Athletics at the 1972 Olympics | ![]() |
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Events |
Olympic Champions |
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100 m W | ![]() | GDR | Renate Stecher | ||
100 m M | ![]() | URS | Valery Borzov | ||
200 m W | ![]() | GDR | Renate Stecher | ||
200 m M | ![]() | URS | Valery Borzov | ||
400 m W | ![]() | GDR | Monika Zehrt | ||
400 m M | ![]() | USA | Vincent Matthews | ||
800 m W | ![]() | FRG | Hildegard Falck | ||
800 m M | ![]() | USA | David Wottle | ||
1500 m W | ![]() | URS | Lyudmila Bragina | ||
1500 m M | ![]() | FIN | Pekka Vasala | ||
5000 m M | ![]() | FIN | Lasse Viren | ||
10000 m M | ![]() | FIN | Lasse Viren | ||
Marathon M | ![]() | USA | Frank Shorter | ||
100 m hurdles W | ![]() | GDR | Annelie Ehrhardt | ||
110 m hurdles M | ![]() | USA | Rodney Milburn | ||
400 m hurdles M | ![]() | UGA | John Akii-Bua | ||
3000 m steeplechase M | ![]() | KEN | Kipchoge Keino | ||
20 km walk M | ![]() | GDR | Peter Frenkel | ||
50 km walk M | ![]() | FRG | Bernd Kannenberg | ||
High jump W | ![]() | FRG | Ulrike Meyfarth | ||
High jump M | ![]() | URS | Juri Tarmak | ||
Long jump W | ![]() | FRG | Heidemarie Rosendahl | ||
Long jump M | ![]() | USA | Randy Williams | ||
Triple jump M | ![]() | URS | Viktor Saneyev | ||
Pole vault M | ![]() | GDR | Wolfgang Nordwig | ||
Javelin throw W | ![]() | GDR | Ruth Fuchs | ||
Javelin throw M | ![]() | FRG | Klaus Wolfermann | ||
Discus throw W | ![]() | URS | Faina Melnik | ||
Discus throw M | ![]() | TCH | Ludvik Danek | ||
Hammer throw M | ![]() | URS | Anatoly Bondarchuk | ||
Shot put W | ![]() | URS | Nadezhda Chizhova | ||
Shot put M | ![]() | POL | Wladyslaw Komar | ||
Pentathlon W | ![]() | GBR | Mary Peters | ||
Decathlon M | ![]() | URS | Nikolai Avilov | ||
4x100 m W | ![]() | FRG | Heidemarie Rosendahl | ||
Annegret Richter | |||||
Christiane Krause | |||||
Ingrid Mickler | |||||
4x100 m M | ![]() | USA | Gerald Tinker | ||
Larry Black | |||||
Eddie Hart | |||||
Robert Taylor | |||||
4x400 m W | ![]() | GDR | Dagmar Käsling | ||
Monika Zehrt | |||||
Rita Kühne | |||||
Helga Seidler | |||||
4x400 m M | ![]() | KEN | Robert Ouko | ||
Charles Asati | |||||
Hezakiah Nyamau | |||||
Julius Sang | |||||
These facts about olympic Athletics and the Munich 1972 Athletics events are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||