1976 Summer Olympics medal table
Medal table
Table:
1976 Summer Olympics medal table
Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	49	41	35	125
2	East Germany (GDR)	40	25	25	90
3	United States (USA)	34	35	25	94
4	West Germany (FRG)	10	12	17	39
5	Japan (JPN)	9	6	10	25
6	Poland (POL)	7	6	13	26
7	Bulgaria (BUL)	6	9	7	22
8	Cuba (CUB)	6	4	3	13
9	Romania (ROU)	4	9	14	27
10	Hungary (HUN)	4	5	13	22
11	Finland (FIN)	4	2	0	6
12	Sweden (SWE)	4	1	0	5
13	Great Britain (GBR)	3	5	5	13
14	Italy (ITA)	2	7	4	13
15	France (FRA)	2	3	4	9
16	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	3	3	8
17	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	2	4	8
18	New Zealand (NZL)	2	1	1	4
19	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	4	6
20	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	2	4
21	Jamaica (JAM)	1	1	0	2
North Korea (PRK)	1	1	0	2
Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
24	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	2	3
25	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	1	2
26	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	1	0	0	1
27	Canada (CAN)*	0	5	6	11
28	Belgium (BEL)	0	3	3	6
29	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	3	5
30	Portugal (POR)	0	2	0	2
Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
32	Australia (AUS)	0	1	4	5
33	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
34	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
36	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	2
37	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Bermuda (BER)	0	0	1	1
Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (41 entries)	198	199	216	613

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