1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)
GBR
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The United Kingdom competed as Great Britain in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , Canada . 242 competitors (176 men, 66 women) took part in 148 competitions in 17 sports.
Medals
Great Britain took 13th place in the medal table.
gold
- John Osborn , Reg White - Sailing, Tornado
- Jeremy Fox , Danny Nightingale , Adrian Parker - Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team
- David Wilkie - swim, 200m chest
silver
- Keith Remfry - Judo, Open Class
- Michael Hart and Chris Baillieu - rowing, double sculls
- Jim Clark , Tim Crooks , Richard Lester , Hugh Matheson , David Maxwell , Leonard Robertson , John Yallop , Patrick Sweeney , Frederick Smallbone - rowing, figure eight
- David Wilkie - swimming, 100m chest
- Julian Brooke-Houghton , Rodney Pattisson - sailing, Flying Dutchman
bronze
- Brendan Foster - Athletics, 10,000m
- Patrick Cowdell - Boxing, bantam weight (up to 54 kg)
- Ian Banbury , Michael Bennett , Robin Croker , Ian Hallam - Cycling, 4000m Team Pursuit
- David Starbrook - Judo, light heavyweight (up to 93 kg)
- Alan McClatchey , David Dunne , Gordon Downie , Brian Brinkley - swimming, 4 × 200 m freestyle
Archery
- Patricia Conway - 2257 points (→ 21st place)
- Rachael Fenwick - 2199 points (→ 23rd place)
- David Pink - 2347 points (→ 21st place)
- Stewart Littlefair - 2238 points (→ 30th place)
Boxing
Athletes | competition | 1 round | 2nd round | Round of 16 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | rank | ||||||
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opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | |||
Men | ||||||||||||||
Charlie Magri | Fly weight up to 51 kg |
- | bye |
Ian Clyde |
lost | eliminated | 9. | |||||||
Pat Cowdell | Bantamweight | - |
Leszek Borkowski |
299: 289 |
Alejandro Silva |
300 : 277 |
Rej Portaleza |
297: 290 |
Gu Yong-jo |
292: 297 | - | bronze | ||
New Year's Eve | lightweight | - |
Simion Cuțov |
canceled | eliminated | 15th | ||||||||
Clinton McKenzie | Light welterweight |
Daniele Zappaterra |
300 : 287 |
Ismael Martínez |
291: 293 1 |
Sugar Ray Leonard |
285: 299 | eliminated | 9. | |||||
Colin Jones | Welterweight | - |
Christy McLoughlin |
296: 288 |
Victor Zilberman |
286: 298 | eliminated | 9. | ||||||
Robbie Davies | Light middleweight |
Wayne Davlin |
KO |
Alfredo Lemus |
291: 296 | eliminated | 9. | |||||||
Dave Odwell | medium weight | - |
Mohamed Saoud |
298: 283 |
Dragan Vujković |
274: 300 | eliminated | 9. |
1 Referee decision 3: 2
fencing
- Graham Paul
- Rob Bruniges
- Barry Paul
- Geoffrey Grimmett , Barry Paul, Rob Bruniges, Graham Paul, Nick Bell
- Ralph Johnson
- Teddy Bourne
- Tim Belson
- Teddy Bourne, Bill Hoskyns , Ralph Johnson , Tim Belson, Martin Beevers
- Richard Cohen
- John Deanfield
- Peter Mather
- Bill Hoskyns , Peter Mather, John Deanfield, Richard Cohen
- Susan Wrigglesworth
- Clare Henley-Halsted
- Wendy Ager-Grant
- Wendy Ager-Grant, Susan Wrigglesworth, Hilary Cawthorne, Clare Henley-Halsted, Sue Green
Weightlifting
- Precious McKenzie : flyweight, snatch 90 kg - 11th, push 110 kg - 13th, total 11.
- Victor Daniels : Featherweight, tearing 100 kg - 13th, pushing 127.5 kg - 13th, total 13.
- Kevin Welch-Kennedy : Lightweight, snatch 127.5 kg - 6th, thrust 155 kg - 8th, total 9.
- Alan Winterbourne : Lightweight, snatch 115kg - 19th, jerk 152.5kg - 10th, total 15th
- Gary Langford : Middleweight, snatch 150 pounds - 11th, jerk 180 pounds - 9th, total 9th
- Ken Price : middleweight, snatching 137.5 kg - 16th, jerking 170 kg - 13th, total 13th
- John Burns : Heavyweight, snatching 157.5 kg - 10th, jerking 190 kg - 14th, total 14th
- Brian Strange : Heavyweight, snatch 155.5 kg - AC , jerk - total AC
Judo
- Connie Alexander , 12.
