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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 37 events were contested in athletics. There were a total number of 1005 participating athletes from 80 countries. The men's 50 kilometres walk competition was dropped from the Olympic athletics programme, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world ...
1976 Summer Olympics; Track events; ... The decathlon consists of ten track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres details: Hasely Crawford Trinidad and Tobago 10.06 Don Quarrie Jamaica 10.08 Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union 10.14 200 metres details: Don Quarrie
United States at the1976 Summer Olympics. The United States competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] 396 competitors, 278 men and 118 women, took part in 189 events in 19 sports. [2]
Decathlon. men. v. t. e. The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was held at Olympic Stadium on July 23 and 24. [1] Sixty-three athletes from 40 nations competed. [2] Each nation was limited to 3 athletes per rules in force since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
He led the field through 1,000 metres in 2:41.25 and at 2,000 metres in 5:26.39. After 2,100 metres, the three-time Olympic champion Lasse Virén of Finland passed Foster, but surprisingly slowed the pace down. He jogged the next two laps in the lead, passing 3,000 metres in 8:16.23. At once after 3,000 metres, Foster accelerated into the lead ...
This was the eighteenth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Two finalists, but no medalists, from 1972 returned: sixth-place finisher Markku Kukkoaho of Finland and seventh-place Karl Honz of West Germany.
The men's 800 metres event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was held on July 23, 1976, July 24, 1976, and on July 25, 1976. [1] Forty-two athletes from 31 nations competed. [2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by 0.36 seconds by Alberto Juantorena of Cuba, the ...