Water skiing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Water skiing was one of two demonstration sports at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. It was the only time that the sport was demonstrated at any Olympic Games. 35 participants from 20 countries took part in six events: slalom, figure skiing, and ski jump for each of men and women skiers. The slalom events took place on September 1 and the figure skiing and ski jump events took place on September 2.

Event results[]

Men's slalom[]

Place	Name	Buoys
1	Roby Zucchi (ITA)	44.0
2	Wayne Grimditch (USA)	38.5
3	(FRA)	38.0
	(FIN)	38.0
5	(FRG)	32.0
6	(FRG)	29.5
7	(AUS)	28.5
8	(AUS)	28.0
9	Ricky McCormick (USA)	27.5
	(CAN)	27.5
	(GBR)	27.5
12	(COL)	21.0
13	(SUI)	17.5
14	(CAN)	7.5
15	Wolfgang Loscher (AUT)	6.5

Men's Trick skiing[]

Place	Name	Points
1	Ricky McCormick (USA)	5340
2	Wayne Grimditch (USA)	4510
3	(FRG)	4240
4	(AUS)	3940
5	(AUS)	3860
6	(ITA)	3850
7	(ARG)	3720
8	(GBR)	3560
	Roby Zucchi (ITA)	3560
10	(BEL)	2990
11	(CAN)	2930
12	(FRA)	2740
13	(SUI)	2640
14	(GBR)	2160
15	(FIN)	2060
16	(SUI)	1770

Men's jump[]

Place	Name	Metres
1	Ricky McCormick (USA)	43.75
2	(ITA)	37.70
	(FRG)	37.70
4	(MEX)	36.40
5	(AUS)	35.50
6	(SUI)	35.40
7	Roby Zucchi (ITA)	35.10
8	(FRA)	34.75
9	(GBR)	34.40
10	(CAN)	33.90
11	(AUS)	33.10
12	(CAN)	31.90
13	(IRL)	31.05
14	Wayne Grimditch (USA)	30.15

Women's slalom[]

Place	Name	Buoys
1	(USA)	35.0
2	Willy Stähle (NED)	31.5
3	Pat Messner (CAN)	29.0
4	(FRA)	28.0
5	(AUS)	27.0

Women's figure skiing[]

Place	Name	Points
1	Willy Stähle (NED)	3140
2	(AUS)	2750
3	(FRA)	2560
4	Sylvie Hülsemann (LUX)	1780
5	(USA)	1550

Women's jump[]

Place	Name	Metres
1	(FRA)	27.40
2	(AUS)	27.30
3	(USA)	25.70
4	Willy Stähle (NED)	25.35
5	(FRG)	24.10
6	(GBR)	23.25

References[]

• Ed. Herbert Kunze (ed.). The official report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972, Volume 3: The competitions (PDF) (PDF). München: proSport GmbH & Co. pp. 526–527.