Medal winners München 1972

Sport/Event Gold Silver Bronze

Archery

Individual, Men John WilliamsUSA Gunnar JervillSWE Kyösti LaasonenFIN
Individual, Women Doreen WilberUSA Irena SzydłowskaPOL Emma GapchenkoURS

Artistic Gymnastics

Individual All-Around, Men Sawao KatoJPN Eizo KenmotsuJPN Akinori NakayamaJPN
Team All-Around, Men JapanJPN Soviet UnionURS East GermanyGDR
Floor Exercise, Men Nikolay AndrianovURS Akinori NakayamaJPN Shigeru KasamatsuJPN
Horse Vault, Men Klaus KösteGDR Viktor KlimenkoURS Nikolay AndrianovURS
Parallel Bars, Men Sawao KatoJPN Shigeru KasamatsuJPN Eizo KenmotsuJPN
Horizontal Bar, Men Mitsuo TsukaharaJPN Sawao KatoJPN Shigeru KasamatsuJPN
Rings, Men Akinori NakayamaJPN Mikhail VoroninURS Mitsuo TsukaharaJPN
Pommelled Horse, Men Viktor KlimenkoURS Sawao KatoJPN Eizo KenmotsuJPN
Individual All-Around, Women Lyudmila TurishchevaURS Karin JanzGDR Tamara LazakovichURS
Team All-Around, Women Soviet UnionURS East GermanyGDR HungaryHUN
Floor Exercise, Women Olga KorbutURS Lyudmila TurishchevaURS Tamara LazakovichURS
Horse Vault, Women Karin JanzGDR Erika ZucholdGDR Lyudmila TurishchevaURS
Uneven Bars, Women Karin JanzGDR Erika Zuchold
Olga Korbut
GDR
URS
Balance Beam, Women Olga KorbutURS Tamara LazakovichURS Karin JanzGDR

Athletics

100 metres, Men Valery BorzovURS Robert TaylorUSA Lennox MillerJAM
200 metres, Men Valery BorzovURS Larry BlackUSA Pietro MenneaITA
400 metres, Men Vince MatthewsUSA Wayne CollettUSA Julius SangKEN
800 metres, Men Dave WottleUSA Yevgeny ArzhanovURS Mike BoitKEN
1,500 metres, Men Pekka VasalaFIN Kip KeinoKEN Rod DixonNZL
5,000 metres, Men Lasse VirénFIN Mohamad GammoudiTUN Ian StewartGBR
10,000 metres, Men Lasse VirénFIN Miel PuttemansBEL Miruts YifterETH
Marathon, Men Frank ShorterUSA Karel LismontBEL Mamo WoldeETH
110 metres Hurdles, Men Rod MilburnUSA Guy DrutFRA Tom HillUSA
400 metres Hurdles, Men John Akii-BuaUGA Ralph MannUSA Dave HemeryGBR
3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men Kip KeinoKEN Ben JipchoKEN Tapio KantanenFIN
4 × 100 metres Relay, Men United StatesUSA Soviet UnionURS West GermanyFRG
4 × 400 metres Relay, Men KenyaKEN Great BritainGBR FranceFRA
20 kilometres Race Walk, Men Peter FrenkelGDR Vladimir GolubnichyURS Hans-Georg ReimannGDR
50 kilometres Race Walk, Men Bernd KannenbergFRG Veniamin SoldatenkoURS Larry YoungUSA
High Jump, Men Jüri TarmakURS Stefan JungeGDR Dwight StonesUSA
Pole Vault, Men Wolfgang NordwigGDR Bob SeagrenUSA Jan JohnsonUSA
Long Jump, Men Randy WilliamsUSA Hans BaumgartnerFRG Arnie RobinsonUSA
Triple Jump, Men Viktor SaneyevURS Jörg DrehmelGDR Nélson PrudêncioBRA
Shot Put, Men Władysław KomarPOL George WoodsUSA Hartmut BriesenickGDR
Discus Throw, Men Ludvík DaněkTCH Jay SilvesterUSA Ricky BruchSWE
Hammer Throw, Men Anatoly BondarchukURS Jochen SachseGDR Vasily KhmelevskyURS
Javelin Throw, Men Klaus WolfermannFRG Jānis LūsisURS Bill SchmidtUSA
Decathlon, Men Nikolay AvilovURS Leonid LitvinenkoURS Ryszard KatusPOL
100 metres, Women Renate StecherGDR Raelene BoyleAUS Silvia ChivásCUB
200 metres, Women Renate StecherGDR Raelene BoyleAUS Irena SzewińskaPOL
400 metres, Women Monika ZehrtGDR Rita WildenFRG Kathy HammondUSA
800 metres, Women Hildegard FalckFRG Nijolė SabaitėURS Gunhild HoffmeisterGDR
1,500 metres, Women Lyudmila BraginaURS Gunhild HoffmeisterGDR Paola CacchiITA
100 metres Hurdles, Women Annelie EhrhardtGDR Valeria BufanuROU Karin BalzerGDR
4 × 100 metres Relay, Women West GermanyFRG East GermanyGDR CubaCUB
4 × 400 metres Relay, Women East GermanyGDR United StatesUSA West GermanyFRG
High Jump, Women Ulrike MeyfarthFRG Yordanka BlagoevaBUL Ilona GusenbauerAUT
Long Jump, Women Heide RosendahlFRG Diana YorgovaBUL Eva ŠuranováTCH
Shot Put, Women Nadezhda ChizhovaURS Margitta GummelGDR Ivanka HristovaBUL
Discus Throw, Women Faina MelnikURS Argentina MenisROU Vasilka StoevaBUL
Javelin Throw, Women Ruth FuchsGDR Jacqueline TodtenGDR Kate SchmidtUSA
Pentathlon, Women Mary PetersGBR Heide RosendahlFRG Burglinde PollakGDR

