MUNICH 1972
The Games of the XX Summer Olympiad. August 26 – September 10, 1972. Munich, West Germany.
Archery Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal Count
Men’s individual
1.John Williams (USA)
2.Gunnar Jervill (Sweden)
MEN
100 m
1.Valeriy Borzov (USSR)
2.Robert Taylor (USA)
200 m
Heat 3
1.Valeriy Borzov (USSR) (qualified for Quarterfinals)
2.Edwin Roberts (Trinidad and Tobago) (qualified for Quarterfinals)
4.Motsapi Moorosi (Lesotho) (qualified for Quarterfinals)
5.Su Wen-Ho (Taiwan)
1.Valeriy Borzov (USSR)
2.Larry Black (USA)
3.Pietro Mennea (Italy)
NQF (5 in Quarterfinal 4).Motsapi Moorosi (Lesotho)
NQF (5 in Quarterfinal 3).Edwin Roberts (Trinidad and Tobago)
800 m
1.Dave Wottle (USA)
1500 m
2.Kipchoge Keino (Kenya)
5000 m
1.Lasse Viren (Finland)
2.Mohammed Gammoudi (Tunisia)
10000 m
1.Lasse Viren (Finland)
2.Emiel Puttemans (Belgium)
3.Miruts Yifter (Ethiopia)
4.Mariano Haro (Spain)
5.Frank Shorter (USA)
110 m hurdles
Semifinal 2
1.Rod Milburn (USA) (qualified for Final)
4.Lubomir Nadenicek (Czechoslovakia) (qualified for Final)
6.Gunther Nickel (West Germany)
1.Rod Milburn (USA)
2.Guy Drut (France)
7.Lubomir Nadenicek (Czechoslovakia)
400 m hurdles
Heat 4
1.John Akii-Bua (Uganda) (qualified for Semifinals)
6.Dick Bruggeman (USA)
1.John Akii-Bua (Uganda)
3.David Hemery (Great Britain)
3000 m steeplechase
1.Kipchoge Keino (Kenya)
2.Ben Jipcho (Kenya)
3.Tapio Kantanen (Finland)
4.Bronislaw Malinowski (Poland)
5.Dusan Moravcik (Czechoslovakia)
6.Amos Biwott (Kenya)
7.Romualdas Bite (USSR)
8.Pekka Paivarinta (Finland)
9.Takaharu Koyama (Japan)
10.Mikko Ala-Leppilampi (Finland)
11.Jean-Paul Villain (France)
12.Mikhail Zhelev (Bulgaria)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker, Eddie Hart)
2.USSR (Valeriy Borzov)
4 x 400 m
2.Great Britain (David Hemery)
Marathon
1.Frank Shorter (USA)
3.Mamo Wolde (Ethiopia)
9.Jack Bacheler (USA)
20 km walk
1.Peter Frenkel (East Germany)
2.Vladimir Golubnichy (USSR)
Long jump
1.Randy Williams (USA)
3.Arnie Robinson (USA)
29.Michael Ahey (Ghana)
Triple jump
1.Viktor Saneyev (USSR)
High jump
1.Juri Tarmak (USSR)
Pole vault
1.Wolfgang Nordwig (East Germany)
2.Bob Seagren (USA)
Shot put
1.Wladyslaw Komar (Poland)
Discus throw
1.Ludvik Danek (Czechoslovakia)
Javelin throw
1.Klaus Wolfermann (West Germany)
2.Janis Lusis (USSR)
Hammer throw
1.Anatoliy Bondarchuk (USSR)
Decathlon
1.Nikolai Avilov (USSR)
WOMEN
100 m
1.Renate Stecher (East Germany)
2.Raelene Boyle (Australia)
3.Silvia Chibas (Cuba)
200 m
1.Renate Stecher (East Germany)
2.Raelene Boyle (Australia)
3.Irena Szewinska (Poland)
400 m
2.Rita Wilden (West Germany)
800 m
1.Hildegard Falck (West Germany)
100 m hurdles
1.Annelie Ehrhardt (East Germany)
2.Valeria Bufanu (Romania)
4 x 100 m
