| | Event type

Road Race, Individual, Men

Date	26 July 1976 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Circuit Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec
Participants	134 from 40 countries
Format	177.49 km. (110.31 miles) mass start race.

The course was 177.49 km. over the hilly Mont-Royal Circuit. The course had been used for the 1974 World Championships and the favorite was probably Ryszard Szurkowski of Poland, who was 1973 World Champion and had placed second on the course in 1974. The 1974 champion was his teammate, Janusz Kowalski, but he did not compete in Montréal. On the sixth lap, a group of 10 riders got away, and formed the winning group. On the last lap, Bernt Johansson was able to successfully break away and won the gold medal by 31 seconds. The winner of the sprint for the silver was Peter Thaler, but he was relegated to ninth place for interfering with other riders in the sprint and failing to keep his line. The final sprint included an American, George Mount, unusual for that era, who finished sixth. Szurkowski had missed the winning break and finished 12th, among the leaders of the trailing sprint. Of the three medalists, only Johansson would have a notable pro career. His best performance came in the 1979 Giro d’Italia, in which he placed third and won two stages.

Pos	Bib	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	–	Bernt Johansson	SWE	4-46:52	–	Gold
2	–	Giuseppe Martinelli	ITA	–	at 0:31	Silver
3	–	Mieczysław Nowicki	POL	–	at 0:31	Bronze
4	–	Fons De Wolf	BEL	–	at 0:31
5	–	Nikolay Gorelov	URS	–	at 0:31
6	–	George Mount	USA	–	at 0:31
7	–	Jean-René Bernaudeau	FRA	–	at 0:31
8	–	Vittorio Algeri	ITA	–	at 0:31
9	–	Klaus-Peter Thaler	FRG	–	at 0:31
10	–	Bernardo Alfonsel	ESP	–	at 0:35
11	–	Stanisław Szozda	POL	–	at 2:09
12	–	Ryszard Szurkowski	POL	–	at 2:09
13	–	Vlastimil Moravec	TCH	–	at 2:09
14	–	Carlos Cardet	CUB	–	at 2:09
15	–	Garry Bell	NZL	–	at 2:09
16	–	Karl-Dietrich Diers	GDR	–	at 2:09
17	–	Aleksandr Averin	URS	–	at 2:09
18	–	Herbert Spindler	AUT	–	at 2:09
19	–	Wilfried Trott	FRG	–	at 2:09
20	–	Harry Hannus	FIN	–	at 2:09
21	–	Roman Humenberger	AUT	–	at 2:09
22	–	Álvaro Pachón	COL	–	at 2:09
23	–	Luis Manrique	COL	–	at 2:09
24	–	Pierre Harvey	CAN	–	at 2:09
25	–	Arie Hassink	NED	–	at 2:09
26	–	Roberto Ceruti	ITA	–	at 2:09
27	–	Wolfgang Steinmayr	AUT	–	at 2:09
28	–	Clyde Sefton	AUS	–	at 2:09
29	–	Sven-Åke Nilsson	SWE	–	at 2:09
30	–	Jan Brzeźny	POL	–	at 2:09
31	–	Carmelo Barone	ITA	–	at 2:09
32	–	Rafael Ladrón	ESP	–	at 2:09
33	–	Juan José Moral	ESP	–	at 2:09
34	–	Remo Sansonetti	AUS	–	at 2:09
35	–	Joe Waugh	GBR	–	at 2:09
36	–	Frank Hoste	BEL	–	at 2:09
37	–	Hans-Peter Jakst	FRG	–	at 2:09
38	–	Thorleif Andresen	NOR	–	at 2:09
39	–	Valery Chaplygin	URS	–	at 2:09
40	–	Leo van Vliet	NED	–	at 2:09
41	–	Petr Bucháček	TCH	–	at 7:34
42	–	John Howard	USA	–	at 7:34
