Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics
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Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics consisted of two biathlon events, held at Seefeld. The events began on 6 February and ended on 13 February 1976.^[1][2]

Three nations won medals in biathlon, the Soviet Union leading the medal table with three medals (2 gold, 1 bronze). Nikolay Kruglov led the individual medal table, winning the individual race, and adding a gold medal in the relay.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	1	3
2	Finland (FIN)	0	2	0	2
3	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual details	Nikolay Kruglov  Soviet Union	1:14:12.26	Heikki Ikola  Finland	1:15:54.10	Aleksandr Elizarov  Soviet Union	1:16:05.57
Relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Elizarov Ivan Biakov Nikolay Kruglov Aleksandr Tikhonov	1:57:55.64	Finland (FIN) Henrik Flöjt Esko Saira Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola	2:01:45.58	East Germany (GDR) Karl-Heinz Menz Frank Ullrich Manfred Beer Manfred Geyer	2:04:08.61

Eighteen nations sent biathletes to compete in the events. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors. Bulgaria and Chinese Taipei (as Republic of China) made their Olympic biathlon debuts.^[1]