1.West Germany (Ingrid Becker, Annegret Richter, Heide Rosendahl)
2.East Germany (Renate Stecher)
3.Cuba
4 x 400 m
3.West Germany (Hildegard Falck, Rita Wilden)
Long jump
1.Heide Rosendahl (West Germany)
2.Diana Yorgova (Bulgaria)
High jump
1.Ulrike Meyfarth (West Germany)
Shot put
1.Nadezhda Chizhova (USSR)
3.Ivanka Khristova (Bulgaria)
Discus throw
1.Faina Melnik (USSR)
2.Argentina Menis (Romania)
Javelin throw
1.Ruth Fuchs (East Germany)
Pentathlon
1.Mary Peters (Great Britain)
2.Heide Rosendahl (West Germany)
Third-Place Game
Cuba - Italy 66:65
(Ruperto Herrera, Rafael Canizares - Mauro Cerioni, Dino Meneghin, Ivan Bisson)
Final
USSR - USA 51:50
(Ivan Dvorny, Sergei Kovalenko - Dwight Jones)
(Aleksandr Belov - Jim Brewer)
1.USSR (Zurab Sakandelidze, Mikhail Korkiya, Ivan Dvorny, Aleksandr Belov, Sergei Kovalenko)
Mikhail Korkiya, Zurab Sakandelidze (USSR)
2.USA (Dwight Jones, Jim Brewer)
3.Cuba (Ruperto Herrera, Rafael Canizares)
4.Italy (Mauro Cerioni, Dino Meneghin, Ivan Bisson)
48 kg
1.Gyorgy Gedo (Hungary)
3-4.Enrique Rodriguez (Spain)
51 kg
1.Georgi Kostadinov (Bulgaria)
3-4.Douglas Rodriguez (Cuba)
54 kg
1.Orlando Martinez (Cuba)
63.5 kg
1.Ray Seales (USA)
67 kg
1.Emilio Correa (Cuba)
71 kg
1.Dieter Kottysch (West Germany)
75 kg
1.Vyacheslav Lemeshev (USSR)
81 kg
2.Gilberto Garrillo (Cuba)
81+ kg
1.Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba)
2.Ion Alexe (Romania)
MEN
C-1 Slalom
1.Reinhard Eiben (East Germany)
K-1 Slalom
1.Siegbert Horn (East Germany)
C-1 1000 m
1.Ivan Patzaichin (Romania)
2.Tamas Wichmann (Hungary)
3.Detlef Lewe (West Germany)
C-2 1000 m
2.Ivan Patzaichin / Serghei Covaliov (Romania)
3.Fedia Damianov / Ivan Burtchin (Bulgaria)
K-1 1000 m
1.Aleksandr Shaparenko (USSR)
K-2 1000 m
1.Nikolai Gorbachev / Viktor Kratasyuk (USSR)
K-4 1000 m
1.USSR (Vladimir Morozov)
(the inscription erroneously suggests K-2 1000 m, but it should be K-4)
ROAD
Team time trial
2.Poland (Ryszard Szurkowski, Edward Barcik, Lucjan Lis, Stanislaw Szozda)
TRACK
Individual pursuit
1.Knut Knudsen (Norway)
Team pursuit
1.West Germany
Sprint
1.Daniel Morelon (France)
MEN
10 m platform
1.Klaus Dibiasi (Italy)
WOMEN
3 m springboard
1.Micki King (USA)
2.Ulrika Knape (Sweden)
10 m platform
1.Ulrika Knape (Sweden)
Individual dressage
1.Liselott Linsenhoff (West Germany)
2.Yelena Petushkova (USSR)
3.Josef Neckermann (West Germany)
Team dressage
1.USSR (Yelena Petushkova)
2.West Germany (Liselott Linsenhoff, Josef Neckermann)
Individual eventing
1.Richard Meade (Great Britain)
Team eventing
1.Great Britain (Richard Meade, Mark Phillips)
2.USA (Bruce Davidson, Michael Plumb)
Individual jumping
1.Graziano Mancinelli (Italy)
Team jumping
1.West Germany (Hartwig Steenken, Hans Gunter Winkler)
2.USA (William Steinkraus)
