List of 1972 Summer Olympics medal winners

The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.

Archery

See also: Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	2	0	0	2
2	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	0	1
4	Finland  (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	John Williams   United States	Gunnar Jervill   Sweden	Kyösti Laasonen   Finland
Women's details	Doreen Wilber   United States	Irena Szydłowska   Poland	Emma Gapchenko   Soviet Union

Athletics

See also: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	9	7	1	17
2	East Germany  (GDR)	8	7	5	20
3	United States  (USA)	6	8	8	22
4	West Germany  (FRG)*	6	3	2	11
5	Finland  (FIN)	3	0	1	4
6	Kenya  (KEN)	2	2	2	6
7	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	1	2	4
8	Poland  (POL)	1	0	2	3
9	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	1	2
10	Uganda  (UGA)	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	2	2	4
12	Australia  (AUS)	0	2	0	2
	Belgium  (BEL)	0	2	0	2
	Romania  (ROU)	0	2	0	2
15	France  (FRA)	0	1	1	2
16	Tunisia  (TUN)	0	1	0	1
17	Cuba  (CUB)	0	0	2	2
	Ethiopia  (ETH)	0	0	2	2
	Italy  (ITA)	0	0	2	2
20	Austria  (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil  (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica  (JAM)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand  (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		38	38	38	114

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	10.14	Robert Taylor   United States	10.24	Lennox Miller   Jamaica	10.33
200 metres details	Valeriy Borzov   Soviet Union	20.00	Larry Black   United States	20.19	Pietro Mennea   Italy	20.30
400 metres details	Vincent Matthews   United States	44.66	Wayne Collett   United States	44.80	Julius Sang   Kenya	44.92
800 metres details	Dave Wottle   United States	1:45.86	Yevhen Arzhanov   Soviet Union	1:45.89	Mike Boit   Kenya	1:46.01
1500 metres details	Pekka Vasala   Finland	3:36.33	Kipchoge Keino   Kenya	3:36.81	Rod Dixon   New Zealand	3:37.46
5000 metres details	Lasse Virén   Finland	13:26.42 (OR)	Mohammed Gammoudi   Tunisia	13:27.33	Ian Stewart   Great Britain	13:27.61
10,000 metres details	Lasse Virén   Finland	27:38.35 (WR)	Emiel Puttemans   Belgium	27:39.58	Miruts Yifter   Ethiopia	27:40.96
110 metres hurdles details	Rod Milburn   United States	13.24 (WR)	Guy Drut   France	13.34	Thomas Hill   United States	13.48
400 metres hurdles details	John Akii-Bua   Uganda	47.82 (WR)	Ralph Mann   United States	48.51	David Hemery   Great Britain	48.52
3000 metres steeplechase details	Kipchoge Keino   Kenya	8:23.64 (OR)	Ben Jipcho   Kenya	8:24.62	Tapio Kantanen   Finland	8:24.66
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Larry Black Robert Taylor Gerald Tinker Eddie Hart	38.19 (WR)	Soviet Union  (URS) Aleksandr Kornelyuk Vladimir Lovetskiy Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	38.50	West Germany  (FRG) Jobst Hirscht Karlheinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Klaus Ehl	38.79
4 × 400 metres relay details	Kenya  (KEN) Charles Asati Munyoro Nyamau Robert Ouko Julius Sang	2:59.83	Great Britain  (GBR) Martin Reynolds Alan Pascoe David Hemery David Jenkins	3:00.46	France  (FRA) Gilles Bertould Daniel Velasques Francis Kerbiriou Jacques Carette	3:00.65
Marathon details	Frank Shorter   United States	2:12:19.8	Karel Lismont   Belgium	2:14:31.8	Mamo Wolde   Ethiopia	2:15:08.4
20 kilometres walk details	Peter Frenkel   East Germany	1:26:42.4 (OR)	Volodymyr Holubnychy   Soviet Union	1:26:55.2	Hans-Georg Reimann   East Germany	1:27:16.6
50 kilometres walk details	Bernd Kannenberg   West Germany	3:56:11.6 (OR)	Veniamin Soldatenko   Soviet Union	3:58:24.0	Larry Young   United States	4:00:46.0
High jump details	Jüri Tarmak   Soviet Union	2.23 m	Stefan Junge   East Germany	2.21 m	Dwight Stones   United States	2.21 m
Pole vault details	Wolfgang Nordwig   East Germany	5.50 m (OR)	Bob Seagren   United States	5.40 m	Jan Johnson   United States	5.35 m
Long jump details	Randy Williams   United States	8.24 m	Hans Baumgartner   West Germany	8.18 m	Arnie Robinson   United States	8.03 m
Triple jump details	Viktor Saneyev   Soviet Union	17.35 m	Jörg Drehmel   East Germany	17.31 m	Nelson Prudêncio   Brazil	17.05 m
Shot put details	Władysław Komar   Poland	21.18 m (OR)	George Woods   United States	21.17 m	Hartmut Briesenick   East Germany	21.14 m
Discus throw details	Ludvík Daněk   Czechoslovakia	64.40 m	Jay Silvester   United States	63.50 m	Ricky Bruch   Sweden	63.40 m
Hammer throw details	Anatolij Bondarčuk   Soviet Union	75.50 m (OR)	Jochen Sachse   East Germany	74.96 m	Vasiliy Khmelevskiy   Soviet Union	74.04 m
Javelin throw details	Klaus Wolfermann   West Germany	90.48 m (OR)	Jānis Lūsis   Soviet Union	90.46 m	Bill Schmidt   United States	84.42 m
Decathlon details	Mykola Avilov   Soviet Union	8454 pts (WR)	Leonid Lytvynenko   Soviet Union	8035 pts	Ryszard Katus   Poland	7984 pts

