The Sports Almanac


1972 Summer Olympics
Munich, West Germany

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION -  99 Medals
UNITED STATES -  94 Medals
EAST GERMANY -  64 Medals

Athletics
 Swimming Diving Water Polo
Archery Basketball Boxing Canoeing
Cycling Equestrian Fencing Soccer
Gymnastics Handball Field Hockey Judo
Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting
Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling

1972 Munich Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union
 50
 27
 22
 99
2
 United States
 33
 31
 30
 94
3
 East Germany
 19
 22
 23
 64
4
 West Germany
 13
 11
 16
 40
5
 Hungary
 6
 13
 16
 35
6
 Japan
 13
 8
 8
 29
7
 Poland
 7
 5
 9
 21
8
 Bulgaria
 6
 10
 5
 21
9
 Italy
 5
 3
 10
 18
10
 Great Britain
 4
 5
 9
 18
11
 Australia
 8
 7
 2
 17
12
 Sweden
 4
 6
 6
 16
13
 Romania
 3
 6
 7
 16
14
 France
 2
 4
 7
 13
15
 Kenya
 2
 3
 4
 9
16
 Cuba
 3
 1
 4
 8
17
 Finland
 3
 1
 4
 8
18
 Czechoslovakia
 2
 4
 2
 8
19
 Netherlands
 3
 1
 1
 5
20
 Yugoslavia
 2
 1
 2
 5
21
 North Korea
 1
 1
 3
 5
22
 Canada
 0
 2
 3
 5
23
 Norway
 2
 1
 1
 4
24
 New Zealand
 1
 1
 1
 3
25
 Switzerland
 0
 3
 0
 3
26
 Iran
 0
 2
 1
 3
27
 Austria
 0
 1
 2
 3
28
 Colombia
 0
 1
 2
 3
29
 Uganda
 1
 1
 0
 2
30
 Belgium
 0
 2
 0
 2
31
 Greece
 0
 2
 0
 2
32
 Brazil
 0
 0
 2
 2
33
 Ethiopia
 0
 0
 2
 2
34
 Denmark
 1
 0
 0
 1
35
 Argentina
 0
 1
 0
 1
36
 Lebanon
 0
 1
 0
 1
37
 Mexico
 0
 1
 0
 1
38
 Mongolia
 0
 1
 0
 1
39
 Pakistan
 0
 1
 0
 1
40
 South Korea
 0
 1
 0
 1
41
 Tunisia
 0
 1
 0
 1
42
 Turkey
 0
 1
 0
 1
43
 Ghana
 0
 0
 1
 1
44
 India
 0
 0
 1
 1
45
 Jamaica
 0
 0
 1
 1
46
 Niger
 0
 0
 1
 1
47
 Nigeria
 0
 0
 1
 1
48
 Spain
 0
 0
 1
 1