Basketball

Basketball, Men Soviet UnionURS United StatesUSA CubaCUB

Boxing

Light-Flyweight, Men György GedóHUN Kim U-GilPRK Dacal Rodríguez
Ralph Evans
ESP
GBR
Flyweight, Men Georgi KostadinovBUL Leo RwabwogoUGA Douglas Rodríguez
Leszek Błażyński
CUB
POL
Bantamweight, Men Orlando MartínezCUB Alfonso ZamoraMEX George Turpin
Ricardo Carreras
GBR
USA
Featherweight, Men Boris KuznetsovURS Philip WaruingeKEN Clemente Rojas
András Botos
COL
HUN
Lightweight, Men Jan SzczepańskiPOL László OrbánHUN Alfonso Pérez
Samuel Mbugua
COL
KEN
Light-Welterweight, Men Ray SealesUSA Angel AngelovBUL Issaka Daboré
Zvonko Vujin
NIG
YUG
Welterweight, Men Emilio CorreaCUB János KajdiHUN Dick Murunga
Jesse Valdez
KEN
USA
Light-Middleweight, Men Dieter KottyschFRG Wiesław RudkowskiPOL Alan Minter
Peter Tiepold
GBR
GDR
Middleweight, Men Vyacheslav LemeshevURS Reima VirtanenFIN Prince Amartey
Marvin Johnson
GHA
USA
Light-Heavyweight, Men Mate ParlovYUG Gilberto CarrilloCUB Isaac Ikhouria
Janusz Gortat
NGR
POL
Heavyweight, Men Teófilo StevensonCUB Ion AlexeROU Peter Hussing
Hasse Thomsén
FRG
SWE

Canoe Slalom

Kayak Singles, Slalom, Men Siegbert HornGDR Norbert SattlerAUT Harald GimpelGDR
Canadian Singles, Slalom, Men Reinhard EibenGDR Reinhold KauderFRG Jamie McEwanUSA
Canadian Doubles, Slalom, Men East Germany 1GDR West Germany 1FRG FranceFRA
Kayak Singles, Slalom, Women Angelika BahmannGDR Gisela GrothausFRG Magdalena WunderlichFRG

Canoe Sprint

Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men Aleksandr ShaparenkoURS Rolf PetersonSWE Géza CsapóHUN
Kayak Doubles, 1,000 metres, Men Soviet UnionURS HungaryHUN PolandPOL
Kayak Fours, 1,000 metres, Men Soviet UnionURS RomaniaROU NorwayNOR
Canadian Singles, 1,000 metres, Men Ivan PatzaichinROU Tamás WichmannHUN Detlef LeweFRG
Canadian Doubles, 1,000 metres, Men Soviet UnionURS RomaniaROU BulgariaBUL
Kayak Singles, 500 metres, Women Yuliya RyabchinskayaURS Mieke JaapiesNED Anna PfefferHUN
Kayak Doubles, 500 metres, Women Soviet UnionURS East GermanyGDR RomaniaROU

