Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 1000 m		men

Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada consisted of 11 events, all in canoe sprint, held at the rowing basin on Île Notre-Dame. The canoe slalom events introduced at the previous Games in Munich were not included in the Montreal program though four 500 m events for men were (C-1, C-2, K-1, and K-2).

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Aleksandr Rogov  Soviet Union	John Wood  Canada	Matija Ljubek  Yugoslavia
C-1 1000 metres	Matija Ljubek  Yugoslavia	Vasyl Yurchenko  Soviet Union	Tamás Wichmann  Hungary
C-2 500 meters	Serhei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov  Soviet Union	Jerzy Opara and Andrzej Gronowicz  Poland	Tamás Buday and Oszkár Frey  Hungary
C-2 1000 metres	Serhei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov  Soviet Union	Gheorge Danielov and Gheorghe Simionov  Romania	Tamás Buday and Oszkár Frey  Hungary
K-1 500 metres	Vasile Dîba  Romania	Zoltán Sztanity  Hungary	Rüdiger Helm  East Germany
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm  East Germany	Géza Csapó  Hungary	Vasile Dîba  Romania
K-2 500 metres	Joachim Mattern and Bernd Olbricht  East Germany	Serhei Nahorny and Vladimir Romanovsky  Soviet Union	Larion Serghei and Policarp Malîhin  Romania
K-2 1000 metres	Serhei Nahorny and Vladimir Romanovsky  Soviet Union	Joachim Mattern and Bernd Olbricht  East Germany	Zoltán Bakó and István Szabó  Hungary
K-4 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Sergei Chukhray Aleksandr Degtyarev Yuri Filatov Volodymyr Morozov	Spain (ESP) José María Esteban José Ramón López Herminio Menéndez Luis Gregorio Ramos	East Germany (GDR) Frank-Peter Bischof Bernd Duvigneau Rüdiger Helm Jürgen Lehnert

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Carola Zirzow  East Germany	Tatiana Korshunova  Soviet Union	Klára Rajnai  Hungary
K-2 500 metres	Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft  Soviet Union	Anna Pfeffer and Klára Rajnai  Hungary	Bärbel Köster and Carola Zirzow  East Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	3	0	9
2	East Germany (GDR)	3	1	3	7
3	Romania (ROU)	1	1	2	4
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	3	5	8
6	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1

References

• 1976 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 167–85. (English) & (French)