List of 1972 Summer Olympics medal winners

The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.

Archery

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)2002
2  Poland (POL)0101
  Sweden (SWE)0101
4  Finland (FIN)0011
  Soviet Union (URS)0011
Totals (5 entries)2226

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
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John Williams
  United States
Gunnar Jervill
  Sweden
Kyösti Laasonen
  Finland
Women's
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Doreen Wilber
  United States
Irena Szydłowska
  Poland
Emma Gapchenko
  Soviet Union

Athletics

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  *   Host nation (West Germany)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)97117
2  East Germany (GDR)87520
3  United States (USA)68822
4  West Germany (FRG)*63211
5  Finland (FIN)3014
6  Kenya (KEN)2226
7  Great Britain (GBR)1124
8  Poland (POL)1023
9  Czechoslovakia (TCH)1012
10  Uganda (UGA)1001
11  Bulgaria (BUL)0224
12  Australia (AUS)0202
  Belgium (BEL)0202
  Romania (ROU)0202
15  France (FRA)0112
16  Tunisia (TUN)0101
17  Cuba (CUB)0022
  Ethiopia (ETH)0022
  Italy (ITA)0022
20  Austria (AUT)0011
  Brazil (BRA)0011
  Jamaica (JAM)0011
  New Zealand (NZL)0011
  Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (24 entries)383838114

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Valeriy Borzov
  Soviet Union
10.14 Robert Taylor
  United States
10.24 Lennox Miller
  Jamaica
10.33
200 metres
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Valeriy Borzov
  Soviet Union
20.00 Larry Black
  United States
20.19 Pietro Mennea
  Italy
20.30
400 metres
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Vincent Matthews
  United States
44.66 Wayne Collett
  United States
44.80 Julius Sang
  Kenya
44.92
800 metres
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Dave Wottle
  United States
1:45.86 Yevhen Arzhanov
  Soviet Union
1:45.89 Mike Boit
  Kenya
1:46.01
1500 metres
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Pekka Vasala
  Finland
3:36.33 Kipchoge Keino
  Kenya
3:36.81 Rod Dixon
  New Zealand
3:37.46
5000 metres
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Lasse Virén
  Finland
13:26.42
(OR)
Mohammed Gammoudi
  Tunisia
13:27.33 Ian Stewart
  Great Britain
13:27.61
10,000 metres
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Lasse Virén
  Finland
27:38.35
(WR)
Emiel Puttemans
  Belgium
27:39.58 Miruts Yifter
  Ethiopia
27:40.96
110 metres hurdles
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Rod Milburn
  United States
13.24
(WR)
Guy Drut
  France
13.34 Thomas Hill
  United States
13.48
400 metres hurdles
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John Akii-Bua
  Uganda
47.82
(WR)
Ralph Mann
  United States
48.51 David Hemery
  Great Britain
48.52
3000 metres steeplechase
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Kipchoge Keino
  Kenya
8:23.64
(OR)
Ben Jipcho
  Kenya
8:24.62 Tapio Kantanen
  Finland
8:24.66
4 × 100 metres relay
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  United States (USA)
Larry Black
Robert Taylor
Gerald Tinker
Eddie Hart
38.19
(WR)
  Soviet Union (URS)
Aleksandr Kornelyuk
Vladimir Lovetskiy
Juris Silovs
Valeriy Borzov
38.50   West Germany (FRG)
Jobst Hirscht
Karlheinz Klotz
Gerhard Wucherer
Klaus Ehl
38.79
4 × 400 metres relay
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  Kenya (KEN)
Charles Asati
Munyoro Nyamau
Robert Ouko
Julius Sang
2:59.83   Great Britain (GBR)
Martin Reynolds
Alan Pascoe
David Hemery
David Jenkins
3:00.46   France (FRA)
Gilles Bertould
Daniel Velasques
Francis Kerbiriou
Jacques Carette
3:00.65
Marathon
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Frank Shorter
  United States
2:12:19.8 Karel Lismont
  Belgium
2:14:31.8 Mamo Wolde
  Ethiopia
2:15:08.4
20 kilometres walk
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Peter Frenkel
  East Germany
1:26:42.4
(OR)
Volodymyr Holubnychy
  Soviet Union
1:26:55.2 Hans-Georg Reimann
  East Germany
1:27:16.6
50 kilometres walk
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Bernd Kannenberg
  West Germany
3:56:11.6
(OR)
Veniamin Soldatenko
  Soviet Union
3:58:24.0 Larry Young
  United States
4:00:46.0
High jump
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Jüri Tarmak
  Soviet Union
2.23 m Stefan Junge
  East Germany
2.21 m Dwight Stones
  United States
2.21 m
Pole vault
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Wolfgang Nordwig
  East Germany
5.50 m
(OR)
Bob Seagren
  United States
5.40 m Jan Johnson
  United States
5.35 m
Long jump
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Randy Williams
  United States
8.24 m Hans Baumgartner
  West Germany
8.18 m Arnie Robinson
  United States
8.03 m
Triple jump
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Viktor Saneyev
  Soviet Union
17.35 m Jörg Drehmel
  East Germany
17.31 m Nelson Prudêncio
  Brazil
17.05 m
Shot put
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Władysław Komar
  Poland
21.18 m
(OR)
George Woods
  United States
21.17 m Hartmut Briesenick
  East Germany
21.14 m
Discus throw
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Ludvík Daněk
  Czechoslovakia
64.40 m Jay Silvester
  United States
63.50 m Ricky Bruch
  Sweden
63.40 m
Hammer throw
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Anatolij Bondarčuk
  Soviet Union
75.50 m
(OR)
Jochen Sachse
  East Germany
74.96 m Vasiliy Khmelevskiy
  Soviet Union
74.04 m
Javelin throw
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Klaus Wolfermann
  West Germany
90.48 m
(OR)
Jānis Lūsis
  Soviet Union
90.46 m Bill Schmidt
  United States
84.42 m
Decathlon
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Mykola Avilov
  Soviet Union
8454 pts
(WR)
Leonid Lytvynenko
  Soviet Union
8035 pts Ryszard Katus
  Poland
7984 pts

