MONTREAL 1976




The Games of the XXI Summer Olympiad. July 17 - August 1, 1976. Montreal, Canada.
Archery Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal Count
Men’s individual

1.Darrell Pace (USA)
Women’s Individual

1.Luann Ryon (USA)
MEN
100 m


1.Hasely Crawford (Trinidad and Tobago)
2.Don Quarrie (Jamaica)
3.Valeriy Borzov (USSR)
200 m

1.Don Quarrie (Jamaica)
400 m

1.Alberto Juantorena (Cuba)
800 m
Semifinal 1

1.Alberto Juantorena (Cuba) (qualified for Final)
2.Ivo van Damme (Belgium) (qualified for Final)
3.Steve Ovett (Great Britain) (qualified for Final)
6.Marian Gesicki (Poland)

1.Alberto Juantorena (Cuba)
2.Ivo van Damme (Belgium)
5.Steve Ovett (Great Britain)

8.Carlo Grippo (Italy)
1500 m

1.John Walker (New Zealand)

2.Ivo van Damme (Belgium)

3.Paul-Heinz Wellmann (West Germany)
4.Eamonn Coghlan (Ireland)
5.Frank Clement (Great Britain)
5000 m

1.Lasse Viren (Finland)
2.Dick Quax (New Zealand)
10000 m

1.Lasse Viren (Finland)
2.Carlos Lopes (Portugal)
110 m hurdles
1.Guy Drut (France)
2.Alejandro Casanas (Cuba)
3.Willie Davenport (USA)
400 m hurdles
1.Edwin Moses (USA)
3000 m steeplechase
1.Anders Garderud (Sweden)
2.Bronislaw Malinowski (Poland)
4 x 100 m
3.USSR (Valeriy Borzov)
Marathon

1.Waldemar Cierpinski (East Germany)
2.Frank Shorter (USA)
20 km walk

1.Daniel Bautista (Mexico)
3.Peter Frenkel (East Germany)
5.Raul Gonzalez (Mexico)
DNF.Domingo Colin (Mexico)
Long jump

1.Arnie Robinson (USA)
2.Randy Williams (USA)
Triple jump

1.Viktor Saneyev (USSR)
3.Joao Carlos de Oliveira (Brazil)
Pole vault

1.Tadeusz Slusarski (Poland)
Shot put


1.Udo Beyer (East Germany)
Javelin throw


1.Miklos Nemeth (Hungary)

3.Gheorghe Megelea (Romania)
Hammer throw
1.Yuriy Sedykh (USSR)
3.Anatoliy Bondarchuk (USSR)
Decathlon


1.Bruce Jenner (USA)
3.Nikolai Avilov (USSR)
WOMEN

100 m: 1.Annegret Richter (West Germany)
2.Renate Stecher (East Germany)
200 m: 1.Barbel Eckert (East Germany)
2.Annegret Richter (West Germany)
3.Renate Stecher (East Germany)
400 m

1.Irena Szewinska (Poland)
800 m
1.Tatyana Kazankina (USSR)
1500 m

1.Tatyana Kazankina (USSR)
100 m hurdles

1.Johanna Schaller (East Germany)
4 x 100 m

1.East Germany (Marlies Oelsner, Renate Stecher, Barbel Eckert)

2.West Germany (Annegret Richter)
3.USSR (Lyudmila Maslakova)
High jump

1.Rosemarie Ackermann (East Germany)

2.Sara Simeoni (Italy)
Shot put


1.Ivanka Khristova (Bulgaria)
2.Nadezhda Chizhova (USSR)
Javelin throw
1.Ruth Fuchs (East Germany)
Men
Final

USA - Yugoslavia 95:74
(Philip Hubbard - Rajko Zizic, Zeljko Jerkov)

(Phil Ford, Adrian Dantley, Quinn Buckner, Mitch Kupchak - Dragan Kicanovic)

(Phil Ford, Steve Sheppard, Walter Davis, Quinn Buckner (USA))
1.USA (Phil Ford, Steve Sheppard, Adrian Dantley, Walter Davis, Quinn Buckner, Philip Hubbard, Mitch Kupchak)
2.Yugoslavia (Dragan Kicanovic, Rajko Zizic, Zeljko Jerkov, Kresimir Cosic)
3.USSR (Aleksandr Belov)
Women

USA - Canada 89:75
(Nancy Dunkle, Patricia Roberts - Sylvia Sweeney)

USSR - USA 112:77
(Lusia Harris (USA))
1.USSR (Uljana Semjonova)
2.USA (Lusia Harris, Nancy Dunkle, Patricia Roberts)
6.Canada (Sylvia Sweeney)
48 kg

1.Jorge Hernandez (Cuba)

