The 1985 World Rowing Championships refer to the World Rowing Championships held from 26 August to 1 September 1985 at Hazewinkel in Heindonk, Belgium.^[1]

Medalists at the 1985 World Rowing Championships were:

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
M1x [2]	Finland Pertti Karppinen	6:48.08	United States Andrew Sudduth	6:50.96	West Germany Peter-Michael Kolbe	6:59.75
M2x [3]	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[4]	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- [5]	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+ [6]	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-[7]	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+[8]	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+[9]	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 [10]	Italy Ruggero Verroca	7:05.80	Austria Raimund Haberl	7:10.16	United States Paul Fuchs	7:10.56
LM2x [11]	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-[12]	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+ [13]	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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
W1x[14]	East Germany Cornelia Linse	7:48.37	Romania Valeria Răcilă	7:45.85	United States Anne Marden	7:48.43
W2x[15]	East Germany Sylvia Schwabe Martina Schröter	6:58.80	Romania Mărioara Popescu Elisabeta Lipă	7:05.70	Bulgaria Magdalena Georgieva Violeta Ninova	7:06.52
W4x[16]	East Germany Ramona Balthasar Birgit Peter Jutta Hampe Kristina Mundt	6:22.47	Soviet Union Antonina Machina Nataliya Grigoryeva Yelena Khloptseva Yelena Matiyevskaya	6:23.99	Romania Anișoara Bălan Veronica Cochela Anișoara Sorohan Maricica Țăran	6:29.09
W2-[17]	Romania Rodica Arba Elena Horvat	7:25.08	United States Sherri Cassuto Susan Broome	7:31.96	East Germany Kerstin Toußaint Ramona Hein	7:34.44
W4+[18]	East Germany Kerstin Spittler Jutta Abromeit Steffi Götzelt Carola Lichey Daniela Neunast (c)	6:50.08	Romania Florica Lavric Maria Fricioiu Chira Apostol Olga Homeghi Viorica Ioja (c)	6:53.33	Canada Lisa Robertson Barbara Armbrust Christina Clarke Tricia Smith Lesley Thompson (c)	6:55.67
W8+[19]	Soviet Union Olena Pukhaieva Sariya Zakyrova Elena Tereshina Marina Suprun Marina Znak Irina Teterina Nataliya Yatsenko Lidiya Averyanova Valentina Khokhlova (c)	6:14.00	East Germany Susann Heinicke Gerlinde Doberschütz-Mey Beatrix Lehman Martina Walther Kathrin Thurm Ute Stange Kathrin Dienstbier Carola Hornig Sylke Kretzschmar (c)	6:14.89	Romania Doina Bălan Marioara Trașcă Livia Țicanu Mihaela Armășescu Adriana Chelariu Carolina Matei Camelia Diaconescu Lucia Sauca Ecaterina Oancia (c)	6:19.49
Women's lightweight events
LW1x [20]	Australia Adair Ferguson	7:59.82	Romania Maria Micșa	8:01.58	United States Ann Martin	8:02.74
LW2x[21]	Great Britain Lin Clark Beryl Crockford	7:30.52	West Germany Brigitte Helmers Alrun Urbach	7:33.31	France Desiree Decriem Isabelle Lignan	7:38.90
LW4-[22]	West Germany Monika Wolf Sonja Petri Claudia Engels Evelyn Herwegh	7:05.31	United States Sandy Kendall Jennifer Marron Marise Widmer Charlotte Hollings	7:10.38	Australia Denise Rennex Karin Riedel Amanda Cross Gayle Toogood	7:12.84

Platz	Land	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	5	2	4	11
2	Soviet Union	4	3		7
3	Italy	3	4		7
4	West Germany	3	1	2	6
5	Romania	1	5	2	8
6	Great Britain	1	1		2
7	Australia	1		1	2
	Canada	1		1	2
	France	1		1	2
10	Finland	1			1
11	United States		4	5	9
12	Austria		1		1
13	Spain			2	2
14	Bulgaria			1	1
	Switzerland			1	1
	Czechoslovakia			1	1
Summe		21	21	21	63