1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Canada)

CAN

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Canada hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal with a delegation of 385 athletes (261 men and 124 women) in 173 competitions in 23 sports. Despite the host role, no gold medal could be won as the first and so far only host at the Summer Olympics. Nevertheless, five silver and six bronze medals could be won, the nation being most successful in swimming. Gymnast Karen Kelsall was the youngest participant at 13 years and 220 days, and track and field athlete Alex Oakley was the oldest at 50 years and 89 days. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Abby Hoffman .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men 4th Place John Cassidy Alex Devlin Cameron Hall Lars Hansen Romel Raffin Marty Riley Bill Robinson Jamie Russell Derek Sankey Bob Sharpe Phil Tollestrup Bob Town

Women 6th place Bev Barnes Beverley Bland Chris Critelli Joyce Douthwright Coleen Dufresne Donna Hobin Anne Hurley Angela Johnson Joanne Sargent Sheila Strike Sylvia Sweeney Carol Turney

Archery

Men Ed Gamble Dave Mann

Women Wanda Allan-Sadegur Lucille Lemay

Boxing

Men

• Chris Clarke
• Ian Clyde
• Roger Fortin
• Bryan Gibson
• Camille Huard
• Chris Ius
• Sidney McKnight
• Michael Prevost
• Carmen Rinke

fencing

Men Alain Dansereau Michel Dessureault Lehel Fekete Marc Lavoie Imre Nagy Eli Sukunda Geza Tatrallyay Peter Urban George Varaljay

Women Fleurette Campeau Donna Hennyey Chantal Payer Susan Stewart

Soccer

Men

• Group stage

  • goal

  1 Jack Brand

  13 Tino Lettieri

  • Defense

  3 Ray Telford

  4 Kevin Grant

  5 Tony Lawrence

  10 Peter Roe

  12 Mike McLeneghan

  15 Garry Ayre

  • midfield

  2 Bob Bolitho

  6 Jimmy Douglas

  8 Robin Megraw

  9 Carl Rose

  14 Wes McLeod

  • Storm

  7 John McGrane

  11 John Connor

  16 Jim McLoughlin

  17 Ken Whitehead

Weightlifting

Men

• Yves Carignan
• Russ Prior
• Robert Santavy
• Pierre St. Jean

Handball

Men 11th place Wolfgang Blankenau Christian Chagnon Francois Dauphin Hugues De Roussan Pierre Desormeaux Pierre Ferdais Robert Johnson Richard Lambert Claude Lefebvre Danny Power Pierre St. Martin Stan Thorseth Luc Tousignant Claude Viens

Women 6th place Lucie Balthazar Louise Beaumont Francine Boulay-Parizeau Manon Charette Danielle Chenard Nicole Genier Mariette Houle Louise Hurtubise Denise Lemaire Monique Prud'homme Joanes Rail Nicole Robert Hélène Tétreault Johanne Valois

hockey

Men

• 10th place

• David Bissett
• Lance Carey
• Paul Chohan
• Alan Hobkirk
• Fred Hoos
• Peter Lown
• James MacDougall
• Peter Motzek
• Mike Mouat
• Reg Plummer
• Doug Pready
• Antoine Schouten
• Sarbjit Singh Dusang
• Kuldip Singh Gosal
• Kelvin Wood
• Lee Wright

Judo

Men

• Wayne Erdman
• Brad Farrow
• Rainer Fischer
• Tom Greenway
• Joe Meli

canoe

Men Jeremy Abbott Denis Barré John Edwards Hugh Fisher Jean Fournel Steve King Dean Oldershaw Reed Oldershaw Peter Patasi Gregory Smith Lou Tollas John Wood Silver Canadier single 500 m

Women Anne Dodge Sue Holloway

athletics

Men Glenn Bogue Jim Buchanan Borys Chambul Paul Craig Bishop Dolegiewicz Don Domansky Jerome Drayton Albin Dukowski Pat Farrelly Claude Ferragne Robert Forget Hugh Fraser Dave Hill Leighton Hope Tom Howard Marcel Jobin Greg Joy Silver high jump Murray Keating Jim McAndrew Chris McCubbins Grant McLaren Marvin Nash Alex Oakley Phil Olsen Bruce Pirnie Richard Rock Ain Roost Brian Saunders Ian Seale Dan Shaughnessy Bruce Simpson Peter Spir Hugh Spooner Daniel Taillon Ken Wenman Wayne Yetman

Women Marjorie Bailey Sue Bradley-Kameli Debbie Brill Rachelle Campbell Jane Haist Louise Hannah Abby Hoffman Margaret Howe Diane Jones Patty Loverock Joanne McTaggart Lucette Moreau Joyce Sadowick Yvonne Saunders Margaret Stride Joan Wenceslaus Penny Werthner Julie White Thelma Wright

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Jack Alexander
• John Hawes
• George Skene

