Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Soviet Union at the; 1976 Summer Olympics
	Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Montreal, Canada; 17 July 1976 – 1 August 1976
Competitors	410 (285 men and 125 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearer	Vasily Alekseyev
Medals; Ranked 1st	Gold 49 Silver 41 Bronze 35 Total 125
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988;
Other related appearances
	Russian Empire (1900–1912); Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–); Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–); Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–); Unified Team (1992); Armenia (1994–); Belarus (1994–); Georgia (1994–); Kazakhstan (1994–); Kyrgyzstan (1994–); Moldova (1994–); Russia (1994–2016); Ukraine (1994–); Uzbekistan (1994–); Azerbaijan (1996–); Tajikistan (1996–); Turkmenistan (1996–); ROC (2020–2022); Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)

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.^[1] 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

Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's rings
Svetlana Grozdova, Elvira Saadi, Maria Filatova, Olga Korbut, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's team competition
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's vault
Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's vault
Viktor Saneyev — athletics, men's triple jump
Yuri Sedykh — athletics, men's hammer throw
Tatyana Kazankina — athletics, women's 800m
Tatyana Kazankina — athletics, women's 1500m
Angele Rupshene, Tatjana Zakharova, Raisa Kurvyakova, Olga Barisheva, Tatjana Ovetchkina, Nadezhda Shuvaeva, Uljana Semjonova, Nadezhda Zakharova, Nelli Feryabnikova, Olga Sukharnova, Tamara Daunene and Natalia Klimova — basketball, women's team competition
Aleksandr Rogov — canoeing, men's C1 500m
Sergei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov — canoeing, men's C2 500m
Sergei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov — canoeing, men's C2 1000m
Sergei Nagornyi and Vladimir Romanovsky — canoeing, men's K2 1000m
Sergei Chukhrai, Aleksandr Degtyarev, Yuri Filatov and Vladimir Morozov — canoeing, men's K4 1000m
Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft — canoeing, women's K2 500m
Anatoli Chukanov, Valeri Chaplygin, Vladimir Kaminsky and Aavo Pikkuus — cycling road, men's team time trial
Elena Vaytsekhovskaya — diving, women's 10m platform
Elena Novikova-Belova, Olga Knyazeva, Valentina Sidorova, Nailia Giliazova and Valentina Nikonova — fencing, women's foil team
Viktor Krovopuskov — fencing, men's sabre individual
Viktor Krovopuskov, Eduard Vinokurov, Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov and Mikhail Burtsev — fencing, men's sabre team
Aleksandr Resanov, Nikolay Tomin, Sergey Kushniryuk, Jury Lagutin, Vladimir Maksimov, Jury Kidyaev, Jury Klimov, Vladimir Kravtsov, Valery Gassy, Vasily Ilyin, Mikhail Ishchenko, Aleksandr Anpilogov, Yevgeni Chernyshov and Anatoly Fedyukin — handball, men's team competition
Natalya Timoshkina-Sherstyuk, Zinaida Turchina, Halyna Zakharova, Rafiga Shabanova, Lyudmila Shubina, Lyubov Odinokova-Berezhnaya, Lyudmila Panchuk, Lyudmila Poradnik-Bobrus, Mariya Litoshenko, Nina Lobova, Aldona Neneniene-Cesaitìte, Tatyana Glushchenko, Larisa Karlova and Tatyana Kotchergina-Makarets — handball, women's team competition
Sergei Novikov — judo, men's heavyweight
Vladimir Nevzorov — judo, men's half-middleweight
Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Klepikov, Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox), and Aleksandr Sema — rowing, men's four-oared shell with coxswain
Aleksandr Gazov — shooting, men's running game target
Marina Kosheveya — swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
Aleksandr Voronin — weightlifting, men's flyweight
Nikolay Kolesnikov — weightlifting, men's featherweight
Pyotr Korol — weightlifting, men's lightweight
Valery Shary — weightlifting, men's light heavyweight
David Rigert — weightlifting, men's middle heavyweight
Yury Zaytsev — weightlifting, men's heavyweight
Vasily Alekseyev — weightlifting, men's super heavyweight
Aleksey Shumakov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light flyweight
Vitaly Konstantinov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman flyweight
Suren Nalbandyan — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman lightweight
Anatoly Bykov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman welterweight
Valery Rezantsev — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight
Nikolay Balboshin — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman heavyweight
Aleksandr Kolchinsky — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight
Vladimir Yumin — wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweight
Pavel Pynigyn — wrestling, men's freestyle lightweight
Levan Tediashvili — wrestling, men's freestyle light heavyweight
Ivan Yarygin — wrestling, men's freestyle heavyweight
Soslan Andiyev — wrestling, men's freestyle super heavyweight

