Athletics at the 1972 Olympics | |||||
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 | Christiane Krause | |||
Ingrid Mickler | |||||
Heidemarie Rosendahl | |||||
Annegret Richter | |||||
4x100 m M | USA | Eddie Hart | |||
Robert Taylor | |||||
Gerald Tinker | |||||
Larry Black | |||||
4x400 m W | GDR | Rita Kühne | |||
Helga Seidler | |||||
Dagmar Käsling | |||||
Monika Zehrt | |||||
4x400 m M | KEN | Hezakiah Nyamau | |||
Julius Sang | |||||
Robert Ouko | |||||
Charles Asati | |||||
These facts about olympic Athletics and the Munich 1972 Athletics events are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||