1972 Munich Athletics
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 100 Meters
 Valeiry Borzov - Soviet Union
 Robert Taylor - United States
 Lennox Miller - Jamaica
Women's 100 Meters
 Renate Stecher - East Germany
 Raelene Boyle - Australia
 Silvia Chibás - Cuba
Men's 200 Meters
 Valeiry Borzov - Soviet Union Larry Black - United States
 Pietro Mennea - Italy
Women's 200 Meters
 Renate Stecher - East Germany Raelene Boyle - Australia Irena Szewińska - Poland
Men's 400 Meters
 Vincent Matthews - United States
 Wayne Collett - United States
 Julius Sang - Kenya
Women's 400 Meters
 Monika Zehrt - East Germany
 Rita Wilden - West Germany
 Kathy Hammond - United States
Men's 800 Meters
 Dave Wottle - United States
 Yevhen Arzhanov - Soviet Union
 Mike Boit - Kenya
Women's 800 Meters
 Hildegard Falck - West Germany
 Nijolė Sabaitė - Soviet Union
 Gunhild Hoffmeister - East Germany
Men's 1500 Meters
 Pekka Vasala - Finland
 Kipchoge Keino - Kenya
 Rod Dixon - New Zealand
Women's 1500 Meters
 Ludmila Bragina - Soviet Union
 Gunhild Hoffmeister - East Germany Paola Pigni - Italy
Men's 5000 Meters
 Lasse Virén - Finland
 Mohammad Gammoudi - Tunisia
 Ian Stewart - Great Britain
Men's 10000 Meters
 Lasse Virén - Finland Emiel Puttemans - Belgium
 Miruts Yifter - Ethiopia
Men's 110 Meter Hurdles
 Rod Milburn - United States
 Guy Drut - France
 Thomas Hill - United States
Women's 100 Meter Hurdles
 Annelie Ehrhardt - East Germany
 Valeria Bufanu - Romania
 Karin Balzer - East Germany
Men's 400 Meter Hurdles
 John Akii-Bua - Uganda
 Ralph Mann - United States
 David Hemery - Great Britain
Men's 3000 Meter Steeplechase
 Kipchoge Keino - Kenya Be Jipcho - Kenya
 Tapio Kantanen - Finland
Men's 4X100 Meter Relay
 United States
 Soviet Union
 West Germany
Women's 4X100 Meter Relay
 West Germany
 East Germany
 Cuba
Men's 4X400 Meter Relay
 Kenya
 Great Britain
 France
Women's 4X400 Meter Relay
 East Germany
 United States
 West Germany
Men's Marathon
 Frank Shorter - United States
 Karel Lismont - Belgium
 Mamo Wolde - Ethiopia
Men's 20KM Walk
 Peter Frenkel - East Germany
 Volodymyr Holubnychy - Soviet Union
 Hans-Georg Reimann - East Germany
Men's 50KM Walk
 Bernd Kannenberg - West Germany
 Veniamin Soldatenko - Soviet Union
 Larry Young - United States
Men's Long Jump
 Randy Williams - United States
 Hans Baumgartner - West Germany
 Arnie Robinson - United States
Women's Long Jump
 Heide Rosendahl - West Germany
 Diana Yorgova - Bulgaria
 Eva Šuranová - Czechoslovakia
Men's Triple Jump
 Viktor Saneyev - Soviet Union
 Jörg Drehmel - East Germany
 Nelson Prudêncio - Brazil
Men's High Jump
 Jüri Tarmak - Soviet Union
 Stefan Junge - East Germany
 Dwight Stones - United States
Women's High Jump
 Ulrike Meyfarth - West Germany
 Yordanka Blagoeva - Bulgaria
 Ilona Gusenbauer - Austria
Men's Pole Vault
 Wolfgang Nordwig - East Germany
 Robert Seagren - United States
 Jan Johnson - United States
Men's Shot Put
 Władysław Komar - Poland
 George Woods - United States
 Hartmut Briesenick - East Germany
Women's Shot Put
 Nadzhda Chizhova - Soviet Union
 Margitta Gummel - East Germany
 Ivanka Khristova - Bulgaria
Men's Discus
 Ludvík Danĕk - Czechoslovakia
 Jay Silvester - United States
 Ricky Bruch - Sweden
Women's Discus
 Faina Melnik - Soviet Union
 Argentina Menis - Romania
 Vasilka Stoeva - Bulgaria
Men's Javelin
 Klaus Wolfermann - West Germany
 Jānis Lūsis - Soviet Union
 Bill Schmidt - United States
Women's Javelin
 Ruth Fuchs - East Germany
 Jacqueline Todten - East Germany
 Kate Schmidt - United States
Men's Hammer Throw
 Anatoliy Bondarchuk - Soviet Union
 Jochen Sachse - East Germany
 Vasili Khmelevski - Soviet Union
Decathlon
 Mykola Avilov - Soviet Union
 Leonid Lytvynenko - Soviet Union
 Ryszard Katus - Poland
Pentathlon
 Mary Peters - Great Britain
 Heide Rosendahl - West Germany Burglinde Pollak - East Germany

