Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Host stadium (shown in 2012)
No. of events	37
Competitors	1,005 from 80 nations
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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 37 events were contested in athletics. There were a total number of 1005 participating athletes from 80 countries.

The men's 50 kilometres walk competition was dropped from the Olympic athletics programme, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event instead, a month and a half after the Olympics. This foreshadowed the creation of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in the following years. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Hasely Crawford   Trinidad and Tobago	10.06	Don Quarrie   Jamaica	10.08	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	10.14
200 metres details	Don Quarrie   Jamaica	20.23	Millard Hampton   United States	20.29	Dwayne Evans   United States	20.43
400 metres details	Alberto Juantorena   Cuba	44.26	Fred Newhouse   United States	44.40	Herman Frazier   United States	44.95
800 metres details	Alberto Juantorena   Cuba	1:43.50 WR	Ivo Van Damme   Belgium	1:43.86	Rick Wohlhuter   United States	1:44.12
1500 metres details	John Walker   New Zealand	3:39.17	Ivo Van Damme   Belgium	3:39.27	Paul-Heinz Wellmann   West Germany	3:39.33
5000 metres details	Lasse Virén   Finland	13:24.76	Dick Quax   New Zealand	13:25.16	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand   West Germany	13:25.38
10,000 metres details	Lasse Virén   Finland	27:40.38	Carlos Lopes   Portugal	27:45:17	Brendan Foster   Great Britain	27:54.92
110 metres hurdles details	Guy Drut   France	13.30	Alejandro Casañas   Cuba	13.33	Willie Davenport   United States	13.38
400 metres hurdles details	Edwin Moses   United States	47.64 WR	Michael Shine   United States	48.69	Yevgeniy Gavrilenko   Soviet Union	49.45
3000 metres steeplechase details	Anders Gärderud   Sweden	8:08.02 WR	Bronisław Malinowski   Poland	8:09.11	Frank Baumgartl   East Germany	8:10.36
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Harvey Glance Johnny Jones Millard Hampton Steve Riddick	38.33	East Germany  (GDR) Manfred Kokot Jörg Pfeifer Klaus-Dieter Kurrat Alexander Thieme	38.66	Soviet Union  (URS) Aleksandr Aksinin Nikolay Kolesnikov Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	38.78
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Herman Frazier Benny Brown Fred Newhouse Maxie Parks	2:58.65	Poland  (POL) Ryszard Podlas Jan Werner Zbigniew Jaremski Jerzy Pietrzyk	3:01.43	West Germany  (FRG) Franz-Peter Hofmeister Lothar Krieg Harald Schmid Bernd Herrmann	3:01.98
Marathon details	Waldemar Cierpinski   East Germany	2:09:55.0 OR	Frank Shorter   United States	2:10:45.8	Karel Lismont   Belgium	2:11:12.6
20 kilometres walk details	Daniel Bautista   Mexico	1:24:40.6 OR	Hans-Georg Reimann   East Germany	1:25:13.6	Peter Frenkel   East Germany	1:25:29.4
High jump details	Jacek Wszoła   Poland	2.25 m WR	Greg Joy   Canada	2.23 m	Dwight Stones   United States	2.21 m
Pole vault details	Tadeusz Ślusarski   Poland	5.50 m	Antti Kalliomäki   Finland	5.50 m	David Roberts   United States	5.50 m
Long jump details	Arnie Robinson   United States	8.35 m	Randy Williams   United States	8.11 m	Frank Wartenberg   East Germany	8.02 m
Triple jump details	Viktor Saneyev   Soviet Union	17.29 m	James Butts   United States	17.18 m	João Carlos de Oliveira   Brazil	16.90 m
Shot put details	Udo Beyer   East Germany	21.05 m	Yevgeny Mironov   Soviet Union	21.03 m	Aleksandr Baryshnikov   Soviet Union	21.00 m
Discus throw details	Mac Wilkins   United States	67.50 m	Wolfgang Schmidt   East Germany	66.22 m	John Powell   United States	65.70 m
Hammer throw details	Yuriy Sedykh   Soviet Union	77.52 m OR	Aleksey Spiridonov   Soviet Union	76.08 m	Anatoliy Bondarchuk   Soviet Union	75.48 m
Javelin throw details	Miklós Németh   Hungary	94.58 WR	Hannu Siitonen   Finland	87.92	Gheorghe Megelea   Romania	87.16 m
Decathlon details	Bruce Jenner [a]   United States	8618 WR	Guido Kratschmer   West Germany	8411	Mykola Avilov   Soviet Union	8369

