Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada consisted of 11 events, all in canoe sprint, held at the rowing basin on Notre Dame Island. The canoe slalom events introduced at the previous Games in Munich were not included in the Montreal program though four 500 m events for men were (C-1, C-2, K-1, and K-2).

Medal summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

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 (ROU)	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
Totals (8 nations)		11	11	11	33

References

• 1976 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 167–85. (in English and French)