Silver

Valentyna Kovpan — archery, women's individual competition
Olga Korbut — artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
Vladimir Marchenko — artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Ludmilla Tourischeva — artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-around
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars
Alexander Dityatin — artistic gymnastics, men's rings
Vladimir Tikhonov, Gennady Krysin, Vladimir Marchenko, Alexander Dityatin, Vladimir Markelov and Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's team competition
Ludmilla Tourischeva — artistic gymnastics, women's vault
Yevgeny Mironov — athletics, men's shot tut
Aleksey Spiridonov — athletics, men's hammer throw
Tatyana Anisimova — athletics, women's 100m hurdles
Nadezhda Chizhova — athletics, women's shot put
Rufat Riskiev — boxing, men's 71–75 kg
Vasili Yurchenko — canoeing, men's C-1 1000m
Tatyana Korshunova — canoeing, women's K-1 500m
Sergei Nagornyi, Vladimir Romanovsky — canoeing, men's K-2 500m
Vladimir Osokin, Aleksandr Perov, Vitali Petrakov and Viktor Sokolov — cycling, men's team pursuit
Aleksander Romankov — fencing, men's foil individual
Vladimir Nazlymov — fencing, men's sabre individual
Valeri Dvoinikov — judo, men's middleweight
Ramaz Kharshiladze — judo, men's half-heavyweight
Pavel Lednev — modern pentathlon, men's individual competition
Lyubov Talalaeva, Nadezhda Roshchina, Klavdiya Kozenkova, Elena Zubko, Olga Kolkova, Nelli Tarakanova, Nadezhda Rozgon, Olga Guzenko and Olga Pugovskaya — rowing, women's eight with coxswain
Dmitri Bekhterev, Yuri Shurkalov and Yuri Lorentson — rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswain
Anna Kondrashina, Mira Bryunina, Larissa Alexandrova-Popova, Galina Ermolaeva and Nadezhda Chernyshyova — rowing, women's quadruple sculls with coxswain
Yevgeniy Duleyev, Yuriy Yakimov, Aivar Lazdenieks and Vytautas Butkus — rowing, men's quadruple sculls without coxswain
Andrey Balashov — sailing, men's Finn
Vladislav Akimenko and Valentyn Mankin — sailing, men's tempest
Aleksandr Kedyarov — shooting, men's running game target
Andrey Bogdanov, Sergey Kopliakov, Andrey Krylov and Vladimir Raskatov — swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Lyubov Rusanova — swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
Marina Yurchenya — swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
Aleksandr Yermilov, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Yury Starunsky, Vladimir Ulanov, Anatoly Polishchuk, Aleksandr Savin, Pavel Selivanov, Vladimir Kondra, Oleg Moliboga, Vladimir Chernyshov, Yefim Chulak and Vladimir Dorokhov — volleyball, men's team competition
Zoya Yusova, Inna Ryskal, Lyudmila Shchetinina, Nina Smoleyeva, Liliya Osadchaya, Anna Rostova, Lyubov Rudovskaya, Olga Kozakova, Natalya Kushnir, Nina Muradyan, Larisa Bergen and Lyudmila Chernyshova — volleyball, women's team competition
Vardan Militosyan — weightlifting, men's middleweight
Nelson Davidyan — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
Vladimir Cheboksarov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweight
Roman Dimitriyev — wrestling, men's freestyle light flyweight
Aleksandr Ivanov — wrestling, men's freestyle flyweight
Viktor Novozhilov — wrestling, men's freestyle middleweight

