1976 Montreal Olympic Games

1976 Montreal Olympic Games
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City	Montreal, Canada
Venue	Montreal Forum
Team Gold Medalist	USSR Maria Filatova Svetlana Grozdova Nellie Kim Olga Korbut Elvira Saadi Ludmilla Tourischeva
All-Around Gold Medalist	Nadia Comăneci (ROU)
Vault Gold Medalist	Nellie Kim (USSR)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Nadia Comăneci (ROU)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Nadia Comăneci (ROU)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Nellie Kim (USSR)
Preceded by	1972 Munich Olympic Games
Succeeded by	1980 Moscow Olympic Games

The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and Los Angeles, which later hosted the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympic Games respectively. These were the first Olympic Games held in Canada, preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal from July 18 through 23rd.

Montreal would also host the World Championships in 1985.

Format of Competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six overall highest scoring gymnasts qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

For the first time in Olympic competition, countries were limited to having three gymnasts in the all-around competition and two-gymnasts in each apparatus final. This was a controversial decision, which prevented many gymnasts of strong teams (like the USSR) from competing in the finals. In addition, for the first time the number countries allowed to bring full teams of six gymnasts and compete in the team competition was limited to twelve. The results of the team competition at the previous world championships determined which countries were allowed to bring teams.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	USSR Maria Filatova Svetlana Grozdova Nellie Kim Olga Korbut Elvira Saadi Ludmilla Tourischeva	Romania Nadia Comăneci Mariana Constantin Georgeta Gabor Anca Grigoraş Gabriela Truşcă Teodora Ungureanu	East Germany Carola Dombeck Gitta Escher Kerstin Gerschau Angelika Hellmann Marion Kische Steffi Kraker
All-Around	Nadia Comăneci Romania (ROU)	Nellie Kim Soviet Union (USSR)	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)
Vault	Nellie Kim Soviet Union (USSR)	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR) Carola Dombeck East Germany (GDR)	N/A
Uneven Bars	Nadia Comăneci Romania (ROU)	Teodora Ungureanu Romania (ROU)	Marta Egervari Hungary (HUN)
Balance Beam	Nadia Comăneci Romania (ROU)	Olga Korbut Soviet Union (USSR)	Teodora Ungureanu Romania (ROU)
Floor Exercise	Nellie Kim Soviet Union (USSR)	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)	Nadia Comăneci Romania (ROU)

Notable Moments

• Romania's Nadia Comaneci scored the first perfect ten in Olympic history, during the compulsory round. Comaneci would go on to score six more perfect tens in Montreal.
• Nine perfect tens were scored at these Olympics, seven by Comaneci, and two by USSR's Nellie Kim.

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	USSR	3	4	1	8
2	Romania	3	2	2	7
3	East Germany	0	1	1	2
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1