- Jean Drapeau
Jean Drapeau CC, GOQ (February 18, 1916 - August 12, 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986. During his tenure as mayor he was responsible for the construction of the Montreal Metro system and the Place des Arts concert hall, for conceiving Expo 67, for securing the 1976 Summer Olympics, and for helping to bring Major League Baseball to Montreal with the creation of the Montreal Expos. - Bruce Jenner
William Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York) is a U.S. track athlete. An excellent high school athlete, Bruce Jenner attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, transferring from Sleepy Hollow High School in Tarrytown, New York. (Years later, the stadium there was to be named after him, … - Olga Korbut
Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the "Sparrow from Minsk", is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, where she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team. - Lasse Virén
Lasse Artturi Virén is a former Finnish athlete, winner of four gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics. He had an uncanny ability to peak at the Summer Olympic Games. Born in Myrskylä, Finland, Lasse Virén recaptured the image of the "Flying Finns" promulgated by runners like Hannes Kolehmainen, Paavo Nurmi, and Ville Ritola in the 1920s. A police officer from Myrskylä, Virén debuted on the international scene in 1971. - Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena Danger (born 3 December, 1950) is a former Cuban track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, "White Lightning" became the first athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m. Born in Santiago de Cuba, Juantorena first played basketball, until he was discovered by a Polish track coach, Zygmunt Zabierzowski, who convinced him to start running. Only a year later, Juantorena was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 400 m event at the Munich Olympics (1972). - Nellie Kim
Nellie Vladimirovna Kim (b. July 29 1957) is a retired Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was the first woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 score on the vault and the first one to earn it on the floor exercise, rivaling with Nadia Comaneci, Ludmilla Tourischeva and other strong competitors in the 1970s. - Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins. While still an amateur, he also became a member of the United States Marine Corps. Spinks went from being heavyweight champion of the world to being homeless in little more than a decade. Spinks had a stellar amateur boxing career. - Jacques Rogge
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Ghent, Dr. Count Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, and as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001. - Frank Shorter
Frank Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American distance runner and winner of the marathon race at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Born in Munich, Germany, where his father, physician Samuel Shorter, served in the army, Frank Shorter grew up in Middletown, New York and attended and graduated from Mount Hermon School and Yale University. - Leo Randolph
Leo Randolph (born February 27, 1958 in Tacoma, Washington) was an American boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. - Edwin Moses
Edwin Corley Moses (born in Dayton, Ohio August 31, 1955) is an American track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races). He set the world record in his event four times. In addition to his running, Moses was also an innovative reformer in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing. - Steve Ovett
Stephen Michael James ("Steve") Ovett (born October 9, 1955), is a former middle distance runner from England. He was gold medalist in the 800 m at the 1980 Olympic Games, and set world records for 800 m, 1500 m and 1 mile. To this day, he holds the UK record for 2 miles, which he set in 1978. Born in Brighton and educated at Varndean Grammar School, Steve Ovett was an outstandingly talented teenage athlete. - Viktor Saneyev
Viktor Danilovich Saneyev (born October 3, 1945, Sukhumi, Georgian SSR) is a retired Russian triple jumper, who competed internationally for the USSR and won four Olympic medals; three golds (1968, 1972 and 1976) and one silver (1980). He dominated the event during the late 1960s and 1970s. Saneyev trained in Sukhumi and later in Tbilisi at Dynamo. Saneyev began athletics in 1956, training in the Gantiadi boarding school, his first coach was Akop Kerselyan. - John Naber
John Phillips Naber (born January 20, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois) is a swimmer from the United States. He won four gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, each in world-record time. He won the James E. Sullivan Award, given to America's top amateur athlete, in 1977. - Scott May
Scott Glenn May (born March 19, 1954 in Sandusky, Ohio) is a retired American professional basketball player. May was a power forward on the 1976 Indiana basketball team that went undefeated and won the NCAA Championship under coach Bobby Knight. May was named NCAA men's basketball national player of the year in 1976. He won a gold medal as a member of the United States basketball team in the 1976 Summer Olympics. - Guy Drut