3.Italy (Raimondo D’Inzeo, Graziano Mancinelli, Piero D’Inzeo)
MEN
Individual epee: 1.Csaba Fenyvesi (Hungary)
3.Gyozo Kulcsar (Hungary)
Team epee: 1.Hungary
(Csaba Fenyvesi, Gyozo Kulcsar)
Individual foil
1.Witold Woyda (Poland)
Team foil
1.Poland (Witold Woyda)
Individual sabre: 1.Viktor Sidyak (USSR)
Team sabre: 2.USSR (Viktor Sidyak)
WOMEN
Individual foil
1.Antonella Ragno-Lonzi (Italy)
Team foil
1.USSR (Elena Belova, Svetlana Chirkova)
2.Hungary (Ildiko Schwarczenberger)
3.Romania
1.West Germany
3.India (Mukhbain Singh)
1.Poland (Kazimierz Deyna, Grzegorz Lato)
3-4.USSR (Yevgeny Rudakov, Iosef Sabo, Oleg Blokhin),
East Germany (Joachim Streich)
5-6.West Germany (Uli Hoeness)
MEN
Team all-around
1.Japan (Sawao Kato, Akinori Nakayama, Mitsuo Tsukahara)
2.USSR (Nikolai Andrianov, Viktor Klimenko)
Individual all-around
1.Sawao Kato (Japan)
3.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
Floor exercise
1.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
2.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
Horizontal bar
1.Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)
2.Sawao Kato (Japan)
Parallel bars
1.Sawao Kato (Japan)
Pommel horse
1.Viktor Klimenko (USSR)
2.Sawao Kato (Japan)
Rings
1.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
3.Mitsuo Tsukahara (Japan)
Vault
2.Viktor Klimenko (USSR)
3.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Olga Korbut, Ludmila Tourischeva)
2.East Germany (Karin Janz)
Individual all-around
1.Ludmila Tourischeva (USSR)
2.Karin Janz (East Germany)
Balance beam
1.Olga Korbut (USSR)
3.Karin Janz (East Germany)
Floor exercise
1.Olga Korbut (USSR)
2.Ludmila Tourischeva (USSR)
Uneven bars
1.Karin Janz (East Germany)
2-3.Olga Korbut (USSR)
Vault
1.Karin Janz (East Germany)
3.Ludmila Tourischeva (USSR)
1.Yugoslavia
3.Romania
63 kg
1.Takao Kawaguchi (Japan)
70 kg
1.Toyokazu Nomura (Japan)
80 kg
1.Shinobu Sekine (Japan)
93 kg
1.Shota Chochishvili (USSR)
93+ kg: 1.Willem Ruska (Netherlands)
Open: 1.Willem Ruska (Netherlands)
3-4.Angelo Parisi (Great Britain)
Individual
1.Andras Balczo (Hungary)
Team
2.Hungary (Andras Balczo)
Double sculls
1.Aleksandr Timoshinin / Gennadi Korshikov (USSR)
2.Frank Hansen / Svein Thogersen (Norway)
3.Joachim Bohmer / Uli Schmied (East Germany)
4.Niels Henry Secher / Jorgen Engelbrecht (Denmark)
5.Tim Crooks / Patrick Delafield (Great Britain)
6.Josef Straka, Jr / Vladek Lacina (Czechoslovakia)
Coxless pairs
1.Siegfried Brietzke / Wolfgang Mager (West Germany)
Coxed pairs
1.East Germany (Jorg Lucke)
Coxed fours
2.New Zealand (Dudley Storey, Ross Collinge)
Coxed fours
2.East Germany (Dietrich Zander, Reinhard Gust, Eckhard Martens, Rolf Jobst)
Coxed eights
1.New Zealand
(Tony Hunt, Wybo Veldman, Dick Joyce, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Trevor Coker, Gary Robertson, Simon Dickie)