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Renate Stecher   East Germany	11.07 (WR)	Raelene Boyle   Australia	11.23	Silvia Chivás   Cuba	11.24
200 metres details	Renate Stecher   East Germany	22.40 (=WR)	Raelene Boyle   Australia	22.45	Irena Szewińska   Poland	22.74
400 metres details	Monika Zehrt   East Germany	51.08	Rita Wilden   West Germany	51.21	Kathy Hammond   United States	51.64
800 metres details	Hildegard Falck   West Germany	1:58.55 (OR)	Nijolė Sabaitė   Soviet Union	1:58.65	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	1:59.19
1500 metres details	Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union	4:01.38 (WR)	Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany	4:02.83	Paola Pigni   Italy	4:02.85
100 metres hurdles details	Annelie Ehrhardt   East Germany	12.59 (WR)	Valeria Bufanu   Romania	12.84	Karin Balzer   East Germany	12.90
4 × 100 metres relay details	West Germany  (FRG) Christiane Krause Ingrid Becker Annegret Richter Heide Rosendahl	42.81 (WR)	East Germany  (GDR) Evelin Kaufer Christina Heinich Bärbel Struppert Renate Stecher	42.95	Cuba  (CUB) Marlene Elejarde Carmen Valdés Fulgencia Romay Silvia Chivás	43.36
4 × 400 metres relay details	East Germany  (GDR) Dagmar Käsling Rita Kühne Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	3:22.95 (WR)	United States  (USA) Mable Fergerson Madeline Manning Cheryl Toussaint Kathy Hammond	3:25.15	West Germany  (FRG) Anette Rückes Inge Bödding Hildegard Falck Rita Wilden	3:26.51
High jump details	Ulrike Meyfarth   West Germany	1.92 m (=WR)	Yordanka Blagoeva   Bulgaria	1.88 m	Ilona Gusenbauer   Austria	1.88 m
Long jump details	Heide Rosendahl   West Germany	6.78 m	Diana Yorgova   Bulgaria	6.77 m	Eva Šuranová   Czechoslovakia	6.67 m
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	21.03 m (WR)	Margitta Gummel   East Germany	20.22 m	Ivanka Khristova   Bulgaria	19.35 m
Discus throw details	Faina Melnik   Soviet Union	66.62 m (OR)	Argentina Menis   Romania	65.06 m	Vasilka Stoeva   Bulgaria	64.34 m
Javelin throw details	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	63.88 m (OR)	Jacqueline Todten   East Germany	62.54 m	Kate Schmidt   United States	59.94 m
Pentathlon details	Mary Peters   Great Britain	4801 pts (WR)	Heide Rosendahl   West Germany	4791 pts	Burglinde Pollak   East Germany	4768 pts

Basketball

See also: Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	1	0	0	1
2	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Cuba	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Soviet Union  (URS) Anatoli Polivoda Modestas Paulauskas Zurab Sakandelidze Alzhan Zharmukhamedov Aleksandr Boloshev Ivan Edeshko Sergei Belov Mikheil Korkia Ivan Dvorny Gennadi Volnov Aleksandr Belov Sergei Kovalenko	United States  (USA) Kenneth Davis Doug Collins Tom Henderson Mike Bantom Robert Jones Dwight Jones James Forbes Jim Brewer Tommy Burleson Tom McMillen Kevin Joyce Ed Ratleff	Cuba  (CUB) Juan Carlos Domecq Fortuondo Ruperto Herrera Tabio Juan Roca Brunet Pedro Chappe Garcia Miguel Álvarez Pozo Rafael Cañizares Poey Conrado Perez Armenteros Miguel Calderon Gomez Tomas Herrera Martinez Oscar Varona Varona Alejandro Urgelles Guibot Franklin Standard Johnson

Boxing

See also: Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba  (CUB)	3	1	1	5
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	2	0	0	2
3	Hungary  (HUN)	1	2	1	4
4	Poland  (POL)	1	1	2	4
5	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	1	0	2
6	United States  (USA)	1	0	3	4
7	West Germany  (FRG)*	1	0	1	2
	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	0	1	2
9	Kenya  (KEN)	0	1	2	3
10	Finland  (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico  (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea  (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Uganda  (UGA)	0	1	0	1
15	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	3	3
16	Colombia  (COL)	0	0	2	2
17	East Germany  (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Ghana  (GHA)	0	0	1	1
	Niger  (NIG)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria  (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		11	11	22	44

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight (–48 kg) details	György Gedó   Hungary	Kim U-gil   North Korea	Ralph Evans   Great Britain
			Enrique Rodríguez   Spain
Flyweight (–51 kg) details	Georgi Kostadinov   Bulgaria	Leo Rwabwogo   Uganda	Leszek Błażyński   Poland
			Douglas Rodríguez   Cuba
Bantamweight (–54 kg) details	Orlando Martínez   Cuba	Alfonso Zamora   Mexico	Ricardo Carreras   United States
			George Turpin   Great Britain
Featherweight (–57 kg) details	Boris Kuznetsov   Soviet Union	Philip Waruinge   Kenya	András Botos   Hungary
			Clemente Rojas   Colombia
Lightweight (–60 kg) details	Jan Szczepański   Poland	László Orbán   Hungary	Samuel Mbugua   Kenya
			Alfonso Pérez   Colombia
Light welterweight (–63 kg) details	Sugar Ray Seales   United States	Angel Angelov   Bulgaria	Issaka Daborg   Niger
			Zvonimir Vujin   Yugoslavia
Welterweight (–67 kg) details	Emilio Correa   Cuba	János Kajdi   Hungary	Dick Murunga   Kenya
			Jesse Valdez   United States
Light middleweight (–71 kg) details	Dieter Kottysch   West Germany	Wiesław Rudkowski   Poland	Alan Minter   Great Britain
			Peter Tiepold   East Germany
Middleweight (–75 kg) details	Vyacheslav Lemeshev   Soviet Union	Reima Virtanen   Finland	Prince Amartey   Ghana
			Marvin Johnson   United States
Light heavyweight (–81 kg) details	Mate Parlov   Yugoslavia	Gilberto Carrillo   Cuba	Janusz Gortat   Poland
			Isaac Ikhouria   Nigeria
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	Teófilo Stevenson   Cuba	Ion Alexe   Romania	Peter Hussing   West Germany
			Hasse Thomsén   Sweden

