The Sports Almanac



1972 Winter Olympics
Sapparo, Japan


MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 16 Medals
EAST GERMANY - 14 Medals
NORWAY - 12 Medals

Biathlon Bobsled Ice Hockey
Luge Figure Skating Speed Skating
Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping



1972 Sapparo Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union 8
 5
 3
 16
2
 East Germany 4
 3
 7
 14
3
 Norway
 2
 5
 5
 12
4
 Switzerland 4
 3
 3
 10
5
 Netherlands 4
 3
 2
 9
6
 United States 3
 2
 3
 8
7
 West Germany 3
 1
 1
 5
8
 Italy 2
 2
 1
 5
9
 Austria 1
 2
 2
 5
10
 Finland
 0
 4
 1
 5
11
 Sweden 1
 1
 2
 4
12
 Japan 1
 1
 1
 3
13
 Czechoslovakia
 1
 0
 2
 3
14
 France
 0
 1
 2
 3
15
 Spain
 1
 0
 0
 1
16
 Poland
 1
 0
 0
 1
17
 Canada 0
 1
 0
 1

1972 Sapparo Biathlon
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Magnar Solberg - Norway
 Hansjörg Knauthe - East Germany
 Lars-Göran Arwidson - Sweden
Relay Soviet Union
 Finland
 East Germany

1972 Sapparo Boblsed
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Two-Man
 West Germany
 West Germany
 Switzerland
Four-Man
 Switzerland
 Italy
 West Germany

1972 Sapparo Ice Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 Soviet Union
 United States
 Czechoslovakia

1972 Sapparo Luge
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles
 Wolfgang Scheidel - East Germany
 Harald Ehrig - East Germany
 Wolfram Fiedler - East Germany
Women's Singles
 Anna-Maria Müller - East Germany
 Ute Rührold - East Germany
 Margit Schumann - East Germany
Doubles
 Horst Hörnlein, Reinhard Bredow - East Germany
Paul Hildgartner, Walter Plaikner - Italy
 None Awarded
 Klaus-Michael Bonsack, Wolfram Fiedler - East Germany

1972 Sapparo Figure Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles Ondrej Nepela - Czechoslovakia
 Sergei Chetverukhin - Soviet Union
 Patrick Péra - France
Women's Singles Beatrix Schuba - Austria
 Karen Magnussen - Canada
 Janet Lynn - United States
Pairs Irina Rodnina, Alexei Ulanov - Soviet Union
 Liudmila Smirnova, Andrei Suraikin - Soviet Union
 Manuela Groß, Uwe Kagelmann - East Germany

1972 Sapparo Speed Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 500 Meters Erhard Keller - West Germany
 Hasse Börjes - Sweden
 Valery Muratov - Soviet Union
Women's 500 Meters Anne Henning - United States
 Vera Krasnova - Soviet Union
 Lyudmila Titova - Soviet Union
Women's 1000 Meters Monika Pflug - West Germany
 Atje Keulen-Deelstra - Netherlands
 Anne Henning - United States
Men's 1500 Meters Ard Schenk - Netherlands
 Roar Grønvold - Norway
 Göran Claeson - Sweden
Women's 1500 Meters Dianne Holum - United States
 Stein Kaiser - Netherlands
 Atje Keulen-Deelstra - Netherlands
Women's 3000 Meters
 Stein Kaiser - Netherlands Dianne Holum - United States Atje Keulen-Deelstra - Netherlands
Men's 5000 Meters
 Ard Schenk - Netherlands Roar Grønvold - Norway Sten Stensen - Norway
Men's 10000 Meters
 Ard Schenk - Netherlands Kees Verkerk - Netherlands
 Sten Stensen - Norway

1972 Sapparo Alpine Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Downhill
 Bernhard Russi - Switzerland
 Roland Collombin - Switzerland
 Heini Messner - Austria
Women's Downhill Marie-Theres Nadig - Switzerland
 Annemarie Moser-Pröll - Austria
 Susan Corrock - United States
Men's Slalom Francisco Fernández Ochoa - Spain
 Gustav Thöni - Italy
 Roland Thöni - Italy
Women's Slalom Barbara Cochran - United States
 Danièle Debernard  - France
 Florence Steurer - France
Men's Giant Slalom Gustav Thöni - Italy Edy Bruggmann - Switzerland
 Werner Mattle - Switzerland
Women's Giant Slalom
 Marie-Theres Nadig - Switzerland Annemarie Moser-Pröll - Austria Wiltrud Drexel - Austria

1972 Sapparo Cross Country Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Women's 5KM
 Galina Kulakova - Soviet Union
 Marjatta Kajosmaa - Finland
 Helena Šikolová - Czechoslovakia
Women's 10KM Galina Kulakova - Soviet Union Alevtina Olyunina - Soviet Union
 Marjatta Kajosmaa - Finland
Men's 15KM Sven-Åke Lundbäck - Sweden
 Fyodor Simachov - Soviet Union
 Ivar Formo - Norway
Men's 30KM Vyacheslav Vedenin - Soviet Union
 Pål Tyldum - Norway
 Johs Harviken - Norway
Men's 50KM Pål Tyldum - Norway Magne Myrmo - Norway
 Vyacheslav Vedenin - Soviet Union
Men's Relay Soviet Union
 Norway
 Switzerland
Women's Relay Sovier Union
 Finland
 Norway

1972 Sapparo Nordic Combined
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual
 Ulrich Wehling - East Germany
 Rauno Miettinen - Finland
 Karl-Heinz Luck - East Germany

1972 Sapparo Ski Jumping
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Normal Hill
 Yukio Kasaya - Japan
 Akitsugu Konno - Japan
 Seiji Aochi - Japan
Large Hill
 Wojciech Fortuna - Poland
 Walter Steiner - Switzerland
 Rainer Schmidt - East Germany