- Vass Morrison , 5th
- Brian Jacks , 11.
- David Starbrook , bronze
- Keith Remfry , 11th
canoe
- Men
- Kayak One 500m: Doug Parnham , 8.
- Kayak One 1000 m: Doug Parnham, 7.
- Double kayak 1000 m: Stephen Brown , Norman Mason , 10.
- Kayak foursome 1000 m: Anthony Alan-Williams , Brian Haynes , John Oliver , Alan Williams , 10.
- Canadian One 1000 m: Willie Reichenstein , 10.
- Women
- Kayak One 500m: Sheila Burnett , 10.
- Two-person kayak 500 m: Pauline Goodwin , Hilary Peacock , 10.
athletics
- Advance— 21.26 s
- Quarterfinals - 21.07 p
- Semi-finals - 21.52 s (→ eliminated)
- Forward - 46.60 s
- Quarterfinals - 46.18 p
- Semi-finals - 45.20 p
- Final - 45.57 s (→ 7th place)
- Forward - 47.77 s
- Quarterfinals - 47.67s (eliminated)
- Advance - 1: 48.27 min
- Semi-finals - 1: 46.14 min
- Final - 1: 45.44 min (→ 5th place)
- Forward - 1: 47.51 min
- Semi-finals - 1: 48.28 min (→ eliminated)
- Preroll - 3: 37.53 min
- Semi-finals - 3.38.92 min
- Final - 3.39.65 min (→ 5th place)
- Preroll - 3: 40.69 min
- Semi-finals - 3: 39.88 min
- Final - 3: 40.94 min (→ 7th place)
- Preroll - 3: 37.89 min
- Semi-finals - 3: 40.34 min (→ eliminated)
- Forward - 28: 01.82 min
- Final - 27: 56.26 min (→ 4th place)
- Preroll - 28: 17.26 min
- Final - 28: 17.78 min (→ 8th place)
- Ainsley Bennett , Glen Cohen, David Jenkins , and Alan Pascoe
- Forward - (→ eliminated)
110 m hurdles
- Forward - 13.82 sec
- Semi-finals - 13.78 s (→ eliminated)
- Forward - 51.66 s
- Semi-finals - 49.95 p
- Final - 51.29 s (→ 8th place)
- Advance - 7.69 m (→ eliminated)
- Jeffrey Norman - 2:20:04 h (→ 26th place)
- Keith Angus - 2:22:18 h (→ 31st place)
- Barry Watson - 2:28:32 h (→ 45th place)
- Brian Adams - 1:30:46 h (→ 11th place)
- Olly Flynn - 1:31:42 h (→ 14th place)
- Paul Nihill - 1:36:40 h (→ 30th place)
- Qualification - 70.76 m
- Final - 73.18 m (→ 7th place)
- Qualification - 68.52 m (→ eliminated, 14th place)
- Qualification - 68.52 m (→ eliminated, 14th place)
- Sue Reeve
- Qualification Round - 6.26 m
- Final - 6.27 m (→ 9th place)
Modern pentathlon
athlete | Run 4000 m cross |
Swimming 300 m freestyle |
Shooting Rapid Fire Pistol (200 rounds) |
Fencing sword |
Riding cross country obstacle |
total | ||||||
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Points time |
space | Points time |
space | Points rings |
space | Points wins |
space | Points time |
space | Points | space | |
Adrian Parker | 1378 12: 09.5 |
1. | 1240 3:24.25 |
7th | 868 188 |
27. | 712 20 |
30th | 1100 1: 47.2 |
5. | 5298 | 5. |
Danny Nightingale | 1309 12: 32.2 |
4th | 1172 3: 32.67 |
15th | 934 191 |
18th | 760 22 |
24 | 1012 2: 15.6 |
34. | 5187 | 10. |
Jeremy Fox | 1264 12: 47.6 |
6th | 1080 3: 44.17 |
34 | 846 187 |
30th | 784 23 |
18th | 1100 1: 44.9 |
1 | 5074 | 15th |
Team Adrian Parker Danny Nightingale Jeremy Fox |
Σ 3951 | 1. | Σ 3492 | 5. | Σ 2648 | 8th. | Σ 2256 | 8th. | Σ 3212 | 3. | Σ 15559 | gold |
Cycling
- Joseph Waugh - 4:49:01 h (→ 35th place)
- Dudley Hayton - 4:54:26 h (→ 43rd place)
- Philip Griffiths - eliminated (→ no result)
- William Nickson - eliminated (→ no result)
- Paul Medhurst - 1: 10.167 min (→ 19th place)
- Trevor Gadd - 12th place
- Ian Hallam - 20th place
horse riding
- dressage
- Sarah Whitmore on Junker , 1375 points, 22nd place
