Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Stamp commemorating the tournament

Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada consisted of 11 events, all in canoe sprint, held at the rowing basin on Notre Dame Island. The canoe slalom events introduced at the previous Games in Munich were not included in the Montreal program though four 500 m events for men were (C-1, C-2, K-1, and K-2).

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres details	Aleksandr Rogov   Soviet Union	John Wood   Canada	Matija Ljubek   Yugoslavia
C-1 1000 metres details	Matija Ljubek   Yugoslavia	Vasyl Yurchenko   Soviet Union	Tamás Wichmann   Hungary
C-2 500 meters details	Serhei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov   Soviet Union	Jerzy Opara and Andrzej Gronowicz   Poland	Tamás Buday and Oszkár Frey   Hungary
C-2 1000 metres details	Serhei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov   Soviet Union	Gheorge Danielov and Gheorghe Simionov   Romania	Tamás Buday and Oszkár Frey   Hungary
K-1 500 metres details	Vasile Dîba   Romania	Zoltán Sztanity   Hungary	Rüdiger Helm   East Germany
K-1 1000 metres details	Rüdiger Helm   East Germany	Géza Csapó   Hungary	Vasile Dîba   Romania
K-2 500 metres details	Joachim Mattern and Bernd Olbricht   East Germany	Serhei Nahorny and Vladimir Romanovsky   Soviet Union	Larion Serghei and Policarp Malîhin   Romania
K-2 1000 metres details	Vladimir Romanovsky and Serhei Nahorny   Soviet Union	Joachim Mattern and Bernd Olbricht   East Germany	Zoltán Bakó and István Szabó   Hungary
K-4 1000 metres details	Soviet Union  (URS) Sergei Chukhray Aleksandr Degtyarev Yuri Filatov Vladimir Morozov	Spain  (ESP) José María Esteban José Ramón López Herminio Menéndez Luis Gregorio Ramos	East Germany  (GDR) Frank-Peter Bischof Bernd Duvigneau Rüdiger Helm Jürgen Lehnert

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Carola Zirzow   East Germany	Tatiana Korshunova   Soviet Union	Klára Rajnai   Hungary
K-2 500 metres details	Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft   Soviet Union	Anna Pfeffer and Klára Rajnai   Hungary	Bärbel Köster and Carola Zirzow   East Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	6	3	0	9
2	East Germany  (GDR)	3	1	3	7
3	Romania  (ROU)	1	1	2	4
4	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary  (HUN)	0	3	5	8
6	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		11	11	11	33

References

• 1976 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 167–85. (in English and French)