3.East Germany (Jorg Landvoigt, Bernd Landvoigt)
Finn
1.Serge Maury (France)
Flying Dutchman
1.Great Britain (Rodney Pattisson)
50 m free pistol
1.Ragnar Skanaker (Sweden)
2.Dan Iuga (Romania)
50 m rifle prone
1.Ri Ho-Jun (North Korea)
3.Nicolae Rotaru (Romania)
Skeet
2.Yevgeny Petrov (USSR)
Trap
1.Angelo Scalzone (Italy)
MEN
100 m freestyle
1.Mark Spitz (USA)
200 m freestyle
1.Mark Spitz (USA)
1500 m freestyle
1.Mike Burton (USA)
100 m backstroke
1.Roland Matthes (East Germany)
200 m backstroke
1.Roland Matthes (East Germany)
200 m breaststroke
2.David Wilkie (Great Britain)
100 m butterfly
1.Mark Spitz (USA)
200 m butterfly
1.Mark Spitz (USA)
200 m individual medley: 1.Gunnar Larsson (Sweden)
400 m individual medley: 1.Gunnar Larsson (Sweden)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.USA (Mark Spitz)
3.East Germany (Roland Matthes)
4 x 200 m freestyle
1.USA (Mark Spitz)
2.West Germany (Hans Fassnacht)
4 x 100 m medley
1.USA (Mark Spitz)
2.East Germany (Roland Matthes)
WOMEN
100 m freestyle
2.Shirley Babashoff (USA)
3.Shane Gould (Australia)
200 m freestyle
1.Shane Gould (Australia)
2.Shirley Babashoff (USA)
400 m freestyle
1.Shane Gould (Australia)
800 m freestyle
2.Shane Gould (Australia)
100 m backstroke
2.Andrea Gyarmati (Hungary)
100 m butterfly
3.Andrea Gyarmati (Hungary)
200 m individual medley
1.Shane Gould (Australia)
2.Kornelia Ender (East Germany)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.USA (Shirley Babashoff)
2.East Germany (Kornelia Ender)
4 x 100 m medley
1.USA (Shirley Babashoff (swam in Heats))
2.East Germany (Kornelia Ender)
Men
1.Japan
1.USSR
56 kg
1.Imre Foldi (Hungary)
12.Ze’ev Friedman (Israel)
60 kg
1.Norair Nurikyan (Bulgaria)
67.5 kg
1.Mukharby Kirzhinov (USSR)
75 kg
1.Yordan Bikov (Bulgaria)
DNF.Yossef Romano (Israel)
82.5 kg
DNF.David Berger (Israel)
90 kg
1.Andon Nikolov (Bulgaria)
110 kg
1.Jaan Talts (USSR)
110+ kg
1.Vasiliy Alekseyev (USSR)
FREESTYLE
52 kg
Round 1
Kiyomi Kato (Japan) def. Mohammad Ghorbani (Iran)
1.Kiyomi Kato (Japan)
16-24.Mohammad Ghorbani (Iran)
57 kg
1.Hideaki Yanagida (Japan)
68 kg
Round 4
Dan Gable (USA) def. Kikuo Wada (Japan)
1.Dan Gable (USA)
2.Kikuo Wada (Japan)
13-18.Eliezer Halfin (Israel)
74 kg
1.Wayne Wells (USA)
82 kg
1.Levan Tediashvili (USSR)
3.Vasile Iorga (Romania)
100 kg
2.Khorloogin Bayanmonkh (Mongolia)
1.Aleksandr Medved (USSR)
GRECO-ROMAN
48 kg: 1.Gheorghe Berceanu (Romania)
100 kg: 1.Nicolae Martinescu (Romania)
52 kg: 1.Petar Kirov (Bulgaria)
62 kg: 1.Georgi Markov (Bulgaria)
82 kg
1.Csaba Hegedus (Hungary)
100+ kg
3.Victor Dolipschi (Romania)
1.USSR (50-27-22)
2.USA (33-31-30)
3.EAST GERMANY (20-23-23)
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