Sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, six events in sailing were contested. Two events were for men only, and the other four were open events for men and women. Races were held on Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Open events 2 Medal table 3 References

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
470 class	West Germany (FRG) Frank Hübner Harro Bode	Spain (ESP) Antonio Gorostegui Pedro Millet	Australia (AUS) Ian Brown Ian Ruff
Finn class	Jochen Schümann East Germany (GDR)	Andrei Balashov Soviet Union (URS)	John Bertrand Australia (AUS)

[edit] Open events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flying Dutchman class	West Germany (FRG) Jörg Diesch Eckart Diesch	Great Britain (GBR) Rodney Pattisson Julian Brooke-Houghton	Brazil (BRA) Reinaldo Conrad Peter Ficker
Soling class	Denmark (DEN) Poul Jensen Valdemar Bandolowski Erik Hansen	United States (USA) John Kolius Walter Glasgow Richard Hoepfner	East Germany (GDR) Dieter Below Michael Zachries Olaf Engelhardt
Tempest class Replacing the Star class for this one Olympics.	Sweden (SWE) John Albrechtson Ingvar Hansson	Soviet Union (URS) Valentyn Mankin Vladislav Akimenko	United States (USA) Dennis Conner Conn Findlay
Tornado class	Great Britain (GBR) Reginald White John Osborn	United States (USA) David McFaull Michael Rothwell	West Germany (FRG) Jörg Spengler Jörg Schmall

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	2	0	1	3
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
3	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
4	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	2	1	3
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
8	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
9	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
10	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] References

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-22.

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