Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Montreal
Competitors410 (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)
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–)
Ukraine (1994–)
Uzbekistan (1994–)
Azerbaijan (1996–)
Tajikistan (1996–)
Turkmenistan (1996–)

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 Soviet segment was performed at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

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)Silver
  • Zebiniso Rustamova — 2407 points (→ Bronze medal)Bronze

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

  • Heat — 39.98
  • Semifinal — 39.36
  • Final — 38.78s (→ Bronze medal.svg 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.svg 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

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

  • Final — 20.96 m (→ Silver medal.svg Silver medal)
  • 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 medalMed 3.png
  • Team roster
  • Vladimir Arzamaskov
  • Aleksandr Salnikov
  • Valery Miloserdov
  • Alshan Sharmukhamedov
  • Andrei Makeev
  • Ivan Edeshko
  • Sergei Belov
  • Vladimir Tkachenko
  • Anatoly Myshkin
  • Mikheil Korkia
  • Aleksandr Belov
  • Vladimir Zhigily
Women's team competition
  • Team roster
  • Angelė Rupšienė
  • Tatiana Zakharova-Nadirova
  • Raisa Kurvyakova
  • Olga Barisheva
  • Tatiana Ovechkina
  • Nadezhda Shuvayena
  • Uljana Semjonova
  • Nadezhda Zakharova
  • Nelly Feriabnikova
  • Olga Sukharnova
  • Tamara Dauinene
  • Natalya Kilmova
  • 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), walk-over
    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 MedalBronze

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
  • Anatoly Chukanov
  • Valery Chaplygin
  • Vladimir Kaminsky
  • Aavo Pikkuus
Sprint
  • Sergey Kravtsov — 7th place
1000m time trial
  • Eduard Rapp — DSQ (→ 30th place)
Individual pursuit
  • Vladimir Osokin — 4th place
Team pursuit
  • Vladimir Osokin
  • Aleksandr Perov
  • Vitaly Petrakov
  • Viktor Sokolov

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 sabre event.[2]

Men's foil
  • Aleksandr Romankov
  • Vasyl Stankovych
  • Vladimir Denisov
Men's team foil
  • Sabirzhan Ruziyev, Aleksandr Romankov, Vladimir Denisov, Vasyl Stankovych
Men's épée
  • Boris Lukomsky
  • Aleksandr Bykov
  • Aleksandr Abushakhmetov
Men's team épée
  • Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, Viktor Modzalevsky, Vasyl Stankovych, Aleksandr Bykov, Boris Lukomsky
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
  • Yelena Novikova-Belova
  • Valentina Sidorova
  • Olga Knyazeva
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
  • Pavel Lednyov
  • Boris Mosolov
  • Borys Onyshchenko
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
  • Evgeni Barbakov
  • Gennadi Korshikov
Men's coxless pair
  • Gennadi Kinko
  • Tiit Helmja
Men's coxed pair
  • Dmitry Bekhterev
  • Yuriy Shurkalov
  • Yuriy Lorentsson (cox)
Men's quadruple sculls
  • Yevgeniy Duleyev
  • Yuriy Yakimov
  • Aivars Lazdenieks
  • Vytautas Butkus
Men's coxless four
  • Raul Arnemann
  • Nikolay Kuznetsov
  • Valeriy Dolinin
  • Anushavan Gassan-Dzhalalov
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
  • Aleksandr Shitov
  • Antanas Čikotas
  • Vasily Potapov
  • Aleksandr Plyushkin
  • Anatoly Nemtyryov
  • Igor Konnov
  • Anatoly Ivanov
  • Vladimir Vasilyev
  • Vladimir Zharov (cox)
Women's competition
Women's single sculls
  • Yelena Antonova
Women's double sculls
  • Eleonora Kaminskaitė
  • Genovaitė Ramoškienė
Women's coxless pair
  • Nataliya Horodilova
  • Hanna Karnaushenko
Women's coxed four
  • Nadezhda Sevostyanova
  • Lyudmila Krokhina
  • Galina Mishenina
  • Anna Pasokha
  • Lidiya Krylova (cox)
Women's quadruple sculls
  • Anna Kondrachina
  • Mira Bryunina
  • Larisa Popova
  • Galina Yermolayeva
  • Nadezhda Chernyshyova (cox)
Women's eight
  • Lyubov Talalaeva
  • Nadezhda Roshchina
  • Klavdija Koženkova
  • Olena Zubko
  • Olha Kolkova
  • Nelli Tarakanova
  • Nadiya Rozhon
  • Olha Huzenko
  • Olha Puhovska (cox)

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 medalMed 2.png
  • Team roster
  • Anatoly Polyshuk
  • Vyaschelav Zaitsev
  • Efim Chulak
  • Vladimir Dorohov
  • Aleksandr Ermilov
  • Pavel Selivanov
  • Oleg Moliboga
  • Vladimir Kondra
  • Yuri Starunski
  • Vladimir Chernyshev
  • Vladimir Ulanov
  • Aleksandr Savin
  • Yuri Chesnokov
  • 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 medalMed 2.png
  • Team roster
  • Anna Rostova
  • Lyudmila Shetinina
  • Lilia Osadchaya
  • Natalya Kushnyr
  • Olga Kozakova
  • Nina Smoleeva
  • Ljubov Rudovskaya
  • Larissa Bergen
  • Inna Ryskal
  • Lyudmila Chernysheva
  • Zoya Ilusova
  • Nina Muradyan
  • Head coach: Givi Ahvlediani

Water polo

Men's team competition
  • Team roster
  • Aleksey Barkalov
  • Aleksandr Dolgushin
  • Aleksandr Dreval
  • Aleksandr Kabanov
  • Aleksandr Zakharov
  • Anatoly Klebanov
  • Nikolay Melnikov
  • Nugzar Mshvenyeradze
  • Sergey Kotenko
  • Vitaly Romanchuk
  • Vladimir Iselidze

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.

RankRepublicGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russian SFSR605640156
2 Ukrainian SSR27222271
3 Byelorussian SSR75517
4 Kazakh SSR7209
5 Georgian SSR3126
6 Lithuanian SSR2237
7 Latvian SSR2226
8 Azerbaijan SSR2103
9 Armenian SSR1315
10 Estonian SSR1001
11 Uzbek SSR0112
12 Moldavian SSR0101
13 Tajik SSR0011
Totals (13 republics)1129677285

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 Gold Silver Bronze 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

  1. ^ "Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  2. ^ "Fencing at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  3. ^ 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
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