Canoeing

See also: Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	6	0	0	6
2	East Germany  (GDR)	4	1	1	6
3	Romania  (ROU)	1	2	1	4
4	West Germany  (FRG)*	0	3	2	5
5	Hungary  (HUN)	0	2	2	4
6	Austria  (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	0	1
9	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Norway  (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
	United States  (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		11	11	11	33

Slalom

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Reinhard Eiben   East Germany	Reinhold Kauder   West Germany	Jamie McEwan   United States
Men's C-2 details	East Germany Walter Hofmann Rolf-Dieter Amend	West Germany Hans-Otto Schumacher Wilhelm Baues	France Jean-Louis Olry Jean-Claude Olry
Men's K-1 details	Siegbert Horn   East Germany	Norbert Sattler   Austria	Harald Gimpel   East Germany

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's K-1 details	Angelika Bahmann   East Germany	Gisela Grothaus   West Germany	Magdalena Wunderlich   West Germany

Sprint

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres details	Ivan Patzaichin   Romania	Tamás Wichmann   Hungary	Detlef Lewe   West Germany
C-2 1000 metres details	Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Bulgaria Fedia Damianov Ivan Burtchin
K-1 1000 metres details	Aleksandr Shaparenko   Soviet Union	Rolf Peterson   Sweden	Géza Csapó   Hungary
K-2 1000 metres details	Soviet Union Nikolai Gorbachev Viktor Kratasyuk	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai	Poland Władysław Szuszkiewicz Rafał Piszcz
K-4 1000 metres details	Soviet Union Yuri Filatov Yuri Stetsenko Vladimir Morozov Valeri Didenko	Romania Aurel Vernescu Mihai Zafiu Roman Vartolomeu Atanase Sciotnic	Norway Egil Søby Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Jan Johansen

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Yulia Ryabchinskaya   Soviet Union	Mieke Jaapies   Netherlands	Anna Pfeffer   Hungary
K-2 500 metres details	Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Yekaterina Kuryshko	East Germany Ilse Kaschube Petra Grabowski	Romania Maria Nichiforov Viorica Dumitru

Cycling

See also: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	0	1	3
2	West Germany*	1	0	1	2
3	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
7	Australia	0	3	0	3
8	East Germany	0	2	1	3
9	Poland	0	1	1	2
10	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
11	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	5	19

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Hennie Kuiper   Netherlands	Clyde Sefton   Australia	no medal awarded [1]
Team time trial details	Soviet Union  (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov	Poland  (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda	no medal awarded [2]

Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit details	Knut Knudsen   Norway	Xaver Kurmann   Switzerland	Hans Lutz   West Germany
Team pursuit details	West Germany  (FRG) Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel	East Germany  (GDR) Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter	Great Britain  (GBR) William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble
Sprint details	Daniel Morelon   France	John Nicholson   Australia	Omar Pkhakadze   Soviet Union
Tandem details	Soviet Union Vladimir Semenets Igor Tselovalnykov	East Germany Jürgen Geschke Werner Otto	Poland Andrzej Bek Benedykt Kocot
Time trial details	Niels Fredborg   Denmark	Danny Clark   Australia	Jürgen Schütze   East Germany

Diving

See also: Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	1	3
	United States  (USA)	1	1	1	3
3	Sweden  (SWE)	1	1	0	2
4	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	0	0	1
5	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	1	0	1
6	East Germany  (GDR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Vladimir Vasin   Soviet Union	Giorgio Cagnotto   Italy	Craig Lincoln   United States
10 m platform details	Klaus Dibiasi   Italy	Richard Rydze   United States	Giorgio Cagnotto   Italy

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Micki King   United States	Ulrika Knape   Sweden	Marina Janicke   East Germany
10 m platform details	Ulrika Knape   Sweden	Milena Duchková   Czechoslovakia	Marina Janicke   East Germany

Equestrian events

See also: Equestrian events at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany  (FRG)*	2	1	2	5
2	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	1	0	3
3	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	1	3
4	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	1	0	2
5	United States  (USA)	0	2	1	3
6	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		6	6	6	18

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage details	Liselott Linsenhoff on Piaff (FRG)	Yelena Petushkova on Pepel (URS)	Josef Neckermann on Venetia (FRG)
Team dressage details	Soviet Union  (URS) Yelena Petushkova and Pepel Ivan Kizimov and Ikhor Ivan Kalita and Tarif	West Germany  (FRG) Karin Schlüter and Liostro Liselott Linsenhoff and Piaff Josef Neckermann and Venetia	Sweden  (SWE) Ulla Håkansson and Ajax Ninna Swaab and Casanova Maud von Rosen and Lucky Boy
Individual eventing details	Richard Meade on Laurieston (GBR)	Alessandro Argenton on Woodland (ITA)	Jan Jönsson on Sarajevo (SWE)
Team eventing details	Great Britain  (GBR) Richard Meade and Laurieston Mary Gordon-Watson and Cornishman V Bridget Parker and Cornish Gold Mark Phillips and Great Ovation	United States  (USA) Kevin Freeman and Good Mixture Bruce Davidson and Plain Sailing Michael Plumb and Free and Easy James C. Wofford and Kilkenny	West Germany  (FRG) Harry Klugmann and Christopher Robert Ludwig Gössing and Chicago Karl Schultz and Pisco Horst Karsten and Sioux
Individual jumping details	Graziano Mancinelli on Ambassador (ITA)	Ann Moore on Psalm (GBR)	Neal Shapiro on Sloopy (USA)
Team jumping details	West Germany  (FRG) Fritz Ligges and Robin Gerhard Wiltfang and Askan Hartwig Steenken and Simona Hans Günter Winkler and Trophy	United States  (USA) William Steinkraus and Main Spring Neal Shapiro and Sloopy Kathryn Kusner and Fleet Apple Frank Chapot and White Lightning	Italy  (ITA) Vittorio Orlandi and Fulmer Feather Raimondo D'Inzeo and Fiorello Graziano Mancinelli and Ambassador Piero D'Inzeo and Easter Light

