Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 371 competitors, 298 men and 73 women, took part in 180 events in 22 sports.[1]

Medalists

The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 50 gold and 99 total medals.

Gold

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Volleyball

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Silver

Athletics

Equestrian

Fencing

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Shooting

Swimming

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Bronze

Archery

Athletics

Cycling

Fencing

Football (soccer)

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Volleyball

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Results by event

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, the Soviet Union entered three men and three women. They took home a bronze medal as four of their archers, including all three women, finished in the top 8.

Women's individual competition:

Men's individual competition:

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

  • First heat — 10.51s (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

  • Heat — 1:48.3
  • Semifinals — 1:46.3
  • Final — 1:45.9
  • Heat — 1:51.0
  • Semifinals — 1:49.6 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 1:48.6
  • Semifinals — 1:50.1 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 metres

  • Heat — 3:42.3
  • Semifinals — 3:41.6
  • Final — 3:40.2 (→ 8th place)
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 3:42.3 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

  • Heat — 13:57.6 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 14:08.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m relay

  • Heat — 39.15s
  • Semifinals — 39.00s
  • Final — 38.50s (→ Silver medal)

Men's high jump

  • Qualifying round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.23m (→ Gold medal)
  • Qualifying round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.15m (→ 8th place)
  • Qualifying round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.15m (→ 12th place)

Women's javelin throw

  • Qualifying round — 55.90 m
  • Final — 56.36 m (→ 8th place)

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Men's team competition
  • Preliminary round (group B)
  • Defeated Senegal (94-52)
  • Defeated West Germany (87-63)
  • Defeated Italy (79-66)
  • Defeated Poland (94-64)
  • Defeated Puerto Rico (100-87)
  • Defeated Philippines (111-80)
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (74-67)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Cuba (67-60)
  • Final
  • Defeated United States (51-50) → Gold medal

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's light middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • First round — bye
  • Second round — defeated Reggie Jones (USA), 3:2
  • Third round — lost to Alan Minter (GBR), 0:5

Men's heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Fifteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1972.

Individual road race
Team time trial
Sprint
1000m time trial
  • Final — 1:07.73 (→ 8th place)
Tandem
Team pursuit

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m springboard

Men's 10m platform

Women's 3m springboard

Women's 10m platform

  • Alla Seiina - 314.76 points (10th place)
  • Natalia Kuznecova - 184.02 points (13th place)
  • Tatjana Shtyreva - 177.33 points (19th place)

Equestrianism

Main article: Equestrianism at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1972.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Football

Main article: Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Men's team competition

The Soviet team came away from the three-game opening round with no losses, but only one win. Ties with Denmark and Sweden and a win over Poland put the Soviet Union in a tie with Sweden at the top of the division. Since both teams moved on to the second round, the fact that Sweden won the tie-breaker mattered little. The Soviets' hopes were high after the first game of the second round, a win over East Germany that put the team on top of the division. However, their subsequent loss to Czechoslovakia dropped them to third in the group. This meant that they played in a game for fifth and sixth place against host nation West Germany. Their win was little consolation for being eliminated from medal contention.

Men's team competition:

  • Soviet Union - 5th place (3-1-2)
  • Team roster

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1972.

Men's individual competition

Men's team competition

  • Onishenko, Lednev and Shmelev — 15968 pts (→ Gold medal)

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's single sculls

  • Heat — 7:42.67
  • Semifinals — 8:13.49
  • Final — 7:10.12 (→ Gold medal)

Men's coxed pairs

  • Heat — 7:43.84
  • Semifinals — 8:07.34
  • Final — 7:24.44 (→ 5th place)

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Fourteen male shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1972. Yakiv Zhelezniak won gold, Boris Melnik and Yevgeny Petrov won silvers and Viktor Torshin won a bronze medal.

25 m pistol
50 m pistol
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, prone
50 m running target
Trap
Skeet

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's 100m freestyle

  • Heat — 52.87s
  • Semifinals — 52.60s
  • Final — 51.77s (→ Bronze medal)
  • Heat — 53.64s
  • Semifinals — 53.55s
  • Final — 52.44s (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 53.78s
  • Semifinals — 53.68s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m freestyle

  • Heat — 1:56.15
  • Final — 1:57.24 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat — 1:57.92 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 1:57.04 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

  • Heat — 3:32.72
  • Final — 3:29.72 (→ Silver medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

  • Heat — 7:51.44
  • Final — 7:45.76 (→ Bronze medal)

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Men's team competition
  • Preliminary round (group A)
  • Defeated Tunisia (3-0)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-0)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (3-1)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-0)
  • Defeated Poland (3-2)
  • Semifinals
  • Lost to East Germany (1-3)
  • Bronze medal match
  • Defeated Bulgaria (3-0) → Bronze medal
  • Team roster

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

1  Russian SFSR 60 22 20 102
2  Ukrainian SSR 20 7 9 36
3  Byelorussian SSR 10 6 2 18
4  Georgian SSR 6 1 3 10
5  Uzbek SSR 3 0 0 3
6  Lithuanian SSR 2 1 0 3
7  Kazakh SSR 1 3 2 6
8  Armenian SSR 1 1 2 4
9  Azerbaijan SSR 1 1 0 2
10  Estonian SSR 1 0 1 2
11  Tajik SSR 1 0 0 1
12  Latvian SSR 0 2 1 3

Top 5 sports societies

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different sports societies in one team.

Pos Sports society Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Armed Forces 33 18 18 69
2 Dynamo 28 10 16 54
3 VSS Burevestnik 11 6 5 22
4 VSS Spartak 9 3 3 15
5 VSS Trud 7 1 1 9

Bibliography

  • A. Dobrov (1973). XX Summer Olympic Games. Year 1972 (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.

References

  1. ^ "Soviet Union at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  • Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. - for medal stats by republic and by sports society
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