1972 Munich Swimming
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 100 Meter Freestyle
 Mark Spitz - United States
 Jerry Heidenreich - United States
 Vladimir Bure - Soviet Union
Women's 100 Meter Freestyle
 Sandy Neilson - United States
 Shirley Babashoff - United States
 Shane Gould - Australia
Men's 200 Meter Freestyle
 Mark Spitz - United States Steve Genter - United States
 Werner Lampe - West Germany
Women's 200 Meter Freestyle
 Shane Gould - Australia Shirley Babashoff - United States Keena Rothhammer - United States
Men's 400 Meter Freestyle
 Brad Cooper - Australia
 Steve Genter - United States Tom McBreen - United States
Women's 400 Meter Freestyle
 Shane Gould - Australia Novella Calligaris - Italy
 Gudrun Wegner - East Germany
Women's 800 Meter Freestyle
 Keena Rothhammer - United States Shane Gould - Australia Novella Calligaris - Italy
Men's 1500 Meter Freestyle
 Mike Burton - United States
 Graham Windeatt - Australia
 Doug Northway - United States
Men's 100 Meter Backstroke
 Roland Matthes - East Germany
 Mike Stamm - United States
 John Murphy - United States
Women's 100 Meter Backstroke
 Melissa Belote - United States
 Andrea Gyarmati - Hungary
 Susie Atwood - United States
Men's 200 Meter Backstroke
 Roland Matthes - East Germany Mike Stamm - United States Mitch Ivey - United States
Women's 200 Meter Backstroke
 Melissa Belote - United States Susie Atwood - United States Donna Gurr - Canada
Men's 100 Meter Breaststroke
 Nobutaka Taguchi - Japan
 Tom Bruce - United States
 John Hencken - United States
Women's 100 Meter Breaststroke
 Cathy Carr - United States
 Galina Prozumenshchikova - Soviet Union
 Beverley Whitfield - Australia
Men's 200 Meter Breaststroke
 John Hencken - United States David Wilkie - Great Britain
 Nobutaka Taguchi - Japan
Women's 200 Meter Breaststroke
 Beverley Whitfield - Australia Dana Schoenfield - United States
 Galina Prozumenshchikova - Soviet Union
Men's 100 Meter Butterfly
 Mark Spitz - United States Bruce Robertson - Canada
 Jerry Heidenreich - United States
Women's 100 Meter Butterfly
 Mayumi Aoki - Japan
 Roswitha Beier - East Germany
 Andrea Gyarmati - Hungary
Men's 200 Meter Butterfly
 Mark Spitz - United States Gary Hall, Sr. - United States
 Robin Backhaus - United States
Women's 200 Meter Butterfly
 Karen Moe - United States
 Lynn Colella - United States
 Ellie Daniel - United States
Men's 200 Meter Individual Medley
 Gunnar Larsson - Sweden
 Tim McKee - United States
 Steve Furniss - United States
Women's 200 Meter Individual Medley
 Shane Gould - Australia Kornelia Ender - East Germany
 Lynn Vidali - United States
Men's 400 Meter Individual Medley
 Gunnar Larsson - Sweden Tim McKee - United States András Hargitay - Hungary
Women's 400 Meter Individual Medley
 Gail Neall - Australia
 Leslie Cliff - Canada
 Novella Calligaris - Italy
Men's 4X100 Meter Freestyle Relay
 United States
 Soviet Union
 East Germany
Women's 4X100 Meter Freestyle Relay
 United States
 East Germany
 West Germany
Men's 4X200 Meter Freestyle Relay
 United States
 West Germany
 Soviet Union
Men's 4X100 Medley Relay
 United States
 East Germany
 Canada
Women's 4X100 Medley  Relay
 United States East Germany West Germany

1972 Munich Diving
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 3 Meter Springboard
 Vladimir Vasin - Soviet Union
 Giorgio Cagnotto - Italy
 Craig Lincoln - United States
Women's 3 Meter Springboard
 Micki King - United States
 Ulrike Knape - Sweden
 Marina Janicke - East Germany
Men's 10 Meter Platform
 Klaus Dibiasi - Italy
 Richard Rydze - United States
 Giorgio Cagnotto - Italy
Women's 10 Meter Platform
 Ulrike Knape - Sweden Milena Duchková - Czechoslovakia
 Marina Janicke - East Germany

1972 Munich Water Polo
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Soviet Union
 Hungary
 United States

1972 Munich Archery
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Individual
 John Williams - United States
 Gunnar Jervill - Sweden
 Kyösti Laasonen - Finland
Women's Individual
 Doreen Wilber - United States
 Irena Szydłowska - Poland
 Emma Gapchenko - Soviet Union