Guy Drut is an Olympic champion and politician who won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the 110m hurdles. Born in Oignies, Pas-de-Calais, France, Drut captured the silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, finishing behind the American Rodney Milburn. In the European Championship of 1974 Drut came a comfortable first. It was at the next Olympics that Guy was to realise his dream, … - Evelyn Ashford
Evelyn Ashford (born April 15, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m. Arguably the greatest female sprinter ever, with a career that spanned an unprecedented five Olympic Games. She has with automatic timing run under the 11 second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games. As a 19-year-old, Ashford finished 5th in the 100 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. - Andrea Pollack
Andrea Pollack (born May 8, 1961) is a former butterfly swimmer from East Germany, who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada at age fifteen. She triumped in the individual 200m Butterfly and with the Women's Relay Team in the 4x100m Medley. Pollack also collected two silvers at the Montreal Games. Four years later in Moscow she collected two more medals, a gold in 4x100m Medley Relay and a silver in the 100m Butterfly. - Andrzej Szarmach
Andrzej Szarmach is a former Polish soccer player. He played in the Polish national team during its "golden age" in the 1970s. With Grzegorz Lato at his right, Robert Gadocha at his left, and Kazimierz Deyna in support, Szarmach profitted from the absence of Włodzimierz Lubański to lead the Polish attack, the best at 1974 World Cup, with sixteen goals. While Lato finished first in the Cup in goals with seven, Szarmach, with five goals, … - Kornelia Ender
Kornelia Ender (born October 25, 1958 in Bitterfeld) is an East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, all in world record times. Ender trained from a young age and won her first Olympic medals as a 13-year-old at the 1972 Olympics in Munich: three silver medals, including one in the individual 200m medley, finishing behind Australia's Shane Gould. - Harald Schmid
Harald Schmid (born September 29, 1957 in Hanau, Germany) is a former German track-and-field athlete. Schmid was one of the best 400 m hurdles runners in the world. His duels with Edwin Moses during the late 1970s and early 1980s are unforgettable. His race against Moses in Rome, 1987, is ranked as one of the races of the century. - Kazimierz Deyna
Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish football player, one of the best marksmen in the history of Polish football. He began playing youth football in 1958 with the local Włókniarz Starogard Gdański Football Club. He briefly appeared in 1966 for ŁKS Łódź, however his career really got going when he moved to Legia Warszawa. In 1969 and 1970 his team won the Championship of Poland. - Shirley Babashoff
Shirley F. Babashoff (born January 31, 1957 in Whittier, California) is a former swimmer from the United States, who set six world records and earned a total of eight Olympic medals in her career. She also won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle relay in both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and won the 1975 World Championship in both the 200 and 400 meter freestyle. - Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher is a German (former East German) athlete and a triple Olympic champion. Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon. She debuted internationally at the 1969 European Championships, where she - as a last minute substitute - won a silver medal in the 200 m and a gold in the 4 x 100 m relay. - Greg Joy
Gregory Andrew Joy (born April 23, 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired Canadian high jumper who won an Olympic silver medal in 1976. Born in the U.S. to Canadian parents, Joy lived in Vancouver from age 9 to 17 and was a member of Canada's national team from 1973 to 1982. Canada was the host nation of the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, and the high jump contest included a battle between Joy and American Dwight Stones. - Pierre Harvey
Pierre Harvey (born March 24, 1957) is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics (cross-country skiing). Born in Rimouski, Quebec, he won three gold medals in cross country skiing in the 1979 Canada Winter Games. First competing as a cyclist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Harvey finished 24th in the individual road race event. - Miruts Yifter
Miruts Yifter (born January 1, 1938 or May 15, 1944) is a former Ethiopian athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. His name is also sometimes spelled as Muruse Yefter. Born in Adigrat, in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, Miruts Yifter spent early parts of his youth working in different factories and as a carriage driver. His talent as a long-distance runner was noticed when he joined the Ethiopian Air Force. - Walter Davis
