Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1976LocalisationPays hôte AutricheVille hôteInnsbruckDateDu 4 au 15 février 1976Ouverture officielle parRudolf KirchschlägerPrésident fédéral de la République d'AutricheParticipantsPays37Athlètes1 123(892 masc. et 231 fém.)CompétitionNombre de sports6Nombre de disciplines10Épreuves37SymbolesSerment olympiqueWerner Delle-KarthBobeur autrichienFlamme olympiqueChristl Haas et Josef FeistmantlSkieuse Alpine and LugerMascotSnowman Schneemann19721980Edit

The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games, were held in Innsbruck, Austria from February 4 to 15, 1976.

The competition was first awarded to the American city of Denver, but the people of Colorado opposed the organizing committee for economic and ecological reasons. The city of Innsbruck, which organized the 1964 Winter Games and has recent sports venues, is therefore chosen as the new host city.

The historical context is tense since these Games are the first since the Munich hostage crisis in 1972. The means devoted to security are adapted accordingly and the competition takes place normally.

The Games bring together 1,123 athletes from 37 countries. They participate in six sports and ten disciplines which bring together a total of thirty-seven official events, two more than in 1972. Andorra and San Marino participate in the Winter Olympics for the first time.

Two athletes won two golds and a silver: West German Rosi Mittermaier narrowly missed out on a historic treble in alpine skiing and Soviet Raisa Smetanina dominated cross-country skiing. Another Soviet, Tatyana Averina, won four medals including two gold in speed skating.

Austrians celebrate Franz Klammer's victory in the downhill and a double in the large hill ski jumping event.

The Soviet Union is first on the medal table with twenty-seven awards, thirteen of which are gold. It is ahead of East Germany and the United States.

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