1972 Munich Basketball
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Soviet Union
 United States
 Cuba

1972 Munich Boxing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Light Flyweight
 György Gedó - Hungary
 Kim U-gil - North Korea
 Ralph Evans - Great Britain
Enrique Rodríguez - Spain
Flyweight
 Georgi Kostadinov - Bulgaria
 Leo Rwabwogo - Uganda
 Leszek Blazynski - Poland
Douglas Rodríguez - Cuba
Bantamweight
 Orlando Martínez - Cuba
 Alfonso Zamora - Mexico
 Ricardo Carreras - United States
George Turpin - Great Britain
Featherweight
 Boris Kuznetsov - Soviet Union
 Philip Waruinge - Kenya
 András Botos - Hungary
Clemente Rojas - Colombia
Lightweight
 Jan Szczepański - Poland
 László Orbán - Hungary
 Samuel Mbugua - Kenya
Alfonso Pérez - Colombia
Light Welterweight
 Ray Seales - United States
 Angel Angelov - Bulgaria
 Issaka Daborg - Niger
Zvonimir Vujin - Yugoslavia
Welterweight
 Emilio Correa - Cuba
 János Kajdi - Hungary
 Dick Murunga - Kenya
Jesse Valdez - United States
Light Middleweight
 Dieter Kottysch - West Germany
 Wiesław Rudkowski - Poland
 Alan Minter - Great Britain
Peter Tiepold - East Germany
Middleweight
 Vyacheslav Lemeshev - Soviet Union
 Reima Virtanen - Finland
 Prince Amartey - Ghana
Marvin Johnson - United States
Light Heavyweight
 Mate Parlov - Yugoslavia
 Gilberto Carrillo - Cuba
 Janusz Gortat - Poland
Isaac Ikhouria - Nigeria
Heavyweight
 Teófilo Stevenson - Cuba
 Ion Alexe - Romania
 Peter Hussing - West Germany
Hasse Thomsén - Sweden

1972 Munich Canoeing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
SLALOM
Men's C-1
 Reinhard Eiben - East Germany
 Reinhold Kauder - West Germany
 Jamie McEwan - United States
Men's C-2
 Walter Hofmann, Rolf-Dieter Amend - East Germany
 Hans-Otto Schumacher, Wilhelm Baues - West Germany
 Jean-Louis Olry, Jean-Claude Olry - France
Men's K-1
 Siegbert Horn - East Germany
 Norbert Sattler - Austria
 Harald Gimpel - East Germany
Women's K-1
 Angelika Bahmann - East Germany
 Gisela Grothaus - West Germany
 Magdalena Wunderlich - West Germany
SPRINT
Men's C-1 1000 Meters
 Ivan Patzaichin - Romania
 Tamás Wichmann - Hungary
 Detlef Lewe - West Germany
Men's C-2 1000 Meters
 Vladas Česiūnas, Yuri Lobanov - Soviet Union
 Ivan Patzaichin, Serghei Covaliov - Romania Fedia Damianov, Ivan Burtchin - Bulgaria
Men's K-1 1000 Meters
 Aleksandr Shaparenko - Soviet Union
 Rolf Peterson - Sweden
 Géza Csapó - Hungary
Men's K-2 1000 Meters
 Nikolai Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk - Soviet Union
 József Deme, János Rátkai - Hungary
 Władysław Szuszkiewicz, Rafał Piszcz - Poland
Men's K-4 1000 Meters
 Soviet Union
 Romania
 Norway
Women's K-1 500 Meters
 Yulina Ryabchinskaya - Soviet Union
 Mieke Jaapies - Netherlands
 Anna Pfeffer - Hungary
Women's K-2 500 Meters
 Lyudmila Pinayeva, Yekaterina Kuryshko - Soviet Union
 Ilse Kaschube, Petra Grabowski - East Germany
 Maria Nichiforov, Viorica Dumitru - Romania

1972 Munich Cycling
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
ROAD CYCLING
Individual Road Race
 Hennie Kuiper - Netherlands
 Clyde Sefton - Australia
 None Awarded
Team Time Trial
 Soviet Union
 Poland
 None Awarded
TRACK CYCLING
Individual Pursuit
 Knut Knudsen - Norway
 Xaver Kurmann - Switzerland
 Hans Lutz - West Germany
Team Pursuit
 West Germany
 East Germany
 Great Britain
Sprint
 Daniel Morelon - France
 John Nicholson - Australia
 Omar Pkhakadze - Soviet Union
Tandem
 Vladimir Semenets, Igor Tselovalnykov - Soviet Union
 Jürgen Geschke, Werner Otto - East Germany
 Andrzej Bek, Benedykt Kocot - Poland
Time Trial
 Niels Fredborg - Denmark
 Danny Clark - Australia
 Jürgen Schütze - East Germany

