Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Men's Marathon

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The official results of the Men's Marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, held on Saturday July 31, 1976. The race started on 17.30h local time. A total number of sixty athletes completed the race, with Lucio Guachalla from Bolivia finishing in last position in 2:45:31. There were 67 competitors from 36 countries. Seven of them did not finish.

[edit] Final Ranking

RANK ATHLETE TIME
Image:Med_1.png East Germany Waldemar Cierpinski (GDR) 2:09:55
Image:Med_2.png United States Frank Shorter (USA) 2:10:45
Image:Med_3.png Belgium Karel Lismont (BEL) 2:11:12
4. United States Don Kardong (USA) 2:11:15
5. Finland Lasse Viren (FIN) 2:13:10
6. Canada Jerome Drayton (CAN) 2:13:30
7. Soviet Union Leonid Mosseyev (URS) 2:13:33
8. Italy Franco Fava (ITA) 2:14:24
9. Soviet Union Alexander Gotsky (URS) 2:15:34
10. Belgium Henri Schoofs (BEL) 2:15:52
11. India Shivnath Singh (IND) 2:16:22
12. North Korea Sop Choe-Chang (PRK) 2:16:33
13. Italy Massimo Magnani (ITA) 2:16:56
14. Sweden Göran Bengtsson (SWE) 2:17:39
15. Poland Kazimier Orzel (POL) 2:17:43
16. Finland Hakan Spik (FIN) 2:17:50
17. New Zealand Jack Foster (NZL) 2:17:53
18. Mexico Mario Cuevas (MEX) 2:18:08
19. Mexico Rodolfo Gómez (MEX) 2:18:21
20. Japan Shigero Soh (JPN) 2:18:26
21. Japan Noriyasu Mizukami (JPN) 2:18:44
22. Portugal Anacleto Pinto (POR) 2:18:53
23. Puerto Rico José de Jesus (PUR) 2:19:34
24. Soviet Union Yuri Velikorodny (URS) 2:19:45
25. Netherlands Jos Hermens (NED) 2:19:48
26. Great Britain Jeffrey Norman (GBR) 2:20:04
27. Finland Jukka Toivola (FIN) 2:20:46
28. Denmark Jørgen Jensen (DEN) 2:20:44
29. Greece Michail Kousis (GRE) 2:21:42
30. Canada Tom Howard (CAN) 2:22:08
31. Great Britain Keith Angus (GBR) 2:22:18
32. Japan Akio Usami (JPN) 2:22:29
33. Cuba Rigoberto Mendoza (CUB) 2:22:43
34. France Fernand Kolbeck (FRA) 2:22:56
35. Australia Christopher Wardlaw (AUS) 2:23:56
36. Canada Wayne Yetman (CAN) 2:24:17
37. Turkey Hüseyin Aktas (TUR) 2:24:30
38. Turkey Veli Balli (TUR) 2:24:47
39. Ireland James McNamara (IRL) 2:24:57
40. United States Bill Rodgers (USA) 2:25:14
41. Honduras Hipolito Lopez (HON) 2:26:00
42. Ireland Danny McDaid (IRL) 2:27:07
43. Paraguay Cardozo Eusebio Asuncion (PAR) 2:27:22
44. North Korea Kim Chang-Son (PRK) 2:27:38
45. Great Britain Barry Watson (GBR) 2:28:32
46. Spain Agustin Fernández-Diaz (ESP) 2:28:37
47. Poland Jerzy Gros (POL) 2:28:45
48. Colombia Jairo Cubillos (COL) 2:29:04
49. Honduras Luis Raudales (HON) 2:29:25
50. Nepal Baikuntha Manandhar (NEP) 2:30:07
51. Spain Antônio Banos (ESP) 2:31:01
52. North Korea Goh Chun-Son (PRK) 2:31:54
53. Puerto Rico Victor Serrano (PUR) 2:34:59
54. West Germany Günter Mielke (FRG) 2:35:44
55. Ireland Neil Cusack (IRL) 2:35:47
56. Papua New Guinea Tau John Tokwepota (PNG) 2:38:04
57. Philippines Victor Idava (PHI) 2:38:23
58. Bermuda Raymond Swan (BER) 2:39:18
59. Papua New Guinea John Kokinai (PNG) 2:41:49
60. Bolivia Lucio Gauchalla (BOL) 2:45:31
Australia Dave Chettle (AUS) DNF
Australia Ross Haywood (AUS) DNF
Colombia Rafael Mora (COL) DNF
Spain Santiago Manguan (ESP) DNF
Haiti Thanaude Dezart (HAI) DNF
Italy Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA) DNF
New Zealand Kevin Ryan (NZL) DNF


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OLYMPIC MARATHON RACES
Men's Competition

Athens 1896 | Paris 1900 | St. Louis 1904 | Athens 1906 | London 1908 | Stockholm 1912 | Antwerp 1920 | Paris 1924 | Amsterdam 1928 | Los Angeles 1932 | Berlin 1936 | London 1948 | Helsinki 1952 | Melbourne 1956 | Rome 1960 | Tokyo 1964 | Mexico City 1968 | Munich 1972 | Montreal 1976 | Moscow 1980 | Los Angeles 1984 | Seoul 1988 | Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |

Women's Competition

Los Angeles 1984 | Seoul 1988 | Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |