Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code   URS
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors 373 (302 men, 71 women)[1] in 20 sports
Flag bearer Alexander Medved
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
50		 Silver
27		 Bronze
22		 Total
99
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
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Winter Games
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Other related appearances
Unified Team Unified Team (1992)

The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Contents

[edit] Medals

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

[edit] Image:Med 1.png Gold

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Boxing

[edit] Canoeing

  • Aleksandr Shaparenko — Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles
  • Yuliya Ryabchynskaya — Women's K1 500m Kayak Singles
  • Nikolay Gorbachov and Viktor Kratasyuk — Men's K2 1000m Kayak Pairs
  • Yekaterina Kuryshko and Lyudmila Pinayeva-Khvedosyuk — Women's K2 500m Kayak Pairs
  • Vladislavas Cesiunas and Yury Lobanov — Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
  • Yury Stetsenko, Valery Didenko, Yury Filatov, and Vladimir Morozov — Men's K4 1000m Kayak Fours

[edit] Cycling

  • Valery Yardy, Gennady Komnatov, Valery Likhachov, and Boris Shukov — Men's Team Road Race
  • Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov — Men's 2000m Tandem

[edit] Diving

  • Vladimir Vasin — Men's Springboard

[edit] Equestrian

  • Yelena Petushkova, Pepel, Ivan Kalita, Ikhor, Ivan Kizimov, Tarif — Dressage Team

[edit] Fencing

  • Viktor Sidyak — Men's Sabre Individual
  • Svetlana Chirkova, Alexandra Zabelina, Yelena Belova-Novikova, Galina Gorokhova, and Tatyana Samusenko-Petrenko — Women's Foil Team

[edit] Gymnastics

[edit] Judo

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

  • Pavel Lednev, Boris Onyshchenko, and Vladimir Shmelyov — Men's Team Competition

[edit] Rowing

  • Yury Malyshev — Men's Single Sculls
  • Gennady Korshikov and Aleksandr Timoshinin — Men's Double Sculls

[edit] Sailing

[edit] Shooting

  • Yakov Zheleznyak — Men's Running Game Target

[edit] Volleyball

  • Nina Smoleyeva, Tatyana Tretyakova-Ponyaeva, Lyubov Tyurina, Inna Ryskal, Roza Salikhova, Tatyana Sarycheva, Tatyana Gonobobleva, Natalya Kudreva, Galina Leontyeva, Lyudmila Borozna, Lyudmila Buldakova, and Vera Duyunova-Galushka — Women's Team Competition

[edit] Water Polo

  • Vyatcheslav Sobchenko, Vladimir Zhmudsky, Nikolay Melnikov, Leonid Osipov, Aleksandr Shidlovsky, Aleksandr Dreval, Vadim Gulyaev, Aleksandr Kabanov, Anatoly Akimov, Aleksey Barkalov, and Aleksandr Dolgushin — Men's Team Competition

[edit] Weightlifting

[edit] Wrestling

  • Rustem Kazakov — Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
  • Shamil Khisamutdinov — Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight
  • Valery Rezantsev — Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight
  • Anatoly Roshchin — Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
  • Roman Dimitriyev — Men's Freestyle Light Flyweight
  • Zagalav Abdulbekov — Men's Freestyle Featherweight
  • Levan Tediashvili — Men's Freestyle Middleweight
  • Ivan Yarygin — Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
  • Aleksandr Medved — Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight


[edit] Image:Med 2.png Silver

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Equestrian

[edit] Fencing

[edit] Gymnastics

[edit] Judo

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

  • Boris Onyshchenko — Men's Individual Competition

[edit] Shooting

  • Yevgeny Petrov — Men's Skeet Shooting
  • Boris Melnik — Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions

[edit] Swimming

  • Viktor Mazanov, Viktor Aboimov, Vladimir Bure, and Igor Grivennikov — Men's 4x100m Freestyle
  • Galina Stepanova-Prozumenshchykova — Women's 100m Breaststroke

[edit] Weightlifting

  • Dito Shanidze — Men's Featherweight

[edit] Wrestling

  • Anatoly Nazarenko — Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
  • Nikolay Yakovenko — Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
  • Arsen Alakhverdiyev — Men's Freestyle Flyweight
  • Gennady Strakhov — Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight


[edit] Image:Med 3.png Bronze

[edit] Archery

  • Emma Gaptchenko — Archery, Women's Individual Competition

[edit] Athletics

  • Vasily Khmelevski — Men's Hammer Throw

[edit] Cycling

  • Omar Pkhakadze — Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)

[edit] Fencing

  • Vladimir Nazlymov — Men's Sabre Individual
  • Galina Gorokhova — Women's Foil Individual
  • Igor Valetov, Georgy Zazhitsky, Grigory Kriss, Viktor Modzalevsky, and Sergey Paramonov — Men's Épée Team

[edit] Football (Soccer)

[edit] Gymnastics

[edit] Judo

  • Anatoly Novikov — Men's Half Middleweight (70 kg)
  • Givi Onashvili — Men's Heavyweight (>100 kg)

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

  • Pavel Lednev — Men's Individual Competition

[edit] Sailing

  • Viktor Potapov — Men's Finn Class

[edit] Shooting

  • Viktor Torshin — Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol

[edit] Swimming

  • Vladimir Bure — Men's 100m Freestyle
  • Viktor Mazanov, Vladimir Bure, Igor Grivennikov, and Georgi Kulikov — Men's 4x200m Freestyle
  • Galina Stepanova-Prozumenshchykova — Women's 200m Breaststroke

