Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada consisted of 11 events, all in flatwater racing. The slalom canoeing events introduced at the previous Games in Munich were not included in the Montreal program.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Aleksandr Rogov Soviet Union (URS)	John Wood Canada (CAN)	Matija Ljubek Yugoslavia (YUG)
C-1 1000 metres	Matija Ljubek Yugoslavia (YUG)	Vasyl Yurchenko Soviet Union (URS)	Tamás Wichmann Hungary (HUN)
C-2 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Serhei Petrenko Aleksandr Vinogradov	Poland (POL) Andrzej Gronowicz Jerzy Opara	Hungary (HUN) Tamás Buday Oszkár Frey
C-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Serhei Petrenko Aleksandr Vinogradov	Romania (ROM) Gheorghe Danielov Gheorghe Simionov	Hungary (HUN) Tamás Buday Oszkár Frey
K-1 500 metres	Vasile Dîba Romania (ROM)	Zoltán Sztanity Hungary (HUN)	Rüdiger Helm East Germany (GDR)
K-1 1000 metres	Rüdiger Helm East Germany (GDR)	Géza Csapó Hungary (HUN)	Vasile Dîba Romania (ROM)
K-2 500 metres	East Germany (GDR) Joachim Mattern Bernd Olbricht	Soviet Union (URS) Serhei Nahorny Vladimir Romanovsky	Romania (ROM) Larion Serghei Policarp Malihin
K-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Serhei Nahomy Vladimir Romanovsky	East Germany (GDR) Joachim Mattern Bernd Olbricht	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Bakó István Szabó
K-4 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Serhei Chukhray Aleksandr Degtyarev Yuri Filatov Volodymyr Morozov	Spain (ESP) José María Esteban Celorrio José Ramón López Diaz-Flor Herminio Menéndez Rodriguez Luis Gregoria Ramos Misioné	East Germany (GDR) Peter Bischof Bernd Duvigneau Rüdiger Helm Jürgen Lehnert

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Carola Zirow East Germany (GDR)	Tatiana Korshunova Soviet Union (URS)	Klára Rajnai Hungary (HUN)
K-2 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Gopova Galina Kreft	Hungary (HUN) Anna Pfeffer Klára Rajnai	East Germany (GDR) Bärbel Köster Carola Zirzow

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	3	0	9
2	East Germany (GDR)	3	1	3	7
3	Romania (ROM)	1	1	2	4
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	3	5	8
6	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1

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