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Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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{{infobox country at games

| NOC = URS

| NOCname = Soviet Olympic Committee

| games = Summer Olympics

| year = 1976

| flagcaption = Flag of the Soviet Union

| oldcode =

| website =

| location = Montreal, Canada

| start_date = {{start_date|1976|7|17|df=y}}

| end_date = {{end_date|1976|8|1|df=y}}

| competitors = 410 (285 men and 125 women)

| sports = 22

| flagbearer = Vasily Alekseyev

| rank = 1

| gold = 49

| silver = 41

| bronze = 35

| officials =

| appearances = auto

| app_begin_year = 1952

| app_end_year = 1988

| summerappearances =

| winterappearances =

| seealso = {{flagIOC|RU1}} (1900–1912)
{{flagIOC|EST}} (1920–1936, 1992–)
{{flagIOC|LAT}} (1924–1936, 1992–)
{{flagIOC|LTU}} (1924–1928, 1992–)
{{flagIOC|EUN}} (1992)
{{flagIOC|ARM}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|BLR}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|GEO}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|KAZ}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|KGZ}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|MDA}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|RUS}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|UKR}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|UZB}} (1994–)
{{flagIOC|AZE}} (1996–)
{{flagIOC|TJK}} (1996–)
{{flagIOC|TKM}} (1996–)

}}

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 410 competitors, 285 men and 125 women, took part in 189 events in 22 sports.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1976/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043509/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1976/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Games |access-date=11 April 2011 |work=sports-reference.com}} As the country hosted the next Olympics in Moscow, a live video feed from the city was shown at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

The Soviet Union won 49 gold and 125 overall medals, finishing first in the medal standings by both parameters.

=Gold=

=Silver=

=Bronze=

Archery

{{main|Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Women's individual competition:

Men's individual competition:

Athletics

{{main|Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Men's 800 metres

:* Heat — 1:46.81 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100 metres relay

:* Heat — 39.98

:* Semifinal — 39.36

:* Final — 38.78s (→ 16x16px Bronze medal)

Men's 4x400 metres relay

:* Heat — 3:07.72 (→ did not advance)

Men's marathon

Men's 400m hurdles

:* Heat — 50.93s

:* Semifinal — 49.73s

:* Final — 49.45s (→ 16x16px Bronze medal)

:* Heat — 50.78s

:* Semifinal — 50.47s (→ did not advance)

Men's long jump

:* Qualification — 7.90m

:* Final — 7.88m (→ 7th place)

:* Qualification — 7.78m

:* Final — 7.66m (→ 10th place)

:* Qualification — 7.49m (→ did not advance)

Men's high jump

:* Qualification — 2.16m

:* Final — 2.21m (→ 4th place)

:* Qualification — 2.16m

:* Final — 2.18m (→ 5th place)

Men's discus throw

:* Qualification — 57.50m (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 20 km race walk

Women's shot put

:*Final — 20.96 m (→ 16x16px Silver medal)

:*Final — 18.36 m (→ 9th place)

:*Final — 18.07 m (→ 10th place)

Women's javelin throw

:* Qualifying round — 56.82 m

:* Final — 59.42 m (→ 6th place)

Basketball

{{main|Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

;Men's team competition

  • Preliminary round (group A):

:* Defeated Mexico (120–77)

:* Defeated Australia (93–77)

:* Defeated Canada (108–85)

:* Defeated Japan (123–69)

:* Defeated Cuba (98–72)

  • Semifinals:

:* Lost to Yugoslavia (84–89)

  • Bronze medal match:

:* Defeated Canada (100–72) → Image:Med 3.png Bronze medal

  • Team roster

:*Vladimir Arzamaskov

:*Aleksandr Salnikov

:*Valery Miloserdov

:*Alzhan Zharmukhamedov

:*Andrei Makeev

:*Ivan Edeshko

:*Sergei Belov

:*Vladimir Tkachenko

:*Anatoly Myshkin

:*Mikheil Korkia

:*Aleksandr Belov

:*Vladimir Zhigily

;Women's team competition

  • Team roster

:*Angelė Rupšienė

:*Tatiana Zakharova-Nadirova

:*Raisa Kurvyakova

:*Olga Barisheva

:*Tatiana Ovechkina

:*Nadezhda Shuvayena

:*Uljana Semjonova

:*Nadezhda Zakharova

:*Nelly Feriabnikova

:*Olga Sukharnova

:*Tamara Dauinene

:*Natalya Kilmova

Boxing

{{main|Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Men's light flyweight (– 48 kg)

Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)

Canoeing

{{main|Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Cycling

{{main|Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Twelve cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1976.

;Individual road race

;Team time trial

;Sprint

;1000m time trial

;Individual pursuit

;Team pursuit

Diving

{{main|Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Equestrian

{{main|Equestrian at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Fencing

{{main|Fencing at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1976. They finished top of the fencing medal table with a total of seven medals, including three gold and a clean-sweep in the individual men's sabre event.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/FEN/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417052328/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/FEN/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Fencing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games |access-date=11 April 2011 |work=sports-reference.com}}

;Men's foil

;Men's team foil

;Men's épée

;Men's team épée

;Men's sabre

;Men's team sabre

;Women's foil

;Women's team foil

Football

{{main|Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Gymnastics

{{main|Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Handball

{{main|Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Judo

{{main|Judo at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Modern pentathlon

{{main|Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1976. Pavel Lednyov won a silver medal in the individual event.

