The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the city of Montreal, Canada. 410 competitors, 285 men and 125 women, took part in 189 events in 22 sports.
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's rings
Svetlana Grozdova, Elvira Saadi, Maria Filatova, Olga Korbut, Ludmilla Tourischeva and Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's team competition
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's vault
Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's vault
Viktor Saneyev — athletics, men's triple jump
Yuri Sedykh — athletics, men's hammer throw
Tatyana Kazankina — athletics, women's 800m
Tatyana Kazankina — athletics, women's 1500m
Angele Rupshene, Tatjana Zakharova, Raisa Kurvyakova, Olga Barisheva, Tatjana Ovetchkina, Nadezhda Shuvaeva, Uljana Semjonova, Nadezhda Zakharova, Nelli Feryabnikova, Olga Sukharnova, Tamara Daunene and Natalia Klimova — basketball, women's team competition
Aleksandr Rogov — canoeing, men's C1 500m
Sergei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov — canoeing, men's C2 500m
Sergei Petrenko and Aleksandr Vinogradov — canoeing, men's C2 1000m
Sergei Nagornyi and Vladimir Romanovsky — canoeing, men's K2 1000m
Sergei Chukhrai, Aleksandr Degtyarev, Yuri Filatov and Vladimir Morozov — canoeing, men's K4 1000m
Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft — canoeing, women's K2 500m
Anatoli Chukanov, Valeri Chaplygin, Vladimir Kaminsky and Aavo Pikkuus — cycling road, men's team time trial
Elena Vaytsekhovskaya — diving, women's 10m platform
Elena Novikova-Belova, Olga Knyazeva, Valentina Sidorova, Nailia Giliazova and Valentina Nikonova — fencing, women's foil team
Viktor Krovopuskov — fencing, men's sabre individual
Viktor Krovopuskov, Eduard Vinokurov, Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov and Mikhail Burtsev — fencing, men's sabre team
Aleksandr Resanov, Nikolay Tomin, Sergey Kushniryuk, Jury Lagutin, Vladimir Maksimov, Jury Kidyaev, Jury Klimov, Vladimir Kravtsov, Valery Gassy, Vasily Ilyin, Mikhail Ishchenko, Aleksandr Anpilogov, Yevgeni Chernyshov and Anatoly Fedyukin — handball, men's team competition
Natalya Timoshkina-Sherstyuk, Zinaida Turchina, Halyna Zakharova, Rafiga Shabanova, Lyudmila Shubina, Lyubov Odinokova-Berezhnaya, Lyudmila Panchuk, Lyudmila Poradnik-Bobrus, Mariya Litoshenko, Nina Lobova, Aldona Neneniene-Cesaitìte, Tatyana Glushchenko, Larisa Karlova and Tatyana Kotchergina-Makarets — handball, women's team competition
Sergei Novikov — judo, men's heavyweight
Vladimir Nevzorov — judo, men's half-middleweight
Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Klepikov, Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox), and Aleksandr Sema — rowing, men's four-oared shell with coxswain
Aleksandr Gazov — shooting, men's running game target
Marina Kosheveya — swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
Aleksandr Voronin — weightlifting, men's flyweight
Nikolay Kolesnikov — weightlifting, men's featherweight
Pyotr Korol — weightlifting, men's lightweight
Valery Shary — weightlifting, men's light heavyweight
David Rigert — weightlifting, men's middle heavyweight
Yury Zaytsev — weightlifting, men's heavyweight
Vasily Alekseyev — weightlifting, men's super heavyweight
Aleksey Shumakov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light flyweight
Vitaly Konstantinov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman flyweight
Suren Nalbandyan — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman lightweight
Anatoly Bykov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman welterweight
Valery Rezantsev — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight
Nikolay Balboshin — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman heavyweight
Aleksandr Kolchinsky — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight
Vladimir Yumin — wrestling, men's freestyle bantamweight
Pavel Pynigyn — wrestling, men's freestyle lightweight
Levan Tediashvili — wrestling, men's freestyle light heavyweight
Ivan Yarygin — wrestling, men's freestyle heavyweight
Soslan Andiyev — wrestling, men's freestyle super heavyweight
Valentyna Kovpan — archery, women's individual competition
Olga Korbut — artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
Vladimir Marchenko — artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
Ludmilla Tourischeva — artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
Nellie Kim — artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-around
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars
