1976 Summer Olympics medal table

The 1976 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, Canada, from July 17 to August 1, 1976. A total of 6,084 athletes from 96 countries participated in these Games, competing in 198 events in 23 sports.cite web | title = Montreal 1976–Games of the XXI Olympiad | publisher = International Olympic Committee | url = http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1976 | accessdate = 2008-03-24 ]

Twenty-eight African countries boycotted these Games. [cite journal | title = Africa and the XXIst Olympiad | author = (ed.) Berlioux , Monique | journal = Olympic Review | url = http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1976/ore109/ore109h.pdf | issue = 109–110 | year = 1976 | month = November–December | pages = pp. 584–585 | publisher = International Olympic Committee | location = Lausanne | accessdate=2008-03-24] This decision was taken in response to the participation of New Zealand, because its national rugby union team (the All Blacks) continued to play rugby with South Africa, which had been banned from the Olympic movement since 1964 due to its apartheid policies. [cite web | title = 1976: African countries boycott Olympics | publisher = BBC | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17/newsid_3555000/3555450.stm | accessdate = 2008-03-24 ]

Athletes from 41 countries won at least one medal, leaving 55 countries in blank in the medal table. The Soviet Union won the highest number of gold medals (49) and overall medals (125). Thailand and Bermuda won the first medals in their Olympic history, with Bermuda still being the least populous nation to ever win an Olympic medal. Canada became the first host nation failing to win a gold medal. [cite web | title = History: 1976 Montreal | publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | url = http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/2004/1976.html | accessdate = 2008-04-02]

Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union won seven medals (four gold, two silver and one bronze medals), becoming the most medalled athlete in these Games. [cite web | title = Nikolay Andrianov–The Only Man to Win 15 Medals | publisher = International Olympic Committee | url = http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=44465 | accessdate = 2008-03-31]

Medal table

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee,cite web| title = Montreal 1976–Medal Table | publisher = International Olympic Committee | url = http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/table_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1976| accessdate = 2008-03-24] although that organization does not officially recognize global ranking per country.

A total of 198 events in 23 different sports were contested at the Montreal Games. ["Aquatics" includes swimming, diving, and water polo.] [cite web | title = Montreal 1976–Sports on the program | publisher = International Olympic Committee | url = http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/programme_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1976 | accessdate = 2008-03-24 ] In boxing and judo, two bronze medals were awarded for each weight class. In gymnastics, two bronze medals were awarded for third–place ties in the men's pommel horse and men's horizontal bar events, and a second–place tie in the women's vault resulted in two silver medals and no bronze medal awarded for that event. [cite book |title=Games of the XXI Olympiad Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III Results |author=(ed.) Chantigny, Louis |publisher=COJO 76 |location=Montreal |year=1978 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1976/1976v3.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=2008-04-02]

The countries are ranked by the number of gold medals won by the athletes of that country. If countries are tied, first the number of silver medals is taken into consideration and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

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