Fencing

See also: Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary  (HUN)	2	4	2	8
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	2	2	3	7
3	Italy  (ITA)	2	0	0	2
	Poland  (POL)	2	0	0	2
5	France  (FRA)	0	1	2	3
6	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
7	Romania  (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Csaba Fenyvesi   Hungary	Jacques Ladegaillerie   France	Győző Kulcsár   Hungary
Team épée details	Hungary  (HUN) Sándor Erdős Csaba Fenyvesi Győző Kulcsár Pál Schmitt István Osztrics	Switzerland  (SUI) Guy Evequoz Daniel Giger Christian Kauter Peter Lötscher François Suchanecki	Soviet Union  (URS) Viktor Modzolevsky Sergei Paramonov Igor Valetov Georgi Zažitski Grigori Kriss
Individual foil details	Witold Woyda   Poland	Jenő Kamuti   Hungary	Christian Noël   France
Team foil details	Poland  (POL) Marek Dąbrowski Jerzy Kaczmarek Lech Koziejowski Witold Woyda Arkadiusz Godel	Soviet Union  (URS) Vladimir Denisov Anatoli Kotetsev Leonid Romanov Vasili Stankovich Victor Putyatin	France  (FRA) Jean-Claude Magnan Christian Noël Daniel Revenu Bernard Talvard Gilles Berolatti
Individual sabre details	Viktor Sidyak   Soviet Union	Péter Marót   Hungary	Vladimir Nazlymov   Soviet Union
Team sabre details	Italy  (ITA) Michele Maffei Mario Aldo Montano Mario Tullio Montano Rolando Rigoli Cesare Salvadori	Soviet Union  (URS) Viktor Bashenov Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita	Hungary  (HUN) Pál Gerevich Tamás Kovács Péter Marót Tibor Pézsa Péter Bakonyi

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	Antonella Ragno-Lonzi   Italy	Ildikó Bóbis   Hungary	Galina Gorokhova   Soviet Union
Team foil details	Soviet Union  (URS) Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Tatyana Samusenko Aleksandra Zabelina Svetlana Tširkova	Hungary  (HUN) Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Ildikó Schwarczenberger Mária Gulácsi-Szolnoki Ildikó Matuscsák-Rónay	Romania  (ROU) Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Olga Orban-Szabo

Field hockey

See also: Field hockey at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany*	1	0	0	1
2	Pakistan	0	1	0	1
3	India	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	West Germany  (FRG) Wolfgang Baumgart Horst Drose Dieter Freise Werner Kaessmann Carsten Keller Detlev Kittstein Ulrich Klaes Peter Kraus Michael Krause Michael Peter Wolfgang Rott Fritz Schmidt Rainer Seifert Wolfgang Strodter Eckart Suhl Eduard Thelen Peter Trump Ulrich Vos	Pakistan  (PAK) Rashid Abdul Akhtar Rasool Ul Akhtar Jahangir Butt Fazalur Rehman Islahuddin Siddiquee Muhammad Asad Malik Shahnaz Sheikh Munawwaruz Zaman Ahmad Riaz Saeed Anwar Saleem Sherwani Iftikar Syed Mudassar Asghar Zahid Sheikh	India  (IND) B. P. Govinda Charles Cornelius Manuel Frederick Michael Kindo V.J. Philips Ashok Kumar M. P. Ganesh Krishnamurty Perumal Ajitpal Singh Harbinder Singh Harcharan Singh Harmik Singh Kulwant Singh Mukhbain Singh Virinder Singh Vece Paes

Football

See also: Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	1	0	0	1
2	Hungary	0	1	0	1
3	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		1	1	2	4

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Poland  (POL) Hubert Kostka Zbigniew Gut Jerzy Gorgoń Zygmunt Anczok Lesław Ćmikiewicz Zygmunt Maszczyk Jerzy Kraska Kazimierz Deyna Zygfryd Szołtysik Włodzimierz Lubański Robert Gadocha Ryszard Szymczak Antoni Szymanowski Joachim Marx Grzegorz Lato Marian Ostafiński Kazimierz Kmiecik Marian Szeja	Hungary  (HUN) István Géczi Péter Vépi Miklós Páncsics Péter Juhász Lajos Szűcs Mihály Kozma Antal Dunai Lajos Kű Béla Váradi Ede Dunai László Bálint Lajos Kocsis Kálmán Tóth László Branikovits József Kovács Csaba Vidács Adám Rothermel	East Germany  (GDR) Jürgen Croy Manfred Zapf Konrad Weise Bernd Bransch Jürgen Pommerenke Jürgen Sparwasser Hans-Jürgen Kreische Joachim Streich Wolfgang Seguin Peter Ducke Frank Ganzera Lothar Kurbjuweit Eberhard Vogel Harald Irmscher Ralf Schulenberg Reinhard Häfner Siegmar Wätzlich
			Soviet Union  (URS) Oleh Blokhin Murtaz Khurtsilava Yuriy Istomin Volodymyr Kaplychnyi Viktor Kolotov Yevgeni Lovchev Sergei Olshansky Yevhen Rudakov Vyacheslav Semyonov Gennadi Evryuzhikhin Oganes Zanazanyan Andrei Yakubik Arkady Andreasyan Revaz Dzodzuashvili Yozhef Sabo Yuriy Yeliseyev Volodymyr Onyshchenko Anatoliy Kuksov Vladimir Pilgui

