INNSBRUCK 1976 The Games of the XII Winter Olympiad. February 4-15, 1976. Innsbruck, Austria. 1 ALPINE SKIING MEN Downhill 1.Franz Klammer (Austria) 2.Bernhard Russi (Switzerland) 2 Giant slalom 3.Ingemar Stenmark (Sweden) Slalom 1.Piero Gros (Italy) 2.Gustav Thoni (Italy) 3.Willi Frommelt (Liechtenstein) 3 WOMEN Downhill 1.Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany) 2.Brigitte Totschnig (Austria) 4 Giant slalom 1.Kathy Kreiner (Canada) 5 Slalom 1.Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany) 3.Hanni Wenzel (Liechternstein) 6 6.Lindy Cochran (USA) Giant slalom: 2.Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany) 7 BIATHLON 4 x 7.5 km 1.USSR (Aleksandr Tikhonov) 8 BOBSLEIGH Two-man 2.Wolfgang Zimmerer / Manfred Schumann (West Germany) 18.Colin Nelson / Jim Lavalley (Canada) 9 Four-man 1.East Germany (Meinhard Nehmer, Jochen Babock, Bernhard Germeshausen, Bernhard Lehmann) (NOTE: On both stamps, the inscription says “West Germany”, yet it must be a typo, for the event was won in fact by East Germany). 2.Switzerland (Erich Scharer, Ueli Bachli, Ruedi Marti, Sepp Benz) 3.West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider, Bodo Bittner, Manfred Schumann) Two-man: 1.Meinhard Nehmer / Bernhard Germeshausen (East Germany), 3.Erich Scharer / Sepp Benz (Switzerland) 10 CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING MEN 30 km 1.Sergey Savelyev (USSR) 4 x 10 km: 3.USSR (Sergei Savelyev) 50 km 1.Ivar Formo (Norway) 4 x 10 km: 2.Norway (Ivar Formo) 11 4 x 10 km: 2.Norway (Pal Tyldum) 15 km: 1.Nikolay Bazhukov (USSR), 2.Yevgeny Belyayev (USSR) 4 x 10 km: 3.USSR (Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Bazhukov) 12 WOMEN 4 x 5 km 1.USSR (Nina Baldycheva, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova) Galina Kulakova (USSR) 5 km: 2.Raisa Smetanina (USSR), 3.Nina Baldycheva (USSR) 10 km: 1.Raisa Smetanina (USSR), 3.Galina Kulakova (USSR) 13 5 km: 1.Helena Takalo (Finland) 10 km: 2.Helena Takalo (Finland) 4 x 5 km: 2.Finland (Hiikka Riihivuori, Helena Takalo) 14 4 x 5 km: 3.East Germany (Barbara Petzold, Veronika Hesse) 15 FIGURE SKATING Men 1.John Curry (Great Britain) 16 Ladies 1.Dorothy Hamill (USA) 2.Dianne de Leeuw (Netherlands) 17 Pairs 1.Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (USSR) 18 5.Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner (USA) 19 Ice dancing 1.Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov (USSR) 2.Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov (USSR) 20 ICE HOCKEY First Round West Germany - Switzerland 5:1 (Alois Schloder (West Germany)) 21 Final Round USSR - USA 6:2 (Boris Mikhailov - Jim Warden, John Taft) Finland - West Germany 5:3 (Matti Rautiainen - Alois Schloder) 22 USSR - West Germany 7:3 (Yuri Lyapkin - Anton Kehle) USSR - Czechoslovakia 4:3 (Vladimir Shadrin - Jiri Novak) 23 1.USSR (10 points in 5 games) (Vladislav Tretiak, Alexander Sidelnikov, Alexander Gusev, Vladimir Lutchenko, Sergei Babinov, Yuri Lyapkin, Gennadiy Tsygankov, Valeri Vasiliev, Sergei Kapustin, Alexander Maltsev, Boris Alexandrov, Boris Mikhailov, Alexander Yakushev, Vladimir Petrov, Valeri Kharlamov, Vladimir Shadrin, Viktor Shalimov, Viktor Zhluktov, Boris Kulagin (head coach), Vladimir Yurzinov (assistant coach), Konstantin Loktev (assistant coach)) 2.Czechoslovakia (6 pts) 3.West Germany (4 pts) 24 Alexander Maltsev (USSR) Jiri Holecek (Czechoslovakia) Oldrich Machac (Czechoslovakia) Milan Chalupa (Czechoslovakia) 25 Ivan Hlinka (Czechoslovakia) Frantisek Pospisil (Czechoslovakia) Udo Kiessling (West Germany) 4.Finland 5.USA 11.Switzerland 26 LUGE Men’s singles 3.Hans Rinn (East Germany) Women’s singles 7.Monika Scheftschik (West Germany) 27 Doubles 1.Hans Rinn / Norbert Hahn (East Germany) 2.Hans Brandner / Balthasar Schwarm (West Germany) 28 NORDIC COMBINED Individual 1.Ulrich Wehling (East Germany) SKI JUMPING Individual large hill 1.Karl Schnabl (Austria) 2.Toni Innauer (Austria) Individual normal hill: 3.Karl Schnabl (Austria) 29 SPEED SKATING MEN 1500 m 1.Jan Egil Storholt (Norway) 10000 m 1.Piet Kleine (Netherlands) 5000 m: 2.Piet Kleine (Netherlands) 30 WOMEN 500 m 1.Sheila Young (USA) 1000 m 1.Tatyana Averina (USSR) 500 m: 3.Tatyana Averina (USSR) 1500 m: 3.Tatyana Averina (USSR) 3000 m: 1.Tatyana Averina (USSR) 31 1000 m: 3.Sheila Young (USA) 1500 m: 2.Sheila Young (USA) 3000 m: 2.Andrea Mitscherlich (East Germany) 32 MEDAL COUNT 1.USSR (13-6-8) 33 2.EAST GERMANY (7-5-7) 3.USA (3-3-4) Previous Olympiad Next Olympiad (MUNICH 1972) (MONTREAL 1976) Previous Winter Olympiad Next Winter Olympiad (SAPPORO 1972) (LAKE PLACID 1980) Back to the Main Page (OLYMPIC HISTORY ON STAMPS) 34 .