INNSBRUCK 1976

The Games of the XII Winter Olympiad. February 4-15, 1976. Innsbruck, Austria.

Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-Country Skiing Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Combined Ski Jumping Speed Skating Medal Count

ALPINE SKIING

MEN

Downhill

1.Franz Klammer (Austria)

2.Bernhard Russi (Switzerland)

Giant slalom

3.Ingemar Stenmark (Sweden)

Slalom

1.Piero Gros (Italy)

2.Gustav Thoni (Italy)

3.Willi Frommelt (Liechtenstein)

WOMEN

Downhill

1.Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany)

2.Brigitte Totschnig (Austria)

Giant slalom

2.Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany)

Slalom

1.Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany)

3.Hanni Wenzel (Liechtenstein)

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BIATHLON

4 x 7.5 km

1.USSR (Aleksandr Tikhonov)

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BOBSLEIGH

Two-man

1.Meinhard Nehmer / Bernhard Germeshausen (East Germany)

2.Wolfgang Zimmerer / Manfred Schumann (West Germany)

3.Erich Scharer / Sepp Benz (Switzerland)

18.Colin Nelson / Jim Lavalley (Canada)

Four-man

1.East Germany (Meinhard Nehmer, Jochen Babock, Bernhard Germeshausen, Bernhard Lehmann)

(NOTE: On both stamps, the inscription says “West Germany”, yet it must be a typo, for the event was won in fact by East Germany).

2.Switzerland (Erich Scharer, Sepp Benz)

3.West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider)

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

MEN

15 km

1.Nikolay Bazhukov (USSR)

2.Yevgeny Belyayev (USSR)

30 km

1.Sergey Savelyev (USSR)

50 km

1.Ivar Formo (Norway)

4 x 10 km

2.Norway (Pal Tyldum)

3.USSR (Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Sergey Savelyev)

WOMEN

5 km

1.Helena Takalo (Finland)

2.Raisa Smetanina (USSR)

3.Nina Baldycheva (USSR)

10 km

1.Raisa Smetanina (USSR)

2.Helena Takalo (Finland)

3.Galina Kulakova (USSR)

4 x 5 km

1.USSR (Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova)

Galina Kulakova (USSR)

2.Finland (Hiikka Riihivuori, Helena Takalo)

3.East Germany (Barbara Petzold, Veronika Hesse)

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FIGURE SKATING

Men

1.John Curry (Great Britain)

Ladies

1.Dorothy Hamill (USA)

2.Dianne de Leeuw (Netherlands)

Pairs

1.Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (USSR)

5.Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner (USA)

Ice dancing

1.Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov (USSR)

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ICE HOCKEY

First Round

West Germany - Switzerland 5:1

 (Alois Schloder (West Germany))

Final Round

USSR - USA 6:2

(Boris Mikhailov - Jim Warden, John Taft)

Finland - West Germany 5:3

 (Matti Rautiainen - Alois Schloder)

USSR - Czechoslovakia 4:3

(Vladimir Shadrin - Jiri Novak)

1.USSR

(Vladislav Tretiak, Sergei Babinov, Yuri Lyapkin, Alexander Maltsev, Boris Mikhailov, Alexander Yakushev, Valeri Kharlamov, Vladimir Shadrin, Viktor Zhluktov)

Alexander Maltsev (USSR)

2.Czechoslovakia (Jiri Holecek, Oldrich Machac, Frantisek Pospisil, Milan Chalupa, Jiri Novak, Ivan Hlinka)

3.West Germany (Udo Kiessling, Alois Schloder)

4.Finland (Matti Rautiainen)

5.USA (Jim Warden, John Taft)

11.Switzerland

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LUGE

Women’s singles

7.Monika Scheftschik (West Germany)

Doubles

1.Hans Rinn / Norbert Hahn (East Germany)

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NORDIC COMBINED

Individual

1.Ulrich Wehling (East Germany)

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SKI JUMPING

Individual normal hill

3.Karl Schnabl (Austria)

Individual large hill

1.Karl Schnabl (Austria)

2.Toni Innauer (Austria)

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SPEED SKATING

MEN

1500 m

1.Jan Egil Storholt (Norway)

5000 m

2.Piet Kleine (Netherlands)

10000 m

1.Piet Kleine (Netherlands)

WOMEN

500 m

1.Sheila Young (USA)

3.Tatyana Averina (USSR)

1000 m

1.Tatyana Averina (USSR)

1500 m

3.Tatyana Averina (USSR)

3000 m

1.Tatyana Averina (USSR)

2.Andrea Mitscherlich (East Germany)

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MEDAL COUNT

1.USSR (13-6-8)

2.EAST GERMANY (7-5-7)

3.USA (3-3-4)

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