Athletics 1976

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics was held from 23 to 31 July 1976 at the Montreal Olympic Stadium.

The men's 50 kilometres walk was dropped from the Olympic athletics program, despite its constant presence at the games since Los Angeles 1932.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	11	7	9	27
2	United States	6	8	8	22
3	Soviet Union	4	4	10	18
4	Poland	3	2	0	5
5	Finland	2	2	0	4
6	Cuba	2	1	0	3
7	West Germany	1	4	4	9
8	Bulgaria	1	2	1	4
9	Jamaica	1	1	0	2
	New Zealand	1	1	0	2
11	France	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	0	1
16	Belgium	0	2	1	3
17	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
20	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Event
100 m	Hasely Crawford	Donald Quarrie	Valeriy Borzov
200 m	Donald Quarrie	Millard Hampton	Dwayne Evans
400 m	Alberto Juantorena	Fred Newhouse	Herman Frazier
800 m	Alberto Juantorena	Ivo Vandamme	Richard Wohlhuter
1500 m	John Walker	Ivo Vandamme	Paul-Heinz Wellmann
5000 m	Lasse Viren	Dick Quax	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand
10000 m	Lasse Viren	Carlos Sousa Lopes	Brendan Foster
Marathon	Waldemar Cierpinski	Frank Shorter	Karel Lismont
110 m hurdles	Guy Drut	Alejandro Casanas	Willie Davenport
400 m hurdles	Edwin Moses	Michael Shine	Evgeniy Gavrilenko
3000 m steeplechase	Anders Garderud	Bronislaw Malinowski	Frank Baumgarti
4x100 m	United States Harvey Glance Millard Hampton John Jones Steven Riddick	East Germany Manfred Kokot Dieter Kurrat Jorg Pfeifer Alexander Thieme	Soviet Union Alexander Aksinin Valeriy Borzov Nikolai Kolesnikov Yuriy Silov
4x400 m	United States Benjamin Brown Herman Frazier Fred Newhouse Maxie Parks	Poland Zbigniew Jaremski Jerzy Pietrzyk Ryszard Podlas Jan Werner	West Germany Bernd Herrmann Franz-Peter Hofmeister Lothar Krieg Harald Schmid
20 km walk	Daniel Bautista	Hans-Georg Reimann	Peter Frenkel
High jump	Jacek Wszola	Greg Joy	Dwight Stones
Pole vault	Tadeusz Slusarski	Antti Kalliomaki	David Roberts
Long jump	Arnie Robinson	Randy Williams	Frank Wartenberg
Triple jump	Viktor Saneev	James Butts	Joao Carlos de Oliveira
Shot put	Udo Beyer	Evgeni Mironov	Alexander Barisnikov
Discus throw	Mac Wilkins	Wolfgang Schmidt	John Powell
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedyh	Alexey Spiridonov	Anatoliy Bondarchuk
Javelin throw	Miklos Nemeth	Hannu Siltonen	Gheorghe Megelea
Decathlon	Bruce Jenner	Guido Kratschmer	Nikolay Avilov

Women

Event
100 m	Annegret Richter	Renate Stecher	Inge Helten
200 m	Baerbel Eckert	Annegret Richter	Renate Stecher
400 m	Irena Szewinska	Christina Brehmer	Ellen Streidt
800 m	Tatiana Kazankina	Nikolina Chtereva	Elfi Zinn
1500 m	Tatiana Kazankina	Gunhild Hoffmeister	Ulrike Klapezynski
100 m hurdles	Johanna Schaller	Tatiana Anisimova	Natalia Lebedeva
4x100 m	East Germany Carla Bodendorf Baerbel Eckert Marlis Oelsner Renate Stecher	West Germany Inge Helten Annegret Kroniger Elvira Possekel Annegret Richter	Soviet Union Vera Anisimova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Liudmila Maslakova Tatyana Prorochenko
4x400 m	East Germany Christina Brehmer Doris Maletzki Brigitte Rohde Ellen Streidt	United States Rosalyn Bryant Sheila Ingram Pam Jiles Debra Sapenter	Soviet Union Lyudmila Aksenova Nadezhda Ilyina Inta Klimovocha Natalia Sokolova
High jump	Rosemarie Ackermann	Sara Simeoni	Yordanka Blagoeva
Long jump	Angela Voigt	Kathy McMillan	Lidiya Alfeeva
Shot put	Ivanka Christova	Nadejda Chijova	Helena Fibingerova
Discus throw	Evelin Schlaak	Maria Vergova	Gabriele Hinzmann
Javelin throw	Ruth Fuchs	Marion Becker	Kathryn Schmidt
Pentathlon	Siegrun Siegl	Christine Laser	Burglinde Pollak

Trivia

• There were 1005 total athletes from 80 countries.
• Celestine N'Drin was the youngest participant with 13 years and 3 days.
• Alex Oakley was the oldest participant with 50 years and 88 days.
• East Germany won 27 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Soviet Union won 18 medals, more than in any other sport.
• West Germany won 9 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Finland won 4 medals, more than in any other sport.
• New Zealand won 2 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Jamaica won its only 2 medals of Montreal 1976
• Trinidad and Tobago won its first-ever Olympic gold medal and its only medal of Montreal 1976.
• Cuba won its first-ever 2 gold medals in the sport.
• Bulgaria and Mexico won their first-ever gold medal in the sport.
• Sweden won its first gold medal in the sport since Helsinki 1952.
• New Zealand won its first gold medal in the sport since Tokyo 1964.

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