The 1976 Olympic Summer Games are best remembered for a perfect 10, a Royal debut and the most iconic moustache in the pool.
Montreal played host to the 21st edition of the Summer Games, the first time Canada had ever hosted, 44 years after they had last gone to North America.
Nadia Comaneci was the story of the Games, the Romanian gymnast becoming the first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics and taking three gold medals, including the all-around title at the age of just 14.
Such was her performance, the scoreboard could not handle the extra digit, showing her as scoring 1.00 to those in attendance.
Elsewhere, Albert Juantorena, the elegant Cuban runner, became the first man to win 400m and 800m titles on the track at the same Games, while Lasse Viren pulled off a second successive 5,000m and 10,000m double, four decades before Sir Mo Farah did the same.
From a British perspective, golds were not as forthcoming as they have been in the 21st century, but there was still no shortage of magic moments.
We have picked out some of the standouts:
Wilkie’s historic triumph
Anita Lonsbrough won 200m breaststroke gold in Rome in 1960, but no British man had won a swimming gold since 1908.
But four years after taking 200m breaststroke silver in Munich, David Wilkie and his striking moustache, defeated all-comers to upgrade that to gold and finally end the wait that dated back to Henry Taylor in London.
Wilkie set a new world record when he touched home in 2:15.11, more than two seconds clear of the field, denying the American men a clean sweep of swimming golds in the process.
It came a matter of days after Wilkie had won 100m breaststroke silver, as he became the first British man to win multiple individual swimming medals at the same Games in the post-war era. Only Duncan Scott has achieved the feat since, winning two silvers in Tokyo in the 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley.
Sailors storm to gold
Reg White and John Osborn were in a class of their own in the Tornado, a catamaran being raced at the Olympics for the first time.
White and Osborn won four of the first six races to wrap up gold even before the final race, which they did not start.
The pair came into the Games as favourites after taking the world title in Sydney earlier that year and they lived up to that status.
Elsewhere in the sailing, Rodney Pattison picked up his third Olympic medal in his third Games, taking silver in the Flying Dutchman class alongside Julian Brooke-Houghton.
He had previously taken gold in the class in both 1968 and 1972, and was given the honour of carrying the flag at the opening ceremony in Montreal.
Modern pentathlon gold in face of fencing mischief
Jim Fox is known as one of the most influential figures in modern pentathlon in Britain and his crowning moment came in 1976.
He had already competed at three editions of the Games, having made his Olympic debut in Tokyo in 1964, and in Montreal he joined forces with Danny Nightingale and Adrian Parker in the team event.
After starting strongly in the equestrian discipline, the Brits came up against the Soviet Union in fencing. Fox and the team protested that opponent Boris Onishchenko’s weapon had gone off without hitting anything.
Upon further inspection, it was found that Onishchenko’s épée had been modified to include a switch that allowed him to register a touch without making contact with his opponent. Onishchenko was disqualified and later handed a lifetime ban, while Fox and his teammates went on to claim a memorable gold medal.
Brendan’s brilliant bronze
For many, Brendan Foster has been the voice of athletics for a generation, while others know him for being the driving force behind the Great North Run.
But in 1976, he was in the midst of a stellar athletics career, appearing at his second Games after competing in the 1500m in Munich four years earlier.
Foster competed over both 5,000m and 10,000m, and in the latter event, he ran a brilliant race to take a bronze medal behind Viren and Portugal’s Carlos Lopes.
Showing remarkable resilience, Foster held off a charge from compatriot Tony Simmons on the last lap to secure an Olympic medal, two years before claiming Commonwealth gold in the same event, also in Canada in Edmonton.
The Princess Royal’s landmark appearance
The Games were opened by Queen Elizabeth II, as head of state of Canada, but it was her daughter Anne who made history.
When she competed in the equestrian events, the Princess Royal became the first member of the British Royal family to compete at the Olympics.
She rode the Queen’s horse, Goodwill, in eventing and suffered a concussion after a fall halfway around the cross-country course. She remounted and completed the event and also competed in the team event five years after she had been crowned Sports Personality of the Year following a European Championship success.