Rowing was part of the 1983 Pan American Games. There were eight boat classes for men, and two for women.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Ricardo Daniel Ibarra  Argentina	Mel Laforme  Canada	Sean Colgan  United States
Double sculls details	Canada	United States	Cuba
Quadruple sculls details	Canada	Cuba	Argentina
Coxless pair details	Brazil Ronaldo Esteves de Carvalho and Ricardo Esteves de Carvalho	Argentina	United States
Coxed pair details	Cuba	United States	Peru
Coxless four details	Cuba	United States	Canada
Coxed four details	United States Kurt Bausback Gregory Springer Jonathan Phinney Francis Reininger John Hartigan[1] (cox)	Brazil Raymundo Rideiro Denis Marinho Walter Soares Mauro dos Santos Nilson Alonso	Canada Paul Steele Ron Burak Nick Toulmin Blair Horn Paul Tessier (cox)
Coxed eight details	United States	Chile	Canada

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Chris Ernst  United States	María Fernanda de la Fuente  Mexico	Maureen Grace  Canada
Double sculls details	United States	Canada	Mexico

Place	Nation				Total
1	United States	4	3	2	9
2	Canada	2	2	4	8
3	Cuba	2	1	1	4
4	Argentina	1	1	1	3
5	Brazil	1	1	0	2
6	Mexico	0	1	1	2
7	Chile	0	1	0	1
8	Peru	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30