Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics Last updated February 13, 2025 Medallists Bronze Ian Stewart – Athletics, men's 5000 metres David Hemery – Athletics, men's 400m hurdles Ralph Evans – Boxing, men's light flyweight George Turpin – Boxing, men's bantamweight Alan Minter – Boxing, men's light middleweight Michael Bennett , Ian Hallam , Ronald Keeble , and William Moore – Cycling, men's 4000m team pursuit Brian Jacks – Judo, men's middleweight (80 kg) Angelo Parisi – Judo, men's open category John Kynoch – Shooting, men's running game target Archery In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Great Britain entered three men and three women. Their highest placing competitor was Lynne Evans , at 16th place in the women's competition.
Men's individual competition:
Women's individual competition:
Athletics Men's 100 metres
Heat, round 1 – 10.41 Heat, round 2 – 10.58 Semifinals – 10.52 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 10.54 Heat, round 2 – 10.53 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 10.58 Heat, round 2 – 10.60 (→ did not advance) Men's 200 metres
Heat, round 1 – 21.26 Heat, round 2 – 21.41 (→ did not advance) Men's 400 metres
Heat, round 1 – 46.46 Heat, round 2 – 46.11 Semifinals – 46.71 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 46.15 Heat, round 2 – 45.99 Semifinals – 45.91 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 46.48 Heat, round 2 – 47.10 (→ did not advance) Men's 800 metres
Heat – 1:47.6 Semifinals – 1:46.5 Final – 1:46.6 (→ 6th place) Heat – 1:47.5 Semifinals – 1:48.4 (→ did not advance) Heat – 1:54.8 (→ did not advance) Men's 1500 metres
Heat – 3:40.8 Semifinals – 3:38.2 Final – 3:39.0 (→ 5th place) Heat – 3:42.1 Semifinals – 3:45.8 (→ did not advance) Heat – 3:45.3 (→ did not advance) Men's 5000 metres
Heat – 13:33.0 Final – 13:27.6 (→ 3rd place) Heat – 13:38.2 Final – 13:43.2 (→ 11th place) ]
Heat – 13:49.8 Final – 13:43.2 (→ 12th place) Men's 10000 metres
Heat – 27:53.6 Final – 28:05.4(→ 6th place) Heat – 28:31.4 (→ did not advance) Heat – 28:46.8(→ did not advance) Men's marathon
Men's 110m hurdles
Heat – 14.08 Semifinals – 14.24 (→ did not advance) Heat – 13.94 Semifinals – 14.37 (→ did not advance) Heat – 14.31 (→ did not advance) Men's 400m hurdlles
Heat – 49.72 Semifinals – 49.66 Final – 48.52 (→ 3rd place) Men's 3000m steeplechase
Heat – 8:33.8 (→ did not advance) Heat – 8:35.0 (→ did not advance) Heat – 8:38.8 (→ did not advance) Men's 4 × 100 m relay
Semifinals – 39.47 (→ did not advance) Men's 4 × 400 m relay
Semifinals – 3:01.3 Final – 3:00.5 (→ 2nd place) Men's long jump
Qualification – 7.86 Final – 7.91 (→ 7th place) Qualification – 7.64 (→ did not advance) Men's pole vault
Qualification – 4.80 (→ did not advance) Men's shot put
Qualification – 18.94 (→ did not advance) Men's discus
Qualification – 57.24 (→ did not advance) Qualification – 53.86 (→ did not advance) Men's javelin
Qualification – 74.68 (→ did not advance) Men's hammer throw
Qualification – 66.32 Final – 68.18 (→ 16th place) Qualification – 64.56 (→ did not advance) Men's decathlon
Men's 20 km walk
Men's 50 km walk
Women's 100 metres
Heat, round 1 – 11.52 Heat, round 2 – 11.57 Semifinals – 11.64(→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 11.55 Heat, round 2 – 11.58 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 11.45 Heat, round 2 – 11.72 (→ did not advance) Women's 200 metres
Heat, round 1 – 23.76 Heat, round 2 – 23.69 Semifinals – 24.03 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 23.97 Heat, round 2 – 23.72 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 24.04 Heat, round 2 – 24.05 (→ did not advance) Women's 400 metres
Heat, round 1 – 53.67 Heat, round 2 – 53.01 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 53.31 Heat, round 2 – 53.29 (→ did not advance) Heat, round 1 – 54.13 (→ did not advance) Women's 800 metres
Heat – 2:03.6 Semifinals – 2:02.4 Final – 2:00.2 (→ 7th place) Heat – 2:03.0 (→ did not advance) Heat – 2:03.6 (→ did not advance) Women's 1500 metres
Heat – 4:13.0 Semifinals – 4:07.4 Final – 4:04.8 (→ 5th place) Heat – 4:11.3 Semifinals – 4:09.4 (→ did not advance) Heat – 4:14.9 (→ did not advance) Women's 100m hurdles
Heat – 13.37 (→ did not advance) Heat – 13.53 (→ did not advance) Boxing Men's light flyweight (– 48 kg)
Men's light middleweight (– 71 kg)
Diving Men's 3m springboard:
Men's 10m platform:
Women's 3m springboard:
Women's 10m platform:
Beverly Williams – 301.26 points (→ 12th place) Helen Mary Koppell – 178.17 points (→ 18th place) Hockey Men's Team Competition Preliminary round (group B) Defeated Mexico (6-0) Lost to India (0-5) Lost to New Zealand (1-2) Defeated Kenya (2-0) Drew with Australia (1-1) Defeated the Netherlands (3-1) Defeated Poland (2-1) 5th/6th place : Lost to Australia (1-2) after extra time → 6th place Modern pentathlon Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1972.
Men's individual competition:
Men's team competition:
Fox, Lillywhite, and Phelps – 14257 points (→ 9th place) Alternate member:
Sailing Flying Dutchman
Rodney Pattison (Helmsman) and Chris Davies (gold medal) Tempest
Alan Warren (Helmsman) and David Hunt (silver medal) Finn
Patrick Pym (Helmsman) (12th place) Dragon
Simon Tait (Helmsman), Charles Currey and Ian Hannay Soling
John Oakley (Helmsman), Barry Dunning and Charles Reynolds (5th place) Star
Stuart Jardine (Helmsman) and John Wastall Swimming Men's 100m freestyle
Heat – 54.70s (→ did not advance) Heat – 55.06s (→ did not advance) Men's 200m freestyle
Heat – 2:00.17 (→ did not advance) Heat – 1:56.99 (→ did not advance) Heat – 2:00.79 (→ did not advance) Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
Heat – 7:58.33 Final – 7:55.59 (→ 8th place) References
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