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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics



         


At the 1976 Summer Olympics thirty-seven athletics events were contested

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Overall Athletics rankings at the 1976 Olympics

Nation Final Placing Total
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
East Germany 11 7 9 8 6 3 4 1 49
United States 6 8 8 5 6 6 3 4 46
Soviet Union 4 4 10 3 4 4 6 3 38
West Germany 1 4 4 2 4 1 2 2 20
United Kingdom 0 0 1 1 3 1 6 3 15
Poland 3 2 0 2 3 1 1 1 13
Finland 2 2 0 2 1 2 2 1 12
Italy 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 4 10
Bulgaria 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 9
Cuba 2 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 8
Romania 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 8
Canada 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 7
France 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 6
Sweden 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 6
Belgium 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 6
Australia 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 6
Jamaica 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 5
New Zealand 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 4
Hungary 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
Trinidad and Tobago 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Portugal 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 3
Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 3
Brazil 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3
Mexico 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Yugoslavia 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Spain 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2
Republic of Ireland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Panama 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Israel 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
India 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Norway 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Denmark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
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Medal Winners

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Men's 100 m

Pos Athlete
1 Hasely Crawford, Trinidad and Tobago
2 Don Quarrie, Jamaica
3 Valery Borzov, Soviet Union
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Men's 200 m

Pos Athlete
1 Don Quarrie, Jamaica
2 Millard Hampton, United States
3 Dwayne Evans, United States
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Men's 400 m

Pos Athlete
1 Alberto Juantorena, Cuba
2 Frederick Newhouse, United States
3 Herman Frazier, United States
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Men's 800 m

Pos Athlete
1 Alberto Juantorena, Cuba
2 Ivo van Damme, Belgium
3 Richard Wohluter, United States
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Men's 1500 m

Pos Athlete
1 John Walker, New Zealand
2 Ivo van Damme, Belgium
3 Paul-Heinz Wellmann, West Germany
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Men's 5000 m

Pos Athlete
1 Lasse Viren, Finland
2 Dick Quax, New Zealand
3 Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand, West Germany
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Men's 10000 m

Pos Athlete
1 Lasse Viren, Finland
2 Carlos Lopes, Portugal
3 Brendan Foster, United Kingdom
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Men's Marathon

Pos Athlete
1 Waldemar Cierpinski, East Germany
2 Frank Shorter, United States
3 Karel Lismont, Belgium
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Men's 110 m Hurdles

Pos Athlete
1 Guy Drut, France
2 Alejandro Casañas Ramirez, Cuba
3 Willie Davenport, United States
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Men's 400 m Hurdles

Pos Athlete
1 Edwin Moses, United States
2 Michael Shine, United States
3 Yevgeny Gavrilenko, Soviet Union
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Men's 3000 m Steeplechase

Pos Athlete
1 Anders Gärderud, Sweden
2 Bronislaw Malinowski, Poland
3 Frank Baumgartl, East Germany
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Men's 4x100 m Relay

Pos Athletes
1 Harvey Glance, John Wesley Jones, Millard Hampton, and Steven Riddick, United States
2 Manfred Kokot, Jörg Pfeifer, Klaus-Dieter Kurrat, and Alexander Thieme, East Germany
3 Alexander Aksinin, Nikolai Kolesnikov, Juris Silovs, and Valery Borzov, Soviet Union
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Men's 4x400 m Relay

Pos Athletes
1 Herman Frazier, Benjamin Brown, Frederick Newhouse, and Maxie Parks, United States
2 Ryszard Podlas, Jan Wener, Zbigniew Jaremski, and Jerzy Pietrzyk, Poland
3 Franz-Peter Hofmeister, Lothar Krieg, Harald Schmid, and Bernd Herrmann, West Germany
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Men's 20000 m Walk

Pos Athlete
1 Daniel Bautista Rocha, Mexico
2 Hans-Georg Reimann, East Germany
3 Peter Frenkel, East Germany
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Men's High Jump

Pos Athlete
1 Jacek Wszola, Poland
2 Gregory Joy, Canada
3 Dwight Stones, United States
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Men's Pole Vault

Pos Athlete
1 Tadeusz Ślusarski, Poland
2 Antti Kalliomäki, Finland
3 David Roberts, United States
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Men's Long Jump

Pos Athlete
1 Clarence "Arnie" Robinson, United States
2 Randy Williams, United States
3 Frank Wartenberg, East Germany
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Men's Triple Jump

Pos Athlete
1 Viktor Saneyev, Soviet Union
2 James Butts, United States
3 João Carlos de Oliveira, Brazil
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Men's Shot Put

Pos Athlete
1 Udo Beyer, East Germany
2 Yevgeny Mironov, Soviet Union
3 Aleksandr Baryshnikov, Soviet Union
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Men's Discus Throw

Pos Athlete
1 Maurice "Mac" Wilkins, United States
2 Wolfgang Schmidt, East Germany
3 John Powell, United States
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Men's Hammer Throw

Pos Athlete
1 Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet Union
2 Aleksei Spiridonov, Soviet Union
3 Anatoly Bondarchuk, Soviet Union
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Men's Javelin Throw

Pos Athlete
1 Miklos Németh, Hungary
2 Hannu Siitonen, Finland
3 Gheorghe Megelea, Romania
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Men's Decathalon

Pos Athlete
1 Bruce Jenner, United States
2 Guido Kratschmer, West Germany
3 Mykola Avilov, Soviet Union
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Women's 100 m

Pos Athlete
1 Annegret Richter, West Germany
2 Renate Stecher, East Germany
3 Inge Helten, West Germany
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Women's 200 m

Pos Athlete
1 Bärbel Eckert, East Germany
2 Annwgret Richter, West Germany
3 Renate Stecher, East Germany
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Women's 400 m

Pos Athlete
1 Irena Szewińska, Poland
2 Christina Brehmer, East Germany
3 Ellen Streidt, East Germany
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Women's 800 m

Pos Athlete
1 Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet Union
2 Nikolina Shtereva, Bulgaria
3 Elfi Zinn, East Germany
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Women's 1500 m

Pos Athlete
1 Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet Union
2 Gunhild Hoffmeister, East Germany
3 Ulrike Klapezynski, East Germany
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Women's 100 m Hurdles

Pos Athlete
1 Johanna Schaller, East Germany
2 Tatiana Anisimova, Soviet Union
3 Natalya Lebedeva, Soviet Union
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Women's 4x100 m Relay

Pos Athletes
1 Marlies Oelsner, Renate Stecher, Carla Bodendorf, and Bärbel Eckert, East Germany
2 Elvira Possekel, Inge Helten, Annegret Richter, and Annegret Kroniger, West Germany
3 Tetyana Prorochenko, Lyudmila Maslakova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, and Vera Anisimova, Soviet Union
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Women's 4x400 m Relay

Pos Athletes
1 Doris Maletzki, Brigitte Rohde, Ellen Streidt, and Christina Brehmer, East Germany
2 Debra Sapenter, Sheila Ingram, Pamela Jiles, and Rosalyn Bryant, United States
3 Inta Klimoviča, Lyudmyla Aksenova, Natalya Sokolova, and Nadezhda Ilyina, Soviet Union
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Women's High Jump

Pos Athlete
1 Rosemarie Ackermann, East Germany
2 Sara Simeoni, Italy
3 Yordanka Blagoyeva, Bulgaria
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Women's Long Jump

Pos Athlete
1 Angela Voigt, East Germany
2 Kathy McMillan, United States
3 Lidiya Alfeyeva, Soviet Union
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Women's Shot Put

Pos Athlete
1 Ivanka Hristova, Bulgaria
2 Nadezhda Chizhova, Soviet Union
3 Helena Fibingerová, Czechoslovakia
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Women's Discus Throw

Pos Athlete
1 Evelin Schlaak, East Germany
2 Maria Vergova, Bulgaria
3 Gabriele Hinzmann, East Germany
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Women's Javelin Throw

Pos Athlete
1 Ruth Fuchs, East Germany
2 Marion Becker, West Germany
3 Kathryn Schmidt, United States
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Women's Pentathlon

Pos Athlete
1 Siegrun Siegl, East Germany
2 Christine Laser, East Germany
3 Burglinde Pollak, East Germany


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