1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	4th
Date	28 February
Host city	Chepstow, Wales
Venue	Chepstow Racecourse
Events	3
Distances	12 km – Senior men 7.8 km – Junior men 4.8 km – Senior women
Participation	306 athletes from 21 nations
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The 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Chepstow, Wales, at the Chepstow Racecourse on 28 February 1976. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]

Complete results for men,^[2] junior men,^[3] women,^[4] medallists, ^[5] and the results of British athletes^[6] were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Senior men (12 km)	Carlos Lopes  Portugal	34:47.8	Tony Simmons  England	35:04	Bernie Ford  England	35:07
Junior men (7.8 km)	Eric Hulst  United States	23:53.8	Thom Hunt  United States	24:06.8	Nat Muir  Scotland	24:17
Senior women (4.8 km)	Carmen Valero  Spain	16:19.4	Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union	16:39	Gabriella Dorio  Italy	16:56
Team
Senior men	England	90	Belgium	118	France	187
Junior men	United States	16	Spain	60	England	91
Senior women	Soviet Union	33	Italy	59	United States	64

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Main article: 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	34:47.8
	Tony Simmons	England	35:04
	Bernie Ford	England	35:07
4	Karel Lismont	Belgium	35:08
5	Detlef Uhlemann	West Germany	35:09
6	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	35:17
7	Gary Tuttle	United States	35:19
8	Franco Fava	Italy	35:21
9	Jacques Boxberger	France	35:24
10	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	35:28
11	Mariano Haro	Spain	35:28
12	Vladimir Merkushin	Soviet Union	35:30
Full results

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	England Tony Simmons 2 Bernie Ford 3 David Slater 15 Grenville Tuck 16 David Black 26 Mike Tagg 28 (Steve Kenyon) (47) (Andy Holden) (112) (Dennis Coates) (129)	90
	Belgium Karel Lismont 4 Gaston Roelants 13 Hendrik Schoofs 17 Eddy Rombaux 19 Willy Polleunis 27 Robert Lismont 38 (Eric De Beck) (49) (Gilbert Maesschalk) (65) (Eddy Van Mullem) (97)	118
	France Jacques Boxberger 9 Lucien Rault 18 Jean-Paul Gomez 25 Jean-Luc Paugam 32 Dominique Coux 46 Alex Gonzalez 57 (Radhouane Bouster) (63) (Patrick Martin) (71) (Pierre Levisse) (90)	187
4	Soviet Union	219
5	Italy	224
6	United States	243
7	West Germany	292
8	Wales	304
Full results

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Junior men's race (7.8 km)

Main article: 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Eric Hulst	United States	23:53.8
	Thom Hunt	United States	24:06.8
	Nat Muir	Scotland	24:17
4	Thierry Watrice	France	24:23
5	Alberto Salazar	United States	24:36
6	Yahia Hadka	Morocco	24:38
7	Nick Lees	England	24:42
8	Don Moses	United States	24:43
9	Santiago Llorente	Spain	24:45
10	Harry Servranckx	Belgium	24:46
11	Marty Froelick	United States	24:47
12	José Luis González	Spain	24:49
Full results

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	United States Eric Hulst 1 Thom Hunt 2 Alberto Salazar 5 Don Moses 8 (Marty Froelick) (11) (Ralph Serna) (19)	16
	Spain Santiago Llorente 9 José Luis González 12 Rafael Nunez 15 Antonio Prieto 24 (José Calderón) (40)	60
	England Nick Lees 7 Jeremy Lothian 26 Nigel Field 27 Nick Brawn 31 (Paul Bettridge) (46) (David Murphy) (57)	91
4	Italy	97
5	Morocco	107
6	West Germany	115
7	Canada	120
8	Belgium	125
Full results

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Senior women's race (4.8 km)

Main article: 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Carmen Valero	Spain	16:19.4
	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	16:39
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	16:56
4	Ann Yeoman	England	16:57
5	Renata Pentlinowska	Poland	17:00
6	Joëlle Debrouwer	France	17:01
7	Lynn Bjorklund	United States	17:02
8	Giana Romanova	Soviet Union	17:03
9	Mary Stewart	Scotland	17:04
10	Margherita Gargano	Italy	17:05
11	Tatyana Galstyan	Soviet Union	17:06
12	Raisa Katyukova	Soviet Union	17:07
Full results

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Soviet Union Tatyana Kazankina 2 Giana Romanova 8 Tatyana Galstyan 11 Raisa Katyukova 12 (Olga Dvirna) (29)	33
	Italy Gabriella Dorio 3 Margherita Gargano 10 Silvana Cruciata 15 Cristina Tomasini 31 (Sonia Basso) (57)	59
	United States Lynn Bjorklund 7 Doris Heritage 17 Debbie Quatier 19 Judy Graham 21 (Paula Neppel) (24) (Cheryl Bridges) (38)	64
4	England	78
5	Poland	87
6	France	107
7	Belgium	120
8	Ireland	122
Full results

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Medal table (unofficial)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	1	1	4
2	England (ENG)	1	1	2	4
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	0	2
	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
5	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
8	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Scotland (SCO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

• Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 306 athletes from 21 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[6]

•  Algeria (14)
•  Belgium (21)
•  Brazil (5)
•  Canada (6)
•  England (21)
•  Finland (18)
•  France (21)
•  Ireland (19)
•  Italy (19)
•  Morocco (15)
•  Northern Ireland (10)
•  Poland (6)
•  Portugal (8)
•  Scotland (20)
•  Soviet Union (11)
•  Spain (20)
•  Sweden (7)
•  Tunisia (9)
•  United States (21)
•  Wales (21)
•  West Germany (14)

See also

• 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 1976 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Marshall, Ron (1 March 1976), Scots are left behind in big race - When England walked off with the team awards at the first International Cross-Country Championship, in 1903 at Hamilton, a Scottish official, in writing of the trophy up for annual competition, said: "It is very handsome and I am only sorry that so far as Scotland is concerned we have probably seen the last of it for a number of years"..., Glasgow Herald, p. 17, retrieved 17 October 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (24 March 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Chepstow Date: Saturday, February 28, 1976, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 17 October 2013
3. Magnusson, Tomas (8 September 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.8km CC Men - Chepstow Date: Saturday, February 28, 1976, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 17 October 2013
4. Magnusson, Tomas (8 February 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.8km CC Women - Chepstow Date: Saturday, February 28, 1976, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 17 October 2013
5. IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 9 October 2013
6. 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013

External links

• GBRathletics