Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, 38 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 14 for women. There were a total number of 1324 participating athletes from 104 countries.

Men's events

100 metres
10.14 10.24 10.33
200 metres
20.00 20.19 20.30
400 metres
44.66 44.80 44.92
800 metres
1:45.86 1:45.89 1:46.01
1500 metres
3:36.33 3:36.81 3:37.46
5000 metres
13:26.42
(OR)
13:27.33 13:27.61
10,000 metres
27:38.35
(WR)
27:39.58 27:40.96
110 metres hurdles
13.24
(WR)
13.34 13.48
400 metres hurdles
47.82
(WR)
48.51 48.52
3000 metres steeplechase
8:23.64
(OR)
8:24.62 8:24.66
4×100 metres relay

Larry Black
Larry Black
Larry Jeffery Black was an American athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay and silver medal in the 200 m at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich....


Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (athlete)
Robert Taylor was a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the father of NFL player Bobby Taylor....


Gerald Tinker
Gerald Tinker
Gerald Alexander Tinker is a former track athlete and American football player, winner of gold medal in th 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics.-Early years:...


Eddie Hart 
38.19
(WR)

Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Aleksandr Olegovich Kornelyuk was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow.Kornelyuk began athletics in 1963 and became a member of the USSR National Team in 1970...


Vladimir Lovetskiy
Yuris Silovs
Valeriy Borzov 
38.50
Jobst Hirscht
Jobst Hirscht
Jobst Hirscht is a German former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Born in Schleswig, he competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Karlheinz Klotz, Gerhard Wucherer and...


Karlheinz Klotz
Karlheinz Klotz
Karlheinz Klotz was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Jobst Hirscht, Gerhard Wucherer and Klaus Ehl.-References:...


Gerhard Wucherer
Gerhard Wucherer
Gerhard Wucherer is a German former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Jobst Hirscht, Karlheinz Klotz and Klaus Ehl.-References:...


Klaus Ehl
Klaus Ehl
Klaus Ehl is a German former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.Born in Paderborn, he competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Jobst Hirscht, Karlheinz Klotz and Gerhard...

 
38.79
4×400 metres relay

Charles Asati
Charles Asati
Charles Asati is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics.At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Charles Asati reached to the quarterfinal of 200 m and was a member of Kenyan 4x400 m relay team, which won the surprise silver medal, with a time of 2:59.6.At...


Munyoro Nyamau
Robert Ouko
Robert Ouko (athlete)
Robert Ouko is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics.Robert Ouko won two golds at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, first in 800 m and then as a member of the Kenyan 4x400 m relay team...


Julius Sang
Julius Sang
Julius Sang was a Kenyan runner. Along with teammates Robert Ouko, Charles Asati and Munyoro Nyamau he won the 4 x 400 relay race at the 1972 Summer Olympics for Kenya...

 
2:59.83
Martin Reynolds
Martin Reynolds
Martin Reynolds is a former British athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres. He had to switch to the 400 metres in the Olympic year which was also the year of his final exams at university...


Alan Pascoe
Alan Pascoe
Alan Peter Pascoe, MBE was a British athlete who gained success in hurdles. After his athletics career, he has been successful in events marketing and consulting.-Early life and education:...


David Hemery
David Hemery
David Peter Hemery, CBE, is a British former athlete, winner of the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics.He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but his father's work took the family to the United States, where he attended school and graduated from Boston University.Hemery's first...


David Jenkins
David Jenkins (athlete)
David Wilkinson Jenkins , is an American figure skater. He won the men's gold medal for figure skating during the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley...

 
3:00.46
Gilles Bertould
Gilles Bertould
Gilles Bertould is a French former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a France in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Daniel Velasques, Francis Kerbiriou, and Jacques Carette.He is...


Daniel Velasques
Daniel Velasques
Daniel Velasques was a French athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for France in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Gilles Bertould, Francis Kerbiriou and Jacques Carette.-References:...


Francis Kerbiriou
Francis Kerbiriou
Francis Kerbiriou is a former athlete from France who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a France in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Gilles Bertould, Daniel Velasques and Jacques...


Jacques Carette
Jacques Carette
Jacques Carette is a former athlete from France who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a France in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Gilles Bertould, Daniel Velasques, and Francis...

 
3:00.65
Marathon
2:12:19.8 2:14:31.8 2:15:08.4
20 kilometres walk
1:26:42.4
(OR)
1:26:55.2 1:27:16.6
50 kilometres walk
3:56:11.6 3:58:24.0 4:00:46.0
Long jump
8.24 m 8.18 m 8.03 m
Triple jump
17.35 m 17.30 m 17.05 m
High jump
2.23 m 2.21 m 2.21 m
Pole vault
5.50 m
(OR)
5.40 m 5.35 m
Shot put
21.18 m
(OR)
21.17 m 21.14 m
Discus throw
64.40 m 63.50 m 63.40 m
Javelin throw
90.48 m
(OR)
90.46 m 84.42 m
Hammer throw
75.50 m
(OR)
74.96 m 74.04 m
Decathlon
8454 pts
(WR)
8035 pts 7984 pts

Women's events

100 metres
11.07
(WR)
11.23 11.24
200 metres
22.40
(=WR)
22.45 22.74
400 metres
51.08 51.21 51.64
800 metres
1:58.55
(OR)
1:58.65 1:59.19
1500 metres
4:01.38
(WR)
4:02.83 4:02.85
100 metres hurdles
12.59
(WR)
12.84 12.90
4×100 metres relay

Christiane Krause
Christiane Krause
Christiane Krause is a German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Ingrid Becker, Annegret Richter and Heide Rosendahl.-References:...


Ingrid Becker
Ingrid Becker
Ingrid Mickler-Becker is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists....


Annegret Richter
Annegret Richter
Annegret Richter is a German athlete and the 1976 Olympic 100 m champion....


Heide Rosendahl
Heide Rosendahl
Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump...

 
42.81
Evelyn Kaufer
Evelyn Kaufer
Evelyn Schmuck, née Kaufer is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres....


Christina Heinich
Christina Heinich
Christina Schiffner, née Heinich is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich she finished fifth in the 200 metres and won a gold medal in the 4x100 metres relay with her teammates Evelyn Kaufer, Bärbel Struppert and Renate Stecher.She...


Bärbel Struppert
Barbel Struppert
Bärbel Struppert, née Schrickel is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.She became European junior champion in 4 x 100 metres relay in 1966...


Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher
Renate Stecher is a German athlete and a triple Olympic champion.Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon...

 
42.95
Marlene Elejarde
Marlene Elejarde
Marlene Elejalde Díaz was a retired sprinter from Cuba. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, the first Olympic medal ever won by Cuban women. At the 1972 Summer Olympics she won another relay medal, this time a bronze. She died in a car accident in...


Carmen Valdés
Carmen Valdés
Carmen Valdés is a retired sprinter from Cuba, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Munich 1972.-References:...


Fulgencia Romay
Fulgencia Romay
Fulgencia Romay is a retired sprinter from Cuba. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, the first Olympic medal ever won by Cuban women. At the 1972 Summer Olympics she won another relay medal, this time a bronze. She also won a silver medal in 200...


Silvia Chibás
Silvia Chibás
Silvia Chivás is a former track and field athlete from Cuba.At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich she won the bronze medal in 100 metres, behind German Renate Stecher and Australian Raelene Boyle...

 
43.36
4×400 metres relay

Dagmar Käsling
Dagmar Käsling
Dagmar Käsling is a former East German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Rita Kühne, Helga Seidler and Monika Zehrt.Käsling married...


Rita Kühne
Rita Kühne
Rita Kuhne is a former East German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Dagmar Käsling, Helga Seidler and 400m gold medalist Monika...


Helga Seidler
Helga Seidler
Helga Seidler is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event....


Monika Zehrt
Monika Zehrt
Monika Zehrt is a former sprint athlete, who competed for East Germany.She won two gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in 400 m and 4x400 m relay....

 
3:22.95
Mable Fergerson
Mable Fergerson
Mable Ferguson is an American athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.She competed for the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany she won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres where with her team mates Madeline Manning, Cheryl Toussaint and Kathy...


Madeline Manning
Madeline Manning
Madeline Manning Mims is a former American athlete.She is a graduate of Tennessee State University and a famed member of their TigerBelles....


Cheryl Toussaint
Cheryl Toussaint
Cheryl Toussaint is an American athlete who mainly competed in the 800 metres.She grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where she attended Erasmus Hall High School, setting the indoor record in the 600-yard run in 1970, the same year she graduated from high school...


Kathy Hammond
Kathy Hammond
Kathy Hammond is an American athlete who mainly competed in the 400 meters.She competed for the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany where she won the bronze medal in the women's 400 meters...

 
3:25.15
Anette Rückes
Anette Rückes
Anette Rückes is a German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the bronze medal with her teammates Inge Bödding, Hildegard Falck and Rita Wilden.-References:...


Inge Bödding
Inge Bödding
Inge Bödding, née Eckhoff is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400 metres with her teammates Anette Rückes, Hildegard Falck and Rita...


Hildegard Falck
Hildegard Falck
Hildegard Falck, née Janze is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres.She competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich in the 800 m she won the gold medal...


Rita Wilden
Rita Wilden
Rita Wilden, née Jahn is a German athlete, who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich in the 400 metres where she won the silver medal...

3:26.51
Long jump
6.78 m 6.77 m 6.67 m
High jump
1.92 m
(=WR)
1.88 m 1.85 m
Shot put
21.03 m
(WR)
20.22 m 19.35 m
Discus throw
66.62 m
(OR)
65.06 m 64.34 m
Javelin throw
63.88 m
(OR)
62.54 m 59.94 m
Pentathlon
4801 pts
(WR)
4791 pts 4768 pts

Medal table

1 9 7 1 17
2 8 7 5 20
3 6 8 8 22
4 6 3 2 11
5 3 0 1 4
6 2 2 2 6
7 1 1 2 4
8 1 0 2 3
9 1 0 1 2
10 1 0 0 1
11 0 2 2 4
12 0 2 0 2
0 2 0 2
0 2 0 2
15 0 1 1 2
16 0 1 0 1
17 0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
0 0 2 2
20 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
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