The 1976 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held in August 1976 at Villach in Austria.^[1] Since 1976 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include the 14 Olympic classes scheduled for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Only three lightweight men's events were scheduled, and all finals were raced on 16 August.^[2]

Medalists at the 1976 World Rowing Championships were:

Men's lightweight events

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
LM1x[3]	Austria Raimund Haberl	07:18.18	Denmark Morten Espersen	07:19.48	France Roland Weill	07:22.90
LM4-	France André Picard Michel Picard André Coupat Francis Pelegri	06:29.94	Norway Pål Børnick Olaf Solberg Per Arne Steen Edd Hillstad	06:34.35	Denmark Djon Andersen Bent Fransson Aage Hansen Torben Hansen	06:36.04
LM8+	West Germany Peter Werner Hans-Ludwig Zimmer Hans-Josef Büsken Jürgen Nentwig Lutz Neubert Dieter Meschede Peter Huck Bernd Nehmer Helmut Sassenbach (cox)	06:05.00	Great Britain Graeme Hall Nigel Read Christopher Drury Colin Cusack Stewart Fraser Mark Harris Brian Fentiman Doug Carpenter Henry Wheare (cox)	06:06.81	United States Bruce Stone Andrew Washburn Craig Drake Thomas Cook John Dunn Ralph Nauman Scott Roop Sean Colgan Joseph O'Connor (cox)	06:09.16