;Individual

;Team

  • Pavel Lednyov
  • Boris Mosolov
  • Borys Onyshchenko

Rowing

{{main|Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

The Soviet Union had 31 male and 24 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1976.{{cite sports-reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1976/ROW/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417061001/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1976/ROW/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Soviet Union Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games |access-date=12 April 2018}}

;Men's competition

; Men's single sculls

; Men's double sculls

; Men's coxless pair

; Men's coxed pair

; Men's quadruple sculls

; Men's coxless four

; Men's coxed four

; Men's eight

;Women's competition

; Women's single sculls

; Women's double sculls

; Women's coxless pair

; Women's coxed four

; Women's quadruple sculls

; Women's eight

Sailing

{{main|Sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Shooting

{{main|Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Swimming

{{main|Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Volleyball

{{main|Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

;Men's team competition

  • Preliminary round (group B)

:* Defeated Italy (3–0)

:* Defeated Brazil (3–0)

:* Defeated Japan (3–0)

  • Semifinals

:* Defeated Cuba (3–0)

  • Final

:* Lost to Poland (2–3) → Image:Med 2.png Silver medal

  • Team roster

:*Anatoly Polyshuk

:*Vyaschelav Zaitsev

:*Efim Chulak

:*Vladimir Dorohov

:*Aleksandr Ermilov

:*Pavel Selivanov

:*Oleg Moliboga

:*Vladimir Kondra

:*Yuri Starunski

:*Vladimir Chernyshev

:*Vladimir Ulanov

:*Aleksandr Savin

:*Yuri Chesnokov

;Women's team competition

  • Preliminary round (Group B)

:* Defeated South Korea (3–1)

:* Defeated Cuba (3–1)

:* Defeated East Germany (3–2)

  • Semifinals

:* Defeated Hungary (3–0)

  • Final

:* Lost to Japan (0–3) → Image:Med 2.png Silver medal

  • Team roster

:*Anna Rostova

:*Lyudmila Shetinina

:*Lilia Osadchaya

:*Natalya Kushnyr

:*Olga Kozakova

:*Nina Smoleeva

:*Ljubov Rudovskaya

:*Larissa Bergen

:*Inna Ryskal

:*Lyudmila Chernysheva

:*Zoya Ilusova

:*Nina Muradyan

Water polo

{{main|Water polo at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

;Men's team competition

  • Team roster

:*Aleksey Barkalov

:*Aleksandr Dolgushin

:*Aleksandr Dreval

:*Aleksandr Kabanov

:*Aleksandr Zakharov

:*Anatoly Klebanov

:*Nikolay Melnikov

:*Nugzar Mshvenyeradze

:*Sergey Kotenko

:*Vitaly Romanchuk

:*Vladimir Iselidze

Weightlifting

{{main|Weightlifting at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Wrestling

{{main|Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template =

| event =

| team = Republic

| gold_AAA = 60 | silver_AAA = 56 | bronze_AAA = 40 | name_AAA = {{flagcountry|Russian SFSR}}

| gold_BBB = 27 | silver_BBB = 22 | bronze_BBB = 22 | name_BBB = {{flagcountry|Ukrainian SSR}}

| gold_CCC = 7 | silver_CCC = 5 | bronze_CCC = 5 | name_CCC = {{flagcountry|Byelorussian SSR}}

| gold_DDD = 7 | silver_DDD = 2 | bronze_DDD = 0 | name_DDD = {{flagcountry|Kazakh SSR}}

| gold_EEE = 3 | silver_EEE = 1 | bronze_EEE = 2 | name_EEE = {{flagcountry|Georgian SSR}}

| gold_FFF = 2 | silver_FFF = 2 | bronze_FFF = 3 | name_FFF = {{flagcountry|Lithuanian SSR}}

| gold_GGG = 2 | silver_GGG = 2 | bronze_GGG = 2 | name_GGG = {{flagcountry|Latvian SSR}}

| gold_HHH = 2 | silver_HHH = 1 | bronze_HHH = 0 | name_HHH = {{flagcountry|Azerbaijan SSR}}

| gold_III = 1 | silver_III = 3 | bronze_III = 1 | name_III = {{flagcountry|Armenian SSR}}

| gold_JJJ = 1 | silver_JJJ = 0 | bronze_JJJ = 0 | name_JJJ = {{flagcountry|Estonian SSR}}

| gold_KKK = 0 | silver_KKK = 1 | bronze_KKK = 1 | name_KKK = {{flagcountry|Uzbek SSR}}

| gold_LLL = 0 | silver_LLL = 1 | bronze_LLL = 0 | name_LLL = {{flagcountry|Moldavian SSR}}

| gold_MMM = 0 | silver_MMM = 0 | bronze_MMM = 1 | name_MMM = {{flagcountry|Tajik SSR}}

}}

Top 5 sports societies

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different sports societies in one team.

class="wikitable"

! Pos

! Sports society

! style="background-color:gold" |Gold

! style="background-color:silver" |Silver

! style="background-color:#CC9966" |Bronze

! Total

align=right|1VSS Spartak2412945
align=right|2Armed Forces22221559
align=right|3VSS Burevestnik2213540
align=right|4Dynamo20322678
align=right|5VSS Trud84416

References

{{reflist}}

Sources

  • {{cite book|title=All about Olympic Games.|author=Khavin, Boris|publisher=Fizkultura i sport|edition = 2nd|year=1979|location=Moscow|language=ru}} – for medal stats by republic and by sports society

{{Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics}}

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{{Top Summer Olympics medal-winning nations}}

Category:Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics

1976

Summer Olympics