Alexander Dityatin — artistic gymnastics, men's rings
Vladimir Tikhonov, Gennadi Kryssin, Vladimir Marchenko, Alexander Dityatin, Vladimir Markelov and Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's team competition
Ludmilla Tourischeva — artistic gymnastics, women's vault
Yevgeny Mironov — athletics, men's shot tut
Aleksey Spiridonov — athletics, men's hammer throw
Tatyana Anisimova — athletics, women's 100m hurdles
Nadezhda Chizhova — athletics, women's shot put
Rufat Riskiev — boxing, men's 71–75 kg
Vasili Yurchenko — canoeing, men's C-1 1000m
Tatyana Korshunova — canoeing, women's K-1 500m
Sergei Nagornyi, Vladimir Romanovsky — canoeing, men's K-2 500m
Vladimir Osokin, Aleksandr Perov, Vitali Petrakov and Viktor Sokolov — cycling, men's team pursuit
Aleksander Romankov — fencing, men's foil individual
Vladimir Nazlymov — fencing, men's sabre individual
Valeri Dvoinikov — judo, men's middleweight
Ramaz Kharshiladze — judo, men's half-heavyweight
Pavel Lednev — modern pentathlon, men's individual competition
Lyubov Talalaeva, Nadezhda Roshchina, Klavdiya Kozenkova, Elena Zubko, Olga Kolkova, Nelli Tarakanova, Nadezhda Rozgon, Olga Guzenko and Olga Pugovskaya — rowing, women's eight with coxswain
Dmitri Bekhterev, Yuri Shurkalov and Yuri Lorentson — rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswain
Anna Kondrashina, Mira Bryunina, Larissa Alexandrova-Popova, Galina Ermolaeva and Nadezhda Chernyshyova — rowing, women's quadruple sculls with coxswain
Yevgeniy Duleyev, Yuriy Yakimov, Aivar Lazdenieks and Vytautas Butkus — rowing, men's quadruple sculls without coxswain
Andrey Balashov — sailing, men's Finn
Vladislav Akimenko and Valentyn Mankin — sailing, men's tempest
Aleksandr Kedyarov — shooting, men's running game target
Andrey Bogdanov, Sergey Kopliakov, Andrey Krylov and Vladimir Raskatov — swimming, men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Lyubov Rusanova — swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
Marina Yurchenya — swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
Aleksandr Yermilov, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Yury Starunsky, Vladimir Ulanov, Anatoly Polishchuk, Aleksandr Savin, Pavel Selivanov, Vladimir Kondra, Oleg Moliboga, Vladimir Chernyshov, Yefim Chulak and Vladimir Dorokhov — volleyball, men's team competition
Zoya Yusova, Inna Ryskal, Lyudmila Shchetinina, Nina Smoleyeva, Liliya Osadchaya, Anna Rostova, Lyubov Rudovskaya, Olga Kozakova, Natalya Kushnir, Nina Muradyan, Larisa Bergen and Lyudmila Chernyshova — volleyball, women's team competition
Vardan Militosyan — weightlifting, men's middleweight
Nelson Davidyan — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
Vladimir Cheboksarov — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman middleweight
Roman Dimitriyev — wrestling, men's freestyle light flyweight
Aleksandr Ivanov — wrestling, men's freestyle flyweight
Viktor Novozhilov — wrestling, men's freestyle middleweight
Zebiniso Rustamova — archery, women's individual competition
Ludmilla Tourischeva — artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-around
Nikolai Andrianov — artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
Valeriy Borzov — athletics, men's 100m
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko — athletics, men's 400m hurdles
Aleksandr Aksinin, Valeriy Borzov, Nikolay Kolesnikov and Juris Silovs — athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relay
Alexandr Baryshnikov — athletics, men's shot put men
Mykola Avilov — athletics, men's decathlon
Anatoliy Bondarchuk — athletics, men's hammer throw
Natalya Lebedeva — athletics, women's 100m hurdles
Vera Anisimova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Lyudmila Maslakova and Tatyana Prorochenko — athletics, women's 4 × 100 m relay
Lyudmila Aksyonova, Nadezhda Ilyina, Inta Kļimoviča and Natalya Sokolova — athletics, women's 4 × 400 m relay
Lidiya Alfeyeva — athletics, women's long jump
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Vladimir Zhigily, Vladimir Tkachenko, Valery Miloserdov, Anatoly Myshkin, Aleksandr Salnikov, Ivan Edeshko, Mikhail Korkiya, Andrey Makeyev, Vladimir Arzamaskov, Aleksandr Belov and Sergey Belov — basketball, men's team competition
David Torosyan — boxing, men's flyweight
Viktor Rybakov — boxing, men's bantamweight
Vasily Solomin — boxing, men's lightweight
Viktor Savchenko — boxing, men's light middleweight
Vladimir Aleynik — diving, men's 10m platform
Aleksandr Kosenkov — diving, men's 3m springboard
