Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

Poland at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
IOC code
  
POL

7
  
6

Website
  
www.pkol.pl (Polish)

Poland at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Competitors
  
207 (180 men and 27 women) in 18 sports

MedalsRanked 6th
  
GoldSilverBronzeTotal761326

Poland competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 207 competitors, 180 men and 27 women, took part in 116 events in 18 sports.

Contents

Gold

  • Irena Szewińska — Athletics, Women's 400 metres
  • Jacek Wszola — Athletics, Men's High Jump
  • Tadeusz Ślusarski — Athletics, Men's Pole Vault
  • Jerzy Rybicki — Boxing, Men's Light-Middleweight (67–71 kg)
  • Janusz Pyciak-Peciak — Modern Pentathlon, individual
  • Włodzimierz Stefański, Bronislaw Bebel, Lech Łasko, Edward Skorek, Tomasz Wójtowicz, Wiesław Gawłowski, Mirosław Rybaczewski, Zbigniew Lubiejewski, Ryszard Bosek, Włodzimierz Sadalski, Zbigniew Zarzycki, Marek Karbarz, and Hubert Wagner (as coach); Volleyball, Men's Team Competition
  • Kazimierz Lipień — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman (57–62 kg)
  • Silver

  • Bronisław Malinowski — Athletics, Men's 3.000m Steeplechase
  • Zbigniew Jaremski, Andrej Kupczyk, Ryszard Podlas, and Jan Werner — Athletics, 4 × 400 m relay men
  • Tadeusz Mytnik, Mieczysław Nowicki, Stanisław Szozda, and Ryszard Szurkowski — Cycling Road, Men's Team Time Trial
  • Andrzej Gronowicz and Jerzy Opara — Canoe / Kayak, Men's Flatwater C-2 500 m (canoe double)
  • Jan Benigier, Lesław Ćmikiewicz, Kazimierz Deyna, Jerzy Gorgoń, Henryk Kasperczak, Kazimierz Kmiecik, Grzegorz Lato, Zygmunt Maszczyk, Piotr Mowlik, Roman Ogaza, Wojciech Rudy, Andrzej Szarmach, Antoni Szymanowski, Jan Tomaszewski, Henryk Wawrowski, Henryk Wieczorek, and Władysław Żmuda — Football, Men's Team Competition
  • Grzegorz Cziura — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight
  • Bronze

  • Leszek Błażyński — Boxing, Men's Flyweight (48–51 kg)
  • Leszek Kosedowski — Boxing, Men's Featherweight (54–57 kg)
  • Kazimierz Szczerba — Boxing, Men's Light-Welterweight (60–63.5 kg)
  • Janusz Gortat — Boxing, Men's Light-Heavyweight (75–81 kg)
  • Mieczysław Nowicki — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
  • Zdzisław Antczak, Janusz Brzozowski, Piotr Cieśla, Jan Gmyrek, Alfred Kałuziński, Jerzy Klempel, Zygfryd Kuchta, Jerzy Melcer, Ryszard Przybysz, Henryk Rozmiarek, Andrzej Sokołowski, Andrzej Szymczak, Mieczysław Wojczak, and Włodzimierz Zieliński — Handball, Men's Team Competition
  • Marian Tałaj — Judo, Men's Half-Middleweight (63–70 kg)
  • Wiesław Gawlikowski — Shooting, skeet (125 targets) Mixed
  • Jerzy Greszkiewicz — Shooting, 50 m running target (30+30 shots) Mixed
  • Kazimierz Czarnecki — Weightlifting, 60–67.5 kg, total (lightweight)
  • Tadeusz Rutkowski — Weightlifting, 91–110 kg, total (heavyweight) Men
  • Czesław Kwieciński — Wrestling Greco-Roman, 82–90 kg (light-heavyweight)
  • Andrzej Skrzydlewski — Wrestling Greco-Roman, 90–100 kg (heavyweight)
  • Archery

    Poland entered two women and two men in the archery competition. It was the second time that Poland had sent archers to the Olympics. After winning a silver medal in the women's competition in 1972, Poland's best finisher in 1976 was Jadwiga Wilejto at 6th place. Both of the Polish men, however, improved considerably on the best male competitor of four years before. Poland placed eighth on the national leaderboard for archery.

    Men
    Women

    Athletics

    Men
    Track & road events
    Field events
    Combined events – Decathlon
    Women
    Track & road events
    Field events

    Results have been removed due to her disqualification for using anabolic steroids, the first case of such a disqualification in the sport at the Olympics.

    Boxing

    Men

    Sprint

    Men
    Women

    Track

    1000m time trial
    Men's Sprint
    Pursuit

    Fencing

    18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented Poland in 1976.

    Group C

  • **Ghana withdrew
  • Team roster

     PolandSilver Medal

    Artistic

    Men
    Individual finals

    Roster

     Poland - Bronze Medal

    Judo

    Men

    Modern pentathlon

    Three male pentathletes represented Poland in 1976. Janusz Pyciak-Peciak won an individual gold medal.

    Rowing

    Men
    Women

    Sailing

    Open

    Shooting

    Open

    Swimming

    Men
    Women

    Gold medal match

  • Team Roster
  •  Poland - Gold Medal

    Weightlifting

    Men

    Wrestling

    Men's freestyle
    Men's Greco-Roman

    References

    Poland at the 1976 Summer Olympics Wikipedia


    Similar Topics