Cycling

Men

• Marc Blouin
• Brian Chewter
• Gilles Durand
• Pierre Harvey
• Ron Hayman
• Jocelyn Lovell
• Tom Morris
• Adrian Prosser
• Serge Proulx
• Gordon Singleton
• Hugh Walton

horse riding

• Jim Day
• Jim Elder
• Juliet Graham
• Robin Hahn
• Christilot Hanson-Boylen
• Ian Millar
• Barbara Stracey
• Lorraine Stubbs
• Michel Vaillancourt

  Silver jumping individual

• Cathy Wedge

Wrestling

Men

• Mike Barry
• Egon Beiler
• Gordon Bertie
• David Cummings
• Steve Daniar
• Richard Deschatelets
• Harry Geris
• Mitchell Kawasaki
• Clive Llewellyn
• John McPhedran
• Terry Paice
• Brian Renken
• Howard Stupp
• Ray Takahashi
• Doug Yeats

rowing

Men Robert Bergen Louis Bourassa Ron Burak Robert Choquette Patrick Croskerry Brian Dick Dirk Gidney Ian Gordon James Henniger Walter Krawec Mel LaForme York Langerfeld Brian Love Alexander Manson Phil Monckton Mike Neary Louis Prévost André Renart Michel Riendeau Edgar Smith George Tintor Andrew van Ruyven

Women Susan Antoft Guylaine Bernier Barbara Boettcher Elaine Bourbeau Bev Cameron Gail Cort Betty Craig Johanne Delisle Mazina Delure Monika Draeger Carol Eastmore Joy Fera Nancy Higgins Cheryl Howard Sandra Kirby Barbara Mutch Christine new territory Colette Pepin Wendy Pullan Rhonda Ross Linda Schaumleffel Illoana Smith Tricia Smith Dolores Young

shoot

• Hans Adlhoch
• Tom Guinn
• Steven Kelly
• Paul Laporte
• Kurt Mitchell
• Daniel Nadeau
• Sue Nattrass
• John Primrose
• Jules Sobrian
• Arne Sorensen
• Harry Willsie

swim

Men Tom Alexander Steve Badger Clay Evans Silver 4 x 100 m layers Steve Hardy Dave Heinbuch James Hett Michael Ker Gary MacDonald Silver 4 x 100 m layers Doug Martin Paul Midgley George Nagy Steve Pickell Silver 4 x 100 m layers Andy Ritchie Bruce Robertson Silver 4 x 100 m layers Bruce Rogers Bill Sawchuk Mike Scarth Daryl Skilling Graham Smith Silver 4 x 100 m layers Mel Zajac

Women Gail Amundrud Bronze 4 x 100 m freestyle Joann Baker Hélène Boivin Lisa Borsholt Barbara Clark Bronze 4 x 100 m freestyle Debbie Clarke Bronze 4 x 100 m freestyle Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Wendy Cook-Hogg Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Robin Corsiglia Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Nancy Garapick Bronze 100 m back Bronze 200 m back Lisa Geary Cheryl Gibson Silver 400 m medley Anne Jardin Bronze 4 x 100 m freestyle Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Wendy Lee Melanie MacKay Wendy Quirk Susan Sloan Bronze 4 x 100 m layers Becky Smith Bronze 400 m medley Bronze 4 x 100 m freestyle Shannon Smith Bronze 400 m freestyle

sailing

• Evert Bastet
• Jay Cross
• Michael de la Roche
• Glen Dexter
• Hans Fogh
• Andreas Josenhans
• Allan Leibel
• Lorne Leibel
• Sandy Macmillan
• Colin Park
• Sandy Riley
• Larry Woods

do gymnastics

Men Keith Carter Philip Delesalle Pierre Leclerc

Women Lise Arsenault-Goertz Karen Kelsall Nancy McDonnell Teresa McDonnell Kelly Muncey Patti Rope

volleyball

Men 9th place Ed Alexiuk Pierre Bélanger Tom Graham Kerry Klostermann Donald Michalski John Paulsen Garth Pischke Larry Plenert Bruno Prasil Elias Romanchych Gregory Russell Alan Taylor

Women 8th place Regyna Armonas Betty Baxter Carole Bishop Barbara Dalton Mary Dempster Kathy Girvan Debbie Heeps Anne Ireland Connie Lebrun Claire Lloyd Patty Olson Audrey Vandervelden

Water polo

Men

• 9th place

• Clifford Barry
• Gabor Csepregi
• Dominique Dion
• Jim Ducharme
• George Gross
• David Hart
• Guy Leclerc
• John MacLeod
• Paul Pottier
• Patrick Pugliese
• Gaétan Turcotte

Diving

Men Ken Armstrong Scott Cranham Glen Grout Skip Phoenix

Women Beverly Boys Eniko Kiefer Tammy MacLeod Cindy Shatto Teri York

Web links

• Canadian Olympic team from 1976 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )