Swimming at the 1972 Olympics |  |
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Events |
Olympic Champions |
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| 100 m freestyle W |  | USA | Sandra Neilson | ||
| 100 m freestyle M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| 200 m freestyle W |  | AUS | Shane Gould | ||
| 200 m freestyle M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| 400 m freestyle W | | AUS | Shane Gould | ||
| 400 m freestyle M | | AUS | Bradford Cooper | ||
| 800 m freestyle W | | USA | Keena Rothhammer | ||
| 1500 m freestyle M | | USA | Michael Burton | ||
| 4x100 m freestyle W | | USA | Ann Marshall | ||
| Shirley Babashoff | |||||
| Lynn Skrifvars | |||||
| Jane Barkman | |||||
| Sandra Neilson | |||||
| Kim Peyton | |||||
| Jennifer Kemp | |||||
| 4x100 m freestyle M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| Gary Conelly | |||||
| David Edgar | |||||
| Jerry Heidenreich | |||||
| David Fairbank | |||||
| John Murphy | |||||
| 4x200 m freestyle M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| John Kinsella | |||||
| Tom McBreen | |||||
| Steven Genter | |||||
| Gary Conelly | |||||
| Michael Burton | |||||
| Frederick Tyler | |||||
| 200 m medley W | | AUS | Shane Gould | ||
| 200 m medley M |  | SWE | Gunnar Larsson | ||
| 400 m medley W | | AUS | Gail Neall | ||
| 400 m medley M | | SWE | Gunnar Larsson | ||
| 4x100 m medley W | | USA | Deena Dearduff | ||
| Catherine Carr | |||||
| Sandra Neilson | |||||
| Shirley Babashoff | |||||
| Dana Shrader | |||||
| Judith Melick | |||||
| Susan Atwood | |||||
| Melissa Belote | |||||
| 4x100 m medley M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| David Fairbank | |||||
| John Hencken | |||||
| Mitchel Ivey | |||||
| Jerry Heidenreich | |||||
| Gary Hall | |||||
| Thomas Bruce | |||||
| Michael Stamm | |||||
| 100 m backstroke W | | USA | Melissa Belote | ||
| 100 m backstroke M |  | GDR | Roland Matthes | ||
| 200 m backstroke W | | USA | Melissa Belote | ||
| 200 m backstroke M | | GDR | Roland Matthes | ||
| 100 m breaststroke W | | USA | Catherine Carr | ||
| 100 m breaststroke M |  | JPN | Nobutaka Taguchi | ||
| 200 m breaststroke W | | AUS | Beverley Whitfield | ||
| 200 m breaststroke M | | USA | John Hencken | ||
| 100 m butterfly W | | JPN | Mayumi Aoki | ||
| 100 m butterfly M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| 200 m butterfly W | | USA | Karen Moe | ||
| 200 m butterfly M | | USA | Mark Spitz | ||
| These facts about olympic Swimming and the Munich 1972 Swimming events are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