1972 Munich Equestrian
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Dressage
 Liselott Linsenhoff - West Germany
 Yelena Petushkova - Soviet Union
 Josef Neckermann - West Germany
Team Dressage
 Soviet Union
 West Germany
 Sweden
Individual Eventing
 Richard Meade - Great Britain
 Alessandro Argenton - Italy
 Jan Jönsson - Sweden
Team Eventing
 Great Britain
 United States
 West Germany
Individual Jumping
 Graziano Mancinelli - Italy
 Ann Moore - Great Britain
 Neal Shapiro - United States
Team Jumping
 West Germany United States Italy

1972 Munich Fencing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Individual Épée
 Csaba Fenyvesi - Hungary
 Jacques Ladegaillerie - France
 Győző Kulcsár - Hungary
Men's Team Épée Hungary
 Switzerland
 Soviet Union
Men's Individual Foil
 Witold Woyda - Poland
 Jenő Kamuti - Hungary
 Christian Noël - France
Men's Team Foil
 Poland
 Soviet Union
 France
Men's Individual Sabre
 Viktor Sidyak - Soviet Union
 Péter Marót - Hungary
 Vladimir Nazlymov - Soviet Union
Men's Team Sabre
 Italy
 Soviet Union
 Hungary
Women's Individual Foil
 Antonella Ragno-Lonzi - Italy
 Ildikó Bóbis - Hungary
 Galina Gorokhova - Soviet Union
Women's Team Foil
 Soviet Union
 Hungary
 Romania

1972 Munich Field Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 West Germany
 Pakistan
 India

1972 Munich Soccer
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Poland
 Hungary
 Soviet Union
East Germany

1972 Munich Gymnastics
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Individual All-Around
 Sawao Kato - Japan
 Eizo Kenmotsu - Japan
 Akinori Nakayama - Japan
Women's Individual All-Around
 Ludmila Tourischeva - Soviet Union
 Karin Janz - East Germany
 Tamara Lazakovich - Soviet Union
Men's Team All-Around
 Japan
 Soviet Union
 East Germany
Women's Team All-Around
 Soviet Union
 East Germany
 Hungary
Men's Vault
 Klaus Köste - East Germany
 Viktor Klimenko - Soviet Union Nikolai Andrianov - Soviet Union
Women's Vault
 Karin Janz - East Germany Erika Zuchold - East Germany Ludmila Tourischeva - Soviet Union
Men's Floor
 Nikolai Andrianov - Soviet Union
 Akinori Nakayama - Japan Shigeru Kasamatsu - Japan
Women's Floor
 Olga Korbut - Soviet Union Ludmila Tourischeva - Soviet Union Tamara Lazakovich - Soviet Union
Men's Pommel Horse
 Viktor Klimenko - Soviet Union
 Sawao Kato - Japan Eizo Kenmotsu - Japan
Women's Balance Beam
 Olga Korbut - Soviet Union
 Tamara Lazakovich - Soviet Union Karin Janz - East Germany
Men's Rings
 Akinori Nakayama - Japan Mikhail Voronin - Soviet Union
 Mitsuo Tsukahara - Japan
Men's Horizontal Bar
 Mitsuo Tsukahara - Japan
 Sawao Kato - Japan Shigeru Kasamatsu - Japan
Men's Parallel Bars
 Sawao Kato - Japan Shigeru Kasamatsu - Japan Eizo Kenmotsu - Japan
Women's Uneven Bars
 Karin Janz - East Germany Olga Korbut - Soviet Union
Erika Zuchold - East Germany
 None Awarded