- Jennie Loriston-Clarke on cadet , 1375 points, 22nd place
- Diana Mason on Special Ed , 1326 points, 25th place
- All three together won 8th place in the team classification after adding the points
- Jumping - single
- Debbie Johnsey on Moxy , 8/4 penalty points, 4th place
- Peter Robeson on Law Court , 4 / 23.75 penalty points, 14th place
- Graham Fletcher on Hideaway , 20 / dnq failure points, 30th place
- Jumping - team
- Debbie Johnsey on Moxy , 8/16 penalty points, 7th place
- Peter Robeson on Law Court , 20/12 faults, 7th place
- Graham Fletcher on hideaway , 16/20 points, 7th place
- Rowland Fernyhough on Bouncer , 27/4 penalty points, 7th place
- Versatility - single
athlete | horse | dressage | Cross country | Leap | total | space | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Failure points | space | Failure points | space | Failure points | space | ||||
Richard Meade | Jacob Jones | −73.75 | 12. | −57.60 | 3. | −10.00 | 14th | −141.35 | 4th |
HRH Princess Anne | Goodwill | −91.25 | 26th | −204.80 | 27. | −3.25 | 13. | −299.30 | 24. |
Lucinda Prior-Palmer-Green | Be fair | −62.91 | 5. | −59.60 | 4th | DNF | AC | ||
Hugh Thomas | Playamar | −85.00 | 16. | −156.00 | 23. | DNF | AC |
- Versatility - team
- Due to the abandonment of the jumping by two of the four team members, no evaluation was made for the team.
Wrestling
Athletes | competition | 1 round | 2nd round | Round of 16 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | rank | ||||||
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opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | opponent | Result | |||
Men | ||||||||||||||
Amrik Singh Gill | Bantamweight |
Moisés López |
lost |
Jorge Ramos |
lost | DNQ | - | |||||||
Kenneth Dawes | Featherweight |
Sergei Timofeev |
lost |
Eduard Giray |
lost | DNQ | - | |||||||
Joe Gilligan | lightweight |
Sergio Fiszman |
won |
Eberhard Probst |
lost |
Gerhard Weisenberger |
lost | DNQ | - | |||||
Keith Haward | Welterweight |
Marin Pîrcălabu |
lost |
Jarmo Övermark |
lost | DNQ | - | |||||||
Tony Shacklady | medium weight |
John Peterson |
lost |
Adolf Seger |
lost | DNQ | - | |||||||
Maurice Allan | Lightweight |
Frank Andersson |
lost |
Ambroise Sarr |
won |
Levan Tediashvili |
lost | DNQ | - | |||||
Keith Peache | Heavyweight |
Russ Hellickson |
lost |
Steve Daniar |
lost | DNQ | - |
rowing
- Michael Hart , Chris Baillieu → Silver
- David Sturge , Henry Clay → 12th place
- Neil Christie , James Macleod , David Webb → 7th place
- Thomas Bishop , Mark Hayter , Andrew Justice , Allan Whitwell → 9th place
- Richard Ayling , William Mason Neil Keron , David Townsend → 12th place
- Jim Clark , Tim Crooks , Richard Lester , Hugh Matheson , David Maxwell , Leonard Robertson , John Yallop , Patrick Sweeney and Frederick Smallbone → Silver
- Linda Clark , Beryl Mitchell → 10th place
- Gillian Webb , Pauline Bird-Hart , Clare Grove , Diana Bishop , Pauline Wright → 8th place
shoot
- Men
- Rapid fire pistol 25 m
- Brian Girling , 587 rings, 15.
- John Cooke , 583 rings, 31.
- Gun 50 m
- Laszlo Antal , 553 rings, 12.
- Small caliber three-position fight 50 m
- Malcolm Cooper , 1140 rings (lying 392 rings, kneeling 383 rings, standing 365 rings), 18th century.
