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United States at the Olympic Games
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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Competitors
Flag bearer Gary Hall Sr.
Medals
Rank: 3		 Gold
34		 Silver
35		 Bronze
25		 Total
94
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The United States competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.[1]

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Medalists

The United States finished third in the final medal rankings, with 34 gold and 94 total medals.

Med 1.png Gold

  • Lanny Bassham — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions

Med 2.png Silver

  • Joan Lind — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls
  • Margaret Murdoch — Shooting, Women's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions
  • Robert Hackett — Swimming, Men's 1500 m Freestyle
  • Steven Gregg — Swimming, Men's 200 m Butterfly
  • Tim McKee — Swimming, Men's 400 m Individual Medley
  • Lee James — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight
  • David McFaull and Michael Rothwell — Sailing, Men's Tornado
  • Walter Glasgow, Richard Hoepfner, and John Kolius — Sailing, Men's Soling

Med 3.png Bronze

  • Richard Wohlhuter — Athletics, Men's 800 metres
  • Kathy Schmidt — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Cynthia McIngvale — Diving, Women's Springboard
  • Deborah Wilson — Diving, Women's Platform
  • Hilda Gurney, Edith Master, and Dorothy Morkins — Equestrian, Dressage Team
  • Daniel Harrigan — Swimming, Men's 200 m Backstroke
  • Wendy Weinberg — Swimming, Women's 800 m Freestyle
  • Gene Davis — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight

Results by event

Archery

After winning both gold medals in the first modern Olympic archery contest at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the US 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 Individual Competition:

  • Luann Ryon — 2499 points (→ OR, Gold Gold Medal)
  • Linda Myers — 2393 points (→ 7th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • First Round — 10.37s
  • Second Round — 10.23s
  • Semi Final — 10.24s
  • Final — 10.19s (→ 4th place)
  • First Round — 10.43s
  • Second Round — 10.46s
  • Semi Final — 10.30s
  • Final — 10.27s (→ 6th place)
  • First Round — 10.43s
  • Second Round — 10.36s
  • Semi Final — 10.33s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

  • First Round — 21.11s
  • Second Round — 20.83s
  • Semi Final — 20.69s
  • Final — 20.29s (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • First Round — 20.96s
  • Second Round — 20.56s
  • Semi Final — 20.83s
  • Final — 20.43s (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

Men's 800 metres

  • Rick Wohlhunter
  • Heat — 1:45.71
  • Semi Final — 1:46.72
  • Final — 1:44.12 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 1:47.56
  • Semi Final — 1:46.43 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100m Relay

  • Heat — 38.76
  • Semi Final — 38.51
  • Final — 38.33s (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Men's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 2:59.52
  • Final — 2:58.65 (→ Gold Gold Medal)

Men's 5.000 metres

  • Paul Geis
  • Heat — 13:32.36
  • Final — 13:42.51 (→ 12th place)
  • Duncan MacDonald
  • Heat — 13:47.14 (→ did not advance)
  • Richard Buerkle
  • Heat — 13:29.01 (→ did not advance)

Men's 10.000 metres

  • Garry Bjorklund
  • Heat — 28:12.24
  • Final — 28:38.08 (→ 13th place)
  • Heat — 28:30.22 (→ did not advance)
  • Edward Mendoza
  • Heat — 29:02.97 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Hurdles

  • Heat — 49.95s
  • Semi Final — 48.29s
  • Final — 47.64s (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Heat — 50.91s
  • Semi Final — 49.90s
  • Final — 48.69s (→ Silver Silver Medal)
  • Quentin Wheeler
  • Heat — 50.32s
  • Semi Final — 50.22s
  • Final — 49.86s (→ 4th place)

Men's Marathon

  • Donald Kardong — 2:11:15 (→ 4th place)
  • William Rodgers — 2:25:14 (→ 40th place)

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 7.95m
  • Final — 8.35m (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 7.97m
  • Final — 8.11m (→ Silver Silver Medal)
  • Qualification — 7.92m
  • Final — DNS (→ no ranking)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualification — 2.16m
  • Final — 2.21m (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)
  • James Barrineau
  • Qualification — 2.16m
  • Final — 2.14m (→ 11th place)
  • William Jankunis
  • Qualification — 2.16m
  • Final — 2.10m (→ 13th place)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualification — 68.28m
  • Final — 67.50m (→ Gold Gold Medal)
  • Qualification — 61.48m
  • Final — 65.70m (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)
  • Qualification — 62.06m
  • Final — 61.98m (→ 7th place)

Men's 20km Race Walk

  • Larry Walker — 1:34:19 (→ 22nd place)
  • Clark Scully — 1:36:37 (→ 29th place)

Women's Shot Put

  • Maren Seidler
  • Final — 15.60 m (→ 12th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification Round — 53.08 m (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B):
  • Defeated Italy (106-86)
  • Defeated Puerto Rico (95-94)
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (112-93)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (81-76)
  • Defeated Egypt (20-0) bb.
  • Semi Finals:
  • Defeated Canada (96-77)
  • Final:
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (95-74) → Med 1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster

Women's Team Competition

  • Team Roster

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • Leo Randolph
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Massoudi Samatou (TOG), walk-over
    3. Third Round — Defeated Constantin Gruescu (ROM), 4:1
    4. Quarterfinal — Defeated David Larmour (IRL), 4:1
    5. Semi Final — Defeated Leszek Błażyński (POL), 4:1
    6. Final — Defeated Ramón Duvalón (CUB), 3:2 → Gold Gold Medal

Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race

  • George Mount — 4:47:23 (→ 6th place)
  • John Howard — 4:54:26 (→ 42nd place)
  • David Boll — 5:05:00 (→ 56th place)
  • Michael Neel — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Robert Vehe — 1:09.057 (→ 15th place)

Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)

  • Leigh Barczewski — 19th place

Men's 4.000m Individual Pursuit

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

Men's 10m Platform

Women's 3m Springboard

Women's 10m Platform

Judo

Men's Lightweight

  • Joseph Bost

Men's Half-Middleweight

Men's Middleweight

  • Teimoc Jonston-Ono

Men's Half-Heavyweight

  • Thomas Martin

Men's Heavyweight

Men's Open Class

  • James Wooley

References

  1. ^ "Roster of U.S. Athletes for Olympic Games at Montreal". The New York Times: p. 152. 1976-07-11. 



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