1972 Munich Handball
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Yugoslavia
 Czechoslovakia
 Romania

1972 Munich Judo
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Lightweight
 Takao Kawaguchi - Japan
 Vacant
 Kim Yong-ik - North Korea
Jean-Jacques Mounier - France
Half-Middleweight
 Toyokazu Nomura - Japan
 Anton Zajkowski - Poland
 Dietmar Hötger - East Germany
Anatoliy Novikov - Soviet Union
Middleweight
 Shinobu Sekine - Japan
 Oh Seung-lip - South Korea
 Jean-Paul Coche - France
Brian Jacks - Great Britain
Half-Heavyweight
 Shota Chochishvili - Soviet Union
 David Starbrook - Great Britain
 Paul Barth - West Germany
Chiaki Ishii - Brazil
Heavyweight
 Wim Ruska - Netherlands
 Klaus Glahn - West Germany
 Motoki Nishimura - Japan
Givi Onashvili - Soviet Union
Open Category
 Wim Ruska - Netherlands Vitali Kuznetsov - Soviet Union
 Jean-Claude Brondoni - France
Angelo Parisi - Great Britain

1972 Munich Modern Pentathlon
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual
 András Balczó - Hungary
 Boris Onishchenko - Soviet Union
 Pavel Lednyov - Soviet Union
Team
 Soviet Union
 Hungary
 Finland

1972 Munich Rowing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Single Sculls
 Yury Malyshev - Soviet Union
 Alberto Demiddi - Argentina
 Wolfgang Güldenpfennig - East Germany
Double Sculls Aleksandr Timoshinin, Gennadi Korshikov - Soviet Union
 Frank Hansen, Svein Thøgersen - Norway
 Joachim Böhmer, Uli Schmied - East Germany
Coxless Pairs
 Siegfried Brietzke, Wolfgang Mager - East Germany
 Heinrich Fischer, Alfred Bachmann - Switzerland
 Roel Luynenburg, Ruud Stokvis - Netherlands
Coxed Pairs
 East Germany
 Czechoslovakia
 Romania
Coxless Fours
 East Germany
 New Zealand
 West Germany
Coxed Fours
 West Germany
 East Germany
 Czechoslovakia
Eights
 New Zealand
 United States
 East Germany

1972 Munich Sailing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Finn
 Serge Maury - France
 Ilias Hatzipavlis - Greece
 Viktor Potapov - Soviet Union
Flying Dutchman
 Rodney Pattison, Christopher Davies - Great Britain
 Yves Pajot, Marc Pajot - France
 Ulli Libor, Peter Naumann - West Germany
Tempest
 Valentin Mankin, Vitali Dyrdyra - Soviet Union
 Alan Warren, David Hunt - Great Britain
 Glen Foster, Peter Dean - United States
Star
 David Forbes, John Anderson - Australia
 Pelle Petterson, Stellan Westerdahl - Sweden
 Wilhelm Kuhweide, Karsten Meyer - West Germany
Soling
 Harry Melges, William Allen, William Bentsen - United States
 Stig Wennerström, Bo Knape, Stefan Krook - Sweden
 David Miller, Paul Côté, John Ekels - Canada
Dragon
 John Cuneo, Thomas Anderson, John Shaw - Austraila
 Paul Borowski, Karl-Heinz Thun, Konrad Weichert - East Germany
 Donald Cohen, Charles Horter, John Marshall - United States

1972 Munich Shooting
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Pistol
 Ragnar Skanåker - Sweden
 Dan Iuga - Romania
 Rudolf Dollinger - Austria
Rapid Fire Pistol
 Józef Zapȩdzki - Poland
 Ladislav Falta - Czechoslovakia
 Viktor Torshin - Soviet Union
Running Target
 Yakov Zheleznyak - Soviet Union
 Helmut Bellingrodt - Colombia
 John Kynoch - Great Britain
Rifle, Prone
 Ri Ho-jun - North Korea
 Vic Auer - United States
 Nicolae Rotaru - Romania
Rifle, Three Positions
 John Writer - United States
 Lanny Bassham - United States
 Werner Lippoldt - East Germany
300 Meter Free Rifle, Three Positions
 Lones Wigger - United States
 Boris Melnik - Soviet Union
 Lajos Papp - Hungary
Skeet
 Konrad Wirnhier - West Germany
 Yevgeni Petrov - Soviet Union
 Michael Buchheim - East Germany
Trap
 Angelo Scalzone - Italy
 Michel Carrega - France
 Silvano Basagni - Italy

1972 Munich Volleyball
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Indoor
 Japan
 East Germany
 Soviet Union
Women's Indoor
 Soviet Union
 Japan
 North Korea

