Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

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Men's marathon
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Dates August 1
Competitors 67 from 36 nations
Winning time 2:09:55
Medalists
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1st Waldemar Cierpinski  East Germany
2nd Frank Shorter  United States
3rd Karel Lismont  Belgium
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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

The official results of the Men's Marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 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

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. 22x20px 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.  Christopher Wardlaw (AUS) 2:23:56
36.  Wayne Yetman (CAN) 2:24:17
37.  Hüseyin Aktas (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. 22x20px Hipolito Lopez (HON) 2:26:00
42.  Danny McDaid (IRL) 2:27:07
43.  Cardozo Eusebio Asuncion (PAR) 2:27:22
44. 22x20px Kim Chang-Son (PRK) 2:27:38
45.  Barry Watson (GBR) 2:28:32
46. 22x20px Agustin Fernández-Diaz (ESP) 2:28:37
47.  Jerzy Gros (POL) 2:28:45
48.  Jairo Cubillos (COL) 2:29:04
49. 22x20px Luis Raudales (HON) 2:29:25
50.  Baikuntha Manandhar (NEP) 2:30:07
51. 22x20px Antônio Banos (ESP) 2:31:01
52. 22x20px 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. 22x20px Victor Idava (PHI) 2:38:23
58. 22x20px Raymond Swan (BER) 2:39:18
59.  John Kokinai (PNG) 2:41:49
60.  Lucio Gauchalla (BOL) 2:45:31
 Dave Chettle (AUS) DNF
 Ross Haywood (AUS) DNF
 Rafael Mora (COL) DNF
22x20px Santiago Manguan (ESP) DNF
22x20px Thanaude Dezart (HAI) DNF
 Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA) DNF
 Kevin Ryan (NZL) DNF

References