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Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes. ... Official list ...
- The African Boycott
- Debuts and Firsts
- Memorable Champions
- Perfect Nadia
The 1976 Montreal Games were marred by an African boycott involving 22 countries. The boycott was organised by Tanzania to protest the fact that the New Zealand rugby team had toured Apartheid South Africa and that New Zealand was scheduled to compete in the Olympic Games.
Women’s events in basketball, rowing and team handball all made their Olympic debut. Hockey was played on an artificial pitch for the first time.
Alberto Juantorena of Cuba completed the first 400m and 800m double victory. The Japanese women’s volleyball team proved untouchable, winning all their matches in straight sets, and Miklos Németh of Hungary won the javelin to become the first son of an athletics gold medalist to win a gold of his own.
Fourteen-year-old gymnast Nadia Comaneci of Romania was the undoubted star of the Games. She shot to fame when, for her performance on the uneven bars, she was awarded the first-ever perfect score of 10.0. She went on to earn seven maximum marks in total.
The 1976 Summer Olympics ( French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976 ), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad ( French: Jeux de la XXIe Olympiade) and officially branded as Montreal 1976 ( French: Montréal 1976 ), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from July 17 to August 1, 1976. A total of 6,084 athletes from 92 countries represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these Games, competing in 198 events in 23 sports. [1]
RankNocGoldSilver14941240253343541012There were three candidate cities to hold the Olympic Games in 1976: Montreal, Canada, and the two other competitors from the world's most significant countries - Los Angeles, USA and Moscow, USSR. In May 1970, at the Congress IOC in Amsterdam, after the speech of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau, the Games of the 21 Olympiad were awarded to Montreal.
Aug 10, 2011 · Playing host to the Olympic Games for the first time, Canada won more medals than at the previous two Olympic Games combined. Without a gold medal on the table, however, one of biggest highlights and lasting images of the Games was Greg Joy winning high jump silver in the rain on the penultimate day. It was one of just three medals Canada won outside of the swimming pool.
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Official Video Highlight @ 1:21:00. The men's 200 metres was an event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The competition was held on 25 July 1976 and 26 July 1976. [1] There were 45 competitors from 33 nations. [2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.