1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Venezuela)

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Venezuela took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 32 athletes (23 men and 9 women) in 35 competitions in six sports. The boxer Pedro Gamarro managed to win the only welterweight medal with silver.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Armando Guevara

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Alfredo Pérez

  Flyweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Jovito Rengifo

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Angel Pacheco

  Featherweight: eliminated in the second round

• Nelson Calzadilla

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Jesús Navas

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Pedro Gamarro

  Welterweight: silver

• Alfredo Lemus

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Fulgencio Obelmejias

  Middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Ernesto Sánchez

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

Judo

• Manuel Luna

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Walter Huber

  Middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

athletics

Women

• Lucía Vaamonde

  100 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

Cycling

• Ramón Noriega

  Road race: 53rd place

• José Ollarves

  Road race: 58th place

  Team time trial: 21st place

• Justo Galaviz

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 21st place

• Nicolas Reidtler

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Jesús Escalona

  Team time trial: 21st place

• Serafino Silva

  Team time trial: 21st place

swim

Men

• Ramon Volcan

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Luis Goicoechea

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Glen Sochasky

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Hugo Cuenca

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Andrés Arraez

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

Women

• Ivis Poleo

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Marianela Huen

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Vania Vásquez

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• María Pérez

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Paola Ruggieri

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Dacyl Pérez

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Maria Hung

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

Diving

• Aura Dinisio

  3 m jumping: 26th place

Web links

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