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Renate Stecher
  East Germany
11.07
(WR)
Raelene Boyle
  Australia
11.23 Silvia Chivás
  Cuba
11.24
200 metres
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Renate Stecher
  East Germany
22.40
(=WR)
Raelene Boyle
  Australia
22.45 Irena Szewińska
  Poland
22.74
400 metres
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Monika Zehrt
  East Germany
51.08 Rita Wilden
  West Germany
51.21 Kathy Hammond
  United States
51.64
800 metres
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Hildegard Falck
  West Germany
1:58.55
(OR)
Nijolė Sabaitė
  Soviet Union
1:58.65 Gunhild Hoffmeister
  East Germany
1:59.19
1500 metres
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Lyudmila Bragina
  Soviet Union
4:01.38
(WR)
Gunhild Hoffmeister
  East Germany
4:02.83 Paola Pigni
  Italy
4:02.85
100 metres hurdles
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Annelie Ehrhardt
  East Germany
12.59
(WR)
Valeria Bufanu
  Romania
12.84 Karin Balzer
  East Germany
12.90
4 × 100 metres relay
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  West Germany (FRG)
Christiane Krause
Ingrid Becker
Annegret Richter
Heide Rosendahl
42.81
(WR)
  East Germany (GDR)
Evelin Kaufer
Christina Heinich
Bärbel Struppert
Renate Stecher
42.95   Cuba (CUB)
Marlene Elejarde
Carmen Valdés
Fulgencia Romay
Silvia Chivás
43.36
4 × 400 metres relay
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  East Germany (GDR)
Dagmar Käsling
Rita Kühne
Helga Seidler
Monika Zehrt
3:22.95
(WR)
  United States (USA)
Mable Fergerson
Madeline Manning
Cheryl Toussaint
Kathy Hammond
3:25.15   West Germany (FRG)
Anette Rückes
Inge Bödding
Hildegard Falck
Rita Wilden
3:26.51
High jump
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Ulrike Meyfarth
  West Germany
1.92 m
(=WR)
Yordanka Blagoeva
  Bulgaria
1.88 m Ilona Gusenbauer
  Austria
1.88 m
Long jump
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Heide Rosendahl
  West Germany
6.78 m Diana Yorgova
  Bulgaria
6.77 m Eva Šuranová
  Czechoslovakia
6.67 m
Shot put
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Nadezhda Chizhova
  Soviet Union
21.03 m
(WR)
Margitta Gummel
  East Germany
20.22 m Ivanka Khristova
  Bulgaria
19.35 m
Discus throw
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Faina Melnik
  Soviet Union
66.62 m
(OR)
Argentina Menis
  Romania
65.06 m Vasilka Stoeva
  Bulgaria
64.34 m
Javelin throw
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Ruth Fuchs
  East Germany
63.88 m
(OR)
Jacqueline Todten
  East Germany
62.54 m Kate Schmidt
  United States
59.94 m
Pentathlon
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Mary Peters
  Great Britain
4801 pts
(WR)
Heide Rosendahl
  West Germany
4791 pts Burglinde Pollak
  East Germany
4768 pts

Basketball

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Medal table

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RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union1001
2  United States0101
3  Cuba0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's   Soviet Union (URS)
Anatoli Polivoda
Modestas Paulauskas
Zurab Sakandelidze
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov
Aleksandr Boloshev
Ivan Edeshko
Sergei Belov
Mikheil Korkia
Ivan Dvorny
Gennadi Volnov
Aleksandr Belov
Sergei Kovalenko
  United States (USA)
Kenneth Davis
Doug Collins
Tom Henderson
Mike Bantom
Robert Jones
Dwight Jones
James Forbes
Jim Brewer
Tommy Burleson
Tom McMillen
Kevin Joyce
Ed Ratleff
  Cuba (CUB)
Juan Carlos Domecq Fortuondo
Ruperto Herrera Tabio
Juan Roca Brunet
Pedro Chappe Garcia
Miguel Álvarez Pozo
Rafael Cañizares Poey
Conrado Perez Armenteros
Miguel Calderon Gomez
Tomas Herrera Martinez
Oscar Varona Varona
Alejandro Urgelles Guibot
Franklin Standard Johnson

Boxing

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Cuba (CUB)3115
2  Soviet Union (URS)2002
3  Hungary (HUN)1214
4  Poland (POL)1124
5  Bulgaria (BUL)1102
6  United States (USA)1034
7  West Germany (FRG)*1012
  Yugoslavia (YUG)1012
9  Kenya (KEN)0123
10  Finland (FIN)0101
  Mexico (MEX)0101
  North Korea (PRK)0101
  Romania (ROU)0101
  Uganda (UGA)0101
15  Great Britain (GBR)0033
16  Colombia (COL)0022
17  East Germany (GDR)0011
  Ghana (GHA)0011
  Niger (NIG)0011
  Nigeria (NGR)0011
  Spain (ESP)0011
  Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (22 entries)11112244

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Light flyweight (–48 kg)
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György Gedó
  Hungary
Kim U-gil
  North Korea
Ralph Evans
  Great Britain
Enrique Rodríguez
  Spain
Flyweight (–51 kg)
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Georgi Kostadinov
  Bulgaria
Leo Rwabwogo
  Uganda
Leszek Błażyński
  Poland
Douglas Rodríguez
  Cuba
Bantamweight (–54 kg)
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Orlando Martínez
  Cuba
Alfonso Zamora
  Mexico
Ricardo Carreras
  United States
George Turpin
  Great Britain
Featherweight (–57 kg)
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Boris Kuznetsov
  Soviet Union
Philip Waruinge
  Kenya
András Botos
  Hungary
Clemente Rojas
  Colombia
Lightweight (–60 kg)
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Jan Szczepański
  Poland
László Orbán
  Hungary
Samuel Mbugua
  Kenya
Alfonso Pérez
  Colombia
Light welterweight (–63 kg)
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Sugar Ray Seales
  United States
Angel Angelov
  Bulgaria
Issaka Daborg
  Niger
Zvonimir Vujin
  Yugoslavia
Welterweight (–67 kg)
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Emilio Correa
  Cuba
János Kajdi
  Hungary
Dick Murunga
  Kenya
Jesse Valdez
  United States
Light middleweight (–71 kg)
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Dieter Kottysch
  West Germany
Wiesław Rudkowski
  Poland
Alan Minter
  Great Britain
Peter Tiepold
  East Germany
Middleweight (–75 kg)
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Vyacheslav Lemeshev
  Soviet Union
Reima Virtanen
  Finland
Prince Amartey
  Ghana
Marvin Johnson
  United States
Light heavyweight (–81 kg)
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Mate Parlov
  Yugoslavia
Gilberto Carrillo
  Cuba
Janusz Gortat
  Poland
Isaac Ikhouria
  Nigeria
Heavyweight (+81 kg)
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Teófilo Stevenson
  Cuba
Ion Alexe
  Romania
Peter Hussing
  West Germany
Hasse Thomsén
  Sweden

Canoeing

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)6006
2  East Germany (GDR)4116
3  Romania (ROU)1214
4  West Germany (FRG)*0325
5  Hungary (HUN)0224
6  Austria (AUT)0101
  Netherlands (NED)0101
  Sweden (SWE)0101
9  Bulgaria (BUL)0011
  France (FRA)0011
  Norway (NOR)0011
  Poland (POL)0011
  United States (USA)0011
Totals (13 entries)11111133