[edit] Volleyball

  • Aleksandr Saprykin, Yury Starunsky, Leonid Zayko, Vladimir Patkin, Yury Poyarkov, Vladimir Putyatov, Vladimir Kondra, Valery Kravchenko, Yevgeny Lapinsky, Viktor Borshch, Yefim Chulak, and Vyatcheslav Domanyi — Men's Team Competition

[edit] Weightlifting

  • Gennady Chetin — Men's Bantamweight

[edit] Wrestling

  • Ruslan Ashuraliyev — Men's Freestyle Lightweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

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:

  • Emma Gaptchenko — 2403 points (→ Image:Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Keto Lossaberidze — 2402 points (→ 4th place)
  • Alla Peounova — 2364 points (→ 8th place)

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Victor Sidorouk — 2427 points (→ 7th place)
  • Mikhail Peounov 2397 points (→ 12th place)
  • Mati Vaikiarv — 2363 points (→ 24th place)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Vladimir Atamas
  • First Heat — 10.51s (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

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

Men's 1500 metres

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

Men's 5000 metres

  • Nikola Puklakov
  • Heat — 13:57.6 (→ did not advance)
  • Vladimir Afonin
  • Heat — 14:08.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100m Relay

  • Heat — 39.15s
  • Semifinals — 39.00s
  • Final — 38.50s (→ Image:Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Men's High Jump

  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.23m (→ Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.15m (→ 8th place)
  • Kestusis Shapka
  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.15m (→ 12th place)

[edit] Basketball

[edit] 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)
  • Semi Finals
  • Defeated Cuba (67-60)
  • Final
  • Defeated United States (51-50) → Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Valeri Tregubov
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Reginald Jones (USA), 3:2
  • Third Round — Lost to Alan Minter (GBR), 0:5

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race

  • Valery Likhachev — 34th place
  • Anatoly Starkov — 35th place
  • Valery Yardy — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Ivan Trifonov — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Eduard Rapp
  • Final — 1:07.73 (→ 8th place)

Men's Tandem

  • Igor Tselovalnikov and Vladimir Semenets — Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Vladimir Vasin - 594.09 points (gold medal)
  • Viacheslav Strahov - 556.20 points (6th place)
  • Vladimir Kapirulin - 329.46 points (18th place)

Men's 10m Platform

  • David Ambarzumian - 463.56 points (5th place)
  • Vladimir Kapirullin - 459.21 points (7th place)
  • Aleksander Gendrikson - 431.04 points (12th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

  • Natalia Kusnecova - 258.45 points (14th place)
  • Tatjana Shtyreva - 252.42 points (16th place)
  • Tamara Safonova - 252.09 points (17th place)

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)

[edit] Handball

[edit] 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

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition

  • Boris Onishenko — 5335 pts (→ Image:Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Pavel Lednev — 5328 pts (→ Image:Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Vladimir Shmelev — 5302 pts (→ 5th place)

Men's Team Competition

  • Onishenko, Lednev, and Shmelev — 15968 pts (→ Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal)

[edit] Rowing

Men's Single Sculls

  • Heat — 7:42.67
  • Semi Finals — 8:13.49
  • Final — 7:10.12 (→ Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal)

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov and Yuri Lorenson
  • Heat — 7:43.84
  • Semi Finals — 8:07.34
  • Final — 7:24.44 (→ 5th place)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Heat — 52.87s
  • Semifinals — 52.60s
  • Final — 51.77s (→ Image:Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Igor Grivennikov
  • Heat — 53.64s
  • Semifinals — 53.55s
  • Final — 52.44s (→ 6th place)
  • Georgi Kulikov
  • Heat — 53.78s
  • Semifinals — 53.68s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

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

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

  • Vladimir Bure, Viktor Mazanov, Viktor Aboimov, and Georgy Kulikov
  • Heat — 3:32.72
  • Vladimir Bure, Viktor Mazanov, Viktor Aboimov, and Igor Grivennikov
  • Final — 3:29.72 (→ Image:Med 2.png Silver Medal)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

  • Viktor Aboimov, Alexsandr Samsonov, Viktor Mazanov, and Georgi Kulikov
  • Heat — 7:51.44
  • Igor Grivennikov, Viktor Mazanov, Georgi Kulikov, and Vladimir Bure
  • Final — 7:45.76 (→ Image:Med 3.png Bronze Medal)

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] 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) → Image:Med 3.png Bronze Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Viktor Borsch
  • Vyacheslav Domany
  • Vladimir Patkyn
  • Leonid Zayko
  • Yuri Starunsky
  • Alex Saprikyne
  • Vladimir Kondra
  • Elim Chulak
  • Vladimir Poutyatov
  • Valery Kravchenko
  • Yevgeny Lapinsky
  • Yuri Poyarkov



[edit] 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.

 Rank  Republic Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of the Russian SFSR Russian SFSR 60 22 20 102
2 Flag of the Ukrainian SSR Ukrainian SSR 20 7 9 36
3 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR Byelorussian SSR 10 6 2 18
4 Flag of the Georgian SSR Georgian SSR 6 1 3 10
5 Flag of the Uzbek SSR Uzbek SSR 3 0 0 3
6 Flag of the Lithuanian SSR Lithuanian SSR 2 1 0 3
7 Flag of the Kazakh SSR Kazakh SSR 1 3 2 6
8 Flag of the Armenian SSR Armenian SSR 1 1 2 4
9 Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan SSR 1 1 0 2
10 Flag of the Estonian SSR Estonian SSR 1 0 1 2
11 Flag of the Tajik SSR Tajik SSR 1 0 0 1
12 Flag of the Latvian SSR Latvian SSR 0 2 1 3

[edit] 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

[edit] Bibliography

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF) (October 1974). Olympic Review (84): 530–557. International Olympic Committee. 
  • Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.  - for medal stats by republic and by sports society