43	–	Dudley Hayton	GBR	–	at 7:34
44	–	Aavo Pikkuus	URS	–	at 7:57
45	–	Rubén Camacho	MEX	–	at 7:57
46	–	Peter Weibel	FRG	–	at 7:57
47	–	Dirk Heirweg	BEL	–	at 8:49
48	–	Eddy Schepers	BEL	–	at 8:49
49	–	Stoyan Bobekov	BUL	–	at 11:43
50	–	Ad Tak	NED	–	at 13:26
51	–	Rudolf Mitteregger	AUT	–	at 13:26
52	–	Vern Hanaray	NZL	–	at 13:26
53	–	Ramón Noriega	VEN	–	at 16:21
54	–	Gilles Durand	CAN	–	at 16:21
55	–	Geir Digerud	NOR	–	at 17:50
56	–	David Boll	USA	–	at 18:08
57	–	Richard Trinkler	SUI	–	at 18:08
58	–	José Ollarves	VEN	–	at 20:17
DNF	–	Osvaldo Benvenuti	ARG	–	–
DNF	–	Oswaldo Frossasco	ARG	–	–
DNF	–	Juan Carlos Haedo	ARG	–	–
DNF	–	Raúl Labbate	ARG	–	–
DNF	–	Alan Goodrope	AUS	–	–
DNF	–	Peter Kesting	AUS	–	–
DNF	–	Marco Soria	BOL	–	–
DNF	–	Martin Martinov	BUL	–	–
DNF	–	Ivan Popov	BUL	–	–
DNF	–	Nedyalko Stoyanov	BUL	–	–
DNF	–	Brian Chewter	CAN	–	–
DNF	–	Tom Morris	CAN	–	–
DNF	–	Abelardo Ríos	COL	–	–
DNF	–	Miguel Samacá	COL	–	–
DNF	–	Carlos Alvarado	CRC	–	–
DNF	–	Gregorio Aldo Arencibia	CUB	–	–
DNF	–	Roberto Menéndez	CUB	–	–
DNF	–	Jorge Pérez	CUB	–	–
DNF	–	Verner Blaudzun	DEN	–	–
DNF	–	Jørgen Emil Hansen	DEN	–	–
DNF	–	Bent Pedersen	DEN	–	–
DNF	–	Willy Skibby	DEN	–	–
DNF	–	Paulino Martínez	ESP	–	–
DNF	–	René Bittinger	FRA	–	–
DNF	–	Francis Duteil	FRA	–	–
DNF	–	Christian Jourdan	FRA	–	–
DNF	–	Phil Griffiths	GBR	–	–
DNF	–	Bill Nickson	GBR	–	–
DNF	–	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR	–	–
DNF	–	Gerhard Lauke	GDR	–	–
DNF	–	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR	–	–
DNF	–	Michail Kountras	GRE	–	–
DNF	–	Chan Fai Lui	HKG	–	–
DNF	–	Chan Lam Hams	HKG	–	–
DNF	–	Kwong Chi Yan	HKG	–	–
DNF	–	Tang Kam Man	HKG	–	–
DNF	–	Alan McCormack	IRL	–	–
DNF	–	Oliver McQuaid	IRL	–	–
DNF	–	Mohamed Ali Acha-Cheloi	IRI	–	–
DNF	–	Hassan Aryanfard	IRI	–	–
DNF	–	Asghar Khodayari	IRI	–	–
DNF	–	Mahmoud Delshad	IRI	–	–
DNF	–	Errol Walters	JAM	–	–
DNF	–	Lucien Didier	LUX	–	–
DNF	–	Marcel Thull	LUX	–	–
DNF	–	Yahya Ahmad	MAS	–	–
DNF	–	José Castañeda	MEX	–	–
DNF	–	Luis Rosendo Ramos	MEX	–	–
DNF	–	Rodolfo Vitela	MEX	–	–
DNF	–	Miguel Espinoza	NCA	–	–
DNF	–	David Iornos	NCA	–	–
DNF	–	Hamblin González	NCA	–	–
DNF	–	Manuel Largaespada	NCA	–	–
DNF	–	Frits Schür	NED	–	–
DNF	–	Stein Bråthen	NOR	–	–
DNF	–	Pål Henning Hansen	NOR	–	–
DNF	–	Jamie Richards	NZL	–	–
DNF	–	Daniele Cesaretti	SMR	–	–
DNF	–	Hansjörg Aemisegger	SUI	–	–
DNF	–	Serge Demièrre	SUI	–	–
DNF	–	Robert Thalmann	SUI	–	–
DNF	–	Leif Hansson	SWE	–	–
DNF	–	Alf Segersäll	SWE	–	–
DNF	–	Petr Matoušek	TCH	–	–
DNF	–	Vladimír Vondráček	TCH	–	–
DNF	–	Panya Dingmuong	THA	–	–
DNF	–	Chartchai Juntrat	THA	–	–
DNF	–	Prajin Rungrote	THA	–	–
DNF	–	Arlee Wararong	THA	–	–
DNF	–	Carlos Alcántara	URU	–	–
DNF	–	Washington Díaz	URU	–	–
DNF	–	Víctor González	URU	–	–
DNF	–	Waldemar Pedrazzi	URU	–	–
DNF	–	Mike Neel	USA	–	–
DNF	–	Justo Galaviz	VEN	–	–
DNF	–	Nicolás Reidtler	VEN	–	–