- Barry Dagger , 1140 rings (lying 393 rings, kneeling 375 rings, standing 369 rings), 24.
- Small bore, lying 50 m
- Anthony Greenfield , 590 rings, 20.
- Alister Allan , 584 rings, 51.
- Running target 50 m
- John Gough , 543 rings, 21.
- John Anthony , 537 rings, 23.
- Mixed
- Trap
- Malcolm Jenkins , 177 rings, 18th century.
- Peter Boden , 169 rings, 21.
- Skeet
- Joe Neville , 191 rings, 22nd
- Brian Hebditch , 184 rings, 47.
swim
- Men
- 100 m freestyle
- Martin Smith : Preroll: 53.17 s, 53.11 s
- Kevin Burns : preliminary: 53.11 s, semi-finals: 53.23 s
- 200 m freestyle
- Gordon Downie : Pre-run: 1: 52.47 min, semi-finals: 1: 52.78 min
- Brian Brinkley : Preroll: 1: 53.07 min
- Alan McClatchey : Preroll: 1: 55.84 min
- 400 m freestyle
- Gordon Downie : Prelude: 4: 01.00 min
- Alan McClatchey : Preroll: 4: 02.09 min
- 1500 m freestyle
- David Parker : Preroll: 15: 46.60 min
- Paul Sparkes : Pre-run: 15: 59.04 min
- 4 × 200 m freestyle
- Alan McClatchey : preliminary: 1: 55.30 min, final: 1: 54.09 min, → bronze
- David Dunne : preliminary: 1: 55.09 min, final: 1: 54.67 min, → bronze
- Gordon Downie : preliminary: 1: 54.39 min, final: 1: 52.10 min, → bronze
- Brian Brinkley : preliminary: 1: 53.14 min, final: 1: 51.25 min, → bronze
- The team qualified for the final run with a time of 7: 37.92 min and came third with 7: 32.11 min.
- 100 m back
- Jim Carter : Preroll: 1: 00.39 min
- Gary Abraham : Pre-run: 1: 00.61 min
- 200 m back
- Jim Carter : Preroll: 2: 08.05 min
- Peter Lerpiniere : Pre-run: 2: 09.88 min
- 100 m chest
- David Wilkie : preliminary: 1: 05.19 min, semi-finals: 1: 04.29 min, final: 1: 03.43 min → silver
- Duncan Goodhew : preliminary: 1: 04.92 min, semi-finals: 1: 04.59 min, final: 1: 04.66 min → 7th place
- David Leigh : Pre-run: 1: 06.12 min, semi-finals: 1: 05.91 min
- 200 m chest
- David Wilkie : Pre-run: 2: 18.29 min OR , Final: 2: 15.11 min WR → Gold
- David Leigh : Preroll: 2: 25.58 min
- Paul Naisby : abandoned
- 100 m butterfly
- John Mills : Prelapse: 56.53 s, semi-finals: 56.54 s
- Jon Jon Park : Preroll: 57.42 p
- Richard Iredale : Forerun: 58.50 s
- 200 m butterfly
- Brian Brinkley : preliminary: 2: 01.93 min, final: 2: 01.49 min → 6th place
- Sean Maher : Preroll: 2: 05.95 min
- Gordon Hewit : Preroll: 2: 07.60 min
- 400 m layers
- Alan McClatchey : Pre-run: 4: 34.31 min
- Jim Carter : Preroll: 4: 41.25 min
- Duncan Cleworth : Preroll: 4: 42.25 min
- 4 × 100 m layers
- Jim Carter (back): Final: 59.60 s → 4th place
- David Wilkie (chest): Final: 1: 02.81 min → 4th place
- Brian Brinkley (freestyle): Final: 51.45 s → 4th place
- John Mills (butterfly): forerun: 55.85 s, final: 55.70 s → 4th place
- Gary Abraham (back): Pre-run: 1: 00.24 min → 4th place
- Duncan Goodhew (chest): Pre-run: 1: 03.79 min → 4th place
- Kevin Burns (freestyle): Forward: 52.47 s → 4th place
The team reached the finals with 3: 52.35 min in the lead-up and came fourth with a time of 3: 49.56 min.
