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