The 2012 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 15 to 19 August 2012 at Plovdiv, Bulgaria.^[1] The annual week-long rowing regatta is organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation), and held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer. Because the 2012 Summer Olympics was the major rowing event in 2012, the programme was limited to non-Olympic events, and the World Rowing Junior Championships were held at the same time.

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
M2+ [2]	Belarus Stanislau Shcharbachenia Aliaksandr Kazubouski Piotr Piatrynich (c)	6:55.33	France Michael Molina Benjamin Lang Benjamin Manceau (c)	6:55.93	Canada Kai Langerfeld Peter McClelland Dane Lawson (c)	6:56.61
Men's lightweight events
LM1x [3]	Denmark Henrik Stephansen	6:56.41	Hungary Péter Galambos	6:57.50	United States Andrew Campbell Jr	6:57.88
LM4x [4]	Poland Adam Sobczak Mariusz Stańczuk Artur Mikołajczewski Miłosz Jankowski	5:55.03	Greece Georgios Konsolas Nikolaos Afentoulis Panagiotis Magdanis Eleftherios Konsolas	5:56.74	China Liang Yangyang Guo Yang Fa Guofeng Kong Deming	5:57.12
LM2- [5]	Italy Luca De Maria Armando Dell'Aquila	6:37.11	Netherlands Arnoud Greidanus Joris Pijs	6:37.18	France Jean-Christophe Bette Fabien Tilliet	6:39.88
LM8+ [6]	Germany Matthias Schömann-Finck Jost Schömann-Finck Martin Kühner Jonas Schützeberg Christian Hochbruck Jochen Kühner Bastian Seibt Lars Wichert Martin Sauer (c)	5:44.10	Italy Jiri Vlcek Catello Amarante Salvatore Di Somma Davide Riccardi Livio La Padula Martino Goretti Andrea Caianiello Matteo Pinca Gianluca Barattolo (c)	5:46.78	China Ke Feng Meng Yulja Wang Jiahai Shi Shuai Zheng Xiaoyun Hou Zhenwei Li Qiang Zhao Jingbin Wang Minjian (c)	5:47.85

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Women's lightweight events
LW1x [7]	Greece Alexandra Tsiavou	7:32.37	Austria Michaela Taupe-Traer	7:37.04	Belarus Alena Kryvasheyenka	7:38.93
LW4x [8]	Poland Magdalena Kemnitz Jaclyn Halko Agnieszka Renc Weronika Deresz	6:36.17	Denmark Helene Olsen Sarah Juergensen Christina Pultz Sarah Christensen	6:37.82	Italy Giulia Pollini Enrica Marasca Elena Coletti Erika Bello	6:39.13

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	2	0	0	2
2	Italy	1	1	1	3
3	Denmark	1	1	0	2
	Greece	1	1	0	2
5	Belarus	1	0	1	2
6	Germany	1	0	0	1
7	France	0	1	1	2
8	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
11	China	0	0	2	2
12	Canada	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		7	7	7	21

• Official results, WorldRowing.com