Cycling Road

Road Race, Individual, Men Hennie KuiperNED Clyde SeftonAUS
100 kilometres Team Time Trial, Men Soviet UnionURS PolandPOL

Cycling Track

Sprint, Men Daniel MorelonFRA John NicholsonAUS Omar Pkhak'adzeURS
1,000 metres Time Trial, Men Niels FredborgDEN Danny ClarkAUS Jürgen SchützeGDR
Tandem Sprint, 2,000 metres, Men Soviet UnionURS East GermanyGDR PolandPOL
Individual Pursuit, 4,000 metres, Men Knut KnudsenNOR Xaver KurmannSUI Hans LutzFRG
Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres, Men West GermanyFRG East GermanyGDR Great BritainGBR

Diving

Springboard, Men Vladimir VasinURS Franco CagnottoITA Craig LincolnUSA
Platform, Men Klaus DibiasiITA Dick RydzeUSA Franco CagnottoITA
Springboard, Women Micki KingUSA Ulrika KnapeSWE Marina JanickeGDR
Platform, Women Ulrika KnapeSWE Milena DuchkováTCH Marina JanickeGDR

Equestrian Dressage

Individual, Open Liselott LinsenhoffFRG Yelena PetushkovaURS Josef NeckermannFRG
Team, Open Soviet UnionURS West GermanyFRG SwedenSWE

Equestrian Eventing

Individual, Open Richard MeadeGBR Alessandro ArgentonITA Jan JönssonSWE
Team, Open Great BritainGBR United StatesUSA West GermanyFRG

Equestrian Jumping

Individual, Open Graziano MancinelliITA Ann MooreGBR Neal ShapiroUSA
Team, Open West GermanyFRG United StatesUSA ItalyITA

Fencing

Foil, Individual, Men Witold WoydaPOL Jenő KamutiHUN Christian NoëlFRA
Foil, Team, Men PolandPOL Soviet UnionURS FranceFRA
Épée, Individual, Men Csaba FenyvesiHUN Jacques LadègaillerieFRA Győző KulcsárHUN
Épée, Team, Men HungaryHUN SwitzerlandSUI Soviet UnionURS
Sabre, Individual, Men Viktor SidyakURS Péter MarótHUN Vladimir NazlymovURS
Sabre, Team, Men ItalyITA Soviet UnionURS HungaryHUN
Foil, Individual, Women Antonella Ragno-LonziITA Ildikó Farkasinszky-BóbisHUN Galina GorokhovaURS
Foil, Team, Women Soviet UnionURS HungaryHUN RomaniaROU

Football

Football, Men PolandPOL HungaryHUN East Germany
Soviet Union
GDR
URS

Handball

Handball, Men YugoslaviaYUG CzechoslovakiaTCH RomaniaROU

Hockey

Hockey, Men West GermanyFRG PakistanPAK IndiaIND

Judo

Lightweight, Men Takao KawaguchiJPN Jean-Jacques Mounier
Kim Yong-Ik
FRA
PRK
Half-Middleweight, Men Toyokazu NomuraJPN Antoni ZajkowskiPOL Dietmar Hötger
Anatoly Novikov
GDR
URS
Middleweight, Men Shinobu SekineJPN Oh Seung-RipKOR Jean-Paul Coche
Brian Jacks
FRA
GBR
Half-Heavyweight, Men Shota ChochishviliURS David StarbrookGBR Chiaki Ishii
Paul Barth
BRA
FRG
Heavyweight, Men Wim RuskaNED Klaus GlahnFRG Motoki Nishimura
Givi Onashvili
JPN
URS
Open Class, Men Wim RuskaNED Vitaly KuznetsovURS Jean-Claude Brondani
Angelo Parisi
FRA
GBR

Modern Pentathlon

Individual, Men András BalczóHUN Boris OnishchenkoURS Pavel LednyovURS
Team, Men Soviet UnionURS HungaryHUN FinlandFIN