Walter Paul Davis (born September 9, 1954 in Pineville, North Carolina) is a former professional basketball player. A 6'6" forward/guard, Davis spent 15 years in the National Basketball Association, spending the bulk of those years with the Phoenix Suns. As a standout college player at the University of North Carolina, he was selected to play on the USA men's basketball team coached by UNC's Dean Smith that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. - John Howard
John Howard (born August 16, 1947 in Springfield) is an Olympic cyclist from the United States, who set a land speed record of 152.2 miles per hour (245 km/h) on pedal bicycle on July 20, 1985 on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. A competitor at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, Howard won the gold medal in the 1971 Pan American Games road cycling race in Cali, Colombia, as a member of the U.S. Army cycling team by beating Luis Carlos Florez in a sprint finish. - Alexander Dityatin
Aliexander Nikolaievich Dityatin is a Soviet gymnast, three-time Olympic Champion, "Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR". Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics he set the Olympic record for the most medals at one Games. As of 2007 he still holds this record, now along with Michael Phelps, who tied it at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society. - Annegret Richter
Annegret Richter (born October 13, 1950 in Dortmund) is a German (former West German) athlete and the 1976 Olympic 100 m champion. Born Annegret Irrgang, she won her first international title at the 1971 European Championships, as a part of her country's 4 x 100 m relay team. The next year, at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, she finished 5th in the 100 m, in front of her home crowd. - Henryk Kasperczak
Henryk Wojciech Kasperczak (born July 10, 1946 in Zabrze) is a former Polish footballer, and later a football manager. He played for the Polish national team at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cup, and won the silver medal two years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. - Sara Simeoni
Sara Simeoni (born April 19, 1953) is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump. Sara Simeoni was born in Rivoli Veronese, in the province of Verona. She soon took up athletics, specialising in the high jump. Her first international result was at the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki, where she ended 9th with a 178 cm jump. - Mac Wilkins
Maurice "Mac" Wilkins (born November 15, 1950) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He competed for the United States in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the discus throw where he won the gold medal. He also won a silver medal at the the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States again in the Discus after missing the 1980 games due to the American boycott. - Allen Coage
Allen James Coage (October 22 1943 - March 6 2007), also known as Bad News Brown and Bad News Allen, was an American professional wrestler with the WWF among many other companies. He was also the 1976 Olympic bronze medal winner in judo, in the heavyweight division. He remains the only American heavyweight to have a won an Olympic medal in judo. - Sawao Kato
Sawao Kato is a Japanese gymnast and one of the most successful athletes of all time at the Olympic Games. In three Olympics, he gathered a total of twelve medals, eight of which gold. Kato, born in the Niigata prefecture and a student of the Tokyo Kyoiku University first participated in the Olympics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City as a member of the Japanese team that dominated international gymnastics at the time. - Jorge Hernández
Jorge Hernández is a retired boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the light flyweight division (48 kg) by defeating North Korea's Li Byong-Uk in the final. Four years later, when Moscow hosted the Games, he was eliminated in the second round of the flyweight division (51 kg). Hernández won the world title at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, … - Ivo van Damme
Ivo Van Damme was a Belgian middle distance runner. Van Damme was born in Dendermonde. He played football until he was 16, but then switched to athletics. His breakthrough came in 1973, when he placed fourth in the Junior World Championships in the 800 m. He suffered from mononucleosis the following season, but returned strong beating Roger Moens's 1955 national record on 800 meter distance. - Jerzy Rybicki
Jerzy Rybicki is a retired boxer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the light middleweight division (71 kg), after having defeated Yugoslavia's Tadija Kačar in the final. Four years later, when Moscow hosted the Games, Rybicki captured the bronze medal in the middleweight category (75 kg). The same he did in 1978 at the second World Championships in Belgrade. - Nancy Garapick
Nancy Ellen Garapick (born September 24 1961) is a former Canadian Olympic swimmer. She won two bronze medals in the 100m backstroke and 200m backstroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal at the age of 14, setting a new Olympic Record for the 100m backstroke during heats. Garapick's Olympic performances came on the heals of her World Record performance on April 27, 1975 at the Eastern Canadian Swimming Championships in London, Ontario, …
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