- Women
- 100 m freestyle
- Elaine Gray : Preroll: 1: 00.31 min
- Susan Edmondson : Preroll: 1: 00.64 min
- 200 m freestyle
- Susan Barnard : Preroll: 2: 08.76 min
- Susan Edmondson : Prelude: 2: 10.08 min
- Ann Bradshaw : Preroll: 2: 10.93 min
- 400 m freestyle
- Susan Barnard : Preroll: 4: 30.05 min
- Susan Edmondson : Preroll: 4: 33.33 min
- 4 × 100 m freestyle
- Debbie Hill : Preroll: 59.36 s
- Ann Bradshaw : Preroll: 1: 01.00 min
- Susan Edmondson : Preroll: 59.79 p
- Elaine Gray : Pre-run: 1: 00.04 min
- The team did not qualify for the final with rank 5 in the preliminary run.
- 100 m back
- Joy Beasley : Forward: 1: 06.66 min
- Amanda James : Preroll: 1: 07.28 min
- 200 m back
- Sharron Davies : Preroll: 2: 24.94 min
- Joy Beasley : Preroll: 2: 25.14 min
- Kim Wilkinson : Preroll: 2: 26.53 min
- 100 m chest
- Maggie Kelly-Hohmann : preliminary: 1: 14.23 min, semi-finals: 1: 13.57 min, final: 1: 14.20 min → 7th place
- Christine Jarvis : preliminary: 1: 14.94 min, semi-finals: 1: 14.59 min
- Helen Burnham : Forward: 1: 17.31 min
- 200 m chest
- Maggie Kelly-Hohmann : Pre-run: 2: 39.01 min, final: 2: 38.37 min → 7th place
- Debbie Rudd : preliminary: 2: 38.26 min, final: 2: 39.01 min → 8th place
- Christine Jarvis : Pre-run: 2: 41.61 min
- 100 m butterfly
- Sue Jenner : preliminary: 1: 04.19 min, semi-finals: 1: 04.06 min
- Joanne Atkinson : Preroll: 1: 04.70 min
- Jane Alexander : preliminary: 1: 06.33 min
- 200 m butterfly
- Joanne Atkinson : Preroll: 2: 21.23 min
- Anne Adams : Preroll: 2: 22.62 min
- Jane Alexander : Preroll: 2: 26.61 min
- 400 m layers
- Anne Adams : preliminary: 5: 09.60 min
- Ann Bradshaw : Preroll: 5: 10.82 min
- Susan Richardson : Preroll: 5: 06.39 min
- 4 × 100 m layers
- Joy Beasley (back): Pre-run: 1: 06.83 min, final: 1: 06.84 min → 6th place
- Maggie Kelly-Hohmann (chest): preliminary: 1: 14.09 min, final: 1: 13.37 min → 6th place
- Sue Jenner (butterfly): preliminary: 1: 03.63 min, final: 1: 03.53 min → 6th place
- Debbie Hill (freestyle): preliminary: 59.36 s, final: 59.51 s → 6th place
The team reached the final with 4: 23.91 min in the lead-up and was sixth there with a time of 4: 23.25 min.
sailing
- David Howlett : 7th place
- Derek Clark : 6th place
- Philip Crebbin : 6th place
- Alan Warren : 14th place
- David Hunt : 14th place
- John Osborn : Gold
- Reg White : Gold
- Chris Law : 13.
- Iain MacDonald-Smith : 13.
- Michael Baker-Harber : 13.
- Julian Brooke-Houghton : Silver
- Rodney Pattison : Silver
do gymnastics
- Men
Gymnast | Individual all-around |
ground | Leap | Ingots | Horizontal bar | Rings | horse |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ian Neale | 73. | 50. | 44. | 83. | 75. | 90. | 47. |
Tommy Wilson | 82. | 89. | 85. | 81. | 79. | 74. | 74. |
Jeff Davis | 85. | 71. | 54. | 84. | 83. | 88 | 89. |
- Women
Gymnast | Individual all-around |
ground | Leap | Uneven bars | Balance beam |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Avril Lennox | 35. | 54. | 44. | 53. | 49. |
Barbara Slater | 68. | 73. | 56. | 68. | 63. |
Susan Cheesebrough | 79. | 76. | 81. | 75. | 75. |
Diving
- Men
- Stepping stone
- Chris Snode : 479.79 points, 18th place
- Trevor Simpson : 450.81 points, 20th place
- diving platform
- Martyn Brown : 413.34 points, 23rd place
- Women
- Stepping stone
- Helen Koppell : 39.96 points, 13th place
Individual evidence
- ↑ British Olympic team from 1976 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )