Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, seven events in flatwater canoe racing were contested, and for the first time at the Olympic Games, four events in slalom canoeing were also contested.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Flatwater 1.1.1 Men's events 1.1.2 Women's events 1.2 Slalom 2 Medal table 3 Reference

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Flatwater

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin Romania (ROM)	Tamás Wichmann Hungary (HUN)	Detlef Lewe West Germany (FRG)
C-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Vladislavas Chessyunas Yuri Lobanov	Romania (ROM) Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Bulgaria (BUL) Fedia Damianov Ivan Burtchin
K-1 1000 metres	Aleksandr Shaparenko Soviet Union (URS)	Rolf Peterson Sweden (SWE)	Géza Csapó Hungary (HUN)
K-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Gorbachev Viktor Kratasyuk	Hungary (HUN) József Deme János Rátkai	Poland (POL) Wladyslaw Szuszkiewicz Rafal Piszcz
K-4 1000 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Filatov Yuri Stetsenko Vladimir Morozov Valeri Didenko	Romania (ROM) Aurel Vernescu Mihai Zafiu Roman Vartolomeu Atanase Sciotnic	Norway (NOR) Egil Söby Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Jan Johansen

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Yulia Ryabchinskaya Soviet Union (URS)	Mieke Jaapies Netherlands (NED)	Anna Pfeffer Hungary (HUN)
K-2 500 metres	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Khvedosyuk-Pinaeva Ekaterina Kuryshko	East Germany (GDR) Ilse Kaschube Petra Grabowsky	Romania (ROM) Maria Nichiforov-Mihoreanu Viorica Dumitru

[edit] Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Reinhard Eiben East Germany (GDR)	Reinhold Kauder West Germany (FRG)	James McEwan United States (USA)
Men's C-2	East Germany (GDR) Walter Hofmann Rolf-Dieter Amend	West Germany (FRG) Hans-Otto Schumacher Wilhelm Baues	France (FRA) Jean-Louis Olry Jean-Claude Olry
Men's K-1	Siegbert Horn East Germany (GDR)	Norbert Sattler Austria (AUT)	Harald Gimpel East Germany (GDR)
Women's K-1	Angelika Bahmann East Germany (GDR)	Gisela Grothaus West Germany (FRG)	Magdalena Wunderlich West Germany (FRG)

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	0	0	6
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	1	1	6
3	Romania (ROM)	1	2	1	4
4	West Germany (FRG)	0	3	2	5
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	2	4
6	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.

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

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
1924 (demonstration) • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (women)