Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls

The two fastest teams in each heat advanced to the semifinals. The remaining teams had to compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the semifinals.[2]

Heat One

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Sanda Toma	Romania (ROU)	4:07.20
2	Martina Schröter	East Germany (GDR)	4:09.76
3	Antonina Makhina	Soviet Union (URS)	4:13.39
4	Hette Borrias	Netherlands (NED)	4:25.97

Heat Two

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Beryl Mitchell	Great Britain (GBR)	4:05.72
2	Mariann Ambrus	Hungary (HUN)	4:09.55
3	Lise Justesen	Denmark (DEN)	4:11.94
4	Frances Cryan	Ireland (IRL)	4:12.16

Heat Three

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Rositsa Spasova	Bulgaria (BUL)	4:01.33
2	Beata Dziadura	Poland (POL)	4:02.11
3	María Fernanda de la Fuente	Mexico (MEX)	4:12.84

The three fastest teams in the repechage advanced to the semifinals.[3]

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Antonina Makhina	Soviet Union (URS)	3:54.10
2	Frances Cryan	Ireland (IRL)	3:59.17
3	María Fernanda de la Fuente	Mexico (MEX)	4:00.24
4	Lise Justesen	Denmark (DEN)	4:00.40
5	Hette Borrias	Netherlands (NED)	4:05.39

The three fastest teams in each semifinal advanced to the final.[4]

Semifinal One

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Sanda Toma	Romania (ROU)	3:42.63
2	Beryl Mitchell	Great Britain (GBR)	3:45.88
3	Beata Dziadura	Poland (POL)	3:49.06
4	Frances Cryan	Ireland (IRL)	3:49.22

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athletes Names	Country	Time
1	Martina Schröter	East Germany (GDR)	3:42.97
2	Antonina Makhina	Soviet Union (URS)	3:43.68
3	Rositsa Spasova	Bulgaria (BUL)	3:47.86
4	Mariann Ambrus	Hungary (HUN)	DNF

• I. T. Novikov (ed.). The Official Report of the Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 Volume Three (PDF) (PDF). p. 115. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007.