1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pentathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	25./26. July 1976
Medalists Siegrun Siegl ( GDR )   Christine Laser ( GDR )   Burglinde Pollak ( GDR )

The women's pentathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was played on July 25 and 26, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 20 athletes took part.

There was a triple success for the GDR team. Siegrun Siegl won ahead of Christine Laser and Burglinde Pollak .

Margot Eppinger started for the Federal Republic of Germany and was tenth in the final ranking.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	4932 points	Burglinde Pollak ( GDR )	Bonn , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	21./22. September 1973
Olympic record	4801 points	Mary Peters ( Great Britain )	Pentathlon of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany )	2/3. September 1972

Note: All of the above Score results from the scoring table from 1971, which is also valid for these games.

Conducting the competition

Like today the heptathlon and the decathlon for men, the competition was held over two days. Day one - here July 25th - is reserved for the 100 meter hurdles , the shot put and the high jump . On the second day - here July 26th - the long jump and the 200-meter run take place. The basis for the evaluation was the all-around table from 1971. In the event of a tie in the final accounts, the number of better placements decided what should come into effect here for the first time when the gold and silver medals are awarded.
For the last time this all- around competition was held in this form here in Montreal at a major event. Starting next year, instead of the 200-meter run , the 800-meter run will be replaced by a middle distance in the program to emphasize the versatility of this competition even more.

Time schedule

July 25, 9.30 a.m .: 100-meter hurdles
July 25, 10.30 a.m .: Shot put
July 25, 4 p.m .: High jump
July 26, 10.30 a.m .: Long jump
July 26, 5.50 p.m .: 200-meter run

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

Note: In the shot put and long jump , the respective best widths are printed in bold. In the high jump , the last valid attempt is printed in bold.

Participants

20 athletes from 13 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Andrea Bruce	Jamaica
Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary
Ana María Desivici	Uruguay
Margot Eppinger	BR Germany
Gale Fitzgerald	United States
Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia
Jane Frederick	United States
Marilyn King	United States
Diane Jones	Canada
Christine Laser	GDR
Susan Longden	Great Britain
Edith Noeding	Peru
Margit Papp	Hungary
Burglinde Pollak	GDR
Lyudmila Popovskaya	Soviet Union
Siegrun Siegl	GDR
Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria
Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union
Miriama Tuisorisori	Fiji
Tatyana Vorokhobko	Soviet Union

Disciplines

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Pollak 13.30 s 959 02 Siegl 13.31 s 957 Vorokhobko 04th Sokolova 13.32 s 956 05 Popovskaya 13.33 s 955 06th Tkachenko 13.41 s 944 07th Frederick 13.54 s 926 08th laser 13.55 s 925 09 Jones 13.79 s 893 10 Longden 13.91 s 877 11 Bruce 13.94 s 873 12 Eppinger 13.97 s 870 13 Bruzsenyák 14.00 s 866 14th Noeding 14.06 s 858 15th Cardboard 14.14 s 848 16 Fitzgerald 14.16 s 846 17th King 14.45 s 811 18th Fočić 14.48 s 807 19th Tuisorisori 14.78 s 773 20th Desivici 15.49 s 696

Shot put

Nadia Tkachenko, USSR

With her victory Burglinde Pollak took the lead with 71 points ahead of Ludmila Popowskaja. Christine Laser was fifth, 142 points behind, Siegrun Siegl, 190 points, only ninth.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Pollak 13.64 m 15.82 m 16.25 m 963 02 Popovskaya 14.43 m 15.02 m x 896 03 Tkachenko 14.51 m 14.90 m x 889 04th Cardboard 14.66 m 14.80 m 14.39 m 884 05 Jones 14.15 m 14.58 m 14.49 m 871 06th Frederick 14.35 m 14.55 m 13.47 m 870 07th laser 13.89 m 14.29 m 12.70 m 855 08th Sokolova 13.70 m 13.29 m 13.60 m 821 09 Vorokhobko 13.08 m 12.84 m 12.71 m 785 10 Siegl 12.22 m 12.75 m 12.92 m 775 11 Eppinger 12.51 m 12.10 m 12.75 m 765 12 Fočić 12.65 m 12.38 m 11.67 m 755 13 Fitzgerald 12.51 m 12.09 m 12.51 m 750 14th King 12.01 m x 12.27 m 736 15th Noeding 9.94 m 11.41 m 10.36 m 682 16 Longden 10.45 m 10.87 m x 647 17th Bruzsenyák 10.86 m x x 647 18th Desivici 10.28 m 10.42 m 10.60 m 629 19th Bruce 10.23 m 10.15 m 9.48 m 605 20th Tuisorisori x 9.38 m 9.34 m 546