Bronze

Zebiniso Rustamova — archery, women's individual competition
Ludmilla Tourischeva — artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-around
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
Valeriy Borzov — athletics, men's 100m
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko — athletics, men's 400m hurdles
Aleksandr Aksinin, Valeriy Borzov, Nikolay Kolesnikov and Juris Silovs — athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relay
Alexandr Baryshnikov — athletics, men's shot put men
Mykola Avilov — athletics, men's decathlon
Anatoliy Bondarchuk — athletics, men's hammer throw
Natalya Lebedeva — athletics, women's 100m hurdles
Vera Anisimova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Lyudmila Maslakova and Tatyana Prorochenko — athletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay
Lyudmila Aksyonova, Nadezhda Ilyina, Inta Kļimoviča and Natalya Sokolova — athletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
Lidiya Alfeyeva — athletics, women's long jump
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Vladimir Zhigily, Vladimir Tkachenko, Valery Miloserdov, Anatoly Myshkin, Aleksandr Salnikov, Ivan Edeshko, Mikheil Korkia, Andrey Makeyev, Vladimir Arzamaskov, Aleksandr Belov and Sergey Belov — basketball, men's team competition
David Torosyan — boxing, men's flyweight
Viktor Rybakov — boxing, men's bantamweight
Vasily Solomin — boxing, men's lightweight
Viktor Savchenko — boxing, men's light middleweight
Vladimir Aleynik — diving, men's 10m platform
Aleksandr Kosenkov — diving, men's 3m springboard
Elena Novikova-Belova — fencing, women's foil individual
Viktor Sidyak — fencing, men's sabre individual
Vladimir Troshkin, David Kipiani, Vladimir Veremeyev, Viktor Zvyagintsev, Leonid Nazarenko, Vladimir Onishchenko, Stefan Reshko, Anatoly Konkov, Viktor Matviyenko, Aleksandr Minayev, Mikhail Fomenko, Vladimir Fyodorov, Viktor Kolotov, Vladimir Astapovsky, Oleg Blokhin, Aleksandr Prokhorov and Leonid Buryak — football (soccer), men's team competition
Shota Chochishvili — judo, men's open category
Eleonora Kaminskaitė, Genovaitė Ramoškienė — rowing, women's double sculls
Raul Arnemann, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Valeriy Dolinin and Anushavan Gasan-Dzhalalov — rowing, men's four without coxswain
Nadezhda Sevostyanova, Lyudmila Krokhina, Galina Mishenina, Anna Pasokha and Lidiya Krylova — rowing, women's four-oared shell with coxswain
Elena Antonova — rowing, women's single sculls
Gennady Lushchikov — shooting, men's small-bore rifle, prone
Vladimir Raskatov — swimming, men's 400m freestyle
Arvydas Juozaitis — swimming, men's 100 m breaststroke
Marina Kosheveya — swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
Lyubov Rusanova — swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
Andrey Smirnov — swimming, men's 400m individual medley
Farhat Mustafin — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight

Archery

Women's individual competition:

Valentina Kovpan — 2460 points (→ Silver medal)
Zebiniso Rustamova — 2407 points (→ Bronze medal)

Men's individual competition:

Vladimir Chendarov — 2467 points (→ 5th place)

Athletics

Men's 800 metres

Viktor Anohin

Heat — 1:46.81 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100 metres relay

Aleksandr Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Juris Silovs and Valeriy Borzov

Heat — 39.98
Semifinal — 39.36
Final — 38.78s (→ Bronze medal)

Men's 4x400 metres relay

Dmitriy Stukalov, Vladimir Ponomaryov, Viktor Anohin and Yevgeniy Gavrilenko

Heat — 3:07.72 (→ did not advance)

Men's marathon

Leonid Moseyev — 2:13:22 (→ 7th place)
Alexander Gotskiy — 2:15:34 (→ 9th place)
Yuriy Velikorodnyh — 2:19:45 (→ 24th place)

Men's 400m hurdles

Yevgeniy Gavrilenko

Heat — 50.93s
Semifinal — 49.73s
Final — 49.45s (→ Bronze medal)

Dmitriy Stukalov

Heat — 50.78s
Semifinal — 50.47s (→ did not advance)

Men's long jump

Valeriy Podlujnyi

Qualification — 7.90m
Final — 7.88m (→ 7th place)

Aleksey Pereverzev

Qualification — 7.78m
Final — 7.66m (→ 10th place)

Tõnu Lepik

Qualification — 7.49m (→ did not advance)

Men's high jump

Sergey Budalov

Qualification — 2.16m
Final — 2.21m (→ 4th place)

Sergey Senyukov

Qualification — 2.16m
Final — 2.18m (→ 5th place)