Elena Novikova-Belova — fencing, women's foil individual
Viktor Sidyak — fencing, men's sabre individual
Vladimir Troshkin, David Kipiani, Vladimir Veremeyev, Viktor Zvyagintsev, Leonid Nazarenko, Vladimir Onishchenko, Stefan Reshko, Anatoly Konkov, Viktor Matviyenko, Aleksandr Minayev, Mikhail Fomenko, Vladimir Fyodorov, Viktor Kolotov, Vladimir Astapovsky, Oleg Blokhin, Aleksandr Prokhorov and Leonid Buryak — football (soccer), men's team competition
Shota Chochishvili — judo, men's open category
Leonora Kaminskaitė, Genovaitė Ramoškienė — rowing, women's double sculls
Raul Arnemann, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Valeriy Dolinin and Anushavan Gasan-Dzhalalov — rowing, men's four without coxswain
Nadezhda Sevostyanova, Lyudmila Krokhina, Galina Mishenina, Anna Pasokha and Lidiya Krylova — rowing, women's four-oared shell with coxswain
Elena Antonova — rowing, women's single sculls
Gennady Lushchikov — shooting, men's small-bore rifle, prone
Vladimir Raskatov — swimming, men's 400m freestyle
Arvydas Juozaitis — swimming, men's 100 m breaststroke
Marina Kosheveya — swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
Lyubov Rusanova — swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
Andrey Smirnov — swimming, men's 400m individual medley
Farhat Mustafin — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
The USSR sent only three archers to Montreal. Both of the women won medals, adding a silver and a bronze to the bronze medal the Soviets had won four years earlier. The lone Soviet in the men's competition took 5th place.
Women's individual competition:
Valentina Kovpan — 2460 points (→ Silver medal)
Zebiniso Rustamova — 2407 points (→ Bronze medal)
Men's individual competition:
Vladimir Chendarov — 2467 points (→ 5th place)
Men's 800 metres
Viktor Anohin
Heat — 1:46.81 (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100 metres relay
Aleksandr Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Juris Silovs and Valeriy Borzov
Heat — 39.98
Semifinal — 39.36
Final — 38.78s (→ Bronze medal)
Men's 4x400 metres relay
Dmitriy Stukalov, Vladimir Ponomaryov, Viktor Anohin and Yevgeniy Gavrilenko
Heat — 3:07.72 (→ did not advance)
Men's marathon
Leonid Moseyev — 2:13:22 (→ 7th place)
Alexander Gotskiy — 2:15:34 (→ 9th place)
Yuriy Velikorodnyh — 2:19:45 (→ 24th place)
Men's 400m hurdles
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko
Heat — 50.93s
Semifinal — 49.73s
Final — 49.45s (→ Bronze medal)
Dmitriy Stukalov
Heat — 50.78s
Semifinal — 50.47s (→ did not advance)
Men's long jump
Valeriy Podlujnyi
Qualification — 7.90m
Final — 7.88m (→ 7th place)
Aleksey Pereverzev
Qualification — 7.78m
Final — 7.66m (→ 10th place)
Tynu Lepik
Qualification — 7.49m (→ did not advance)
Men's high jump
Sergey Budalov
Qualification — 2.16m
Final — 2.21m (→ 4th place)
Sergey Senyukov
Qualification — 2.16m
Final — 2.18m (→ 5th place)
Men's discus throw
Nikolay Vikhor
Qualification — 57.50m (→ did not advance, 21st place)
Men's 20 km race walk
Vladimir Golubnichiy — 1:29:24 (→ 7th place)
Oto Barch — 1:31:12 (→ 13th place)
Viktor Semenov — 1:31:59 (→ 15th place)
Women's shot put
Nadezhda Chizhova
Final — 20.96 m (→ Silver medal)
Svetlana Krachevskaya
Final — 18.36 m (→ 9th place)
Faina Melnyk
Final — 18.07 m (→ 10th place)
Women's javelin throw
Svetlana Babich
Qualifying round — 56.82 m
Final — 59.42 m (→ 6th place)
Men's team competition
Preliminary round (group A):
Defeated Mexico (120-77)
Defeated Australia (93-77)
Defeated Canada (108-85)
Defeated Japan (123-69)
Defeated Cuba (98-72)
Semifinals:
Lost to Yugoslavia (84-89)
Bronze medal match:
Defeated Canada (100-72) → Bronze medal
Team roster
Vladimir Arzamaskov
Aleksandr Salnikov
Valery Miloserdov
Alshan Sharmukhamedov
Andrei Makeev
Ivan Edeshko
Sergei Belov
Vladimir Tkachenko
Anatoly Myshkin
Mikhail Korkiya
Aleksandr Belov
Vladimir Zhigily
Head coach: Vladimir Kondrashin
Women's team competition
Team roster
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
Head coach: Lydia Alexeeva
Men's light flyweight (– 48 kg)
Aleksandr Tkachenko
- First round — defeated Eleoncio Mercedes (DOM), RSC-1
- Second round — lost to Payao Pooltarat (THA), 2:3
Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)
David Torosyan
- First round — bye
- Second round — defeated Hassen Sheriff (ETH), walk-over
- Third round — defeated Giovanni Camputaro (ITA), RSC-2
- Quarterfinal — defeated Jong Jo-Ung (PRK), 5:0
- Semifinal — lost to Ramón Duvalón (CUB), DSQ-2 → Bronze Medal
Twelve cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1976.