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Pollak 1922 02 Popovkskaya 1851 03 Tkachenko 1833 04th Frederick 1796 05 laser 1780 06th Sokolova 1777 07th Jones 1764 08th Vorokhobko 1742 09 Cardboard 1732 Siegl 11 Eppinger 1635 12 Fitzgerald 1596 13 Fočić 1566 14th King 1547 15th Noeding 1540 16 Longden 1524 17th Bruszenyák 1513 18th Bruce 1478 19th Desivici 1325 20th Tuisorisori 1325

high jump

With 1.82 m, Andrea Bruce achieved the greatest height in the high jump in the Olympic pentathlon.
Burglinde Pollak lost her lead to Nadija Tkachenko and slipped to third place. Christine Laser was five points behind her in fifth place, Siegrun Siegl had reduced her gap to Pollak to 91 points and was ninth.

Classification space Surname 1.45 m 1.50 m 1.55 m 1.60 m 1.64 m 1.68 m 1.71 m 1.74 m 1.76 m 1.78 m 1.80 m 1.82 m 1.84 m Points 01 Bruce - - - - - O O O O O O O xxx 1049 02 Jones - - - - - O xo xo O O O xxx 1031 Tkachenko - - - O O O O O O xo xx o xxx 04th laser - O - O O xxo O O xo x o xxx 1012 Cardboard - - - O O O O xxo xo O xxx 06th Frederick - - - - O O O O x o xxx 993 07th King - - - - O O O O xxx 974 Popovskaya - - - O xo O O x o xxx Siegl - - - O O O O O xxx Vorokhobko - - - O O O xo xx o xxx 11 Bruzsenyák - - - O O xo xx o xxx 945 Longden - - O O O O x o xxx 13 Eppinger - - O O xo O xxx 915 Fitzgerald - - O O O O xxx Fočić - - - O O O xxx 16 Noeding - O O O x o xxx 875 Pollak - - - O O xxx Sokolova - O xo O x o xxx 19th Desivici O O O xx o xxx 834 20th Tuisorisori O xo O xxx 834 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Tkachenko 2864 02 Popovskaya 2825 03 Pollak 2797 04th Jones 2795 05 laser 2792 06th Frederick 2789 07th Cardboard 2744 08th Vorokhobko 2716 09 Siegl 2706 10 Sokolova 2652 11 Eppinger 2550 12 Bruce 2527 13 King 2521 14th Fitzgerald 2511 15th Fočić 2481 16 Longden 2469 17th Bruzsenyák 2458 18th Noeding 2415 19th Desivici 2159 20th Tuisorisori 2100

Long jump

Bronze medalist Burglinde Pollak, GDR

The Peruvian Edith Noeding did not participate in this fourth discipline.
Nadija Tkatschenko was only 20 points ahead of Burglinde Pollak, where she managed the feat of achieving exactly the same distance of 6.08 m in all three attempts. Between the two, Lyudmila Popovskaya was four points ahead of Pollak. Christine Laser was now fifth eleven points behind Pollak, with Canadian Jones fourth in between - four points behind Pollak. Siegrun Siegl had worked his way up to 50 points on Pollak and was seventh behind the Hungarian Margit Papp.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Siegl 6.29 m 6.42 m 6.49 m 1012 02 Cardboard 6.35 m 5.87 m 6.08 m 982 03 Pollak x 6.30 m 5.89 m 971 04th Jones 6.29 m 6.25 m 6.06 m 969 05 Fočić 5.90 m 6.10 m 6.28 m 967 06th laser 6.01 m x 6.27 m 965 07th Popovskaya x 6.08 m 6.19 m 947 08th Tkachenko 6.08 m 6.08 m 6.08 m 924 09 Eppinger x 6.07 m 5.99 m 921 10 Bruzsenyák 6.04 m 6.03 m 5.85 m 915 11 Frederick x 5.99 m x 904 12 Sokolova 5.93 m 5.84 m 5.78 m 891 13 Longden 5.92 m 5.92 m 5.84 m 888 14th Fitzgerald 5.63 m 5.72 m 5.89 m 882 15th Tuisorisori 5.84 m 5.54 m 5.58 m 871 16 King 5.62 m 5.61 m 5.57 m 821 17th Bruce 5.50 m 4.47 m 4.93 m 794 18th Desivici 3.60 m 5.28 m 5.10 m 743 19th Vorokhobko x 4.97 m 4.86 m 669

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Tkachenko 3788 02 Popovskaya 3772 03 Pollak 3768 04th Jones 3764 05 laser 3757 06th Cardboard 3726 07th Siegl 3718 08th Frederick 3693 09 Sokolova 3543 10 Eppinger 3471 11 Fočić 3448 12 Fitzgerald 3393 13 Vorokhobko 3385 14th Bruzsenyák 3373 15th Longden 3357 16 King 3342 17th Bruce 3321 18th Tuisorisori 2971 19th Desivici 2902

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Siegl 23.09 s 1027 02 laser 23.48 s 988 03 Pollak 23.64 s 972 04th Popovskaya 24.10 s 928 05 Longden 24.20 s 919 06th Eppinger 24.61 s 881 Tkachenko 08th Bruce 24.66 s 877 09 Frederick 24.70 s 873 10 Fitzgerald 24.73 s 870 11 Fočić 24.78 s 866 12 Vorokhobko 24.85 s 860 13 Tuisorisori 24.89 s 856 14th Sokolova 24.95 s 851 15th King 25.27 s 823 16 Bruzsenyák 25.30 s 820 17th Jones 25.33 s 818 18th Cardboard 25.43 s 809 19th Desivici 26.45 s 726

Bottom line

Date: July 25/26, 1976, PM

The decision in the pentathlon should end with one of the tightest and most exciting results of a competition. One of the Olympic favorites was once again the GDR athlete Burglinde Pollak, who had been in this role since 1971. Despite excellent placements, she never made it to the very front. She had won medals three times: second at the 1971 European Championships , third at the 1972 Olympic Games and second at the 1974 European Championships . In 1973 she had improved the world record twice, most recently to 4932 points. But there were very strong competitors again here in Montreal . These included above all the European champion from 1974, Nadija Tkatschenko from the USSR, as well as Pollak's teammates Siegrun Siegl, former Siegrun Thon, world record holder in the long jump , in which she had won the Olympics two days before, and Christine Laser, previously known as Christine Bodner. With Lyudmila Popovskaya there was a second Soviet athlete who should not be underestimated.

In the first two disciplines, the 100-meter hurdles and the shot put , things went extremely well for Pollak. In both exercises she achieved the best performance and led with 71 points ahead of Popovskaya and 89 points ahead of Tkachenko. The American Jane Frederick and Laser followed. Siegl finished ninth, 190 points behind. In the high jump , Tkachenko was the most convincing of the favorites. She jumped 1.80 m and thus held the top position with 2864 points at the end of the first day. Popovskaya was behind here - 39 points behind. Pollak was third - behind: 67 points - ahead of the Canadian Diane Jones - 69 points - and Laser - 72 points. Siegl was ninth and had reduced her gap to Pollak to 91 points. It was extremely tight, nothing was decided.

On the second day, the long jump world record holder Siegl was best in her specialty, but stayed half a meter below her record. In the ranking in the first five places nothing changed, but everything came closer together. Tkachenko was only 16 points ahead of Popovskaya, 20 points ahead of Pollak and 31 points ahead of Laser. Siegl was seventh, 70 points behind. The final outcome had become even more open and in fact the result of the final 200-meter run turned everything upside down again. Siegl won this race 41 hundredths of a second ahead of Laser and Pollak. Jones fell behind with a weaker running result. Even the two leading Soviet pentathletes were not fast enough to repel the assault by the GDR athletes. Lyudmila Popovskaya was fourth in the final, Nadija Tkachenko fifth. Siegl made up so many points that she caught up with Laser. The IAAF regulation now had to decide on gold and silver . Siegrun Siegl was better than Christine Laser in three out of five disciplines, which earned her the Olympic victory. Burglinde Pollak won the bronze medal just five points behind.

For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1971, the points converted according to the current rating system from 1980 are also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been only one deviation: the athletes in ranks seven and eight would have swapped their places. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1980 rating
1	Siegrun Siegl	GDR	4745	4777
2	Christine Laser	GDR	4745	4774
3	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4740	4767
4th	Lyudmila Popovskaya	Soviet Union	4700	4719
5	Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union	4669	4692
6th	Diane Jones	Canada	4582	4616
7th	Jane Frederick	United States	4566	4564
8th	Margit Papp	Hungary	4535	4567
9	Penka Sokolova	Bulgaria	4394	4353
10	Margot Eppinger	BR Germany	4352	4318
11	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	4314	4290
12	Susan Longden	Great Britain	4276	4232
13	Gale Fitzgerald	United States	4263	4209
14th	Tatyana Vorokhobko	Soviet Union	4245	4166
15th	Andrea Bruce	Jamaica	4198	4153
16	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	4193	4152
17th	Marilyn King	United States	4165	4095
18th	Miriama Tuisorisori	Fiji	3827	3736
19th	Ana María Desivici	Uruguay	3628	3478

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, pp. 251f

Video

• 1976 Summer Olympics Women's Pentathlon 1976 , published May 1, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 21, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed December 21, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 48f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Track and Field Statistics, World Records Progression , Pentathlon, accessed December 21, 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
3. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (high jump) , accessed December 21, 2017
4. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 49, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017