Gymnastics

See also: Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	6	4	16
2	Japan	5	5	6	16
3	East Germany	3	4	2	9
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		14	15	13	42

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Sawao Kato   Japan	Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan	Akinori Nakayama   Japan
Team all-around details	Japan  (JPN) Shigeru Kasamatsu Sawao Kato Eizo Kenmotsu Akinori Nakayama Teruichi Okamura Mitsuo Tsukahara	Soviet Union  (URS) Nikolai Andrianov Viktor Klimenko Alexander Maleev Edvard Mikaelian Vladimir Schukin Mikhail Voronin	East Germany  (GDR) Matthias Brehme Wolfgang Klotz Klaus Köste Jürgen Paeke Reinhard Rychly Wolfgang Thüne
Floor exercise details	Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union	Akinori Nakayama   Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu   Japan
Horizontal bar details	Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan	Sawao Kato   Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu   Japan
Parallel bars details	Sawao Kato   Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu   Japan	Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan
Pommel horse details	Viktor Klimenko   Soviet Union	Sawao Kato   Japan	Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan
Rings details	Akinori Nakayama   Japan	Mikhail Voronin   Soviet Union	Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan
Vault details	Klaus Köste   East Germany	Viktor Klimenko   Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Ludmila Tourischeva   Soviet Union	Karin Janz   East Germany	Tamara Lazakovich   Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Soviet Union  (URS) Lyubov Burda Olga Korbut Antonina Koshel Tamara Lazakovich Elvira Saadi Ludmila Tourischeva	East Germany  (GDR) Irene Abel Angelika Hellmann Karin Janz Richarda Schmeißer Christine Schmitt Erika Zuchold	Hungary  (HUN) Ilona Békési Mónika Császár Marta Kelemen Anikó Kéry Krisztina Medveczky Zsuzsa Nagy
Balance beam details	Olga Korbut   Soviet Union	Tamara Lazakovich   Soviet Union	Karin Janz   East Germany
Floor exercise details	Olga Korbut   Soviet Union	Ludmila Tourischeva   Soviet Union	Tamara Lazakovich   Soviet Union
Uneven bars details	Karin Janz   East Germany	Olga Korbut   Soviet Union	None awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
		Erika Zuchold   East Germany
Vault details	Karin Janz   East Germany	Erika Zuchold   East Germany	Ludmila Tourischeva   Soviet Union

Handball

See also: Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	0	0	1
2	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	1	0	1
3	Romania  (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Yugoslavia  (YUG) Abaz Arslanagić Petar Fajfrić Hrvoje Horvat Milorad Karalić Đorđe Lavrnić Milan Lazarević Zdravko Miljak Slobodan Mišković Branislav Pokrajac Nebojša Popović Miroslav Pribanić Albin Vidović Zoran Živković Zdenko Zorko	Czechoslovakia  (TCH) Ladislav Beneš František Brůna Vladimír Haber Vladimír Jarý Jiří Kavan Arnošt Klimčík Jaroslav Konečný František Králík Jindřich Krepindl Vincent Lafko Andrej Lukošík Pavel Mikeš Petr Pospíšil Ivan Satrapa Zdeněk Škára Jaroslav Škarvan	Romania  (ROU) Ştefan Birtalan Adrian Cosma Marin Dan Alexandru Dincă Cristian Gaţu Gheorghe Gruia Roland Gunesch Gabriel Kicsid Ghiţă Licu Cornel Penu Valentin Samungi Simion Schöbel Werner Stöckl Constantin Tudosie Radu Voina

Judo

See also: Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	0	1	4
2	Netherlands	2	0	0	2
3	Soviet Union	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain	0	1	2	3
5	West Germany*	0	1	1	2
6	Poland	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
8	France	0	0	3	3
9	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		6	5	12	23

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight 63 kg details	Takao Kawaguchi   Japan	vacant [3]	Kim Yong-ik   North Korea
			Jean-Jacques Mounier   France
Half middleweight 70 kg details	Toyokazu Nomura   Japan	Antoni Zajkowski   Poland	Dietmar Hötger   East Germany
			Anatoliy Novikov   Soviet Union
Middleweight 80 kg details	Shinobu Sekine   Japan	Oh Seung-lip   South Korea	Jean-Paul Coche   France
			Brian Jacks   Great Britain
Half-heavyweight 93 kg details	Shota Chochishvili   Soviet Union	David Starbrook   Great Britain	Paul Barth   West Germany
			Chiaki Ishii   Brazil
Heavyweight +93 kg details	Wim Ruska   Netherlands	Klaus Glahn   West Germany	Motoki Nishimura   Japan
			Givi Onashvili   Soviet Union
Open category details	Wim Ruska   Netherlands	Vitali Kuznetsov   Soviet Union	Jean-Claude Brondani   France
			Angelo Parisi   Great Britain

Modern pentathlon

See also: Modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	1	1	3
2	Hungary  (HUN)	1	1	0	2
3	Finland  (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	András Balczó   Hungary	Boris Onishchenko   Soviet Union	Pavel Lednyov   Soviet Union
Team details	Soviet Union  (URS) Boris Onishchenko Pavel Lednyov Vladimir Shmelyov	Hungary  (HUN) András Balczó Zsigmond Villányi Pál Bakó	Finland  (FIN) Risto Hurme Veikko Salminen Martti Ketelä