2.Li Byong-Uk (North Korea)

DNS.Stephen Muchoki (Kenya)
51 kg

1.Leo Randolph (USA)


2.Ramon Duvalon (Cuba)
54 kg




1.Gu Yong-Ju (North Korea)

2.Charles Mooney (USA)
3-4.Patrick Cowdell (Great Britain), Viktor Rybakov (USSR)
57 kg

1.Angel Herrera (Cuba)
60 kg

1.Howard Davis (USA)

2.Simion Cutov (Romania)
63.5 kg

1.Ray Leonard (USA)


2.Andres Aldama (Cuba)
67 kg

3-4.Victor Zilberman (Romania)
71 kg


3-4.Rolando Garbey (Cuba)
75 kg

1.Michael Spinks (USA)

3-4.Luis Martinez (Cuba),

Ales Nastac (Romania)
81 kg

1.Leon Spinks (USA)

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2.Sixto Soria (Cuba)

3-4.Costica Dafinoiu (Romania)
81+ kg

1.Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba)

2.Mircea Simon (Romania)
3-4.John Tate (USA)
MEN
C-1 500 m

1.Aleksandr Rogov (USSR)
C-1 1000 m
3.Tamas Wichmann (Hungary)
C-2 1000 m

2.Gheorghe Danielov / Gheorghe Simionov (Romania)
K-1 500 m

1.Vasile Diba (Romania)

2.Zoltan Sztanity (Hungary)
K-1 1000 m

2.Geza Csapo (Hungary)

3.Vasile Diba (Romania)
K-4 1000 m


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2.Spain
WOMEN
K-2 500 m

2.Anna Pfeffer / Klara Rajnai (Hungary)
ROAD
Individual road race



1.Bernt Johansson (Sweden)
Team time trial

1.USSR (Aavo Pikkuus)
2.Poland (Ryszard Szurkowski, Stanislaw Szozda)
TRACK
Individual pursuit

1.Gregor Braun (West Germany)
Team pursuit

1.West Germany

Gregor Braun (West Germany)
Sprint

2.Daniel Morelon (France)
MEN
10 m platform


1.Klaus Dibiasi (Italy)

2.Greg Louganis (USA)
WOMEN
3 m springboard

1.Jennifer Chandler (USA)
10 m platform

1.Yelena Vaytsekhovskaya (USSR)
2.Ulrika Knape (Sweden)
Individual dressage


1.Christine Stuckelberger (Switzerland)
2.Harry Boldt (West Germany)
3.Reiner Klimke (West Germany)
Team dressage
1.West Germany (Harry Boldt, Reiner Klimke)
2.Switzerland (Christine Stuckelberger)
Individual eventing

1.Edmund Coffin (USA)
2.Michael Plumb (USA)
Team eventing

1.USA (Edmund Coffin, Michael Plumb, Bruce Davidson, Mary Anne Tauskey)
Individual jumping

1.Alwin Schockemohle (West Germany)

2.Michel Vaillancourt (Canada)
Team jumping

1.France (Hubert Parot, Jean-Marcel Rozier, Marc Roguet, Michel Roche)
2.West Germany (Alwin Schockemohle, Alwin Schockemohle, Hans Gunter Winkler)
MEN
Individual epee
3.Gyozo Kulcsar (Hungary)
Team foil
1.West Germany (Matthias Behr)
Individual sabre

1.Viktor Krovopuskov (USSR)
3.Viktor Sidyak (USSR)
Team sabre

1.USSR (Viktor Krovopuskov, Viktor Sidyak)

3.Romania
WOMEN
Individual foil

1.Ildiko Schwarczenberger (Hungary)
3.Elena Belova (USSR)
Team foil

1.USSR (Elena Belova)
3.Hungary (Ildiko Schwarczenberger)

3.Pakistan


1.East Germany
2.Poland (Jan Tomaszewski, Wojciech Rudy, Wladyslaw Zmuda, Grzegorz Lato, Henryk Wawrowski, Henryk Kasperczak, Kazimierz Deyna, Andrzej Szarmach)
3.USSR (Oleg Blokhin, Vladimir Fyodorov, David Kipiani (reserve))
MEN
Team all-around

1.Japan (Shun Fujimoto,

Sawao Kato,

Mitsuo Tsukahara)
2.USSR (Nikolai Andrianov, Alexander Dityatin)
Individual all-around

1.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
2.Sawao Kato (Japan)
3.Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)

Floor exercise: 1.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
3.Peter Kormann (USA)
Vault: 1.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
2.Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)
Horizontal bar


1.Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)
Parallel bars
1.Sawao Kato (Japan)
2.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
3.Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)
Pommel horse

1.Zoltan Magyar (Hungary)
3-4.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
Rings

