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XII GAMES - INNSBRUCK 1976
Date: 4 - 15 February.
Nations: 37.
Athletes: 1,123 (231 women, 892 men).
Sports: 6.
Events: 37.
Official opening of the Games by: President Dr. Rudolf Kirschschläger.
Olympic flame: Christl Haas (Alpine skiing) and Josef Feistmantl (luge).
Olympic oath:
 Werner Delle-Karth (bobsleigh).
Official oath:
Willy Köstinger (Nordic combined).
Number of medal-winning nations: 16.
National medal total:
1. USSR 27 (13, 6, 8).
   
                   
      The Games had been awarded to Denver (USA) but as the city withdrew in 1974 due to the opposition of public, Innsbruck stepped in, twelve years after hosting its first Games.
Tatyana Averina (USSR) won the most medals – two golds and two bronzes in speed skating, but more successful was Alpine skier Rosi Mittermaier, who had missed the third gold by 12 hundredths of a second.
For the first time the ice dancing was included in the programme. The USSR won their fourth consecutive hockey gold.
Yugoslavia competed in Alpine skiing (Bojan Križaj debuted with the 18th place in the slalom) cross country skiing and ice hockey (the 3rd place in group “B″, the 11th place overall).

Candidate cities: Denver, Sion, Tampere/Are and Vancouver.		  
The most successful athlete: Austria’s Rosi Mittermaier (Alpine skiing), two golds and a silver 		 
     

SPORTS (6)

      
     
  • Bobsleigh
  • Biathlon
  • Luge
  • Skiing
  • Skating
  • Ice Hockey
     
             
     

National medal total

  Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Pts
1. USSR 13 6 8 27 59
2. GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 7 5 7 19 38
3. USA 3 3 4 10 19
4. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 2 5 3 10 19
5. NORWAY 3 3 1 7 16
6. FINLAND 2 4 1 7 15
7. AUSTRIA 2 2 2 6 12
8. SWITZERLAND 1 3 1 5 10
8. NETHERLANDS 1 2 3 6 10
10. ITALY 1 2 1 4 8
11. CANADA 1 1 1 3 6
12. GREAT BRITAIN 1 9 9 1 3
13. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 0 1 0 1 2
14. LIECHTENSTEIN 0 0 2 2 2
15. SWEDEN 0 0 2 2 2
16. FRANCE 0 0 1 1 1
  TOTAL 37 37 37 111 222
     
             
      Sixteen nations won medals. An average number of medals won per nation was 6.9. The most successful nation won 24.3 per cent of the total number of medals.      
                 
                   
             
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