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Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's team event. Sitting volleyball was also included as a demonstration event. [1]
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| Paralympic standing and sitting volleyball | ||||||||||
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Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's team event. Sitting volleyball was also included as a demonstration event. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men's standing |  Israel (ISR) [2] Nitzan Atzmon Moshe Barbalat Aharon Danziger Roni Fradkin Daniel Giladi Eliezer Kalina Gad Lanzer Yigal Pazi Hagai Zamir |  Great Britain (GBR)Peter Pienerosa Steve Paget Ron Miller Chris Ireland B. Speedy Len Softley T. Puckering James Anderson T. Burdett Monica Vaughan |  Finland (FIN) |
| Men's sitting |  Netherlands (NED) |  West Germany (FRG) | Finland (FIN) |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Israel (ISR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
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