1976 Summer Olympics / Participants (Yugoslavia)

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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 88 athletes (83 men and 5 women) in 52 competitions in 14 sports.

The Yugoslav athletes won two gold, three silver and three bronze medals. Olympic champions were the canoeist Matija Ljubek in the single canoe over 1000 meters and the wrestler Momir Petković in the middleweight division of the Greco-Roman style. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the handball player Hrvoje Horvat .

Participants by sport

basketball

• silver

  Blagoje Georgijevski

  Dragan Kićanović

  Vinko Jelovac

  Rajko Zizic

  Željko Jerkov

  Andro Knego

  Zoran Slavnić

  Krešimir Ćosić

  Damir Šolman

  Žarko Varajić

  Dražen Dalipagic

  Mirza Delibašić

Archery

• Bojan Postružnik

  Singles: 9th place

Boxing

• Fazlija Šaćirović

  Flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Bratislav Ristić

  Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Ace Rusevski

  Lightweight: bronze

• Marijan Beneš

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Tadija Kačar

  Light middleweight: silver

• Dragan Vujković

  Middleweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Milosav Popović

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

Handball

• 5th place

  Zdenko Zorko

  Predrag Timko

  Zvonimir Serdarušić

  Zdravko Rađenović

  Nebojša Popović

  Branislav Pokrajac

  Radislav Pavićević

  Željko Nimš

  Zdravko Miljak

  Radivoj Krivokapic

  Milorad Karalić

  Hrvoje Horvat

  Vlado Bojovič

  Abas Arslanagic

Judo

• Goran Žuvela

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Ivan Vidmajer

  Middleweight: bronze

• Slavko Obadov

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Radomir Kovačević

  Heavyweight: 7th place

  Open class: eliminated in the round of 16

canoe

• Matija Ljubek

  Single canoe 500 m: bronze

  Single Canoe 1000 m: gold

athletics

Men

• Jozo Alebić

  400 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Luciano Sušanj

  800 m: 6th place

• Milovan Savic

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Dušan Janicijevic

  10,000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Vinko Galušić

  20 km walking: 24th place

• Danial Temim

  High jump: 21st place

• Nenad Stekic

  Long jump: 6th place

• Janoš Hegediš

  Triple jump: 17th place

• Ivan Ivančić

  Shot put: 16th place

Women

• Jelica Pavličić

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Snežana Hrepevnik

  High jump: 12th place

• Radojka Francoti

  Long jump: 26th place

• Ðurđa Fočić

  Pentathlon: 11th place

Cycling

• Vlado Fumić

  Track sprint: eliminated in the preliminary run

  Track 1000 m time trial: 24th place

• Bojan Ropret

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: 22nd place

Wrestling

• Ivica Frgić

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Momir Petković

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Darko Nišavić

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Risto Loan

  Bantamweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Saban Sejdi

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Kiro Ristov

  Welterweight, freestyle: 8th place

rowing

• Zoran Pančić

  Doubles-twos: 9th place

• Darko Majstorović

  Doubles-twos: 9th place

• Zlatko Celent

  Two without a helmsman: 4th place

• Duško Mrduljaš

  Two without a helmsman: 4th place

• Siniša Rutešić

  Two with helmsman: 12th place

• Milan Butorac

  Two with helmsman: 12th place

• Stanko Miloš

  Two with helmsman: 12th place

shoot

• Franc Peternel

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 15th place

• Srećko Pejović

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 4th place

• Zdravko Milutinović

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 7th place

• Miroslav Šipek

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 31st place

• Desanka Pešut

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 8th place

swim

Men

• Borut Petrič

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Nenad Miloš

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Predrag Miloš

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Zdravko Divjak

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Minski Fabris

  Finn dinghy: 13th place

Water polo

• 5th place

  Ðuro Savinović

  Damir Polić

  Uroš Marović

  Miloš Marković

  Predrag Manojlović

  Boško Lozica

  Zoran Kačić

  Dejan Dabović

  Ozren Bonačić

  Siniša Belamarić

  Dušan Antunović

Web links

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