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