1972 Munich Weightlifting
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Flyweight
 Zygmunt Smalcerz - Poland
 Lajos Szűcs - Hungary
 Sándor Holczreiter - Hungary
Bantamweight
 Imre Földi - Hungary
 Mohammad Nassiri - Iran
 Gennadi Chetin - Soviet Union
Featherweight
 Norair Nurikyan - Bulgaria
 Dito Shanidze - Soviet Union
 János Benedek - Hungary
Lightweight
 Mukharby Kirzhinov - Soviet Union
 Mladen Kutchev - Bulgaria
 Zbigniew Kaczmarek - Poland
Middleweight
 Yodan Bikov - Bulgaria
 Mohamed Traboulsi - Lebanon
 Anselmo Silvino - Italy
Light Heavyweight
 Leif Jenssen - Norway
 Norbert Ozimek - Poland
 György Horváth - Hungary
Middle Heavyweight
 Andon Nikolov - Bulgaria
 Atanas Shopov - Bulgaria
 Hans Bettembourg - Sweden
Heavyweight
 Jan Talts - Soviet Union
 Aleksandr Kraichev - Bulgaria
 Stefan Grützner - East Germany
Super Heavyweight
 Vasiliy Alekseyev - Soviet Union
 Rudolf Mang - West Germany
 Gerd Bonk - East Germany

1972 Munich Wrestling
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Freestyle Lightflyweight
 Roman Dmitriyev - Soviet Union
 Ognyan Nikolov - Bulgaria
 Ebrahim Javadi - Iran
Freestyle Flyweight
 Kiyomi Kato - Japan
 Arsen Alakhverdiyev - Soviet Union
 Kim Gwong-Hyong - North Korea
Freestyle Bantamweight
 Hideaki Yanagida - Japan
 Richard Sanders - United States
 László Klinga - Hungary
Freestyle Featherweight
 Zagalav Abdulbekov - Soviet Union
 Vehbi Akdağ - Turkey
 Ivan Krastev - Bulgaria
Freestyle Lightweight
 Dan Gable - United States
 Kikuo Wada - Japan
 Ruslan Ashuraliyev - Soviet Union
Freestyle Welterweight
 Wayne Wells - United States
 Jan Karlsson - Sweden
 Adolf Seger - West Germany
Freestyle Middleweight
 Levan Tediashvili - Soviet Union
 John Peterson - United States
 Vasile Iorga - Romania
Freestyle Light Heavyweight
 Ben Peterson - United States
 Gennadi Strakhov - Soviet Union
 Károly Bajkó - Hungary
Freestyle Heavyweight
 Ivan Yarygin - Soviet Union
 Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh - Mongolia
 József Csatári - Hungary
Freestyle Super Heavyweight
 Aleksandr Medved - Soviet Union
 Osman Duraliev - Bulgaria
 Chris Taylor - United States
Greco-Roman Lightflyweight Gheorghe Berceanu - Romania
 Rahim Aliabadi - Iran
 Stefan Angelov - Bulgaria
Greco-Roman Flyweight Petar Kirov - Bulgaria
 Koichiro Hirayama - Japan
 Giuseppe Bognanni - Italy
Greco-Roman Bantamweight Rustam Kazakov - Soviet Union
 Hans-Jürgen Veil - West Germany
 Risto Björlin - Finland
Greco-Roman Featherweight Georgi Markov - Bulgaria
 Heinz-Helmut Wehling - East Germany
 Kazimierz Lipień - Poland
Greco-Roman Lightweight Shamil Khisamutdinov - Soviet Union
 Stoyan Apostolov - Bulgaria
 Gian Matteo Ranzi - Italy
Greco-Roman Welterweight Vitĕzslav Mácha - Czechoslovakia
 Petros Galaktopoulos - Greece
 Jan Karlsson - Sweden
Greco-Roman Middleweight Csaba Hegedűs - Hungary
 Anatoly Nazarenko - Soviet Union
 Milan Nenadić - Yugoslavia
Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight Valery Rezantsev - Soviet Union
 Josip Čorak - Yugoslavia
 Czesław Kwieciński - Poland
Greco-Roman Heavyweight Nicolae Martinescu - Romania
 Nikolay Yakovenko - Soviet Union
 Ferenc Kiss - Hungary
Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight Anatoly Roshchin - Soviet Union
 Aleksandar Tomov - Bulgaria
 Victor Dolipschi - Romania