrew Sudduth | 6:50.96 |
West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe | 6:59.75 |
| M2x |
East Germany Thomas Lange Uwe Heppner | 6:15.49 |
Soviet Union Mykola Chupryna Yuriy Zelikovich | 6:19.48 |
Switzerland Jürg Weitnauer Urs Steinemann | 6:22.27 |
| M4x |
Canada Doug Hamilton Robert Mills Paul Douma Mel LaForme | 5:44.57 |
East Germany Jens Köppen Rüdiger Reiche Uwe Sägling Karl-Heinz Bußert | 5:44.85 |
Czechoslovakia Jan Vochoska Zdeněk Bureš Miloš Zářecký Jaroslav Švrček | 5:47.42 |
| M2- |
Soviet Union Nikolay Pimenov Yuriy Pimenov | 6:38.39 |
Great Britain Adam Clift Martin Cross | 6:38.47 |
Spain Fernando Climent Luis María Lasúrtegui | 6:40.23 |
| M2+ |
Italy Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (c) | 6:53.40 |
Romania Dimitrie Popescu Vasile Tomoiagă Dumitru Răducanu (c) | 6:56.04 |
East Germany Thomas Kessler Uwe Gasch Olaf Gerschau (c) | 6:57.80 |
| M4- |
West Germany Norbert Keßlau Volker Grabow Jörg Puttlitz Guido Grabow | 6:00.19 |
Soviet Union Jonas Narmontas Sergey Smirnov Viktor Pereverzev Gennadi Kryuçkin | 6:01.25 |
East Germany Hans Sennewald Thomas Greiner Thomas Bänsch Olaf Förster | 6:03.87 |
| M4+ |
Soviet Union Sigitas Kučinskas Ivan Visotchkin Vladimir Romanishin Igor Zotov Mikhail Sassov (c) | 6:07.23 |
Italy Mario Lafranconi Giovanni Suarez Gino Iseppi Giuseppe Carando Siro Meli (c) | 6:08.79 |
East Germany Dietmar Schiller Karsten Schmeling Bernd Niesecke Bernd Eichwurzel Hendrik Reiher (c) | 6:08.97 |
| M8+ |
Soviet Union Mykola Komarov Viktor Diduk Jonas Pinskus Veniamin But Viktor Omelyanovich Pavlo Hurkovskiy Aleksander Voloshin Andrey Vasilyev Hryhoriy Dmytrenko (c) | 5:33.71 |
Italy Agostino Abbagnale Sergio Caropreso Antonio Maurogiovanni Alfredo Bollati Giovanni Miccoli Maurizio Donna Annibale Venier Pasquale Marigliano Siro Meli (c) | 5:34.58 |
United States John Strotbeck Thomas Kiefer Jonathan Smith Kurt Bausback Chris Penny Kevin Still Chris Huntington Michael Teti Mark Zembsch (c) | 5:34.72 |
| Men's lightweight events |
| LM1x |
Italy Ruggero Verroca | 7:05.80 |
Austria Raimund Haberl | 7:10.16 |
United States Paul Fuchs | 7:10.56 |
| LM2x |
France Luc Crispon Thierry Renault | 6:29.44 |
Italy Carlo Gaddi Francesco Esposito | 6:30.05 |
West Germany Hartmut Schäfer Roland Ehrenfels | 6:32.50 |
| LM4- |
West Germany Alwin Otten Frank Rogall Thomas Jaekel Wolfgang Birkner | 6:12.44 |
Italy Franco Pantano Dario Longhin Nerio Gainotti Mauro Torta | 6:14.97 |
United States Edward Gribbin Charles Cobbs Michael Morrison Fred Michini | 6:17.18 |
| LM8+ |
Italy Maurizio Losi Michele Savoia Vittorio Torcellan Massimo Lana Stefano Spremberg Paolo Marostica Andrea Re Fabrizio Ravasi Massimo Di Deco (c) | 5:46.66 |
United States Mark Hanley Seymour Danberg Neil Olesen Michael Scott John Younger Peter Kermond Charles Butt Stephen Schmitt Jonathan Fish (c) | 5:48.47 |
Spain José Manuel Cañete José Crespo Carlos Muniesa Jacinto Accensi Abella Víctor Llorente Fernando Molina Castillo Eulogio Génova Benito Elizalde Ibon Alcorta (c) | 5:50.88 |