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Medal winners München 1972

Sport/Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Archery
Individual, Men	John Williams	USA	Gunnar Jervill	SWE	Kyösti Laasonen	FIN
Individual, Women	Doreen Wilber	USA	Irena Szydłowska	POL	Emma Gapchenko	URS
Artistic Gymnastics
Individual All-Around, Men	Sawao Kato	JPN	Eizo Kenmotsu	JPN	Akinori Nakayama	JPN
Team All-Around, Men	Japan	JPN	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
Floor Exercise, Men	Nikolay Andrianov	URS	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN
Horse Vault, Men	Klaus Köste	GDR	Viktor Klimenko	URS	Nikolay Andrianov	URS
Parallel Bars, Men	Sawao Kato	JPN	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN	Eizo Kenmotsu	JPN
Horizontal Bar, Men	Mitsuo Tsukahara	JPN	Sawao Kato	JPN	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN
Rings, Men	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	Mikhail Voronin	URS	Mitsuo Tsukahara	JPN
Pommelled Horse, Men	Viktor Klimenko	URS	Sawao Kato	JPN	Eizo Kenmotsu	JPN
Individual All-Around, Women	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	Karin Janz	GDR	Tamara Lazakovich	URS
Team All-Around, Women	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	Hungary	HUN
Floor Exercise, Women	Olga Korbut	URS	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	Tamara Lazakovich	URS
Horse Vault, Women	Karin Janz	GDR	Erika Zuchold	GDR	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS
Uneven Bars, Women	Karin Janz	GDR	Erika Zuchold Olga Korbut	GDR URS	—	—
Balance Beam, Women	Olga Korbut	URS	Tamara Lazakovich	URS	Karin Janz	GDR
Athletics
100 metres, Men	Valery Borzov	URS	Robert Taylor	USA	Lennox Miller	JAM
200 metres, Men	Valery Borzov	URS	Larry Black	USA	Pietro Mennea	ITA
400 metres, Men	Vince Matthews	USA	Wayne Collett	USA	Julius Sang	KEN
800 metres, Men	Dave Wottle	USA	Yevgeny Arzhanov	URS	Mike Boit	KEN
1,500 metres, Men	Pekka Vasala	FIN	Kip Keino	KEN	Rod Dixon	NZL
5,000 metres, Men	Lasse Virén	FIN	Mohamad Gammoudi	TUN	Ian Stewart	GBR
10,000 metres, Men	Lasse Virén	FIN	Miel Puttemans	BEL	Miruts Yifter	ETH
Marathon, Men	Frank Shorter	USA	Karel Lismont	BEL	Mamo Wolde	ETH
110 metres Hurdles, Men	Rod Milburn	USA	Guy Drut	FRA	Tom Hill	USA
400 metres Hurdles, Men	John Akii-Bua	UGA	Ralph Mann	USA	Dave Hemery	GBR
3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Kip Keino	KEN	Ben Jipcho	KEN	Tapio Kantanen	FIN
4 × 100 metres Relay, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	West Germany	FRG
4 × 400 metres Relay, Men	Kenya	KEN	Great Britain	GBR	France	FRA
20 kilometres Race Walk, Men	Peter Frenkel	GDR	Vladimir Golubnichy	URS	Hans-Georg Reimann	GDR
50 kilometres Race Walk, Men	Bernd Kannenberg	FRG	Veniamin Soldatenko	URS	Larry Young	USA
High Jump, Men	Jüri Tarmak	URS	Stefan Junge	GDR	Dwight Stones	USA
Pole Vault, Men	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	Bob Seagren	USA	Jan Johnson	USA
Long Jump, Men	Randy Williams	USA	Hans Baumgartner	FRG	Arnie Robinson	USA
Triple Jump, Men	Viktor Saneyev	URS	Jörg Drehmel	GDR	Nélson Prudêncio	BRA
Shot Put, Men	Władysław Komar	POL	George Woods	USA	Hartmut Briesenick	GDR
Discus Throw, Men	Ludvík Daněk	TCH	Jay Silvester	USA	Ricky Bruch	SWE
Hammer Throw, Men	Anatoly Bondarchuk	URS	Jochen Sachse	GDR	Vasily Khmelevsky	URS
Javelin Throw, Men	Klaus Wolfermann	FRG	Jānis Lūsis	URS	Bill Schmidt	USA
Decathlon, Men	Nikolay Avilov	URS	Leonid Litvinenko	URS	Ryszard Katus	POL
