Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Munich
Competitors371 (298 men, 73 women)[1] in 22 sports
Flag bearer Alexander Medved
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
50
Silver
27
Bronze
22
Total
99
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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 (1994–2016)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1996–)
 Tajikistan (1996–)
 Turkmenistan (1996–)
 ROC (2020-2022)
Aleksandr Medved, flag bearer of Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

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]

The Soviet Union won 50 gold medal in the year, when the fiftieth anniversary of the USSR's founding was celebrated in the country. That fact pleased the Soviet authorities.[3]

Medalists[]

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

Gold[]

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Athletics[]

  • Mykola Avilov — men's decathlon
  • Anatoliy Bondarchuk — men's hammer throw
  • Valeriy Borzov — men's 100 metres
  • Valeriy Borzov — men's 200 metres
  • Lyudmila Bragina — women's 1500 metres
  • Nadezhda Chizhova — women's shot put
  • Faina Melnik — women's discus throw
  • Viktor Saneyev — men's triple jump
  • Jüri Tarmak — men's high jump

Basketball[]

Boxing[]

Canoeing[]

  • Aleksandr Shaparenko — men's K1 1000m kayak singles
  • Yuliya Ryabchynskaya — women's K1 500m kayak singles
  • Nikolai Gorbachev and Viktor Kratasyuk — men's K2 1000m kayak pairs
  • Yekaterina Kuryshko and Lyudmila Pinayeva-Khvedosyuk — women's K2 500m kayak pairs
  • Vladas Česiūnas and Yury Lobanov — men's C2 1000m Canadian pairs
  • Yury Stetsenko, Valery Didenko, Yury Filatov and Vladimir Morozov — men's K4 1000m kayak fours

Cycling[]

Diving[]

Equestrian[]

Fencing[]

Gymnastics[]

  • Viktor Klimenko — men's pommel horse
  • Nikolay Andrianov — men's floor exercises
  • Lyudmila Turishcheva — women's all-around individual
  • Olga Korbut — women's balance beam
  • Olga Korbut — women's floor exercises
  • Tamara Lazakovich, Elvira Saadi, Lyudmila Turishcheva, Lyubov Burda, Olga Korbut and Antonina Koshel — women's team combined exercises

Judo[]

  • Shota Chochishvili — men's half-heavyweight (93 kg)

Modern pentathlon[]

Rowing[]

Men's single sculls – 1st place (Med 1.png gold medal)
Men's double sculls – 1st place (Med 1.png gold medal)

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

  • Yakov Zheleznyak — men's running game target

Volleyball[]

Water polo[]

  • Viacheslav 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

Weightlifting[]

  • Mukharby Kirzhinov — men's lightweight
  • Jaan Talts — men's heavyweight
  • Vasily Alekseyev — men's super heavyweight

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

Silver[]

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Athletics[]

  • Yevgeny Arzhanov — men's 800 metres
  • Valeriy Borzov, Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladimir Lovetskiy and Juris Silovs — men's 4 × 100 m relay
  • Vladimir Golubnichy — men's 20 km walk
  • Leonid Lytvynenko — men's decathlon
  • Jānis Lūsis — men's javelin throw
  • Veniamin Soldatenko — men's 50 km walk
  • Nijole Sabaite — women's 800 metres

Equestrian[]

  • Yelena Petushkova, her horse Pepel — dressage individual

Fencing[]

Gymnastics[]

  • Viktor Klimenko — men's long horse vault
  • Mikhail Voronin — men's rings
  • Eduard Mikaelyan, Vladimir Shchukin, Mikhail Voronin, Viktor Klimenko, Nikolay Andrianov and Aleksandr Maleyev — men's team combined exercises
  • Olga Korbut — women's asymmetrical bars
  • Tamara Lazakovich — women's balance beam
  • Lyudmila Turishcheva — women's floor exercises

Judo[]

  • Vitali Kuznetsov — men's open class

Modern pentathlon[]

  • Boris Onyshchenko — men's individual competition

Shooting[]

Swimming[]

Weightlifting[]

  • Dito Shanidze — men's featherweight

Wrestling[]

Bronze[]

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Archery[]

  • Emma Gaptchenko — women's individual competition

Athletics[]

  • Vasily Khmelevski — men's hammer throw

Cycling[]

  • Omar Pkhakadze — men's 1000m sprint (scratch)

Fencing[]

Football (soccer)[]

Gymnastics[]

  • Nikolay Andrianov — men's long horse vault
  • Tamara Lazakovich — women's all-around individual
  • Lyudmila Turishcheva — women's side horse vault
  • Tamara Lazakovich — women's floor exercises

Judo[]

  • Anatoly Novikov — men's half middleweight (70 kg)
  • Givi Onashvili — men's heavyweight (>100 kg)

Modern pentathlon[]

  • Pavel Lednev — men's individual competition

Sailing[]

Shooting[]

  • Viktor Torshin — men's rapid-fire pistol

Swimming[]

Volleyball[]

Weightlifting[]

  • Gennady Chetin — men's bantamweight

Wrestling[]

Results by event[]

Archery[]

Main article: Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Women's individual competition:

