Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code  URS
NOC Soviet Olympic Committee
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors 371 (298 men, 73 women)[1] in 22 sports
Flag bearer Alexander Medved
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
50		 Silver
27		 Bronze
22		 Total
99
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
Winter Games
Other related appearances
Russian Empire (1900–1912)
Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)
Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)
Unified Team (1992)
Armenia (1994–)
Belarus (1994–)
Georgia (1994–)
Kazakhstan (1994–)
Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
Moldova (1994–)
Russia (1994–)
Ukraine (1994–)
Uzbekistan (1994–)
Azerbaijan (1996–)
Tajikistan (1996–)
Turkmenistan (1996–)

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.[2]

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

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

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 4x100m 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

Men's team competition
  • 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)
  • Defeated Cuba (67-60)
  • Defeated United States (51-50) → Gold medal

Boxing

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

Cycling

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

Men's 3m springboard

Men's 10m platform

Women's 3m springboard

Women's 10m platform

Fencing

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

Gymnastics

Handball

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:

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1972.

Men's individual competition

Men's team competition

Rowing

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

Shooting

Swimming

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 4x100m freestyle relay

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

Men's 4x200m freestyle relay

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

Volleyball

Men's team competition
  • Defeated Tunisia (3-0)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-0)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (3-1)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-0)
  • Defeated Poland (3-2)
  • Lost to East Germany (1-3)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (3-0) → Bronze medal

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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  Russian SFSR 602220102
2  Ukrainian SSR 207936
3  Byelorussian SSR 106218
4  Georgian SSR 61310
5  Uzbek SSR 3003
6  Lithuanian SSR 2103
7  Kazakh SSR 1326
8  Armenian SSR 1124
9  Azerbaijan SSR 1102
10  Estonian SSR 1012
11  Tajik SSR 1001
12  Latvian SSR 0213

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 Total
1Armed Forces33181869
2Dynamo28101654
3VSS Burevestnik116522
4VSS Spartak93315
5VSS Trud7119

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (International Olympic Committee) (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
  2. ↑ "Soviet Union at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-02-20.