100 metres, Women	Renate Stecher	GDR	Raelene Boyle	AUS	Silvia Chivás	CUB
200 metres, Women	Renate Stecher	GDR	Raelene Boyle	AUS	Irena Szewińska	POL
400 metres, Women	Monika Zehrt	GDR	Rita Wilden	FRG	Kathy Hammond	USA
800 metres, Women	Hildegard Falck	FRG	Nijolė Sabaitė	URS	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR
1,500 metres, Women	Lyudmila Bragina	URS	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	Paola Cacchi	ITA
100 metres Hurdles, Women	Annelie Ehrhardt	GDR	Valeria Bufanu	ROU	Karin Balzer	GDR
4 × 100 metres Relay, Women	West Germany	FRG	East Germany	GDR	Cuba	CUB
4 × 400 metres Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	United States	USA	West Germany	FRG
High Jump, Women	Ulrike Meyfarth	FRG	Yordanka Blagoeva	BUL	Ilona Gusenbauer	AUT
Long Jump, Women	Heide Rosendahl	FRG	Diana Yorgova	BUL	Eva Šuranová	TCH
Shot Put, Women	Nadezhda Chizhova	URS	Margitta Gummel	GDR	Ivanka Hristova	BUL
Discus Throw, Women	Faina Melnik	URS	Argentina Menis	ROU	Vasilka Stoeva	BUL
Javelin Throw, Women	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	Jacqueline Todten	GDR	Kate Schmidt	USA
Pentathlon, Women	Mary Peters	GBR	Heide Rosendahl	FRG	Burglinde Pollak	GDR
Basketball
Basketball, Men	Soviet Union	URS	United States	USA	Cuba	CUB
Boxing
Light-Flyweight, Men	György Gedó	HUN	Kim U-Gil	PRK	Dacal Rodríguez Ralph Evans	ESP GBR
Flyweight, Men	Georgi Kostadinov	BUL	Leo Rwabwogo	UGA	Douglas Rodríguez Leszek Błażyński	CUB POL
Bantamweight, Men	Orlando Martínez	CUB	Alfonso Zamora	MEX	George Turpin Ricardo Carreras	GBR USA
Featherweight, Men	Boris Kuznetsov	URS	Philip Waruinge	KEN	Clemente Rojas András Botos	COL HUN
Lightweight, Men	Jan Szczepański	POL	László Orbán	HUN	Alfonso Pérez Samuel Mbugua	COL KEN
Light-Welterweight, Men	Ray Seales	USA	Angel Angelov	BUL	Issaka Daboré Zvonko Vujin	NIG YUG
Welterweight, Men	Emilio Correa	CUB	János Kajdi	HUN	Dick Murunga Jesse Valdez	KEN USA
Light-Middleweight, Men	Dieter Kottysch	FRG	Wiesław Rudkowski	POL	Alan Minter Peter Tiepold	GBR GDR
Middleweight, Men	Vyacheslav Lemeshev	URS	Reima Virtanen	FIN	Prince Amartey Marvin Johnson	GHA USA
Light-Heavyweight, Men	Mate Parlov	YUG	Gilberto Carrillo	CUB	Isaac Ikhouria Janusz Gortat	NGR POL
Heavyweight, Men	Teófilo Stevenson	CUB	Ion Alexe	ROU	Peter Hussing Hasse Thomsén	FRG SWE
Canoe Slalom
Kayak Singles, Slalom, Men	Siegbert Horn	GDR	Norbert Sattler	AUT	Harald Gimpel	GDR
Canadian Singles, Slalom, Men	Reinhard Eiben	GDR	Reinhold Kauder	FRG	Jamie McEwan	USA
Canadian Doubles, Slalom, Men	East Germany 1	GDR	West Germany 1	FRG	France	FRA
Kayak Singles, Slalom, Women	Angelika Bahmann	GDR	Gisela Grothaus	FRG	Magdalena Wunderlich	FRG
Canoe Sprint
Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men	Aleksandr Shaparenko	URS	Rolf Peterson	SWE	Géza Csapó	HUN
Kayak Doubles, 1,000 metres, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN	Poland	POL
Kayak Fours, 1,000 metres, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Romania	ROU	Norway	NOR
Canadian Singles, 1,000 metres, Men	Ivan Patzaichin	ROU	Tamás Wichmann	HUN	Detlef Lewe	FRG
Canadian Doubles, 1,000 metres, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Romania	ROU	Bulgaria	BUL
Kayak Singles, 500 metres, Women	Yuliya Ryabchinskaya	URS	Mieke Jaapies	NED	Anna Pfeffer	HUN
Kayak Doubles, 500 metres, Women	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	Romania	ROU
Cycling Road
Road Race, Individual, Men	Hennie Kuiper	NED	Clyde Sefton	AUS	—	—
100 kilometres Team Time Trial, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Poland	POL	—	—
