Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Basketball was contested at the 1976 Summer Olympics, as it has in every Summer Games since 1936. Women's basketball was introduced to the Olympic program for the first time at this Games.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	United States (USA) Phil Ford Steve Sheppard Adrian Dantley Walter Davis Quinn Buckner Ernie Grunfeld Kenneth Carr Scott May Tate Armstrong Tom LaGarde Philip Hubbard Mitch Kupchak	Yugoslavia (YUG) Blagoje Georgievski Dragan Kićanović Vinko Jelovac Rajko Žižić Željko Jerkov Andro Knego Zoran Slavnić Krešimir Ćosić Damir Šolman Žarko Varajić Dražen Dalipagić Mirza Delibašić	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Arzamaskov Aleksandr Salnikov Valery Miloserdov Alzhan Zharmukhamedov Andrei Makeev Ivan Edeshko Sergei Belov Vladimir Tkachenko Anatoly Myshkin Mikhail Korkiya Aleksandr Belov Vladimir Zhigily
Women's	Soviet Union (URS) Angelė Rupšienė Tatiana Zakharova-Nadirova Raisa Kurvyakova Olga Barisheva Tatiana Ovechkina Nadezhda Shuvayena Uljana Semjonova Nadezhda Zakharova Nelly Feriabnikova Olga Sukharnova Tamara Dauinene Natalya Kilmova	United States (USA) Cindy Brogdon Susan Rojcewicz Ann Meyers Lusia Harris Nancy Dunkle Charlotte Lewis Nancy Lieberman Gail Marquis Patricia Roberts Mary Anne O'Connor Patricia Head Julienne Simpson	Bulgaria (BUL) Nadka Golcheva Penka Metodieva Petkana Makaveyeva Snezhana Mihailova Krassima Gyurova Krassimira Bogdanova Todorka Yordanova Diana Dilova Margarita Shturkelova Mania Stoyanova Girgina Skerlatova Penka Stoyanova

[edit] Final ranking, men

1. USA
2. Yugoslavia
3. Soviet Union
4. Canada
5. Italy
6. Czechoslovakia
7. Cuba
8. Australia
9. Puerto Rico
10. Mexico
11. Japan
12. Egypt

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