West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics Last updated November 04, 2025 Medalists West Germany finished in fourth position in the final medal rankings, with 10 gold medals and 39 medals overall.
Gold Annegret Richter — Athletics, Women's 100 metres Gregor Braun — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Individual Pursuit Gregor Braun , Hans Lutz , Günther Schumacher , and Peter Vonhof — Cycling, Men's 4000 m Team Pursuit Alwin Schockemöhle — Equestrian, Jumping Individual Harry Boldt , Gabriela Grillo , and Reiner Klimke — Equestrian, Dressage Team Thomas Bach , Matthias Behr , Harald Hein , Klaus Reichert , and Erik Sens-Gorius — Fencing, Foil Team Alexander Pusch — Fencing, Épée Individual Karl-Heinz Smieszek — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle prone Eckart Diesch and Jörg Diesch — Sailing, Men's Flying Dutchman Harro Bode and Frank Hübner — Sailing, Men's 470 Silver Guido Kratschmer — Athletics, Men's Decathlon Annegret Richter — Athletics, Women's 200 metres Inge Helten , Annegret Kroniger , Elvira Poßekel , and Annegret Richter — Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m Relay Marion Becker — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw Otto Ammermann , Herbert Blöcker , Helmut Rethemeier , and Karl Schultz — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Alwin Schockemöhle , Paul Schockemöhle , Sönke Sönksen , and Hans-Günter Winkler — Equestrian, Jumping Team Harry Boldt — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Jürgen Hehn — Fencing, Épée Individual Reinhold Behr , Volker Fischer , Jürgen Hehn , Hannes Jana , and Alexander Pusch — Fencing, Épée Team Günther Neureuther — Judo, Men's Heavyweight Peter-Michael Kolbe — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls Ulrich Lind — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle prone Bronze Paul-Heinz Wellmann — Athletics, Men's 1500 metres Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand — Athletics, Men's 5000 metres Bernd Herrmann , Franz-Peter Hofmeister , Lothar Krieg , and Harald Schmid — Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m Relay Inge Helten — Athletics, Women's 100 metres Reinhard Skricek — Boxing, Men's Welterweight Karl Schultz — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual Reiner Klimke — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Eberhard Gienger — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar Thomas Strauß and Peter van Roye — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs Hans-Johann Färber , Siegfried Fricke , Ralph Kubail , Peter Niehusen , and Hartmut Wenzel — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours Edith Eckbauer-Baumann and Thea Einöder-Straube — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs Werner Seibold — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle Three Positions Peter Nocke — Swimming, Men's 100 m Freestyle Michael Kraus , Walter Kusch , Peter Nocke , and Klaus Steinbach — Swimming, Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay Karl-Heinz Helbing — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight Adolf Seger — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight Jörg Schmall and Jörg Spengler — Sailing, Men's Tornado Archery In their second Olympics competing in archery, West Germany captured seventh place on the national leaderboard with a 6th place in the men's competition and an 8th place in the women's. In addition to those two competitors, West Germany also sent one other competitor in the men's division.
Women's Individual Competition:
Men's Individual Competition:
Athletics Men's 800 metres
Heat — 1:48.47 Semi Final — 1:47.18 Final — 1:45.26 (→ 4th place) Heat — 1:46.56 Semi Final — 1:48.18 (→ did not advance) Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
Heat — 39.63 Semi Final — 39.58 (→ did not advance) Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
Heat — 3:03.24 Final — 3:01.98 (→ Bronze Medal ) Men's 400 m Hurdles
Heats — 50.57 s Semi Finals — DSQ (→ did not advance) Men's Marathon
Men's Long Jump
Qualification — 7.81 m (→ did not advance) Final — 7.84 m (→ 8th place) Qualification — 7.70 m (→ did not advance) Men's High Jump
Qualification — 2.13 m (→ did not advance) Qualification — 2.05 m (→ did not advance) Men's Discus Throw
Qualification — 61.88 m Final — 60.46 m (→ 12th place) Men's 20 km Race Walk
Women's Shot Put
Final — 19.29 m (→ 7th place) Boxing Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
Hockey Men's team competition Preliminary round (group B) Tied with New Zealand (1-1) Lost to Pakistan (2-4) Lost to Spain (1-4) Defeated Belgium (6-1) 5th/8th place : Defeated India (3-2)5th/6th place : Defeated Spain (9-1) → Fifth place Modern pentathlon Three male pentathletes represented West Germany in 1976.
Individual Team Walter Esser Gerhard Werner Wolfgang Köpcke Water polo Men's team competition References
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