Slalom

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Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's C-1
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Reinhard Eiben
  East Germany
Reinhold Kauder
  West Germany
Jamie McEwan
  United States
Men's C-2
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  East Germany
Walter Hofmann
Rolf-Dieter Amend
  West Germany
Hans-Otto Schumacher
Wilhelm Baues
  France
Jean-Louis Olry
Jean-Claude Olry
Men's K-1
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Siegbert Horn
  East Germany
Norbert Sattler
  Austria
Harald Gimpel
  East Germany

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Women's K-1
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Angelika Bahmann
  East Germany
Gisela Grothaus
  West Germany
Magdalena Wunderlich
  West Germany

Sprint

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Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
C-1 1000 metres
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Ivan Patzaichin
  Romania
Tamás Wichmann
  Hungary
Detlef Lewe
  West Germany
C-2 1000 metres
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  Soviet Union
Vladas Česiūnas
Yuri Lobanov
  Romania
Ivan Patzaichin
Serghei Covaliov
  Bulgaria
Fedia Damianov
Ivan Burtchin
K-1 1000 metres
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Aleksandr Shaparenko
  Soviet Union
Rolf Peterson
  Sweden
Géza Csapó
  Hungary
K-2 1000 metres
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  Soviet Union
Nikolai Gorbachev
Viktor Kratasyuk
  Hungary
József Deme
János Rátkai
  Poland
Władysław Szuszkiewicz
Rafał Piszcz
K-4 1000 metres
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  Soviet Union
Yuri Filatov
Yuri Stetsenko
Vladimir Morozov
Valeri Didenko
  Romania
Aurel Vernescu
Mihai Zafiu
Roman Vartolomeu
Atanase Sciotnic
  Norway
Egil Søby
Steinar Amundsen
Tore Berger
Jan Johansen

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
K-1 500 metres
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Yulia Ryabchinskaya
  Soviet Union
Mieke Jaapies
  Netherlands
Anna Pfeffer
  Hungary
K-2 500 metres
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  Soviet Union
Lyudmila Pinayeva
Yekaterina Kuryshko
  East Germany
Ilse Kaschube
Petra Grabowski
  Romania
Maria Nichiforov
Viorica Dumitru

Cycling

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (West Germany)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union2013
2  West Germany*1012
3  Denmark1001
  France1001
  Netherlands1001
  Norway1001
7  Australia0303
8  East Germany0213
9  Poland0112
10  Switzerland0101
11  Great Britain0011
Totals (11 entries)77519

Road cycling

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
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Hennie Kuiper
  Netherlands
Clyde Sefton
  Australia
no medal awarded [1]
Team time trial
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  Soviet Union (URS)
Valery Yardy
Gennady Komnatov
Valery Likhachov
Boris Shukov
  Poland (POL)
Ryszard Szurkowski
Edward Barcik
Lucjan Lis
Stanisław Szozda
no medal awarded [2]

Track cycling

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual pursuit
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Knut Knudsen
  Norway
Xaver Kurmann
  Switzerland
Hans Lutz
  West Germany
Team pursuit
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  West Germany (FRG)
Günther Schumacher
Jürgen Colombo
Günter Haritz
Udo Hempel
  East Germany (GDR)
Uwe Unterwalder
Thomas Huschke
Heinz Richter
Herbert Richter
  Great Britain (GBR)
William Moore
Michael Bennett
Ian Hallam
Ronald Keeble
Sprint
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Daniel Morelon
  France
John Nicholson
  Australia
Omar Pkhakadze
  Soviet Union
Tandem
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  Soviet Union
Vladimir Semenets
Igor Tselovalnykov
  East Germany
Jürgen Geschke
Werner Otto
  Poland
Andrzej Bek
Benedykt Kocot
Time trial
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Niels Fredborg
  Denmark
Danny Clark
  Australia
Jürgen Schütze
  East Germany

Diving

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Italy (ITA)1113
  United States (USA)1113
3  Sweden (SWE)1102
4  Soviet Union (URS)1001
5  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0101
6  East Germany (GDR)0022
Totals (6 entries)44412

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
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Vladimir Vasin
  Soviet Union
Giorgio Cagnotto
  Italy
Craig Lincoln
  United States
10 m platform
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Klaus Dibiasi
  Italy
Richard Rydze
  United States
Giorgio Cagnotto
  Italy

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
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Micki King
  United States
Ulrika Knape
  Sweden
Marina Janicke
  East Germany
10 m platform
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Ulrika Knape
  Sweden
Milena Duchková
  Czechoslovakia
Marina Janicke
  East Germany

Equestrian events

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (West Germany)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  West Germany (FRG)*2125
2  Great Britain (GBR)2103
3  Italy (ITA)1113
4  Soviet Union (URS)1102
5  United States (USA)0213
6  Sweden (SWE)0022
Totals (6 entries)66618

