Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Dates	August 1
Competitors	67 from 36 nations
Winning time	2:09:55
Medalists
Waldemar Cierpinski   East Germany   Frank Shorter   United States   Karel Lismont   Belgium

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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 17.30 local time. There were 67 competitors from 36 countries. Seven of them did not finish.

Final ranking

Waldemar Cierpinski, 1976 Summer Olympics Men's Marathon winner

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Waldemar Cierpinski (GDR)	2:09:55
2	Frank Shorter (USA)	2:10:45
3	Karel Lismont (BEL)	2:11:12
4.	Don Kardong (USA)	2:11:15
5.	Lasse Virén (FIN)	2:13:10
6.	Jerome Drayton (CAN)	2:13:30
7.	Leonid Moseyev (URS)	2:13:33
8.	Franco Fava (ITA)	2:14:24
9.	Alexander Gotsky (URS)	2:15:34
10.	Henri Schoofs (BEL)	2:15:52
11.	Shivnath Singh (IND)	2:16:22
12.	Sop Choe-Chang (PRK)	2:16:33
13.	Massimo Magnani (ITA)	2:16:56
14.	Göran Bengtsson (SWE)	2:17:39
15.	Kazimier Orzel (POL)	2:17:43
16.	Hakan Spik (FIN)	2:17:50
17.	Jack Foster (NZL)	2:17:53
18.	Mario Cuevas (MEX)	2:18:08
19.	Rodolfo Gómez (MEX)	2:18:21
20.	Shigeru So (JPN)	2:18:26
21.	Noriyasu Mizukami (JPN)	2:18:44
22.	Anacleto Pinto (POR)	2:18:53
23.	José de Jesus (PUR)	2:19:34
24.	Yuri Velikorodny (URS)	2:19:45
25.	Jos Hermens (NED)	2:19:48
26.	Jeffrey Norman (GBR)	2:20:04
27.	Jukka Toivola (FIN)	2:20:46
28.	Jørgen Jensen (DEN)	2:20:44
29.	Michail Kousis (GRE)	2:21:42
30.	Tom Howard (CAN)	2:22:08
31.	Keith Angus (GBR)	2:22:18
32.	Akio Usami (JPN)	2:22:29
33.	Rigoberto Mendoza (CUB)	2:22:43
34.	Fernand Kolbeck (FRA)	2:22:56
35.	Christopher Wardlaw (AUS)	2:23:56
36.	Wayne Yetman (CAN)	2:24:17
37.	Hüseyin Aktas (TUR)	2:24:30
38.	Veli Balli (TUR)	2:24:47
39.	James McNamara (IRL)	2:24:57
40.	Bill Rodgers (USA)	2:25:14
41.	Hipolito Lopez (HON)	2:26:00
42.	Danny McDaid (IRL)	2:27:07
43.	Cardozo Eusebio Asuncion (PAR)	2:27:22
44.	Kim Chang-Son (PRK)	2:27:38
45.	Barry Watson (GBR)	2:28:32
46.	Agustin Fernández-Diaz (ESP)	2:28:37
47.	Jerzy Gros (POL)	2:28:45
48.	Jairo Cubillos (COL)	2:29:04
49.	Luis Raudales (HON)	2:29:25
50.	Baikuntha Manandhar (NEP)	2:30:07
51.	Antônio Banos (ESP)	2:31:01
52.	Goh Chun-Son (PRK)	2:31:54
53.	Victor Serrano (PUR)	2:34:59
54.	Günter Mielke (FRG)	2:35:44
55.	Neil Cusack (IRL)	2:35:47
56.	Tau John Tokwepota (PNG)	2:38:04
57.	Victor Idava (PHI)	2:38:23
58.	Raymond Swan (BER)	2:39:18
59.	John Kokinai (PNG)	2:41:49
60.	Lucio Gauchalla (BOL)	2:45:31
—	Dave Chettle (AUS)	DNF
—	Ross Haywood (AUS)	DNF
—	Rafael Mora (COL)	DNF
—	Santiago Manguan (ESP)	DNF
—	Thanaude Dezart (HAI)	DNF
—	Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA)	DNF
—	Kevin Ryan (NZL)	DNF

References

• (English) Official Report
• (French) Marathon Info