For the Rowing competition at the 1990 Asian Games in Jianhaihu Aquatic Centre, Beijing, China, men's and women's singles, doubles, and fours competed from September 23 to September 26.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Li Zhongping  China	Lim Kyung-suk  South Korea	Han Min-chol  North Korea
Double sculls	China Chen Aiguo Huang Xiaoping	Japan Tadashi Abe Masahiro Sakata	North Korea Chong Gwang-sok Pak Mun-chol
Coxless pair	China Feng Feng Xu Wuling	South Korea Jo Jun-hyung Lee Ki-hyun	India Surinder Singh Rajender Singh Bhanwala
Coxless four	China Xu Quan Wang Xinyue Yao Jianzhong Wang Yaodong	South Korea Hwang Hee-taek Lee Hyung-ki Ha Jin-sik Yoon Nam-ho	India Gajendran Jasbir Singh Surinder Singh P. M. Pathak
Eight	China Li Jianxin Chen Changchuan Jiang Haiyang Liang Hong Chen Jian Yao Liping Jia Qingbin Sun Senlin Zheng Xianwei	Japan Yasunori Tanabe Hidekazu Hayashi Hiroyoshi Matsui Satoru Miyoshi Hiroshi Mitome Kazuhiko Kurata Masateru Kiriyama Michinori Iwaguro Yasushi Hori	South Korea Kim Woong-hak Hwang Hee-taek Lee Hyung-ki Ha Jin-sik Lee Ki-hyun Yoon Nam-ho An Sang-jin Hong Seong-kyun Kim Sung-soo
Lightweight single sculls	Shen Hongfei  China	Kim Il-yong  North Korea	Dalbir Singh  India
Lightweight double sculls	China Fang Shangiang Xie Yifan	North Korea Kim Gwang-il Kim In-guk	India Dalbir Singh Ramanjit Singh
Lightweight coxless four	China Zheng Bingxue Zhang Shaoyun He Yaqiang Zhao Zedong	Japan Katsura Kajihara Kiyoaki Murata Masaru Higashitani Yoshihiro Sogo	South Korea Jo Jun-hyung Jang Hyeon-cheol Lee In-ki Choi Kyung-wook

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Cao Mianying  China	Ro Hong-sun  North Korea	Kang Sin-sook  South Korea
Coxless pair	China Zhou Shouying Liu Xirong	South Korea Lee Jae-nam Kim Sung-ok	North Korea Un Gum-nyo Kim Yong-hui
Coxless four	China Guo Mei He Yanwen Hu Yadong Zhang Li	Japan Mayumi Oku Miyuki Yamashita Nobuko Ota Rumi Sasakawa	South Korea Kook In-sook Kang Min-heung Lee Jae-nam Kim Sung-ok
Lightweight single sculls	Liang Sanmei  China	Ryoko Orihashi  Japan	Kim Yeon-hee  South Korea
Lightweight double sculls	China Liao Xiaoli Huang Jielan	North Korea Pae Jong-ae Sung Ok-sun	Japan Kazuyo Urakami Maki Kurihara
Lightweight coxless four	China Zhang Huajie Zeng Meilan Lin Zhiai Yan Dongling	North Korea Chon Gyong-ok Ro Hyong-suk Choi Ryong-sun Kim Yong-ae	Indonesia Juliati Nelliewatiy Tuah Tutie

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	14	0	0	14
2	North Korea (PRK)	0	5	3	8
3	Japan (JPN)	0	5	1	6
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	4	5	9
5	India (IND)	0	0	4	4
6	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		14	14	14	42

• New Straits Times, September 27, 1990

• Olympic Council of Asia