Canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada consisted of 11 events, all in canoe sprint, held at the rowing basin on Notre Dame Island. The canoe slalom events introduced at the previous Games in Munich were not included in the Montreal program though four 500 m events for men were (C-1, C-2, K-1, and K-2).
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
K-1 500 metres |
Carola Zirzow East Germany |
Tatiana Korshunova Soviet Union |
Klára Rajnai Hungary |
K-2 500 metres |
Nina Gopova and Galina Kreft Soviet Union |
Anna Pfeffer and Klára Rajnai Hungary |
Bärbel Köster and Carola Zirzow East Germany |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
2 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
3 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
6 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals (8 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |