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At the 1976 Summer Olympics two basketball events were contested
| Nation | Final Placing | Total | |||||||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | ||
| United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Canada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cuba | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pos | Team: Athletes |
| 1 | United States: Phil Ford, Steve Sheppard,
Adrian Dantley, Walter Davis, William "Quinn"
Buckner, Ernie Grunfeld, Kenneth Carr, Scott May, Michel Armstrong, Thomas La Garde, Philip Hubbard, Michell Kupchak |
| 2 | Yugoslavia: Blagoje Georgievski, Dragan Kicanovič,
Vinko Jelovac, Rajko Žižić, Željko Jerkov, Andro Knego,
Zoran Slavnić, Krešimir Ćosić, Damir Solman, žarko Varajić, Dražen Dalipagić, Mirza Delibašić |
| 3 | Soviet Union: Vladimir Arzamaskov, Aleksandr Salnikov, Valery Miloserdov, Alshan Sharmukhamedov, Andrei Makeev, Ivan Edeshko, Sergei Belov, Vladimir Tkachenko,
Anatoly Myshkin, Mikhail Korkiya, Aleksandr Belov, Soviet Union: Angelė Rup?ienė, Tatyana Zakharova, Raisa Kurvyakova, Olga Barisheva, Tatyana Ovechikina, Nadezhda Shuvayena, Uljana Semjonova, Nadezhda Kakharova,
Nelly Feriabnikova, Olga Sukharnova, Tamara Dauinene, Natalya Kilmova |
| 2 | United States: Cindy Brogdon, Susan Rojcewicz,
Ann Meyers, Lusia Harris, Nancy Dunkle, Charlotte Lewis,
Nancy Lieberman, Gail Marquis, Patricia Roberts, Mary Anne O'Connor, Patricia Head, Julienne Simpson |
| 3 | Bulgaria: Nadka Golcheva, Penka Metodieva, Petkana Makaveyeva, Snezhana Mihailova, Krassima Gyurova, Krassimira Bogdanova, Todorka Yordanova, Diana Dilova, Margarita Shturkelova, Mania Stoyanova, Girgina Skerlatova, Penka Stoyanova |