| Athletics at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | |
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.jpeg) Host stadium (shown in 2012) | |
| No. of events | 37 |
| Competitors | 1,005 from 80 nations |
| Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| 100 m hurdles | women | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| 20 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
At the1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal, 37 events were contested inathletics. There were a total number of 1005 participating athletes from 80 countries.
The men's50 kilometres walk competition was dropped from theOlympic athletics programme, despite its constant presence at the games since1932. TheIAAF chose to host its ownworld championship event instead, a month and a half after the Olympics. This foreshadowed the creation of theIAAF World Championships in Athletics in the following years.[1][2]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  East Germany (GDR) | 11 | 7 | 9 | 27 |
| 2 |  United States (USA) | 6 | 8 | 8 | 22 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 4 | 4 | 10 | 18 |
| 4 |  Poland (POL) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 |  Finland (FIN) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 |  Cuba (CUB) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 |  Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 |  Jamaica (JAM) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 11 |  France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 |  Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 |  Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 20 |  Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (23 entries) | 37 | 37 | 37 | 111 | |
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