Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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

Contents

1 Overall Athletics rankings at the 1976 Olympics 2 Medal Winners 2.1 Men's 100 m 2.2 Men's 200 m 2.3 Men's 400 m 2.4 Men's 800 m 2.5 Men's 1500 m 2.6 Men's 5000 m 2.7 Men's 10000 m 2.8 Men's Marathon 2.9 Men's 110 m Hurdles 2.10 Men's 400 m Hurdles 2.11 Men's 3000 m Steeplechase 2.12 Men's 4x100 m Relay 2.13 Men's 4x400 m Relay 2.14 Men's 20000 m Walk 2.15 Men's High Jump 2.16 Men's Pole Vault 2.17 Men's Long Jump 2.18 Men's Triple Jump 2.19 Men's Shot Put 2.20 Men's Discus Throw 2.21 Men's Hammer Throw 2.22 Men's Javelin Throw 2.23 Men's Decathalon 2.24 Women's 100 m 2.25 Women's 200 m 2.26 Women's 400 m 2.27 Women's 800 m 2.28 Women's 1500 m 2.29 Women's 100 m Hurdles 2.30 Women's 4x100 m Relay 2.31 Women's 4x400 m Relay 2.32 Women's High Jump 2.33 Women's Long Jump 2.34 Women's Shot Put 2.35 Women's Discus Throw 2.36 Women's Javelin Throw 2.37 Women's Pentathlon

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

Medal Winners

Men's 100 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Hasely Crawford, Trinidad and Tobago
2	Don Quarrie, Jamaica
3	Valery Borzov, Soviet Union

Men's 200 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Don Quarrie, Jamaica
2	Millard Hampton, United States
3	Dwayne Evans , United States

Men's 400 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Alberto Juantorena, Cuba
2	Frederick Newhouse , United States
3	Herman Frazier, United States

Men's 800 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Alberto Juantorena, Cuba
2	Ivo van Damme, Belgium
3	Richard Wohluter , United States

Men's 1500 m

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

Men's 5000 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Lasse Viren, Finland
2	Dick Quax, New Zealand
3	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand , West Germany

Men's 10000 m

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

Men's Marathon

Pos	Athlete
1	Waldemar Cierpinski, East Germany
2	Frank Shorter, United States
3	Karel Lismont , Belgium

Men's 110 m Hurdles

Pos	Athlete
1	Guy Drut, France
2	Alejandro Casañas Ramirez , Cuba
3	Willie Davenport, United States

Men's 400 m Hurdles

Pos	Athlete
1	Edwin Moses, United States
2	Michael Shine, United States
3	Yevgeny Gavrilenko , Soviet Union

Men's 3000 m Steeplechase

Pos	Athlete
1	Anders Gärderud, Sweden
2	Bronislaw Malinowski, Poland
3	Frank Baumgartl , East Germany

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

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

Men's 20000 m Walk

Pos	Athlete
1	Daniel Bautista Rocha , Mexico
2	Hans-Georg Reimann , East Germany
3	Peter Frenkel , East Germany

Men's High Jump

Pos	Athlete
1	Jacek Wszola , Poland
2	Gregory Joy , Canada
3	Dwight Stones , United States

Men's Pole Vault

Pos	Athlete
1	Tadeusz Ślusarski , Poland
2	Antti Kalliomäki , Finland
3	David Roberts , United States

Men's Long Jump

Pos	Athlete
1	Clarence "Arnie" Robinson , United States
2	Randy Williams , United States
3	Frank Wartenberg , East Germany

Men's Triple Jump

Pos	Athlete
1	Viktor Saneyev , Soviet Union
2	James Butts , United States
3	João Carlos de Oliveira , Brazil

Men's Shot Put

Pos	Athlete
1	Udo Beyer , East Germany
2	Yevgeny Mironov , Soviet Union
3	Aleksandr Baryshnikov , Soviet Union

Men's Discus Throw

Pos	Athlete
1	Maurice "Mac" Wilkins , United States
2	Wolfgang Schmidt , East Germany
3	John Powell , United States

Men's Hammer Throw

Pos	Athlete
1	Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet Union
2	Aleksei Spiridonov , Soviet Union
3	Anatoly Bondarchuk , Soviet Union

Men's Javelin Throw

Pos	Athlete
1	Miklos Németh , Hungary
2	Hannu Siitonen , Finland
3	Gheorghe Megelea , Romania

Men's Decathalon

Pos	Athlete
1	Bruce Jenner, United States
2	Guido Kratschmer , West Germany
3	Mykola Avilov , Soviet Union

Women's 100 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Annegret Richter, West Germany
2	Renate Stecher, East Germany
3	Inge Helten , West Germany

Women's 200 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Bärbel Eckert , East Germany
2	Annwgret Richter , West Germany
3	Renate Stecher, East Germany

Women's 400 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Irena Szewińska , Poland
2	Christina Brehmer , East Germany
3	Ellen Streidt , East Germany

Women's 800 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Tatyana Kazankina , Soviet Union
2	Nikolina Shtereva , Bulgaria
3	Elfi Zinn , East Germany

Women's 1500 m

Pos	Athlete
1	Tatyana Kazankina , Soviet Union
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister , East Germany
3	Ulrike Klapezynski , East Germany

Women's 100 m Hurdles

Pos	Athlete
1	Johanna Schaller , East Germany
2	Tatiana Anisimova , Soviet Union
3	Natalya Lebedeva , Soviet Union

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

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

Women's High Jump

Pos	Athlete
1	Rosemarie Ackermann, East Germany
2	Sara Simeoni , Italy
3	Yordanka Blagoyeva , Bulgaria

Women's Long Jump

Pos	Athlete
1	Angela Voigt , East Germany
2	Kathy McMillan , United States
3	Lidiya Alfeyeva , Soviet Union

Women's Shot Put

Pos	Athlete
1	Ivanka Hristova , Bulgaria
2	Nadezhda Chizhova , Soviet Union
3	Helena Fibingerová , Czechoslovakia

Women's Discus Throw

Pos	Athlete
1	Evelin Schlaak , East Germany
2	Maria Vergova , Bulgaria
3	Gabriele Hinzmann , East Germany

Women's Javelin Throw

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

Women's Pentathlon

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