Rowing

See also: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany  (GDR)	3	1	3	7
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	2	0	0	2
3	New Zealand  (NZL)	1	1	0	2
4	West Germany  (FRG)*	1	0	1	2
5	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	0	1	1	2
6	Argentina  (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Norway  (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	United States  (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Yury Malyshev   Soviet Union	Alberto Demiddi   Argentina	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig   East Germany
Double sculls details	Soviet Union Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov	Norway Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	East Germany Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied
Coxless pair details	East Germany Siegfried Brietzke Wolfgang Mager	Switzerland Heinrich Fischer Alfred Bachmann	Netherlands Roel Luynenburg Ruud Stokvis
Coxed pair details	East Germany Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lucke Klaus-Dieter Neubert	Czechoslovakia Oldřich Svojanovský Pavel Svojanovský Vladimír Petříček	Romania Ștefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladislau Lovrenschi
Coxless four details	East Germany Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	New Zealand Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills	West Germany Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke
Coxed four details	West Germany Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter	East Germany Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig	Czechoslovakia Otakar Mareček Karel Neffe Vladimír Jánoš František Provazník Vladimír Petříček
Eight details	New Zealand Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Joe Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie	United States Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Pete Raymond Tim Mickelson Gene Clapp Bill Hobbs Cleve Livingston Mike Livingston Paul Hoffman	East Germany Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinrich Mederow Dietmar Schwarz

Sailing

See also: Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia  (AUS)	2	0	0	2
2	France  (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	1	0	2
4	United States  (USA)	1	0	2	3
5	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	0	1	2
6	Sweden  (SWE)	0	2	0	2
7	East Germany  (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Greece  (GRE)	0	1	0	1
9	West Germany  (FRG)*	0	0	2	2
10	Canada  (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	6	18

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finn details	Serge Maury   France	Ilias Hatzipavlis   Greece	Viktor Potapov   Soviet Union
Flying Dutchman details	Great Britain Rodney Pattisson Christopher Davies	France Yves Pajot Marc Pajot	West Germany Ulli Libor Peter Naumann
Tempest details	Soviet Union Valentin Mankin Vitali Dyrdyra	Great Britain Alan Warren David Hunt	United States Glen Foster Peter Dean
Star details	Australia David Forbes John Anderson	Sweden Pelle Petterson Stellan Westerdahl	West Germany Wilhelm Kuhweide Karsten Meyer
Soling details	United States Harry Melges William Allen William Bentsen	Sweden Stig Wennerström Bo Knape Stefan Krook	Canada David Miller Paul Côté John Ekels
Dragon details	Australia John Cuneo Thomas Anderson John Shaw	East Germany Paul Borowski Karl-Heinz Thun Konrad Weichert	United States Donald Cohan Charles Horter John Marshall

Shooting

See also: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	2	0	4
2	Soviet Union	1	2	1	4
3	Italy	1	0	1	2
4	North Korea	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
	West Germany*	1	0	0	1
8	Romania	0	1	1	2
9	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
12	East Germany	0	0	2	2
13	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m pistol details	Ragnar Skanåker   Sweden	Dan Iuga   Romania	Rudolf Dollinger   Austria
25 m rapid fire pistol details	Józef Zapędzki   Poland	Ladislav Falta   Czechoslovakia	Viktor Torshin   Soviet Union
50 m running target details	Yakov Zheleznyak   Soviet Union	Helmut Bellingrodt   Colombia	John Kynoch   Great Britain
50 m rifle prone details	Ri Ho-jun   North Korea	Vic Auer   United States	Nicolae Rotaru   Romania
50 m rifle three positions details	John Writer   United States	Lanny Bassham   United States	Werner Lippoldt   East Germany
300 m free rifle three positions details	Lones Wigger   United States	Boris Melnik   Soviet Union	Lajos Papp   Hungary
Skeet details	Konrad Wirnhier   West Germany	Yevgeni Petrov   Soviet Union	Michael Buchheim   East Germany
Trap details	Angelo Scalzone   Italy	Michel Carrega   France	Silvano Basagni   Italy

Swimming

See also: Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	17	14	12	43
2	Australia  (AUS)	6	2	2	10
3	East Germany  (GDR)	2	5	2	9
4	Japan  (JPN)	2	0	1	3
5	Sweden  (SWE)	2	0	0	2
6	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	2	3	5
7	Canada  (CAN)	0	2	2	4
8	West Germany  (FRG)*	0	1	3	4
9	Hungary  (HUN)	0	1	2	3
	Italy  (ITA)	0	1	2	3
11	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (11 entries)		29	29	29	87

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Mark Spitz   United States	51.22 (WR)	Jerry Heidenreich   United States	51.65	Vladimir Bure   Soviet Union	51.77
200 m freestyle details	Mark Spitz   United States	1:52.78 (WR)	Steve Genter   United States	1:53.73	Werner Lampe   West Germany	1:53.99
400 m freestyle details	Brad Cooper   Australia	4:00.27 (OR)	Steve Genter   United States	4:01.94	Tom McBreen   United States	4:02.64
1500 m freestyle details	Mike Burton   United States	15:52.58 (WR)	Graham Windeatt   Australia	15:58.48	Doug Northway   United States	16:09.25
100 m backstroke details	Roland Matthes   East Germany	56.58 (OR)	Mike Stamm   United States	57.70	John Murphy   United States	58.35
200 m backstroke details	Roland Matthes   East Germany	2:02.82 (WR)	Mike Stamm   United States	2:04.09	Mitch Ivey   United States	2:04.33
100 m breaststroke details	Nobutaka Taguchi   Japan	1:04.94 (WR)	Tom Bruce   United States	1:05.43	John Hencken   United States	1:05.61
200 m breaststroke details	John Hencken   United States	2:21.55 (WR)	David Wilkie   Great Britain	2:23.67	Nobutaka Taguchi   Japan	2:23.88
100 m butterfly details	Mark Spitz   United States	54.27 (WR)	Bruce Robertson   Canada	55.56	Jerry Heidenreich   United States	55.74
200 m butterfly details	Mark Spitz   United States	2:00.70 (WR)	Gary Hall, Sr.   United States	2:02.86	Robin Backhaus   United States	2:03.23
200 m individual medley details	Gunnar Larsson   Sweden	2:07.17 (WR)	Tim McKee   United States	2:08.37	Steve Furniss   United States	2:08.45
400 m individual medley details	Gunnar Larsson   Sweden	4:31.98 (OR)	Tim McKee   United States	4:31.98 (OR)	András Hargitay   Hungary	4:32.70
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States  (USA) David Edgar John Murphy Jerry Heidenreich Mark Spitz	3:26.42 (WR)	Soviet Union  (URS) Vladimir Bure Viktor Mazanov Viktor Aboimov Igor Grivennikov	3:29.72	East Germany  (GDR) Roland Matthes Wilfried Hartung Peter Bruch Lutz Unger	3:32.42
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States  (USA) John Kinsella Fred Tyler Steve Genter Mark Spitz	7:35.78 (WR)	West Germany  (FRG) Klaus Steinbach Werner Lampe Hans Vosseler Hans Fassnacht	7:41.69	Soviet Union  (URS) Igor Grivennikov Viktor Mazanov Georgi Kulikov Vladimir Bure	7:45.76
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States  (USA) Mike Stamm Tom Bruce Mark Spitz Jerry Heidenreich	3:48.16 (WR)	East Germany  (GDR) Roland Matthes Klaus Katzur Hartmut Flöckner Lutz Unger	3:52.26	Canada  (CAN) Erik Fish William Mahony Bruce Robertson Robert Kasting	3:53.26