Rowing

Single Sculls, Men Yury MalyshevURS Alberto DemiddiARG Wolfgang GüldenpfennigGDR
Double Sculls, Men Soviet UnionURS NorwayNOR East GermanyGDR
Coxless Pairs, Men East GermanyGDR SwitzerlandSUI NetherlandsNED
Coxed Pairs, Men East GermanyGDR CzechoslovakiaTCH RomaniaROU
Coxless Fours, Men East GermanyGDR New ZealandNZL West GermanyFRG
Coxed Fours, Men West GermanyFRG East GermanyGDR CzechoslovakiaTCH
Eights, Men New ZealandNZL United StatesUSA East GermanyGDR

Sailing

One Person Dinghy, Open Serge MauryFRA Ilias ChatzipavlisGRE Viktor PotapovURS
Two Person Keelboat, Open AustraliaAUS SwedenSWE West GermanyFRG
Two Person Keelboat, Open Soviet UnionURS Great BritainGBR United StatesUSA
Three Person Keelboat, Open AustraliaAUS East GermanyGDR United StatesUSA
Three Person Keelboat, Open United StatesUSA SwedenSWE CanadaCAN
Two Person Heavyweight Dinghy, Open Great BritainGBR FranceFRA West GermanyFRG

Shooting

Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 metres, Open Józef ZapędzkiPOL Ladislav FaltaTCH Viktor TorshinURS
Free Pistol, 50 metres, Open Ragnar SkanåkerSWE Dan IugaROU Rudolf DollingerAUT
Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Open Lones WiggerUSA Boris MelnikURS Lajos PappHUN
Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, Open John WriterUSA Lanny BasshamUSA Werner LippoldtGDR
Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, Open Li Ho-JunPRK Vic AuerUSA Nicolae RotaruROU
Running Target, 50 metres, Open Yakov ZheleznyakURS Helmut BellingrodtCOL John KynochGBR
Trap, Open Angelo ScalzoneITA Michel CarregaFRA Silvano BasagniITA
Skeet, Open Konrad WirnhierFRG Yevgeny PetrovURS Michael BuchheimGDR

Swimming

100 metres Freestyle, Men Mark SpitzUSA Jerry HeidenreichUSA Vladimir BureURS
200 metres Freestyle, Men Mark SpitzUSA Steve GenterUSA Werner LampeFRG
400 metres Freestyle, Men Brad CooperAUS Steve GenterUSA Tom McBreenUSA
1,500 metres Freestyle, Men Mike BurtonUSA Graham WindeattAUS Doug NorthwayUSA
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Men United StatesUSA Soviet UnionURS East GermanyGDR
4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay, Men United StatesUSA West GermanyFRG Soviet UnionURS
100 metres Backstroke, Men Roland MatthesGDR Mike StammUSA John MurphyUSA
200 metres Backstroke, Men Roland MatthesGDR Mike StammUSA Mitch IveyUSA
100 metres Breaststroke, Men Nobutaka TaguchiJPN Tom BruceUSA John HenckenUSA
200 metres Breaststroke, Men John HenckenUSA David WilkieGBR Nobutaka TaguchiJPN
100 metres Butterfly, Men Mark SpitzUSA Bruce RobertsonCAN Jerry HeidenreichUSA
200 metres Butterfly, Men Mark SpitzUSA Gary HallUSA Robin BackhausUSA
200 metres Individual Medley, Men Gunnar LarssonSWE Tim McKeeUSA Steve FurnissUSA
400 metres Individual Medley, Men Gunnar LarssonSWE Tim McKeeUSA András HargitayHUN
4 × 100 metres Medley Relay, Men United StatesUSA East GermanyGDR CanadaCAN
100 metres Freestyle, Women Sandy NeilsonUSA Shirley BabashoffUSA Shane GouldAUS
200 metres Freestyle, Women Shane GouldAUS Shirley BabashoffUSA Keena RothhammerUSA
400 metres Freestyle, Women Shane GouldAUS Novella CalligarisITA Gudrun WegnerGDR
800 metres Freestyle, Women Keena RothhammerUSA Shane GouldAUS Novella CalligarisITA
4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women United StatesUSA East GermanyGDR West GermanyFRG
100 metres Backstroke, Women Melissa BeloteUSA Andrea GyarmatiHUN Susie AtwoodUSA
200 metres Backstroke, Women Melissa BeloteUSA Susie AtwoodUSA Donna-Marie GurrCAN
100 metres Breaststroke, Women Cathy CarrUSA Galina StepanovaURS Beverley WhitfieldAUS
200 metres Breaststroke, Women Beverley WhitfieldAUS Dana SchoenfieldUSA Galina StepanovaURS
100 metres Butterfly, Women Mayumi AokiJPN Roswitha BeierGDR Andrea GyarmatiHUN
200 metres Butterfly, Women Karen MoeUSA Lynn ColellaUSA Ellie DanielUSA
200 metres Individual Medley, Women Shane GouldAUS Kornelia EnderGDR Lynn VidaliUSA
400 metres Individual Medley, Women Gail NeallAUS Leslie CliffCAN Novella CalligarisITA
4 × 100 metres Medley Relay, Women United StatesUSA East GermanyGDR West GermanyFRG

