Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, all for men. It was the last time that rowing did not included women's disciplines at the Olympics.

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls	Yuri Malishev Soviet Union (URS)	Alberto Demiddi Argentina (ARG)	Walter Güldenpfennig Bulgaria (BUL)
Coxless pair	East Germany (GDR) Siegfried Brietzke Wolfgang Mager	Switzerland (SUI) Heinrich Fischer Alfred Bachmann	Netherlands (NED) Roelof Luynenburg Ruud Stokvis
Double sculls	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov	Norway (NOR) Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen	East Germany (GDR) Joachim Böhmer Hans-Ulrich Schmeid
Coxed pair	East Germany (GDR) Wolfgang Gunkel Jörg Lücke Klaus-Dieter Neubert (cox)	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Oldrich Svojanovsky Pavel Svojanovsky Vladimir Petricek (cox)	Romania (ROM) Stefan Tudor Petre Ceapura Ladilau Lowrenschi (cox)
Coxless four	East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	New Zealand (NZL) Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills	West Germany (FRG) Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke
Coxed four	West Germany (FRG) Peter Berger Hans-Johann Färber Gerhard Auer Alois Bierl Uwe Benter (cox)	East Germany (GDR) Dietrich Zander Reinhard Gust Eckhard Martens Rolf Jobst Klaus-Dieter Ludwig (cox)	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Otakar Marecek Karel Neffe Vladimir Janos Frantisek Provaznik Vladimir Petricek (cox)
Eights	New Zealand (NZL) Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Athol Earl Trvor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie (cox)	United States (USA) Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Peter Raymond Timoth Mickelson Eugene Clapp William Hobbs Cleve Livingston Michael Livingston Paul Hoffman	East Germany (GDR) Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinri Mederow Dietmar Schwarz (cox)

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• Rowing at the Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in rowing (men)
• Olympic medalists in rowing (women)
• Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Events at the 1972 Summer Olympics (Munich)
Archery • Athletics • Basketball • Badminton (demonstration) • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Handball • Hockey • Judo • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Volleyball • Water polo • Water skiing (demonstration) • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Rowing at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 See also: List of Olympic medalists in rowing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in rowing (women)