Thailand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Forty-two competitors, 39 men and 3 women, took part in 33 events in 11 sports.

The country won their first Olympic medal, a bronze for boxing's Payao Poontarat. It became the third Southeast Asian country to win the first Olympic medal after the Philippines (won a bronze for swimming in 1928) and Singapore (won a silver in 1960 in weightlifting). It took 20 years until Thailand won its first gold medal in Atlanta, also in the boxing.

Medalists

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! Medal

! Name

! Sport

! Event

! Date

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| || Payao Poontarat || Boxing ||Light Flyweight ||

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Archery

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Am. Kaewbaidhoon — 2282 points (→ 18th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Vallop Potaya — 2060 points (→ 35th place)
  • Vichit Suksumpong — 2032 points (→ 36th place)

Athletics

Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay

  • Anat Ratanapol, Suchart Jairsuraparp, Somsakdi Boontud, and Sayan Paratanavong

:* Heat — 40.53s

:* Semi Finals — 40.68s (→ did not advance)

Boxing

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

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!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!Round of 32

!Round of 16

!Quarterfinals

!Semifinals

!colspan=2|Final

|-style="font-size:95%"

!Opposition<br />Result

!Opposition<br />Result

!Opposition<br />Result

!Opposition<br />Result

!Opposition<br />Result

!Rank

|-align=center

|align=left|Payao Poontarat

|align=left|Men's Light Flyweight

|<br />W 4–1

|<br />W 3–2

|<br />W 4–1

|<br />L RSC–2

|Did not advance

|

|-align=center

|align=left|Somchai Putapibarn

|align=left|Men's Flyweight

|<br />L 0–5

|colspan=5|Did not advance

|-align=center

|align=left|Narong Boonfuang

|align=left|Men's Light Welterweight

|<br />W KO

|<br />L KO

|colspan=5|Did not advance

|}

Cycling

Six cyclists represented Thailand in 1976.

;Individual road race

  • Panya Singprayool-Dinmuong &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Arlee Wararong &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Chartchai Juntrat &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Prajin Rungrote &mdash; did not finish (→ no ranking)

;Team time trial

  • Sucheep Likittay
  • Chartchai Juntrat
  • Panya Singprayool-Dinmuong
  • Prajin Rungrote

;Sprint

  • Taworn Tarwan &mdash; 24th place

;1000m time trial

  • Taworn Tarwan &mdash; 1:15.136 (→ 27th place)

Diving

Fencing

Five fencers, all men, represented Thailand in 1976.

;Men's épée

  • Taweewat Hurapan
  • Sneh Chousurin
  • Sutipong Santitevagul

;Men's team épée

  • Sneh Chousurin, Taweewat Hurapan, Sutipong Santitevagul, Royengyot Srivorapongpant, Samachai Trangjaroenngarm

;Men's sabre

  • Taweewat Hurapan
  • Sutipong Santitevagul
  • Royengyot Srivorapongpant

;Men's team sabre

  • Taweewat Hurapan, Samachai Trangjaroenngarm, Sutipong Santitevagul, Royengyot Srivorapongpant

Judo

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Weightlifting

References

  • Official Olympic Reports
  • International Olympic Committee results database