West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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West Germany at the Olympic Games

Flag of West Germany
IOC code:   FRG
1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Flag bearer Detlef Lewe
Medals Gold
13		 Silver
11		 Bronze
16		 Total
40
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1952 • 1956* • 1960* • 1964* • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988

*With GDR as the United Team of Germany
Winter Olympic Games appearances
1952 • 1956* • 1960* • 1964* • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988

*With GDR as the United Team of Germany

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) was the host nation of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Contents

[edit] Medals

West Germany finished in fourth position in the final medal rankings, with 13 gold medals and 40 medals overall. x

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Dieter Kottysch — Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
  • Jürgen Colombo, Günter Haritz, Udo Hempel, and Günther Schumacher — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
  • Fritz Ligges, Hartwig Steenken, Gerhard Wiltfang, and Hans-Günter Winkler — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition
  • Liselott Linsenhoff — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Competition
  • Gerhard Auer, Uwe Benter, Peter Berger, Alois Bierl, and Hans-Johann Färber — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
  • Konrad Wirnhier — Shooting, Men's Skeet

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Reinhold Kauder — Canoeing, Men's C1 Canadian Slalom Singles
  • Bernd Baues and Hans-Otto Schumacher — Canoeing, Men's C2 Canadian Slalom Pairs
  • Gisela Grothaus — Canoeing, Women's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
  • Liselott Linsenhoff, Josef Neckermann and Karin Schlüter — Equestrian, Dressage Team Competition
  • Klaus Glahn — Judo, Men's Heavyweight
  • Hans Faßnacht, Werner Lampe, Klaus Steinbach, and Hans-Günter Vosseler — Swimming, Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
  • Rudolf Mang — Weightlifting, Men's Super Heavyweight
  • Hans-Jürgen Veil — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Detlef Lewe — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000m Canadian Singles
  • Magdalena Wunderlich — Canoeing, Women's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
  • Hans Lutz — Cycling, Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit
  • Lutz Goessing, Horst Karsten, Harry Klugmann, and Karl Schultz — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Competition
  • Josef Neckermann — Equestrian, Dressage Individual Competition
  • Paul Barth — Judo, Men's Half-Heavyweight (93 kg)
  • Joachim Ehrig, Peter Funnekötter, Franz Held and Wolfgang Plottke — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
  • Werner Lampe — Swimming, Men's 200m Freestyle
  • Gudrun Beckmann, Heidemarie Reineck, Angela Steinbach, and Jutta Weber — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
  • Gudrun Beckmann, Vreni Eberle, Silke Pielen, and Heidemarie Reineck — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Medley Relay
  • Adolf Seger — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Welterweight
  • Willi Kuhweide and Karsten Meyer — Sailing, Men's Star Team Competition
  • Ulli Libor and Peter Naumann — Sailing, Men's Flying Dutchman Team Competition

[edit] Results by event

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[edit] Archery

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, West Germany entered two men and two women. Their highest placing competitor was Siegfried Ortmann, at 14th place in the men's competition.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Ursula Bueschking - 2200 points (30th place)
  • Carla Nolpa - 2165 points (35th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Siegfried Ortmann - 2390 points (14th place)
  • Richard Krust - 2342 points (30th place)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 800 metres

  • Franz-Josef Kemper
  • Heat — 1:47.3
  • Semifinals — 1:48.8
  • Final — 1:46.5 (→ 4th place)
  • Josef Schmidt
  • Heat — 1:47.8
  • Semifinals — 1:48.8 (→ did not advance)
  • Walter Adams
  • Heat — DNF (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres

  • Heat — 3:41.8
  • Semifinals — 3:38.4
  • Final — 3:40.1 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat — 3:40.6
  • Semifinals — 3:43.4 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 3:44.5
  • Semifinals — 3:50.0 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

  • Jürgen May
  • Heat — 14:06.6 (→ did not advance)
  • Wolfgang Riesinger
  • Heat — 14:15.2 (→ did not advance)

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Lost to Puerto Rico (74-81)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (63-87)
  • Defeated Philippines (93-74)
  • Lost to Italy (57-68)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (56-81)
  • Defeated Poland (67-65)
  • Defeated Senegal (72-62)
  • Classification Matches
  • 13th/16th place: Lost to Australia (69-70)
  • 11th/12th place: Lost to Spain (83-84) → 12th place
  • Team Roster
  • Karl Ampt
  • Holger Geschwindner
  • Dietrich Keller
  • Hans-Jörg Krüger
  • Dieter Kuprella
  • Joachim Linnemann
  • Rainer Pethran
  • Joachim Pollex
  • Norbert Thimm
  • Helmut Uhlig
  • Klaus Weinand
  • Jürgen Wohlers

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • Gerd Schubert
  • First Round — Defeated Phar Khong (CMB), walk-over
  • Second Round — Lost to Orn-Chim Chawalit (THA), 1:4


Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

  • Werner Schaefer
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Lost to Joe Destimo (GHA), 2:3


Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

  • Peter Prause


Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

  • Peter Hess
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Enrique Requeiferos (CUB), 4:1
  • Third Round — Lost to Svein Erik Paulsen (NOR), KO-2


Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

  • Günther Meier
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Jeff Rackley (NZL), 5:0
  • Third Round — Defeated Sangnual Rabieb (THA), 5:0
  • Quarterfinals — Lost to Emilio Correa (CUB), 2:3


Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Dieter Kottysch → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Bonifacio Avila (COL), TKO-2
  • Third Round — Defeated Evengelos Oikonomakos (GRE), 5:0
  • Quarterfinals — Defeated Mohamed Majeri (TUN), 5:0
  • Semifinals — Defeated Alan Minter (GBR), 3:2
  • Final — Defeated Wiesław Rudkowski (POL), 3:2


Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

  • Ewald Jarmer
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Lost to Marvin Johnson (USA), 0:5


Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

  • Rudi Hornig
  • First Round — Defeated Henri Moreau (FRA), 5:0
  • Second Round — Defeated Guglielmo Spinello (ITA), 4:1
  • Quarterfinals — Lost to Janusz Gortat (POL), TKO-1


Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

  • First Round — Bye
  • Quarterfinals — Defeated Oscar Ludeña (PER), KO-1
  • Semifinals — Lost to Teófilo Stevenson (CUB), TKO-2

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard:

  • Norbert Huda — 524.16 points (→ 8th place)
  • Gerhard Hölzl — 327.42 points (→ 19th place)
  • Reinhard vom Bauer — 299.79 points (→ 30th place)

Men's 10m Platform:

  • Karl-Heinz Schwemmer — 281.55 points (→ 16th place)
  • Bernd Wucherpfennig — 267.87 points (→ 24th place)
  • Klaus Konzorr — 260.01 points (→ 30th place)

Women's 3m Springboard:

  • Michaela Herweck — 261.78 points (→ 13th place)

Women's 10m Platform:

  • Maxie Michael — 183.48 points (→ 15th place)
  • Ursula Sapp — 162.39 points (→ 24th place)

[edit] Football

Men's Team Competition:

[edit] Handball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round
  • Defeated Spain (13-10)
  • Drew with Norway (15-15)
  • Lost to Romania (11-13)
  • Main Round
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (15-24)
  • Defeated Hungary (17-14)
  • Classification Match
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to Soviet Union (16-17) → Sixth place
  • Team Roster
  • Herwig Ahrendsen
  • Hans-Jürgen Bode
  • Wolfgang Braun
  • Peter Bucher
  • Jochen Feldhoff
  • Diethard Finkelmann
  • Josef Karrer
  • Klaus Kater
  • Klaus Lange
  • Herbert Lübking
  • Heiner Möller
  • Hans-Peter Neuhaus
  • Uwe Rathjen
  • Herbert Rogge
  • Herbert Wehnert
  • Klaus Westebbe

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Belgium (5-1)
  • Defeated Malaysia (1-0)
  • Defeated Argentina (2-1)
  • Defeated Pakistan (2-1)
  • Drew with Uganda (1-1)
  • Defeated Spain (2-1)
  • Defeated France (4-0)
  • Semi Final Round
  • Defeated The Netherlands (3-0)
  • Final
  • Defeated Pakistan (1-0) → Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal
  • Team Roster

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Heiner Thade — 5145 points (→ 7th place)
  • Walter Esser — 4826 points (→ 20th place)
  • Hole Rößler — 4678 points (→ 27th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Thade, Esser, and Rößler — 14682 points (→ 6th place)

Alternate Member

  • Elmar Frings

[edit] Rowing

Men's Single Sculls

  • Udo Hild
  • Heat — 7:48.12
  • Repechage — 7:48.11
  • Semi Finals — 8:26.37
  • Final — 7:20.81 (→ 4th place)

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Heinz Mußmann, Bernd Krause and Stefan Kuhnke
  • Heat — 8:02.19
  • Repechage — 8:07.95
  • Semi Finals — 8:19.86
  • Final — 7:21.52 (→ 4th place)

[edit] Water polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Drew with Hungary (3-3)
  • Drew with the Netherlands (4-4)
  • Defeated Greece (3-8)
  • Defeated Australia (6-3)
  • Final Round (Group I)
  • Drew with United States (4-4)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (2-4)
  • Drew with Italy (2-2)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (4-5) → Fourth place
  • Team Roster
  • Gerd Olbert
  • Hermann Haverkamp
  • Peter Teicher
  • Kurt Küpper
  • Günter Wolf
  • Ingulf Nossek
  • Ludger Weeke
  • Kurt Schuhmann
  • Jürgen Stiefel
  • Hans Georg Simon
  • Hans Hoffmeister


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