Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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At the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

two archery
Archery
Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...

events were contested. It was the second iteration of the modern archery competition in the Olympics, following the same format as in the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

. The two events were men's individual and women's individual, and the competition in each event consisted of a double FITA
International Archery Federation
The International Archery Federation is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 140 national archery associations, and is recognized by the International Olympic Committee.-History:FITA was founded on 4 September 1931 in Poland...

 round. Archers shot a total of 288 arrows at 4 different distances (90, 70, 50, and 30 meters for men; 70, 60, 50, and 30 metres for women).

Medallists

The United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 repeated its sweep of the two gold medals. Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 claimed their first archery medals in the men's competition. The Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 took the silver and bronze medals in the women's competition, adding to the bronze they had earned four years earlier.
Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Men's individual:
Darrell Pace
Darrell Pace
Darrell Owen Pace is a former archer from the United States, who won two individual Olympic and World Championships titles each during his career. In 2011, he was declared as the Men's archer for 20th century by the International Archery Federation .Pace, at the age of 16, became the youngest...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Hiroshi Michinaga
Hiroshi Michinaga
is an archer from Japan, who was born in Hyogo, Japan.He competed for Japan in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where he finished in second place behind American Darrell Pace .-References:*...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

Giancarlo Ferrari
Giancarlo Ferrari
Giancarlo Ferrari is an Italian archer, who has participated at the Olympic Games as in the discipline of archery on several occasions. In 1976 and 1980 he won bronze at the Summer Olympics.- References :* *...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Women's individual:
Luann Ryon
Luann Ryon
Luann Marie Ryon is a female American archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where she won an individual gold medal.-References:*...

, United States
Valentyna Kovpan
Valentyna Kovpan
Valentina Ivanovna Kovpan is an archer from the Soviet Union.She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where she finished in second place.-References:*...

, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

Zebiniso Rustamova
Zebiniso Rustamova
Zebinisso Sanginovna Rustamova is an archer from the Soviet Union. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where she finished in third place...

, Soviet Union

Medal table

1 2 0 0 2
2 0 1 1 2
3 0 1 0 1
4 0 0 1 1

Women

16 nations sent 27 athletes to the women's competition in archery. Luann Ryon
Luann Ryon
Luann Marie Ryon is a female American archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where she won an individual gold medal.-References:*...

 of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 broke both of her countrywoman Doreen Wilber
Doreen Wilber
Doreen Viola Hansen Wilber was an American archer from Rutland, Iowa.-Biography:At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Wilber won the gold medal in the women's section of the first modern Olympic archery competition, aged 42. Along with John Williams, Wilber led the U.S...

's Olympic records in the event (FITA round and double FITA round) on her way to the second straight gold medal for an American in the women's competition. The Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 women repeated their bronze medal from 1972 and gained a silver medal as well.
Final Rank Name Nation Round 1
Score
Round 1
Rank
Round 2
Score
Round 2
Rank
Total Score
1 Luann Ryon
Luann Ryon
Luann Marie Ryon is a female American archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where she won an individual gold medal.-References:*...

 
United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 
1217 1 1282 (OR) 1 2499 (OR)
2 Valentyna Kovpan
Valentyna Kovpan
Valentina Ivanovna Kovpan is an archer from the Soviet Union.She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where she finished in second place.-References:*...

 
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
1182 7 1278 2 2460
3 Zebiniso Rustamova
Zebiniso Rustamova
Zebinisso Sanginovna Rustamova is an archer from the Soviet Union. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where she finished in third place...

 
Soviet Union
1202 3 1205 7 2407
4 Jang Sun Yong 
DPR Korea
1200 5 1205 6 2405
5 Lucille Lemay 
Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 
1181 8 1220 3 2401
6 Jadwiga Wilejto 
Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 
1200 4 1195 9 2395
7 Linda Myers 
United States
1180 9 1213 5 2393
8 Maria Urban 
West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 
1216 2 1160 15 2376
9 Leane Suniar 
Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

 
1134 15 1218 4 2352
10 Han Sun Hi 
Republic of Korea 
1163 10 1184 11 2347
11 Anna-Lisa Berglund 
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 
1199 6 1141 17 2340
12 Franca Capetta  1152 13 1187 10 2339
13 Lena Sjoholm 
Sweden
1123 19 1199 8 2322
14 Minako Sato 
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 
1128 17 1180 13 2308
15 Carole Toy 
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 
1123 20 1182 12 2305
16 Wanda Allan 
Canada
1154 12 1149 16 2303
17 Christine Ventrillon 
France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
1163 11 1135 19 2298
18 Am. Kaewbaidhoon
Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 
1110 21 1172 14 2282
19 Ida Dapoian  1147 14 1135 20 2282
20 Irena Szydłowska 
Poland
1127 8 1137 18 2264
21 Patricia Conway 
Great Britain
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
1131 16 1126 21 2257
22 Natjav Dariimaa 
Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

 
1105 22 1104 22 2209
23 Rachael Fenwick 
Great Britain
1095 23 1104 23 2199
24 Gombosure Enkhtaivan 
Mongolia
1062 25 1094 24 2156
25 Maureen Adama 
Australia
1076 24 1038 25 2114
26 Kyoko Yamazaki 
Japan
1060 26 1034 26 2094
27 Maria Medina 
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 
962 27 1031 27 1993

Men

24 nations sent 37 archers to the men's competition.

