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The United States competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. It was the eighteenth time that the nation had competed, being one of only four nations to have competed in every Summer Olympics to that time. The United States competed under the IOC country code USA.

Medals

Gold

• Darrell Pace - archery, men's competition
• Luann Ryon - archery, women's competition

Results by event

Archery

After winning both gold medals in the first modern Olympic archery contest at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the United States returned only one of the six archers who had competed in Munich, Linda Myers . Even though neither of the reigning gold medallists competed in Montreal, the United States again won both gold medals. Luann Ryon set new Olympic records for women's competition in both the single FITA round and the double FITA round categories. Darrell Pace did the same in the men's competition. All four of the American archers placed in the top eight.

Women's:

• Luann Ryon - 2499 points (OR, gold medal)
• Linda Myers - 2393 points (7th place)

Men's:

• Darrell Pace - 2571 points (OR, gold medal)
• Richard McKinney - 2471 points (4th place)