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Road Race, 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	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 Fornos	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 Chantharat	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	–	–