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Games of the XXI Olympiad - Montreal 1976
Date: 17 July - 1 August.
Nations: 92.
Athletes: 6,028 (4,781 men, 1,247 women).
Sports: 21.
Events: 198.
Official opening of the Games by: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Olympic flame: - Stéphane Préfontaine and Sandra Henderson (athletics).
Olympic oath: - Pierre Saint-Jean (weightlifting).
Official oath: - Maurice Forget (athletics).
Number of medal-winning nations: 41.
National medal total:
1. USSR 125 (49, 41, 35).
   
                   
      The first mass boycott of the Games occurred in Montreal and it was led by Tanzania who demanded the expulsion of New Zealand because the national rugby team of New Zealand had toured South Africa, which had been at the time banned from the Olympic family due to the racism. A total of 29 nations (27 of which were African) left the Montreal Games. However, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia were numbered among the nations who competed in the Games, as some of their athletes had taken part in different tournaments before their governments decided to withdraw their athletes.
For the first time women competed in basketball, handball and roque. Irena Szewinska (Poland) won her seventh Olympic medal in five different events, Klaus Dibiasi (Italy) triumphed for the third consecutive time in the platform diving, and Viktor Saneyev (USSR) in the triple jump.
Yugoslavia participated with 88 athletes in 14 sports and won a total of 8 medal (2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze) that placed 16th on the national medal total list. Yugoslavia’s golds were won by Matija Ljubek and Momir Petković.

Candidate cities: Los Angeles and Moscow.

 
The Heroine of the Games:
Nadia Comăneci (Romania), three golds, a silver and a bronze along the Games’ first ever perfect scores of ten		  
               
     

SPORTS (21)

    
 		  
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weightlifting
  • Sailing
  • Canoe/kayak
  • Equestrian
  • Basketball
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling
  • Handball
  • Archery
  • Shooting
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Judo
  1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USSR 49 41 35
2. GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 40 25 25
3. USA 34 35 25
4. GERMANY 10 12 17
5. JAPAN 9 6 10
6. POLAND 7 6 13
7. BULGARIA 6 9 7
8. CUBA 6 4 3
9. ROMANIA 4 9 14
10. HUNGARY 4 5 13
11. FINLAND 4 2 0
12. SWEDEN 4 1 0
13. GREAT BRITAIN 3 5 5
14. ITALY 2 7 4
15. FRANCE 2 3 4
16. YUGOSLAVIA 2 3 3
17. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2 2 4
18. NEW ZEALAND 2 1 1
19. SOUTH KOREA 1 1 4
20. SWITZERLAND 1 1 2
21. JAMAICA 1 1 0
22. NORWAY 1 1 0
23. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1 1 0
24. DENMARK 1 0 2
25. MEXICO 1 0 1
26. TRINIDAD 1 0 0
27. CANADA 0 5 6
28. BELGIUM 0 3 3
29. NETHERLANDS 0 2 3
30. PORTUGAL 0 2 0
31. SPAIN 0 2 0
32. AUSTRALIA 0 1 4
33. IRAN 0 1 1
34. MONACO 0 1 0
35. VENEZUELA 0 1 0
36. BRAZIL 0 0 2
37. AUSTRIA 0 0 1
38. BERMUDA 0 0 1
39. PAKISTAN 0 0 1
40. PUERTO RICO 0 0 1
41. THAILAND 0 0 1
  Bermuda and Thailand won their first Olympic medals.  
             
           
                   
             
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