Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium, Montreal
DatesJuly 31
Competitors67 from 36 nations
Winning time2:09:55
Medalists
 Waldemar Cierpinski  East Germany
 Frank Shorter  United States
 Karel Lismont  Belgium
Athletics at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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

The official results of the Men's Marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, held on Saturday July 31, 1976. The race started on 17.30 local time. There were 67 competitors from 36 countries. Seven of them did not finish.

Final ranking

Waldemar Cierpinski, 1976 Summer Olympics Men's Marathon winner
Place Athlete Time
1 Waldemar Cierpinski (GDR) 2:09:55
2 Frank Shorter (USA) 2:10:45
3 Karel Lismont (BEL) 2:11:12
4.  Don Kardong (USA) 2:11:15
5.  Lasse Virén (FIN) 2:13:10
6.  Jerome Drayton (CAN) 2:13:30
7.  Leonid Moseyev (URS) 2:13:33
8.  Franco Fava (ITA) 2:14:24
9.  Alexander Gotsky (URS) 2:15:34
10.  Henri Schoofs (BEL) 2:15:52
11.  Shivnath Singh (IND) 2:16:22
12.  Sop Choe-Chang (PRK) 2:16:33
13.  Massimo Magnani (ITA) 2:16:56
14.  Göran Bengtsson (SWE) 2:17:39
15.  Kazimier Orzel (POL) 2:17:43
16.  Hakan Spik (FIN) 2:17:50
17.  Jack Foster (NZL) 2:17:53
18.  Mario Cuevas (MEX) 2:18:08
19.  Rodolfo Gómez (MEX) 2:18:21
20.  Shigeru So (JPN) 2:18:26
21.  Noriyasu Mizukami (JPN) 2:18:44
22.  Anacleto Pinto (POR) 2:18:53
23.  José de Jesus (PUR) 2:19:34
24.  Yuri Velikorodny (URS) 2:19:45
25.  Jos Hermens (NED) 2:19:48
26.  Jeffrey Norman (GBR) 2:20:04
27.  Jukka Toivola (FIN) 2:20:46
28.  Jørgen Jensen (DEN) 2:20:44
29.  Michail Kousis (GRE) 2:21:42
30.  Tom Howard (CAN) 2:22:08
31.  Keith Angus (GBR) 2:22:18
32.  Akio Usami (JPN) 2:22:29
33.  Rigoberto Mendoza (CUB) 2:22:43
34.  Fernand Kolbeck (FRA) 2:22:56
35.  Chris Wardlaw (AUS) 2:23:56
36.  Wayne Yetman (CAN) 2:24:17
37.  Hüseyin Aktaş (TUR) 2:24:30
38.  Veli Balli (TUR) 2:24:47
39.  James McNamara (IRL) 2:24:57
40.  Bill Rodgers (USA) 2:25:14
41.  Hipolito Lopez (HON) 2:26:00
42.  Danny McDaid (IRL) 2:27:07
43.  Cardozo Eusebio Asuncion (PAR) 2:27:22
44.  Kim Chang-Son (PRK) 2:27:38
45.  Barry Watson (GBR) 2:28:32
46.  Agustin Fernández-Diaz (ESP) 2:28:37
47.  Jerzy Gros (POL) 2:28:45
48.  Jairo Cubillos (COL) 2:29:04
49.  Luis Raudales (HON) 2:29:25
50.  Baikuntha Manandhar (NEP) 2:30:07
51.  Antônio Banos (ESP) 2:31:01
52.  Goh Chun-Son (PRK) 2:31:54
53.  Victor Serrano (PUR) 2:34:59
54.  Günter Mielke (FRG) 2:35:44
55.  Neil Cusack (IRL) 2:35:47
56.  Tau John Tokwepota (PNG) 2:38:04
57.  Victor Idava (PHI) 2:38:23
58.  Raymond Swan (BER) 2:39:18
59.  John Kokinai (PNG) 2:41:49
60.  Lucio Gauchalla (BOL) 2:45:31
—  David Chettle (AUS) DNF
—  Ross Haywood (AUS) DNF
—  Rafael Mora (COL) DNF
—  Santiago Manguan (ESP) DNF
—  Thanaude Dezart (HAI) DNF
—  Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA) DNF
—  Kevin Ryan (NZL) DNF

References



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