The American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 men placed first and second in the first round, as Darrell Pace
Darrell Pace
Darrell Owen Pace is a former archer from the United States, who won two individual Olympic and World Championships titles each during his career. In 2011, he was declared as the Men's archer for 20th century by the International Archery Federation .Pace, at the age of 16, became the youngest...

 missed the Olympic record set by fellow American John Williams
John Williams (archer)
John Chester Williams is an archer from the United States, who was born in Cranesville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Northwestern High School. After winning the 1971 world title, he won the gold medal in the men's individual achery competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany...

 in 1972 by only 4 points. In the second round, Pace improved his score by 43 points, smashing both the single and double FITA round records as he won gold. Richard McKinney
Richard McKinney (archer)
Richard "Rick" McKinney is an archer from the United States, who competed in the Olympic Games four times, winning a pair of silver medals....

 fell to fourth place in the final rankings, however, as Hiroshi Michinaga
Hiroshi Michinaga
is an archer from Japan, who was born in Hyogo, Japan.He competed for Japan in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where he finished in second place behind American Darrell Pace .-References:*...

 of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and Giancarlo Ferrari
Giancarlo Ferrari
Giancarlo Ferrari is an Italian archer, who has participated at the Olympic Games as in the discipline of archery on several occasions. In 1976 and 1980 he won bronze at the Summer Olympics.- References :* *...

 of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 surged forward to grab the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Final Rank Name Nation Round 1
Score
Round 1
Rank
Round 2
Score
Round 2
Rank
Total Score
1 Darrell Pace
Darrell Pace
Darrell Owen Pace is a former archer from the United States, who won two individual Olympic and World Championships titles each during his career. In 2011, he was declared as the Men's archer for 20th century by the International Archery Federation .Pace, at the age of 16, became the youngest...

 
United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 
1264 1 1307 (OR) 1 2571 (OR)
2 Hiroshi Michinaga
Hiroshi Michinaga
is an archer from Japan, who was born in Hyogo, Japan.He competed for Japan in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event where he finished in second place behind American Darrell Pace .-References:*...

 
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 
1226 3 1276 2 2502
3 Giancarlo Ferrari
Giancarlo Ferrari
Giancarlo Ferrari is an Italian archer, who has participated at the Olympic Games as in the discipline of archery on several occasions. In 1976 and 1980 he won bronze at the Summer Olympics.- References :* *...

 
1220 4 1275 3 2495
4 Richard McKinney
Richard McKinney (archer)
Richard "Rick" McKinney is an archer from the United States, who competed in the Olympic Games four times, winning a pair of silver medals....

 
United States
1230 2 1241 6 2471
5 Vladimir Chendarov 
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
1217 5 1250 4 2467
6 Willi Gabriel
Willi Gabriel
Vizefeldwebel Willi Gabriel was a World War I flying ace credited with eleven aerial victories.Gabriel built his own airplanes prior to World War I. He was called up for military service when the war began. Early in 1915, he began a series of assignments to artillery cooperation units, often in...

 
West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

 
1203 8 1232 8 2435
7 Dave Mann 
Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 
1190 12 1241 5 2431
8 Takanobu Nishi 
Japan
1191 10 1231 9 2422
9 Bojan Postruznik 
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 
1190 14 1231 10 2421
10 Sante Spigarelli  1212 6 1207 18 2419
11 Rolf Svensson 
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 
1204 7 1208 17 2412
12 Albert Le Tyrant 
France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
1190 13 1218 13 2408
13 David Anear
David Anear
David Anear is an Australian archer.Born in Lowestoft, United Kingdom David lived in many places including Yemen and Germany thanks to his father being in the Royal Air Force...

 
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 
1173 15 1234 7 2407
14 Gunnar Jervill
Gunnar Jervill
Gunnar Jervill is an archer from Sweden, who was born in Gothenburg, Sweden.He competed for Sweden in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the individual event where he finished in second place behind American John Williams. Four years later he finished 14th at the 1976 Summer...

 
Sweden
1196 9 1210 15 2406
15 Kyoesti Laasonen 
Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 
1159 18 1220 12 2379
16 Edward Gamble 
Canada
1158 19 1204 19 2362
17 Jan Popowicz 
Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 
1154 22 1201 20 2355
18 Piene Blacks 
Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 
1169 17 1184 24 2353
19 Donald Pandiangan 
Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

 
1191 11 1162 26 2353
20 Kauko Laasonen 
Finland
1156 20 1192 21 2348
21 David Pink 
Great Britain
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
1126 29 1221 11 2347
22 Wojciech Szymańczyk 
Poland
1137 25 1209 16 2346
23 Robert Cogniaux 
Belgium
1132 27 1214 14 2346
24 Jan Erik Humlekjær 
Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 
1148 23 1189 22 2337
25 Arne Jacobsen 
Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 
1173 16 1161 27 2334
26 Terence Reilly 
Australia
1155 21 1176 25 2331
27 Rudolf Schiff 
West Germany
1141 24 1185 23 2326
28 Niamtseren Biambasuren 
Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

 
1111 30 1145 29 2256
29 James Conroy 
Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 
1128 28 1127 31 2255
30 Stewart Littlefair 
Great Britain
1096 32 1142 30 2238
31 Edgardo Berdeguer 
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 
1040 34 1160 28 2200
32 Tserendorjin Dagvadorj 
Mongolia
1081 33 1098 32 2179
33 Oswald Probts 
Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 
1135 26 1038 34 2173
34 Juan Wedel 
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 
1097 31 1068 33 2165
35 Vallop Potaya 
Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 
1023 35 1037 35 2060
36 Vichit Suksumpong 
Thailand
1007 36 1025 36 2032
37 Luis Gonzalez
Costa Rica
1000 37 1005 37 2005
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