Volleyball

Volleyball, Men JapanJPN East GermanyGDR Soviet UnionURS
Volleyball, Women Soviet UnionURS JapanJPN Democratic People's Republic of KoreaPRK

Water Polo

Water Polo, Men Soviet UnionURS HungaryHUN United StatesUSA

Weightlifting

Flyweight, Men Zygmunt SmalcerzPOL Lajos SzűcsHUN Sándor HolczreiterHUN
Bantamweight, Men Imre FöldiHUN Mohammad NassiriIRI Gennady ChetinURS
Featherweight, Men Norayr NurikyanBUL Dito ShanidzeURS János BenedekHUN
Lightweight, Men Mukharby KirzhinovURS Mladen KuchevBUL Zbigniew KaczmarekPOL
Middleweight, Men Yordan BikovBUL Mohamed Kheir TarabulsiLBN Anselmo SilvinoITA
Light-Heavyweight, Men Leif JensenNOR Norbert OzimekPOL György HorváthHUN
Middle-Heavyweight, Men Andon NikolovBUL Atanas ShopovBUL Hans BettembourgSWE
Heavyweight, Men Jaan TaltsURS Aleksandar KraychevBUL Stefan GrütznerGDR
Super-Heavyweight, Men Vasily AlekseyevURS Rudolf MangFRG Gerd BonkGDR

Wrestling

Light-Flyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Gheorghe BerceanuROU Rahim AliabadiIRI Stefan AngelovBUL
Flyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Petar KirovBUL Koichiro HirayamaJPN Giuseppe BognanniITA
Bantamweight, Greco-Roman, Men Rustem KazakovURS Hans-Jürgen VeilFRG Risto BjörlinFIN
Featherweight, Greco-Roman, Men Georgi MarkovBUL Heinz-Helmut WehlingGDR Kazimierz LipieńPOL
Lightweight, Greco-Roman, Men Shamil KhisamutdinovURS Stoyan ApostolovBUL Gian Matteo RanziITA
Welterweight, Greco-Roman, Men Vítězslav MáchaTCH Petros GalaktopoulosGRE Jan KarlssonSWE
Middleweight, Greco-Roman, Men Csaba HegedűsHUN Anatoly NazarenkoURS Milan NenadićYUG
Light-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Valery RezantsevURS Josip ČorakYUG Czesław KwiecińskiPOL
Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Nicolae MartinescuROU Nikolay YakovenkoURS Ferenc KissHUN
Super-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman, Men Anatoly RoshchinURS Aleksandar TomovBUL Victor DolipschiROU
Light-Flyweight, Freestyle, Men Roman DmitriyevURS Ognyan NikolovBUL Ibrahim JavadiIRI
Flyweight, Freestyle, Men Kiyomi KatoJPN Arsen AlakhverdiyevURS Kim Gwong-HyongPRK
Bantamweight, Freestyle, Men Hideaki YanagidaJPN Rich SandersUSA László KlingaHUN
Featherweight, Freestyle, Men Zagalav AbdulbekovURS Vehbi AkdağTUR Ivan KrastevBUL
Lightweight, Freestyle, Men Dan GableUSA Kikuo WadaJPN Ruslan AshuraliyevURS
Welterweight, Freestyle, Men Wayne WellsUSA Jan KarlssonSWE Adolf SegerFRG
Middleweight, Freestyle, Men Levan TediashviliURS John PetersonUSA Vasile IorgaROU
Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men Ben PetersonUSA Gennady StrakhovURS Károly BajkóHUN
Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men Ivan YaryginURS Khorloogiin BayanmönkhMGL József CsatáriHUN
Super-Heavyweight, Freestyle, Men Aliaksandr MiadvedURS Osman DuralievBUL Chris TaylorUSA