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Sandy Neilson   United States	58.59 (OR)	Shirley Babashoff   United States	59.02	Shane Gould   Australia	59.06
200 m freestyle details	Shane Gould   Australia	2:03.56 (WR)	Shirley Babashoff   United States	2:04.33	Keena Rothhammer   United States	2:04.92
400 m freestyle details	Shane Gould   Australia	4:19.04 (WR)	Novella Calligaris   Italy	4:22.44	Gudrun Wegner   East Germany	4:23.11
800 m freestyle details	Keena Rothhammer   United States	8:53.68 (WR)	Shane Gould   Australia	8:56.39	Novella Calligaris   Italy	8:57.46
100 m backstroke details	Melissa Belote   United States	1:05.78 (OR)	Andrea Gyarmati   Hungary	1:06.26	Susie Atwood   United States	1:06.34
200 m backstroke details	Melissa Belote   United States	2:19.19 (WR)	Susie Atwood   United States	2:20.38	Donna Gurr   Canada	2:23.22
100 m breaststroke details	Cathy Carr   United States	1:13.58 (WR)	Galina Prozumenshchikova   Soviet Union	1:14.99	Beverley Whitfield   Australia	1:15.73
200 m breaststroke details	Beverley Whitfield   Australia	2:41.05 (OR)	Dana Schoenfield   United States	2:42.05	Galina Prozumenshchikova   Soviet Union	2:42.36
100 m butterfly details	Mayumi Aoki   Japan	1:03.34 (WR)	Roswitha Beier   East Germany	1:03.61	Andrea Gyarmati   Hungary	1:03.73
200 m butterfly details	Karen Moe   United States	2:15.57 (WR)	Lynn Colella   United States	2:16.34	Ellie Daniel   United States	2:16.74
200 m individual medley details	Shane Gould   Australia	2:23.07 (WR)	Kornelia Ender   East Germany	2:23.59	Lynn Vidali   United States	2:24.06
400 m individual medley details	Gail Neall   Australia	5:02.97 (WR)	Leslie Cliff   Canada	5:03.57	Novella Calligaris   Italy	5:03.99
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	United States  (USA) Shirley Babashoff Jane Barkman Jenny Kemp Sandy Neilson	3:55.19 (WR)	East Germany  (GDR) Andrea Eife Kornelia Ender Elke Sehmisch Gabriele Wetzko	3:55.55	West Germany  (FRG) Gudrun Beckmann Heidemarie Reineck Angela Steinbach Jutta Weber	3:57.93
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States  (USA) Melissa Belote Cathy Carr Deena Deardurff Sandy Neilson	4:20.75 (WR)	East Germany  (GDR) Christine Herbst Renate Vogel Roswitha Beier Kornelia Ender	4:24.91	West Germany  (FRG) Gudrun Beckmann Vreni Eberle Silke Pielen Heidemarie Reineck	4:26.46

Volleyball

See also: Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	1	1	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
3	East Germany	0	1	0	1
4	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Japan  (JPN) Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Yūzo Nakamura Tetsuo Nishimoto Kenji Kimura Yoshihide Fukao Yasuhiro Noguchi Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka	East Germany  (GDR) Horst Peter Horst Hagen Siegfried Schneider Wolfgang Löwe Rainer Tscharke Eckehard Pietzsch Arnold Schulz Wolfgang Maibohm Wolfgang Weise Jürgen Maune Rudi Schumann Wolfgang Webner	Soviet Union  (URS) Yuriy Poyarkov Valeri Kravchenko Yefim Chulak Yevhen Lapinsky Vladimir Putyatov Viktor Borshch Vladimir Patkin Leonid Zayko Aleksandr Saprykin Yuri Starunsky Vyacheslav Domani Vladimir Kondra
Women's details	Soviet Union  (URS) Lyudmila Buldakova Lyubov Tyurina Vera Galushka-Duyunova Lyudmila Borozna Tatyana Sarycheva Nina Smoleyeva Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Rosa Salikhova Inna Ryskal Nataliya Kudreva Galina Leontyeva Tatyana Gonobobleva	Japan  (JPN) Katsumi Matsumura Noriko Yamashita Toyoko Iwahara Takako Iida Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furukawa Keiko Hama Seiko Shimakage Yaeko Yamazaki Michiko Shiokawa Mariko Okamoto Takako Shirai	North Korea  (PRK) Ryom Chun-ja Kim Su-dae Ri Chun-ok Paek Myong-suk Jong Ok-jin Kim Myong-suk Jang Ok-rim Kim Yeun-ja Kim Zung-bok Kang Ok-sun Hwang He-Suk