Men's discus throw

Nikolay Vikhor

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

Men's 20 km race walk

Vladimir Golubnichiy — 1:29:24 (→ 7th place)
Oto Barch — 1:31:12 (→ 13th place)
Viktor Semenov — 1:31:59 (→ 15th place)

Women's shot put

Nadezhda Chizhova

Final — 20.96 m (→ Silver medal)

Svetlana Krachevskaya

Final — 18.36 m (→ 9th place)

Faina Melnik

Final — 18.07 m (→ 10th place)

Women's javelin throw

Svetlana Babich

Qualifying round — 56.82 m
Final — 59.42 m (→ 6th place)

Basketball

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) → Bronze medal

Team roster

Head coach: Vladimir Kondrashin

Women's team competition

Team roster

Head coach: Lydia Alexeeva

Boxing

Men's light flyweight (– 48 kg)

Aleksandr Tkachenko
1. First round — defeated Eleoncio Mercedes (DOM), RSC-1
2. Second round — lost to Payao Pooltarat (THA), 2:3

Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)

David Torosyan
1. First round — bye
2. Second round — defeated Hassen Sheriff (ETH), walkover
3. Third round — defeated Giovanni Camputaro (ITA), RSC-2
4. Quarterfinal — defeated Jong Jo-Ung (PRK), 5:0
5. Semifinal — lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), DSQ-2 → Bronze Medal

Canoeing

Cycling

Twelve cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1976.

Individual road race

Nikolay Gorelov — 4:47:23 (→ 5th place)
Aleksandr Averin — 4:49:01 (→ 17th place)
Valery Chaplygin — 4:49:01 (→ 39th place)
Aavo Pikkuus — 4:54:49 (→ 44th place)

Team time trial

Sprint

Sergey Kravtsov — 7th place

1000m time trial

Eduard Rapp — DSQ (→ 30th place)

Individual pursuit

Vladimir Osokin — 4th place

Team pursuit

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

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.^[2]

Men's foil

Men's team foil

Sabirzhan Ruziyev, Aleksandr Romankov, Vladimir Denisov, Vasyl Stankovych

Men's épée

Men's team épée

Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, Viktor Modzalevsky, Vasyl Stankovych, Aleksandr Bykov, Boris Lukomsky

Men's sabre

Men's team sabre

Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Krovopuskov, Mikhail Burtsev, Eduard Vinokurov

Women's foil

Women's team foil

Yelena Novikova-Belova, Valentina Sidorova, Olga Knyazeva, Nailya Gilyazova, Valentina Nikonova

Football

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Modern pentathlon

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

The Soviet Union had 31 male and 24 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1976.^[3]

Men's competition
Men's single sculls

Mykola Dovhan

Men's double sculls

Men's coxless pair

Men's coxed pair

Men's quadruple sculls

Men's coxless four

Men's coxed four

Vladimir Eshinov
Nikolay Ivanov (rower)
Mikhail Kuznetsov (semi-final and final)
Aleksandr Klepikov
Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox)
Aleksandr Sema (heat 1)

Men's eight

Women's competition
Women's single sculls

Yelena Antonova

Women's double sculls

Women's coxless pair

Women's coxed four

Women's quadruple sculls

Women's eight

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Volleyball

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) → Silver medal

Team roster

Head coach: 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) → Silver medal

Team roster

Head coach: Givi Ahvlediani

Water polo

Men's team competition

Team roster

Head coach: Anatoly Blumental

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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.


Rank	Republic	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	60	56	40	156
2	Ukrainian SSR	27	22	22	71
3	Byelorussian SSR	7	5	5	17
4	Kazakh SSR	7	2	0	9
5	Georgian SSR	3	1	2	6
6	Lithuanian SSR	2	2	3	7
7	Latvian SSR	2	2	2	6
8	Azerbaijan SSR	2	1	0	3
9	Armenian SSR	1	3	1	5
10	Estonian SSR	1	0	0	1
11	Uzbek SSR	0	1	1	2
12	Moldavian SSR	0	1	0	1
13	Tajik SSR	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		112	96	77	285

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.

Pos	Sports society				Total
1	VSS Spartak	24	12	9	45
2	Armed Forces	22	22	15	59
3	VSS Burevestnik	22	13	5	40
4	Dynamo	20	32	26	78
5	VSS Trud	8	4	4	16

References

^ "Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
^ "Fencing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2018.

Sources

Khavin, Boris (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. – for medal stats by republic and by sports society