  • Emma Gaptchenko — 2403 points (→ Med 3.png Bronze medal)
  • — 2402 points (→ 4th place)
  • — 2364 points (→ 8th place)

Men's individual competition:

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

Athletics[]

Main article: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

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

Men's 800 metres

  • Yevgeny Arzhanov → Med 2.png Silver medal
  • Heat — 1:48.3
  • Semifinals — 1:46.3
  • Final — 1:45.9
  • 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 1,500 metres

  • Volodymyr Panteley
  • Heat — 3:42.3
  • Semifinals — 3:41.6
  • Final — 3:40.2 (→ 8th place)
  • Yevgeny Arzhanov
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 3:42.3 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

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

Men's 4 × 100 m relay

  • Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladimir Lovetskiy, Juris Silovs and Valeriy Borzov
  • Heat — 39.15s
  • Semifinals — 39.00s
  • Final — 38.50s (→ Med 2.png Silver medal)

Men's high jump

  • Qualifying round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.23m (→ 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)

Women's javelin throw

  • Qualifying round — 55.90 m
  • Final — 56.36 m (→ 8th place)

Basketball[]

Main article: Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Cuba (67–60)
  • Final
  • Defeated United States (51–50) → Med 1.png Gold medal

Boxing[]

Main article: Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's light middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Valeri Tregubov
  • 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)

  • Yuri Nesterov
  • First round — lost to Duane Bobick (USA), 0:5

Canoeing[]

Main article: Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Cycling[]

Main article: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Fifteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1972.

Individual road race
  • Valery Likhachov — 34th place
  • Anatoly Starkov — 35th place
  • Valery Yardy — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Ivan Trifonov — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial
Sprint
1000m time trial
  • Eduard Rapp
  • Final — 1:07.73 (→ 8th place)
Tandem
Team pursuit

Diving[]

Main article: Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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)

Equestrian[]

Main article: Equestrian at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Fencing[]

Main article: Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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
  • Viktor Sidyak
  • Vladimir Nazlymov
  • Mark Rakita
Men's team sabre
  • Mark Rakita, Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Eduard Vinokurov, Viktor Bazhenov
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Football[]

Main article: Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics[]

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Handball[]

Main article: Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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
  • Nikolai Semenov
  • Mikhail Ischenko
  • Aleksandr Panov
  • Vladimir Maksimov
  • Valentin Kulev
  • Vasili Ilyin
  • Anatoli Shevchenko
  • Yuri Klimov
  • Mikhail Luzenko
  • Alexander Resanov
  • Valeri Gassi
  • Albert Oganesov
  • Yan Vilson
  • Yuri Lagutin
  • Ivan Usaty

Judo[]

Main article: Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon[]

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1972.

Men's individual competition

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

Men's team competition

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

Rowing[]

Main article: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The Soviet Union had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1972.[4]

Men's single sculls

  • Heat — 7:42.67
  • Semifinals — 8:13.49
  • Final — 7:10.12 (→ Med 1.png Gold medal)
Men's coxless pair – 8th place
  • Vladimir Polyakov
  • Nikolay Vasilyev
Men's coxed pair
  • Heat — 7:43.84
  • Semifinals — 8:07.34
  • Final — 7:24.44 (→ 5th place)
Men's coxless four – 4th place
Men's coxed four – 4th place
Men's eight – 4th place

Sailing[]

Main article: Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Shooting[]

Main article: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Fourteen male shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1972. Yakiv Zhelezniak won gold, Boris Melnik and Yevgeny Petrov won silvers and Viktor Torshin won a bronze medal.

25 m pistol
50 m pistol
  • Grigory Kosykh
  • Vladimir Stolypin
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
  • Vladimir Agishev
  • Vitaly Parkhimovich
50 m rifle, prone
  • Vitaly Parkhimovich
  • Valentin Kornev
50 m running target
  • Yakiv Zhelezniak
  • Valerii Postoyanov
Trap
  • Aleksandr Alipov
  • Aleksandr Androshkin
Skeet

Swimming[]

Main article: Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Men's 100m freestyle

  • Vladimir Bure
  • Heat — 52.87s
  • Semifinals — 52.60s
  • Final — 51.77s (→ Med 3.png 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

  • Vladimir Bure
  • 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 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

  • Heat — 3:32.72
  • Final — 3:29.72 (→ Med 2.png Silver medal)

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

  • Heat — 7:51.44
  • Final — 7:45.76 (→ Med 3.png Bronze medal)

Volleyball[]

Main article: Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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) → 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

Water polo[]

Main article: Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting[]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Wrestling[]

Main article: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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.

RankRepublicGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russian SFSR602220102
2 Ukrainian SSR207936
3 Byelorussia106218
4 Georgia61310
5 Uzbekistan3003
6 Lithuania2103
7 Kazakhstan1326
8 Armenia1124
9 Azerbaijan1102
10 Estonia1012
11 Tajikistan1001
12 Latvia0213
Totals (12 republics)1064440190

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

Bibliography[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review. International Olympic Committee (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Soviet Union at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
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  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1972 München Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  • Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. – for medal stats by republic and by sports society
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