Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's eights at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin
Date	21–26 July
Competitors	81 from 9 nations
Winning time	5:49.05
Medalists
01 ! Bernd Krauß Hans-Peter Koppe Ulrich Kons Jörg Friedrich Jens Doberschütz Ulrich Karnatz Uwe Dühring Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)  East Germany 02 ! Duncan McDougall Allan Whitwell Henry Clay Chris Mahoney Andrew Justice John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Richard Stanhope Colin Moynihan (cox)  Great Britain 03 ! Viktor Kokoshyn Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko Jonas Pinskus Jonas Narmontas Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenka Hrihoriy Dmytrenko (cox)  Soviet Union
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01 !		Bernd Krauß Hans-Peter Koppe Ulrich Kons Jörg Friedrich Jens Doberschütz Ulrich Karnatz Uwe Dühring Bernd Höing Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)	East Germany
02 !		Duncan McDougall Allan Whitwell Henry Clay Chris Mahoney Andrew Justice John Pritchard Malcolm McGowan Richard Stanhope Colin Moynihan (cox)	Great Britain
03 !		Viktor Kokoshyn Andriy Tishchenko Oleksandr Tkachenko Jonas Pinskus Jonas Narmontas Andrey Luhin Oleksandr Mantsevych Ihar Maystrenka Hrihoriy Dmytrenko (cox)	Soviet Union

The men's eights rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 21–26 July.

The fastest team in each heat advanced to the final. The remaining teams must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the final.

The two fastest teams in the repechage advanced to the final.