Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games
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IOC code:   URS
1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Medals Rank: 1	Gold 49	Silver 41	Bronze 35	Total 125
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Winter Olympic Games appearances
1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988
Other related appearances
Unified Team (1992)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Archery 2.2 Athletics 2.3 Boxing 3 Top 5 Republics 4 Top 5 Sports Societies 5 Reference

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

• 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, Natalia Klimova — Basketball, Women's Team Competition
• Aleksandr Rogov — Canoeing, Men's C1 500m
• Sergei Petrenko, Aleksandr Vinogradov — Canoeing, Men's C2 500m
• Sergei Petrenko, Aleksandr Vinogradov — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m
• Sergei Nagornyi, Vladimir Romanovsky — Canoeing, Men's K2 1000m
• Sergei Chukhrai, Aleksandr Degtyarev, Yuri Filatov, Vladimir Morozov — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000m
• Nina Gopova, Galina Kreft — Canoeing, Women's K2 500m
• Aleksandr Resanov, Nikolay Tomin, Sergey Kushniryuk, Jury Lagutin, Vladimir Maksimov, Jury Kidyaev, Jury Klimov, Vladimir Kravtsov, Valery Gassy, Vasily Ilyin, Mikhail Ishchenko, Aleksandr Anpilogov, Yevgeny Chernyshov, and Anatoly Fedyukin — Handball, Men's Team Competition
• Natalya Timoshkina-Sherstyuk, Zinaida Turchina, Galina 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
• Aleksandr Gazov — Shooting, Men's Running Game Target
• Marina Koshevaya — 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

[edit] Silver

• Valentyna Kovpan — Archery, Women's Individual Competition
• Yevgeny Mironov — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
• Aleksey Spiridonov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
• Anatoly Bondarchuk — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
• Tatyana Anisimova — Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles
• Nadezhda Chizhova — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
• Aleksandr Kedyarov — Shooting, Men's Running Game Target
• Andrey Bogdanov, Sergey Koplyakov, Andrey Krylov, and Vladimir Raskatov — Swimming, Men's 4x200m 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
• Vartan 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
• Andrey Balashov — Sailing, Men's Finn
• Vladislav Akimenko and Valentin Mankin — Sailing, Men's Tempest

[edit] Bronze

• Zebiniso Rustamova — Archery, Women's Individual Competition
• Valery Borzov — Athletics, Men's 100m
• Yevgeny Gavrilenko — Athletics, Men's 400m Hurdles
• Aleksandr Aksinin, Valery Borzov, Nikolay Kolesnikov, and Juris Silovs — Athletics, Men's 4x100m Relay
• Alexandr Baryshnikov — Athletics, Men's Shot Put Men
• Nikolay Avilov — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
• Natalya Lebedeva — Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles
• Vera Anisimova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Lyudmila Maslakova, and Tatyana Prorochenko — Athletics, Women's 4x100m Relay
• Lyudmila Aksenova, Nadezhda Ilyina, Inta Klimovica, and Natalya Sokolova — Athletics, Women's 4x400m Relay
• Lidiya Alfeyeva — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
• Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Vladimir Zhigily, Vladimir Tkachenko, Ivan Yedeshko, Valery Miloserdov, Anatoly Myshkin, Aleksandr Salnikov, Ivan Edeshko, Mikhail Korkiya, 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 Troshkin, 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, and Leonid Buryak — Football (soccer), Men's Team Competition
• 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 Koshevaya — Swimming, Women's 100m Breaststroke
• Lyubov Rusanova — Swimming, Women's 200m Breaststroke
• Farkhad Mustafyn — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

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[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

The USSR sent only three archers to Montreal. Both of the women won medals, adding a silver and a bronze to the bronze medal the Soviets had won four years earlier. The lone Soviet in the men's competition took 5th place.
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)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 800 metres

• Viktor Anohin

• Heat — 1:46.81 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100 metres Relay

• Alexander Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Yuriy Silov, and Valeriy Borzov

• Heat — 39.98
• Semi Final — 39.36
• Final — 38.78s (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x400 metres Relay

• Dmitriy Stukalov, Vladimir Ponomarev, Viktor Anohin, and Evgeniy 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
• Semi Final — 49.73s
• Final — 49.45s (→ Bronze Medal)

• Dmitriy Stukalov

• Heat — 50.78s
• Semi Final — 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)

• Tynu 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 Vihor

• Qualification — 57.50m (→ did not advance)

Men's 20km Race Walk

• Vladimir Golubnichiy — 1:29:24 (→ 7th place)

• Oto Barch — 1:31:12 (→ 13th place)

• Viktor Semenov — 1:31:59 (→ 15th place)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Alexander 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), walk-over
  3. Third Round — Defeated Giovanni Camputaro (ITA), RSC-2
  4. Quarterfinal — Defeated Ung Jo-Jong (PRK), 5:0
  5. Semi Final — Lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), DSQ-2 → Bronze Medal

[edit] Top 5 Republics

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.

Pos	Republic				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

[edit] 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

[edit] Reference

• Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Physical Culture and Sports Publisher. - for medal stats by republic and by sports society

Nations at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada

Andorra • Antigua‑Barbuda • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Bahamas • Barbados • Belgium • Belize • Bermuda • Bolivia • Brazil • Bulgaria • Canada • Cayman Islands • Chile • Colombia • Costa Rica • Côte d'Ivoire • Cuba • Czechoslovakia • Denmark • Dominican Republic • Ecuador • Egypt • Fiji • Finland • France • East Germany • West Germany • Great Britain • Greece • Guatemala • Haiti • Honduras • Hong Kong • Hungary • Iceland • India • Indonesia • Iran • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Jamaica • Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Kuwait • Lebanon • Liechtenstein • Luxembourg • Malaysia • Mexico • Monaco • Mongolia • Morocco • Nepal • Netherlands • Netherlands Antilles • New Zealand • Nicaragua • Norway • Pakistan • Panama • Papua New Guinea • Paraguay • Peru • Philippines • Poland • Portugal • Puerto Rico • Romania • San Marino • Saudi Arabia • Senegal • Singapore • Soviet Union • Spain • Suriname • Sweden • Switzerland • Thailand • Trinidad‑Tobago • Tunisia • Turkey • United States • Uruguay • Venezuela • Virgin Islands • Yugoslavia