The Sports Almanac



1976 Winter Olympics
Innsbruck, Austria

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 27 Medals
EAST GERMANY - 19 Medals
UNITED STATES - 10 Medals

Biathlon Bobsled Ice Hockey
Luge Figure Skating Speed Skating
Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping



1976 Innsbruck Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union
 13
 6
 8
 27
2
 East Germany 7
 5
 7
 19
3
 United States 3
 3
 4
 10
4
 West Germany 2
 5
 3
 10
5
 Norway 3
 3
 1
 7
6
 Finland
 2
 4
 1
 7
7
 Austria 2
 2
 2
 6
8
 Netherlands 1
 2
 3
 6
9
 Switzerland
 1
 3
 1
 5
10
 Italy 1
 2
 1
 4
11
 Canada 1
 1
 1
 3
12
 Liechtenstein 0
 0
 2
 2
13
 Sweden 0
 0
 2
 2
14
 Czechoslovakia
 0
 1
 0
 1
15
 Great Britain
 1
 0
 0
 1
16
 France
 0
 0
 1
 1

1976 Innsbruck Biathlon
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Nikolay Kruglov - Soviet Union
 Heikki Ikola - Finland
 Aleksandr Elizarov - Soviet Union
Relay Soviet Union
 Finland
 East Germany

1976 Innsbruck Boblsed
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Two-Man
 East Germany
 West Germany
 Switzerland
Four-Man
 East Germany Switzerland West Germany

1976 Innsbruck Ice Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Soviet Union
 Czechoslovakia
 West Germany

1976 Innsbruck Luge
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles
 Dettlef Günther - East Germany
 Josef Fendt - West Germany
 Hans Rinn - East Germany
Women's Singles
 Margit Schumann - East Germany
 Ute Rührold - East Germany
 Elisabeth Demleitner - West Germany
Doubles
 Hans Rinn, Norbert Hahn - East Germany Hans Brandner, Balthasar Schwarm - West Germany
 Rudolf Schmid, Franz Schachner - Austria

1976 Innsbruck Figure Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles John Curry - Great Britain
 Vladimir Kovalev - Soviet Union
 Toller Cranston - Canada
Women's Singles Dorothy Hamill - United States
 Dianne de Leeuw - Netherlands
 Christine Errath - East Germany
Pairs Irina Rodnina, Alexander Zaitsev - Soviet Union
 Romy Kermer, Rolf Österreich - East Germany
 Manuela Groß, Uwe Kagelmann - East Germany
Ice Dancing Lyudmila Pakhomova, Alexander Gorshkov - Soviet Union
 Irina Moiseeva, Andrei Minenkov - Soviet Union
 Colleen O'Connor, James Millns - United States

1976 Innsbruck Speed Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 500 Meters Yevgeny Kulikov - Soviet Union
 Valery Muratov - Soviet Union
 Dan Immerfall - United States
Women's 500 Meters Sheila Young - United States
 Cathy Priestner - Canada
 Tatyana Averina - Soviet Union
Men's 1000 Meters Peter Mueller - United States
 Jørn Didriksen - Norway
 Valery Muratov - Soviet Union
Women's 1000 Meters Tatyana Averina - Soviet Union Leah Poulos - United States
 Sheila Young - United States
Men's 1500 Meters Jan Egil Storholt - Norway
 Yury Kondakov - Soviet Union
 Hans van Helden - Netherlands
Women's 1500 Meters Galina Stepanskaya - Soviet Union
 Sheila Young - United States Tatyana Averina - Soviet Union
Women's 3000 Meters
 Tatyana Averina - Soviet Union Andrea Mitscherlich - East Germany
 Lisbeth Korsmo - Norway
Men's 5000 Meters
 Sten Stensen - Norway
 Piet Kleine - Netherlands
 Hans van Helden - Netherlands
Men's 10000 Meters
 Piet Kleine - Netherlands Sten Stensen - Norway Hans van Helden - Netherlands

1976 Innsbruck Alpine Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Downhill
 Franz Klammer - Austria
 Bernhard Russi - Switzerland
 Herbert Plank - Italy
Women's Downhill Rosi Mittermaier - West Germany
 Brigitte Totschnig - Austria
 Cindy Nelson - United States
Men's Slalom Piero Gros - Italy
 Gustav Thöni - Italy
 Willi Frommelt - Liechtenstein
Women's Slalom Rosi Mittermaier - West Germany Claudia Giordani - Italy
 Hanni Wenzel - Liechtenstein
Men's Giant Slalom Heini Hemmi - Switzerland
 Ernst Good - Switzerland
 Ingemar Stenmark - Sweden
Women's Giant Slalom
 Kathy Kreiner - Canada
 Rosi Mittermaier - West Germany Danièle Debernard - France

1976 Innsbruck Cross Country Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Women's 5KM
 Helena Takalo - Finland
 Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union
 Nina Baldycheva - Soviet Union
Women's 10KM Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union Helena Takalo - Finland Galina Kulakova - Soviet Union
Men's 15KM Nikolay Bazhukov - Soviet Union
 Yevgeny Belyayev - Soviet Union
 Arto Koivisto - Finland
Men's 30KM
 Sergey Savelyev - Soviet Union
 Bill Koch - United States
 Ivan Garanin - Soviet Union
Men's 50KM Ivar Formo - Norway
 Gert-Dietmar Klause - East Germany
 Benny Södergren - Sweden
Men's Relay Finland
 Norway
 Soviet Union
Women's Relay Soviet Union
 Finland
 East Germany

1976 Innsbruck Nordic Combined
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual
 Ulrich Wehling - East Germany
 Urban Hettich - West Germany
 Konrad Winkler - East Germany

1976 Innsbruck Ski Jumping
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Normal Hill
 Hans-Georg Aschenbach - East Germany
 Jochen Danneberg - East Germany
 Karl Schnabl - Austria
Large Hill
 Karl Schnabl - Austria Toni Innauer - Austria
 Henry Glaß - East Germany