Cycling Track
Sprint, Men	Daniel Morelon	FRA	John Nicholson	AUS	Omar Pkhak'adze	URS
1,000 metres Time Trial, Men	Niels Fredborg	DEN	Danny Clark	AUS	Jürgen Schütze	GDR
Tandem Sprint, 2,000 metres, Men	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR	Poland	POL
Individual Pursuit, 4,000 metres, Men	Knut Knudsen	NOR	Xaver Kurmann	SUI	Hans Lutz	FRG
Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres, Men	West Germany	FRG	East Germany	GDR	Great Britain	GBR
Diving
Springboard, Men	Vladimir Vasin	URS	Franco Cagnotto	ITA	Craig Lincoln	USA
Platform, Men	Klaus Dibiasi	ITA	Dick Rydze	USA	Franco Cagnotto	ITA
Springboard, Women	Micki King	USA	Ulrika Knape	SWE	Marina Janicke	GDR
Platform, Women	Ulrika Knape	SWE	Milena Duchková	TCH	Marina Janicke	GDR
Equestrian Dressage
Individual, Open	Liselott Linsenhoff	FRG	Yelena Petushkova	URS	Josef Neckermann	FRG
Team, Open	Soviet Union	URS	West Germany	FRG	Sweden	SWE
Equestrian Eventing
Individual, Open	Richard Meade	GBR	Alessandro Argenton	ITA	Jan Jönsson	SWE
Team, Open	Great Britain	GBR	United States	USA	West Germany	FRG
Equestrian Jumping
Individual, Open	Graziano Mancinelli	ITA	Ann Moore	GBR	Neal Shapiro	USA
Team, Open	West Germany	FRG	United States	USA	Italy	ITA
Fencing
Foil, Individual, Men	Witold Woyda	POL	Jenő Kamuti	HUN	Christian Noël	FRA
Foil, Team, Men	Poland	POL	Soviet Union	URS	France	FRA
Épée, Individual, Men	Csaba Fenyvesi	HUN	Jacques Ladègaillerie	FRA	Győző Kulcsár	HUN
Épée, Team, Men	Hungary	HUN	Switzerland	SUI	Soviet Union	URS
Sabre, Individual, Men	Viktor Sidyak	URS	Péter Marót	HUN	Vladimir Nazlymov	URS
Sabre, Team, Men	Italy	ITA	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN
Foil, Individual, Women	Antonella Ragno-Lonzi	ITA	Ildikó Farkasinszky-Bóbis	HUN	Galina Gorokhova	URS
Foil, Team, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN	Romania	ROU
Football
Football, Men	Poland	POL	Hungary	HUN	East Germany Soviet Union	GDR URS
Handball
Handball, Men	Yugoslavia	YUG	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Romania	ROU
Hockey
Hockey, Men	West Germany	FRG	Pakistan	PAK	India	IND
Judo
Lightweight, Men	Takao Kawaguchi	JPN	—	—	Jean-Jacques Mounier Kim Yong-Ik	FRA PRK
Half-Middleweight, Men	Toyokazu Nomura	JPN	Antoni Zajkowski	POL	Dietmar Hötger Anatoly Novikov	GDR URS
Middleweight, Men	Shinobu Sekine	JPN	Oh Seung-Rip	KOR	Jean-Paul Coche Brian Jacks	FRA GBR
Half-Heavyweight, Men	Shota Chochishvili	URS	David Starbrook	GBR	Chiaki Ishii Paul Barth	BRA FRG
Heavyweight, Men	Wim Ruska	NED	Klaus Glahn	FRG	Motoki Nishimura Givi Onashvili	JPN URS
Open Class, Men	Wim Ruska	NED	Vitaly Kuznetsov	URS	Jean-Claude Brondani Angelo Parisi	FRA GBR
Modern Pentathlon
Individual, Men	András Balczó	HUN	Boris Onishchenko	URS	Pavel Lednyov	URS
Team, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN	Finland	FIN
Rowing
Single Sculls, Men	Yury Malyshev	URS	Alberto Demiddi	ARG	Wolfgang Güldenpfennig	GDR
Double Sculls, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Norway	NOR	East Germany	GDR
Coxless Pairs, Men	East Germany	GDR	Switzerland	SUI	Netherlands	NED
Coxed Pairs, Men	East Germany	GDR	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Romania	ROU
Coxless Fours, Men	East Germany	GDR	New Zealand	NZL	West Germany	FRG
Coxed Fours, Men	West Germany	FRG	East Germany	GDR	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Eights, Men	New Zealand	NZL	United States	USA	East Germany	GDR
Sailing
One Person Dinghy, Open	Serge Maury	FRA	Ilias Chatzipavlis	GRE	Viktor Potapov	URS
Two Person Keelboat, Open	Australia	AUS	Sweden	SWE	West Germany	FRG
Two Person Keelboat, Open	Soviet Union	URS	Great Britain	GBR	United States	USA
Three Person Keelboat, Open	Australia	AUS	East Germany	GDR	United States	USA
Three Person Keelboat, Open	United States	USA	Sweden	SWE	Canada	CAN
Two Person Heavyweight Dinghy, Open	Great Britain	GBR	France	FRA	West Germany	FRG
Shooting
Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Open	Józef Zapędzki	POL	Ladislav Falta	TCH	Viktor Torshin	URS
Free Pistol, 50 metres, Open	Ragnar Skanåker	SWE	Dan Iuga	ROU	Rudolf Dollinger	AUT
Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Open	Lones Wigger	USA	Boris Melnik	URS	Lajos Papp	HUN
Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, Open	John Writer	USA	Lanny Bassham	USA	Werner Lippoldt	GDR
Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Open	Li Ho-Jun	PRK	Vic Auer	USA	Nicolae Rotaru	ROU
Running Target, 50 metres, Open	Yakov Zheleznyak	URS	Helmut Bellingrodt	COL	John Kynoch	GBR
Trap, Open	Angelo Scalzone	ITA	Michel Carrega	FRA	Silvano Basagni	ITA
Skeet, Open	Konrad Wirnhier	FRG	Yevgeny Petrov	URS	Michael Buchheim	GDR
Swimming
100 metres Freestyle, Men	Mark Spitz	USA	Jerry Heidenreich	USA	Vladimir Bure	URS
200 metres Freestyle, Men	Mark Spitz	USA	Steve Genter	USA	Werner Lampe	FRG
400 metres Freestyle, Men	Brad Cooper	AUS	Steve Genter	USA	Tom McBreen	USA
1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Mike Burton	USA	Graham Windeatt	AUS	Doug Northway	USA
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	East Germany	GDR
4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay, Men	United States	USA	West Germany	FRG	Soviet Union	URS
100 metres Backstroke, Men	Roland Matthes	GDR	Mike Stamm	USA	John Murphy	USA
200 metres Backstroke, Men	Roland Matthes	GDR	Mike Stamm	USA	Mitch Ivey	USA
100 metres Breaststroke, Men	Nobutaka Taguchi	JPN	Tom Bruce	USA	John Hencken	USA
200 metres Breaststroke, Men	John Hencken	USA	David Wilkie	GBR	Nobutaka Taguchi	JPN
100 metres Butterfly, Men	Mark Spitz	USA	Bruce Robertson	CAN	Jerry Heidenreich	USA
200 metres Butterfly, Men	Mark Spitz	USA	Gary Hall	USA	Robin Backhaus	USA
200 metres Individual Medley, Men	Gunnar Larsson	SWE	Tim McKee	USA	Steve Furniss	USA
400 metres Individual Medley, Men	Gunnar Larsson	SWE	Tim McKee	USA	András Hargitay	HUN
4 × 100 metres Medley Relay, Men	United States	USA	East Germany	GDR	Canada	CAN
100 metres Freestyle, Women	Sandy Neilson	USA	Shirley Babashoff	USA	Shane Gould	AUS
200 metres Freestyle, Women	Shane Gould	AUS	Shirley Babashoff	USA	Keena Rothhammer	USA
400 metres Freestyle, Women	Shane Gould	AUS	Novella Calligaris	ITA	Gudrun Wegner	GDR
800 metres Freestyle, Women	Keena Rothhammer	USA	Shane Gould	AUS	Novella Calligaris	ITA
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women	United States	USA	East Germany	GDR	West Germany	FRG
100 metres Backstroke, Women	Melissa Belote	USA	Andrea Gyarmati	HUN	Susie Atwood	USA
200 metres Backstroke, Women	Melissa Belote	USA	Susie Atwood	USA	Donna-Marie Gurr	CAN
100 metres Breaststroke, Women	Cathy Carr	USA	Galina Stepanova	URS	Beverley Whitfield	AUS
200 metres Breaststroke, Women	Beverley Whitfield	AUS	Dana Schoenfield	USA	Galina Stepanova	URS
100 metres Butterfly, Women	Mayumi Aoki	JPN	Roswitha Beier	GDR	Andrea Gyarmati	HUN
200 metres Butterfly, Women	Karen Moe	USA	Lynn Colella	USA	Ellie Daniel	USA
200 metres Individual Medley, Women	Shane Gould	AUS	Kornelia Ender	GDR	Lynn Vidali	USA
