List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners

The List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners here represent the athletes who competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Sapporo, Japan, from 3 to 13 February 1972. ^[1]

Alpine skiing

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Downhill details	Bernhard Russi   Switzerland	Roland Collombin   Switzerland	Heini Messner   Austria
Giant slalom details	Gustav Thöni   Italy	Edy Bruggmann   Switzerland	Werner Mattle   Switzerland
Slalom details	Francisco Fernández Ochoa   Spain	Gustav Thöni   Italy	Roland Thöni   Italy

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Downhill details	Marie-Theres Nadig   Switzerland	Annemarie Moser-Pröll   Austria	Susan Corrock   United States
Giant slalom details	Marie-Theres Nadig   Switzerland	Annemarie Moser-Pröll   Austria	Wiltrud Drexel   Austria
Slalom details	Barbara Cochran   United States	Danièle Debernard   France	Florence Steurer   France

Biathlon

See also: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Individual details	Magnar Solberg   Norway	Hansjörg Knauthe   East Germany	Lars-Göran Arwidson   Sweden
Men's Relay details	Soviet Union Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov	Finland Esko Saira Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola Mauri Röppänen	East Germany Hansjörg Knauthe Joachim Meischner Dieter Speer Horst Koschka

Bobsleigh

See also: Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man details	West Germany  (FRG-2) Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider	West Germany  (FRG-1) Horst Floth Pepi Bader	Switzerland  (SUI-1) Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher
Four-man details	Switzerland  (SUI-1) Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher	Italy  (ITA-1) Nevio De Zordo Adriano Frassinelli Corrado Dal Fabbro Gianni Bonichon	West Germany  (FRG-1) Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann

Cross-country skiing

See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km details	Sven-Åke Lundbäck   Sweden	Fyodor Simachov   Soviet Union	Ivar Formo   Norway
30 km details	Vyacheslav Vedenin   Soviet Union	Pål Tyldum   Norway	Johs Harviken   Norway
50 km details	Pål Tyldum   Norway	Magne Myrmo   Norway	Vyacheslav Vedenin   Soviet Union
4×10 km details	Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov Yuriy Skobov Fyodor Simachov Vyacheslav Vedenin	Norway Oddvar Brå Pål Tyldum Ivar Formo Johs Harviken	Switzerland Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km details	Galina Kulakova   Soviet Union	Marjatta Kajosmaa   Finland	Helena Šikolová   Czechoslovakia
10 km details	Galina Kulakova   Soviet Union	Alevtina Olyunina   Soviet Union	Marjatta Kajosmaa   Finland
3×5 km details	Soviet Union Lyubov Mukhachyova Alevtina Olyunina Galina Kulakova	Finland Helena Takalo Hilkka Riihivuori Marjatta Kajosmaa	Norway Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre

Figure skating

See also: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Ondrej Nepela   Czechoslovakia	Sergei Chetverukhin   Soviet Union	Patrick Péra   France
Ladies' singles details	Beatrix Schuba   Austria	Karen Magnussen   Canada	Janet Lynn   United States
Pairs details	Soviet Union Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov	Soviet Union Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin	East Germany Manuela Groß Uwe Kagelmann

Ice hockey

See also: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team details	Soviet Union Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davydov Viktor Kuskin Alexander Ragulin Gennadiy Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Valeri Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeni Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoly Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeni Zimin	United States Mike Curran Pete Sears Wally Olds Tom Mellor Frank Sanders Jim McElmury Charles Brown Dick McGlynn Ronald Naslund Robbie Ftorek Stu Irving Kevin Ahearn Henry Boucha Craig Sarner Timothy Sheehy Keith Christiansen Mark Howe Tim Regan Bruce McIntosh	Czechoslovakia Vladimír Dzurilla Jiří Holeček Vladimír Bednář Rudolf Tajcnár Oldřich Machač František Pospíšil Josef Horešovský Karel Vohralík Václav Nedomanský Jiří Holík Jaroslav Holík Jiří Kochta Eduard Novák Richard Farda Josef Černý Vladimír Martinec Ivan Hlinka Bohuslav Šťastný

Luge

See also: Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles details	Wolfgang Scheidel   East Germany	Harald Ehrig   East Germany	Wolfram Fiedler   East Germany
Women's singles details	Anna-Maria Müller   East Germany	Ute Rührold   East Germany	Margit Schumann   East Germany
Doubles details	East Germany Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow   Italy Paul Hildgartner Walter Plaikner	None awarded	East Germany Klaus-Michael Bonsack Wolfram Fiedler

Nordic combined

See also: Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Ulrich Wehling   East Germany	Rauno Miettinen   Finland	Karl-Heinz Luck   East Germany

Ski jumping

See also: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Normal hill individual details	Yukio Kasaya   Japan	Akitsugu Konno   Japan	Seiji Aochi   Japan
Large hill individual details	Wojciech Fortuna   Poland	Walter Steiner   Switzerland	Rainer Schmidt   East Germany

Speed skating

See also: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres details	Erhard Keller   West Germany	Hasse Börjes   Sweden	Valery Muratov   Soviet Union
1500 metres details	Ard Schenk   Netherlands	Roar Grønvold   Norway	Göran Claeson   Sweden
5000 metres details	Ard Schenk   Netherlands	Roar Grønvold   Norway	Sten Stensen   Norway
10000 metres details	Ard Schenk   Netherlands	Kees Verkerk   Netherlands	Sten Stensen   Norway

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres details	Anne Henning   United States	Vera Krasnova   Soviet Union	Lyudmila Titova   Soviet Union
1000 metres details	Monika Pflug   West Germany	Atje Keulen-Deelstra   Netherlands	Anne Henning   United States
1500 metres details	Dianne Holum   United States	Stien Kaiser   Netherlands	Atje Keulen-Deelstra   Netherlands
3000 metres details	Stien Kaiser   Netherlands	Dianne Holum   United States	Atje Keulen-Deelstra   Netherlands

See also

• 1972 Winter Olympics medal table

References

1. "Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympics". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.

External links

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