Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:AthleticsAt1972SummerOlympics At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 38 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 14 for women. There were a total number of 1324 participating athletes from 104 countries.

Medal summary

Men

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.14	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.24	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.33
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.00	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.19	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.30
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.66	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.80	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.92
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.86	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.89	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:46.01
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:36.33	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:36.81	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:37.46
5000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:26.42 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:27.33	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:27.61
10,000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:38.35 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:39.58	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:40.96
110 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.24 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.34	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.48
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	47.82 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.51	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.52
3000 metres steeplechase Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:23.64 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:24.62	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:24.66
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Larry Black Robert Taylor Gerald Tinker Eddie Hart	38.19 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCteam Aleksandr Kornelyuk Vladimir Lovetskiy Juris Silovs Valeriy Borzov	38.50	Template:FlagIOCteam Jobst Hirscht Karlheinz Klotz Gerhard Wucherer Klaus Ehl	38.79
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Charles Asati Munyoro Nyamau Robert Ouko Julius Sang	2:59.83	Template:FlagIOCteam Martin Reynolds Alan Pascoe David Hemery David Jenkins	3:00.46	Template:FlagIOCteam Gilles Bertould Daniel Velasques Francis Kerbiriou Jacques Carette	3:00.65
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:12:19.8	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:14:31.8	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:15:08.4
20 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:26:42.4 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:26:55.2	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:27:16.6
50 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:56:11.6 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:58:24.0	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:00:46.0
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.23 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.21 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.21 m
Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.50 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.40 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.35 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.24 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.18 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.03 m
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.35 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.31 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.05 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.18 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.17 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.14 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	64.40 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	63.50 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	63.40 m
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	75.50 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	74.96 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	74.04 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	90.48 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	90.46 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	84.42 m
Decathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8454 pts (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8035 pts	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7984 pts

Women

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.07 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.23	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.24
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.40 (=WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.45	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.74
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	51.08	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	51.21	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	51.64
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.55 (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:58.65	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:59.19
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:01.38 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:02.83	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4:02.85
100 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.59 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.84	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.90
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Christiane Krause Ingrid Becker Annegret Richter Heide Rosendahl	42.81 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCteam Evelin Kaufer Christina Heinich Bärbel Struppert Renate Stecher	42.95	Template:FlagIOCteam Marlene Elejarde Carmen Valdés Fulgencia Romay Silvia Chivás	43.36
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Dagmar Käsling Rita Kühne Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	3:22.95 (WR)	Template:FlagIOCteam Mable Fergerson Madeline Manning Cheryl Toussaint Kathy Hammond	3:25.15	Template:FlagIOCteam Anette Rückes Inge Bödding Hildegard Falck Rita Wilden	3:26.51
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.92 m (=WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.88 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.88 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6.78 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6.77 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	6.67 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.03 m (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.22 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	19.35 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	66.62 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	65.06 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	64.34 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	63.88 m (OR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	62.54 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	59.94 m
Pentathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4801 pts (WR)	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4791 pts	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4768 pts

References

• Athletics Australia

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