Individual road race
Nikolay Gorelov — 4:47:23 (→ 5th place)
Aleksandr Averin — 4:49:01 (→ 17th place)
Valery Chaplygin — 4:49:01 (→ 39th place)
Aavo Pikkuus — 4:54:49 (→ 44th place)
Team time trial
Anatoly Chukanov
Valery Chaplygin
Vladimir Kaminsky
Aavo Pikkuus
Sprint
Sergey Kravtsov — 7th place
1000m time trial
Eduard Rapp — DSQ (→ 30th place)
Individual pursuit
Vladimir Osokin — 4th place
Team pursuit
Vladimir Osokin
Aleksandr Perov
Vitaly Petrakov
Viktor Sokolov
18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1976. They finished top of the fencing medal table with a total of seven medals, including three gold and a clean-sweep in the individual sabre event.
Men's foil
Aleksandr Romankov
Vasyl Stankovych
Vladimir Denisov
Men's team foil
Sabirzhan Ruziyev, Aleksandr Romankov, Vladimir Denisov, Vasyl Stankovych
Men's épée
Boris Lukomsky
Aleksandr Bykov
Aleksandr Abushakhmetov
Men's team épée
Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, Viktor Modzalevsky, Vasyl Stankovych, Aleksandr Bykov, Boris Lukomsky
Men's sabre
Viktor Krovopuskov
Vladimir Nazlymov
Viktor Sidyak
Men's team sabre
Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Krovopuskov, Mikhail Burtsev, Eduard Vinokurov
Women's foil
Yelena Novikova-Belova
Valentina Sidorova
Olga Knyazeva
Women's team foil
Yelena Novikova-Belova, Valentina Sidorova, Olga Knyazeva, Nailya Gilyazova, Valentina Nikonova
Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1976. Pavel Lednyov won a silver medal in the individual event.
Individual
Pavel Lednyov
Boris Mosolov
Borys Onyshchenko
Team
Pavel Lednyov
Boris Mosolov
Borys Onyshchenko
Men's team competition
Preliminary round (group B)
Defeated Italy (3-0)
Defeated Brazil (3-0)
Defeated Japan (3-0)
Semifinals
Defeated Cuba (3-0)
Final
Lost to Poland (2-3) → Silver medal
Team roster
Anatoly Polyshuk
Vyaschelav Zaitsev
Efim Chulak
Vladimir Dorohov
Aleksandr Ermilov
Pavel Selivanov
Oleg Moliboga
Vladimir Kondra
Yuri Starunski
Vladimir Chernyshev
Vladimir Ulanov
Aleksandr Savin
Yuri Chesnokov
Head coach: Yuri Chesnokov
Women's team competition
Preliminary round (Group B)
Defeated South Korea (3-1)
Defeated Cuba (3-1)
Defeated East Germany (3-2)
Semifinals
Defeated Hungary (3-0)
Final
Lost to Japan (0-3) → Silver medal
Team roster
Anna Rostova
Lyudmila Shetinina
Lilia Osadchaya
Natalya Kushnyr
Olga Kozakova
Nina Smoleeva
Ljubov Rudovskaya
Larissa Bergen
Inna Ryskal
Lyudmila Chernysheva
Zoya Ilusova
Nina Muradyan
Head coach: Givi Ahvlediani
Men's team competition
Team roster
Aleksey Barkalov
Aleksandr Dolgushin
Aleksandr Dreval
Aleksandr Kabanov
Aleksandr Zakharov
Anatoly Klebanov
Nikolay Melnikov
Nugzar Mshvenyeradze
Sergey Kotenko
Vitaly Romanchuk
Vladimir Iselidze
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different sports societies in one team.