Water polo

See also: Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	1	0	0	1
2	Hungary	0	1	0	1
3	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Soviet Union  (URS) Anatoli Akimov Aleksei Barkalov Vadim Gulyaev Aleksandr Dolgushin Aleksandr Dreval Vladimir Shmudski Aleksandr Kabanov Leonid Osipov Viacheslav Sobtschenko Nikolai Melnikov Aleksandr Schidlovski	Hungary  (HUN) András Bodnár Tibor Cservenyák István Görgényi Tamás Faragó Zoltán Kásás Ferenc Konrád István Magas Dénes Pócsik László Sárosi Endre Molnár István Szívós, Jr.	United States  (USA) Peter Asch Steven Barnett Bruce Bradley Stanley Cole James Ferguson Eric Lindroth John Parker Gary Sheerer James Slatton Russell Webb Barry Weitzenberg

Weightlifting

See also: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria  (BUL)	3	3	0	6
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	3	1	1	5
3	Hungary  (HUN)	1	1	3	5
4	Poland  (POL)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway  (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Iran  (IRI)	0	1	0	1
	Lebanon  (LIB)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany  (FRG)*	0	1	0	1
9	East Germany  (GDR)	0	0	2	2
10	Italy  (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg details	Zygmunt Smalcerz   Poland	Lajos Szűcs   Hungary	Sándor Holczreiter   Hungary
56 kg details	Imre Földi   Hungary	Mohammad Nassiri   Iran	Gennadi Chetin   Soviet Union
60 kg details	Norair Nurikyan   Bulgaria	Dito Shanidze   Soviet Union	János Benedek   Hungary
67.5 kg details	Mukharby Kirzhinov   Soviet Union	Mladen Kutchev   Bulgaria	Zbigniew Kaczmarek   Poland
75 kg details	Yordan Bikov   Bulgaria	Mohamed Traboulsi   Lebanon	Anselmo Silvino   Italy
82.5 kg details	Leif Jenssen   Norway	Norbert Ozimek   Poland	György Horváth   Hungary
90 kg details	Andon Nikolov   Bulgaria	Atanas Shopov   Bulgaria	Hans Bettembourg   Sweden
110 kg details	Jaan Talts   Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kraichev   Bulgaria	Stefan Grützner   East Germany
+110 kg details	Vasiliy Alekseyev   Soviet Union	Rudolf Mang   West Germany	Gerd Bonk   East Germany

Wrestling

See also: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	9	4	1	14
2	United States  (USA)	3	2	1	6
3	Bulgaria  (BUL)	2	4	2	8
4	Japan  (JPN)	2	2	0	4
5	Romania  (ROU)	2	0	2	4
6	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	4	5
7	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran  (IRI)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	1	2
	West Germany  (FRG)*	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	0	1	1	2
12	East Germany  (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Greece  (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia  (MGL)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey  (TUR)	0	1	0	1
16	Italy  (ITA)	0	0	2	2
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	2	2
18	Finland  (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea  (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		20	20	20	60

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Roman Dmitriyev   Soviet Union	Ognyan Nikolov   Bulgaria	Ebrahim Javadi   Iran
52 kg details	Kiyomi Kato   Japan	Arsen Alakhverdiyev   Soviet Union	Kim Gwong-Hyong   North Korea
57 kg details	Hideaki Yanagida   Japan	Richard Sanders   United States	László Klinga   Hungary
62 kg details	Zagalav Abdulbekov   Soviet Union	Vehbi Akdağ   Turkey	Ivan Krastev   Bulgaria
68 kg details	Dan Gable   United States	Kikuo Wada   Japan	Ruslan Ashuraliyev   Soviet Union
74 kg details	Wayne Wells   United States	Jan Karlsson   Sweden	Adolf Seger   West Germany
82 kg details	Levan Tediashvili   Soviet Union	John Peterson   United States	Vasile Iorga   Romania
90 kg details	Ben Peterson   United States	Gennadi Strakhov   Soviet Union	Károly Bajkó   Hungary
100 kg details	Ivan Yarygin   Soviet Union	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh   Mongolia	József Csatári   Hungary
+100 kg details	Aleksandr Medved   Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev   Bulgaria	Chris Taylor   United States

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Gheorghe Berceanu   Romania	Rahim Aliabadi   Iran	Stefan Angelov   Bulgaria
52 kg details	Petar Kirov   Bulgaria	Koichiro Hirayama   Japan	Giuseppe Bognanni   Italy
57 kg details	Rustam Kazakov   Soviet Union	Hans-Jürgen Veil   West Germany	Risto Björlin   Finland
62 kg details	Georgi Markov   Bulgaria	Heinz-Helmut Wehling   East Germany	Kazimierz Lipień   Poland
68 kg details	Shamil Khisamutdinov   Soviet Union	Stoyan Apostolov   Bulgaria	Gian Matteo Ranzi   Italy
74 kg details	Vítězslav Mácha   Czechoslovakia	Petros Galaktopoulos   Greece	Jan Karlsson   Sweden
82 kg details	Csaba Hegedűs   Hungary	Anatoly Nazarenko   Soviet Union	Milan Nenadić   Yugoslavia
90 kg details	Valery Rezantsev   Soviet Union	Josip Čorak   Yugoslavia	Czesław Kwieciński   Poland
100 kg details	Nicolae Martinescu   Romania	Nikolay Yakovenko   Soviet Union	Ferenc Kiss   Hungary
+100 kg details	Anatoly Roshchin   Soviet Union	Aleksandar Tomov   Bulgaria	Victor Dolipschi   Romania

References

1. Jaime Huelamo
     Spain was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle
     New Zealand was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs.
2.   Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.
3. The silver medal was originally awarded to Bakhvain Buyadaa of Mongolia, but he was disqualified after he tested positive for excessive caffeine.

External links

• "Munich 1972". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.