400 metres Individual Medley, Women	Gail Neall	AUS	Leslie Cliff	CAN	Novella Calligaris	ITA
4 × 100 metres Medley Relay, Women	United States	USA	East Germany	GDR	West Germany	FRG
Volleyball
Volleyball, Men	Japan	JPN	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS
Volleyball, Women	Soviet Union	URS	Japan	JPN	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	PRK
Water Polo
Water Polo, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Hungary	HUN	United States	USA
Weightlifting
Flyweight, Men	Zygmunt Smalcerz	POL	Lajos Szűcs	HUN	Sándor Holczreiter	HUN
Bantamweight, Men	Imre Földi	HUN	Mohammad Nassiri	IRI	Gennady Chetin	URS
Featherweight, Men	Norayr Nurikyan	BUL	Dito Shanidze	URS	János Benedek	HUN
Lightweight, Men	Mukharby Kirzhinov	URS	Mladen Kuchev	BUL	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	POL
Middleweight, Men	Yordan Bikov	BUL	Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi	LBN	Anselmo Silvino	ITA
Light-Heavyweight, Men	Leif Jensen	NOR	Norbert Ozimek	POL	György Horváth	HUN
Middle-Heavyweight, Men	Andon Nikolov	BUL	Atanas Shopov	BUL	Hans Bettembourg	SWE
Heavyweight, Men	Jaan Talts	URS	Aleksandar Kraychev	BUL	Stefan Grützner	GDR
Super-Heavyweight, Men	Vasily Alekseyev	URS	Rudolf Mang	FRG	Gerd Bonk	GDR
Wrestling
Light-Flyweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Gheorghe Berceanu	ROU	Rahim Aliabadi	IRI	Stefan Angelov	BUL
Flyweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Petar Kirov	BUL	Koichiro Hirayama	JPN	Giuseppe Bognanni	ITA
Bantamweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Rustem Kazakov	URS	Hans-Jürgen Veil	FRG	Risto Björlin	FIN
Featherweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Georgi Markov	BUL	Heinz-Helmut Wehling	GDR	Kazimierz Lipień	POL
Lightweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Shamil Khisamutdinov	URS	Stoyan Apostolov	BUL	Gian Matteo Ranzi	ITA
Welterweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Vítězslav Mácha	TCH	Petros Galaktopoulos	GRE	Jan Karlsson	SWE
Middleweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Csaba Hegedűs	HUN	Anatoly Nazarenko	URS	Milan Nenadić	YUG
Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Valery Rezantsev	URS	Josip Čorak	YUG	Czesław Kwieciński	POL
Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Nicolae Martinescu	ROU	Nikolay Yakovenko	URS	Ferenc Kiss	HUN
Super-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men	Anatoly Roshchin	URS	Aleksandar Tomov	BUL	Victor Dolipschi	ROU
Light-Flyweight, Freestyle, Men	Roman Dmitriyev	URS	Ognyan Nikolov	BUL	Ibrahim Javadi	IRI
Flyweight, Freestyle, Men	Kiyomi Kato	JPN	Arsen Alakhverdiyev	URS	Kim Gwong-Hyong	PRK
Bantamweight, Freestyle, Men	Hideaki Yanagida	JPN	Rich Sanders	USA	László Klinga	HUN
Featherweight, Freestyle, Men	Zagalav Abdulbekov	URS	Vehbi Akdağ	TUR	Ivan Krastev	BUL
Lightweight, Freestyle, Men	Dan Gable	USA	Kikuo Wada	JPN	Ruslan Ashuraliyev	URS
Welterweight, Freestyle, Men	Wayne Wells	USA	Jan Karlsson	SWE	Adolf Seger	FRG
Middleweight, Freestyle, Men	Levan Tediashvili	URS	John Peterson	USA	Vasile Iorga	ROU
Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men	Ben Peterson	USA	Gennady Strakhov	URS	Károly Bajkó	HUN
Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men	Ivan Yarygin	URS	Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh	MGL	József Csatári	HUN
Super-Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men	Aliaksandr Miadved	URS	Osman Duraliev	BUL	Chris Taylor	USA