Canada at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Template:Infobox Olympics Canada Canada competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
Many felt that Canada's poor performance at the Olympics, which included not winning a gold medal may have the reason that Canada didn't win a gold medal during the next Summer Olympics, the Games of the XXI Olympiad, in 1976, which took place within their borders, in Montreal.
Medalists
Canada finished in 27th position in the final medal rankings, with two silver medals and three bronze medals.
Silver
- Bruce Robertson — Swimming, Men's 100m Butterfly
- Leslie Cliff — Swimming, Women's 400m Individual Medley
Bronze
- Donna Gurr — Swimming, Women's 200m Backstroke
- Erik Fish, William Mahony, Bruce Robertson, and Robert Kasting — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay
- David Miller, John Ekels, and Paul Cote — Sailing, Soling class
Results by event
In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Canada entered three men and three women. Their highest placing competitor was Donald Jackson, at 6th place in the men's competition. His score was only 30 points below the bronze medal score.
Men's Individual Competition:
- Donald Jackson - 2437 points (→ 6th place)
- Elmer Ewert - 2359 points (→ 25th place)
- Wayne Pullen - 2275 points (→ 41st place)
Women's Individual Competition:
- Mary Grant - 2350 points (→ 11th place)
- Marjory Saunders - 2192 points (→ 32nd place)
- Viola Muir - 1955 points (→ 39th place)
Men's 1,500 metres
- Heat — 3:46.6 (→ did not advance)
- Heat — 3:49.2 (→ did not advance)
Men's 5,000 metres
- Robert Finlay
- Heat — 13:44.0 (→ did not advance)
- Heat — 13:43.8 (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump
- Qualifying Round — 2.15m
- Final — 2.15m (→ 6th place)
- Qualifying Round — 2.15m
- Final — 2.15m (→ 9th place)
- Qualification Round — 2.09m (→ did not advance)
Women's Discus Throw
- Qualifying Round — 57.82 m
- Final — 60.42 m (→ 7th place)
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Ali Ouabbou (MAR), 3:2
- Third Round — Lost to Georgi Kostadinov (BUL), 0:5
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
- First Round — Lost to Stefan Förster (GDR), 1:4
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)
- First Round — Defeated Fatai Ayinla (NGA), 3:2
- Quarterfinals — Lost to Hasse Thomsén (SWE), KO-3
Road Competition
Men's Individual Road Race
- Brian Chewter — 52nd place
- Tom Morris — 62nd place
- Gilles Durand — 72nd place
- Lindsay Gauld — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Track Competition
Men's 1.000m Time Trial
- Final — 1:09.03 (→ 15th place)
Men's 3m Springboard
- Scott Cranham - 339.21 points (→ 14th place)
- Ken Sully - 336.12 points (→ 16th place)
- Ron Friesen - 313.11 points (→ 25th place)
Men's 10m Platform
- Ron Friesen - 272.94 points (→ 20th place)
- Scott Cranham - 263.52 points (→ 27th place)
- Ken Sully - 262.26 points (→ 29th place)
Women's 3m Springboard
- Beverly Boys - 418.89 points (→ 5th place)
- Teri York - 247.14 points (→ 19th place)
- Elizabeth Carruthers - 243.84 (→ 20th place)
Women's 10m Platform
- Nancy Robertson - 334.02 points (→ 7th place)
- Kathleen Rollo - 317.31 points (→ 9th place)
- Beverly Boys - 183.99 points (→ 14th place)
Individual:
- Scott Scheuermann — 4072 points (→ 54th place)
- Kenneth Maaten — 3987 points (→ 56th place)
- George Skene — 3297 points (→ 59th place)
Team:
- Scheuermann, Maaten, and Skene — 11335 points (→ 19th place)
Men's Coxed Pairs
- Heat — 7:49.54
- Repechage — 8:12.69
- Semi Finals — 8:28.62
- B-Final — 8:00.27 (→ 9th place)
Men's 100m Freestyle
- Heat — 53.75s
- Semifinals — 53.73s (→ did not advance)
- Heat — 54.07s
- Semifinals — 53.62s (→ did not advance)
- Heat — 54.76s (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle
- Heat — 1:56.84
- Final — 1:57.56 (→ 8th place)
- Heat — 1:59.02 (→ did not advance)
- Heat — 2:01.22 (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
- Heat — 3:35.64
- Final — 3:33.20 (→ 5th place)
Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
- Heat — 7:57.69
- Final — 7:53.61 (→ 7th place)
Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Lost to Yugoslavia (4-12)
- Lost to Mexico (3-7)
- Lost to United States (1-8)
- Lost to Romania (4-16)
- Lost to Cuba (2-7) → Did not advance
- Team Roster
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