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Annegret Richter   West Germany	11.08	Renate Stecher   East Germany	11.13	Inge Helten   West Germany	11.17
200 metres details	Bärbel Eckert   East Germany	22.37 OR	Annegret Richter   West Germany	22.39	Renate Stecher   East Germany	22.47
400 metres details	Irena Szewińska   Poland	49.28 WR	Christina Brehmer   East Germany	50.51	Ellen Streidt   East Germany	50.55
800 metres details	Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union	1:54.94 WR	Nikolina Shtereva   Bulgaria	1:55.42	Elfi Zinn   East Germany	1:55.60
1500 metres details	Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union	4:05.48	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	4:06.02	Ulrike Klapezynski   East Germany	4:06.09
100 metres hurdles details	Johanna Schaller   East Germany	12.77	Tatyana Anisimova   Soviet Union	12.78	Natalya Lebedeva   Soviet Union	12.80
4 × 100 metres relay details	East Germany  (GDR) Marlies Oelsner Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Bärbel Eckert	42.55 OR	West Germany  (FRG) Elvira Possekel Inge Helten Annegret Richter Annegret Kroniger	42.59	Soviet Union  (URS) Tatyana Prorochenko Lyudmila Maslakova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Vera Anisimova	43.09
4 × 400 metres relay details	East Germany  (GDR) Doris Maletzki Brigitte Rohde Ellen Streidt Christina Brehmer	3:19.23 WR	United States  (USA) Debra Sapenter Sheila Ingram Pamela Jiles Rosalyn Bryant	3:22.81	Soviet Union  (URS) Inta Kļimoviča Lyudmila Aksyonova Natalya Sokolova Nadezhda Ilyina	3:24.24
High jump details	Rosemarie Ackermann   East Germany	1.93 m OR	Sara Simeoni   Italy	1.91 m	Yordanka Blagoeva   Bulgaria	1.91 m
Long jump details	Angela Voigt   East Germany	6.72 m	Kathy McMillan   United States	6.66 m	Lidiya Alfeyeva   Soviet Union	6.60 m
Shot put details	Ivanka Khristova   Bulgaria	21.16 m OR	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	20.96 m	Helena Fibingerová   Czechoslovakia	20.67 m
Discus throw details	Evelin Schlaak   East Germany	69.00 m OR	Mariya Vergova   Bulgaria	67.30 m	Gabriele Hinzmann   East Germany	66.84 m
Javelin throw details	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	65.94 m OR	Marion Becker   West Germany	64.70 m	Kate Schmidt   United States	63.96 m
Pentathlon details	Siegrun Siegl   East Germany	4745	Christine Laser   East Germany	4745	Burglinde Pollak   East Germany	4740

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany  (GDR)	11	7	9	27
2	United States  (USA)	6	8	8	22
3	Soviet Union  (URS)	4	4	10	18
4	Poland  (POL)	3	2	0	5
5	Finland  (FIN)	2	2	0	4
6	Cuba  (CUB)	2	1	0	3
7	West Germany  (FRG)	1	4	4	9
8	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	2	1	4
9	Jamaica  (JAM)	1	1	0	2
	New Zealand  (NZL)	1	1	0	2
11	France  (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico  (MEX)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago  (TRI)	1	0	0	1
16	Belgium  (BEL)	0	2	1	3
17	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy  (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal  (POR)	0	1	0	1
20	Brazil  (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		37	37	37	111

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Notes

1. Jenner underwent gender transition in 2015. ^[3]

References

1. Matthews, Peter (2012). Historical Dictionary of Track and Field (pg. 217). Scarecrow Press (eBook). Retrieved on 2013-09-08.
2. IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013 (pg. 179). IAAF/AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09.
3. Bissinger, Buzz (June 1, 2015). "Introducing Caitlyn Jenner". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
4. Image of 1976 summer olympics in montreal ^{[ permanent dead link ]}. Retrieved on 2021-01-08.

External links

• Athletics at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games ^{[ usurped ]}. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2012-06-04.
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia ^{[ usurped ]}