1.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
2.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)

3.Danut Grecu (Romania)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Nellie Kim, Olga Korbut, Ludmila Tourischeva)

2.Romania (Nadia Comaneci)
Individual all-around




1.Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
2.Nellie Kim (USSR)
3.Ludmila Tourischeva (USSR)
Balance beam



1.Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
2.Olga Korbut (USSR)
Floor exercise

1.Nellie Kim (USSR)
2.Ludmila Tourischeva (USSR)

3.Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
Uneven bars




1.Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
Vault
1.Nellie Kim (USSR)
2-3.Ludmila Tourischeva (USSR)
Men

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1.USSR (Aleksandr Anpilogov)

2.Romania
63 kg


1.Hector Rodriguez (Cuba)
MEN
Single sculls
1.Pertti Karppinen (Finland)
Double sculls

1.Frank Hansen / Al Hansen (Norway)
3.Jurgen Bertow / Hans-Ulrich Schmied (East Germany)
Quadruple sculls (coxless)
3.Czechoslovakia (Vladek Lacina)
Coxless pairs
1.Bernd Landvoigt / Jorg Landvoigt (East Germany)
Coxless fours

1.East Germany (Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Wolfgang Mager)
Coxed eights

1.East Germany
2.Great Britan (Tim Crooks)
3.New Zealand (Trevor Coker, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Tony Hurt, Simon Dickie)
WOMEN
Double sculls

1.Svetlana Otsetova / Zdravka Yordanova (Bulgaria)
Coxless pairs

1.Siyka Kelbecheva / Stoyanka Gruycheva (Bulgaria)
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2.Antonio Gorostegui / Pedro Millet (Spain)
Flying Dutchman
2.Great Britain (Rodney Pattisson)
Tornado

1.Reginald White / John Osborn (Great Britain)
Tempest
3.Dennis Conner / Conn Findlay (USA)
50 m free pistol

3.Rudolf Dollinger (Austria)
MEN
100 m freestyle

1.Jim Montgomery (USA)
200 m freestyle
2.John Naber (USA)

100 m backstroke: 1.John Naber (USA)
3.Roland Matthes (East Germany)
4 x 200 m freestyle: 1.USA (John Naber)
4 x 100 m medley: 1.USA (John Naber)
200 m backstroke

1.John Naber (USA)
100 m breaststroke
2.David Wilkie (Great Britain)
200 m breaststroke


1.David Wilkie (Great Britain)
WOMEN
100 m freestyle

1.Kornelia Ender (East Germany)
200 m freestyle

1.Kornelia Ender (East Germany)

2.Shirley Babashoff (USA)
400 m freestyle
1.Petra Thumer (East Germany)

2.Shirley Babashoff (USA)
800 m freestyle

1.Petra Thumer (East Germany)

2.Shirley Babashoff (USA)
100 m breaststroke

1.Hannelore Anke (East Germany)
100 m butterfly

1.Kornelia Ender (East Germany)
4 x 100 m freestyle

1.USA (Shirley Babashoff)

2.East Germany (Kornelia Ender)
4 x 100 m medley


1.East Germany (Kornelia Ender)

2.USA (Shirley Babashoff)
Men
Semifinal

USSR - Cuba 3-0
(Vladimir Chernyshov, Vyacheslav Zaytsev - Diego Lapera, Ernesto Martinez)
1.Poland (Hubert Jerzy Wagner (head coach))
2.USSR (Vladimir Chernyshov, Vyacheslav Zaytsev)

3.Cuba (Diego Lapera, Ernesto Martinez)
Women


1.Japan

1.Hungary
52 kg

2.Gyorgy Koszegi (Hungary)
56 kg

1.Norair Nurikyan (Bulgaria)
75 kg

1.Yordan Mitkov (Bulgaria)
82.5 kg
3.Peter Baczako (Hungary)
110+ kg



1.Vasily Alekseyev (USSR)
FREESTYLE
48 kg

1.Hasan Isaev (Bulgaria)
62 kg

2.Zevegdiin Oidov (Mongolia)
90 kg

1.Levan Tediashvili (USSR)

3.Stelica Morcov (Romania)
100+ kg

2.Jozsef Balla (Hungary)

3.Ladislau Simon (Romania)
GRECO-ROMAN

48 kg: 2.Gheorghe Berceanu (Romania)
52 kg: 2.Nicu Ginga (Romania)
68 kg: 2.Stefan Rusu (Romania)
100+ kg: 3.Roman Codreanu (Romania)
82 kg

1.Momir Petkovic (Yugoslavia)


1.USSR (49-41-35)

2.EAST GERMANY (40-25-25)

3.USA (34-35-25)

6.POLAND (7-6-13)
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