Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	3	9
2	United States (USA)	2	2	2	6
3	Norway (NOR)	2	2	1	5
4	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	3	5
5	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 nations)		9	9	9	27

The Soviet Union led the medal table, with four gold and nine overall. The silver medal for East Germany's Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich was the country's first in speed skating.

Tatyana Averina led the individual medal table, winning a medal in all four women's events, two gold and two bronze. Sheila Young won three medals one of each value on the three shortest distances for women,. The most successful male skaters were Norway's Sten Stensen and the Netherlands' Piet Kleine, who both won one gold and one silver medal, splitting the long distance events. The dutch speed skater Hans van Helden von the bronze-medals on all the three longest distances for men. The Soviet Union speed skater Valery Muratov also got a multiple set of medals with a silver medal in the 500 metres event and the bronze medal in the 1000 metres event.