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual dressage
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  Liselott Linsenhoff
on Piaff (FRG)
  Yelena Petushkova
on Pepel (URS)
  Josef Neckermann
on Venetia (FRG)
Team dressage
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  Soviet Union (URS)
Yelena Petushkova
and Pepel
Ivan Kizimov
and Ikhor
Ivan Kalita
and Tarif
  West Germany (FRG)
Karin Schlüter
and Liostro
Liselott Linsenhoff
and Piaff
Josef Neckermann
and Venetia
  Sweden (SWE)
Ulla Håkansson
and Ajax
Ninna Swaab
and Casanova
Maud von Rosen
and Lucky Boy
Individual eventing
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  Richard Meade
on Laurieston (GBR)
  Alessandro Argenton
on Woodland (ITA)
  Jan Jönsson
on Sarajevo (SWE)
Team eventing
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  Great Britain (GBR)
Richard Meade
and Laurieston
Mary Gordon-Watson
and Cornishman V
Bridget Parker
and Cornish Gold
Mark Phillips
and Great Ovation
  United States (USA)
Kevin Freeman
and Good Mixture
Bruce Davidson
and Plain Sailing
Michael Plumb
and Free and Easy
James C. Wofford
and Kilkenny
  West Germany (FRG)
Harry Klugmann
and Christopher Robert
Ludwig Gössing
and Chicago
Karl Schultz
and Pisco
Horst Karsten
and Sioux
Individual jumping
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  Graziano Mancinelli
on Ambassador (ITA)
  Ann Moore
on Psalm (GBR)
  Neal Shapiro
on Sloopy (USA)
Team jumping
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  West Germany (FRG)
Fritz Ligges
and Robin
Gerhard Wiltfang
and Askan
Hartwig Steenken
and Simona
Hans Günter Winkler
and Trophy
  United States (USA)
William Steinkraus
and Main Spring
Neal Shapiro
and Sloopy
Kathryn Kusner
and Fleet Apple
Frank Chapot
and White Lightning
  Italy (ITA)
Vittorio Orlandi
and Fulmer Feather
Raimondo D'Inzeo
and Fiorello
Graziano Mancinelli
and Ambassador
Piero D'Inzeo
and Easter Light

Fencing

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Hungary (HUN)2428
2  Soviet Union (URS)2237
3  Italy (ITA)2002
  Poland (POL)2002
5  France (FRA)0123
6  Switzerland (SUI)0101
7  Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (7 entries)88824

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
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Csaba Fenyvesi
  Hungary
Jacques Ladegaillerie
  France
Győző Kulcsár
  Hungary
Team épée
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  Hungary (HUN)
Sándor Erdős
Csaba Fenyvesi
Győző Kulcsár
Pál Schmitt
István Osztrics
  Switzerland (SUI)
Guy Evequoz
Daniel Giger
Christian Kauter
Peter Lötscher
François Suchanecki
  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Modzolevsky
Sergei Paramonov
Igor Valetov
Georgi Zažitski
Grigori Kriss
Individual foil
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Witold Woyda
  Poland
Jenő Kamuti
  Hungary
Christian Noël
  France
Team foil
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  Poland (POL)
Marek Dąbrowski
Jerzy Kaczmarek
Lech Koziejowski
Witold Woyda
Arkadiusz Godel
  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Denisov
Anatoli Kotetsev
Leonid Romanov
Vasili Stankovich
Victor Putyatin
  France (FRA)
Jean-Claude Magnan
Christian Noël
Daniel Revenu
Bernard Talvard
Gilles Berolatti
Individual sabre
details
Viktor Sidyak
  Soviet Union
Péter Marót
  Hungary
Vladimir Nazlymov
  Soviet Union
Team sabre
details
  Italy (ITA)
Michele Maffei
Mario Aldo Montano
Mario Tullio Montano
Rolando Rigoli
Cesare Salvadori
  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Bashenov
Vladimir Nazlymov
Viktor Sidyak
Eduard Vinokurov
Mark Rakita
  Hungary (HUN)
Pál Gerevich
Tamás Kovács
Péter Marót
Tibor Pézsa
Péter Bakonyi

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual foil
details
Antonella Ragno-Lonzi
  Italy
Ildikó Bóbis
  Hungary
Galina Gorokhova
  Soviet Union
Team foil
details
  Soviet Union (URS)
Elena Belova
Galina Gorokhova
Tatyana Samusenko
Aleksandra Zabelina
Svetlana Tširkova
  Hungary (HUN)
Ildikó Bóbis
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
Ildikó Schwarczenberger
Mária Gulácsi-Szolnoki
Ildikó Matuscsák-Rónay
  Romania (ROU)
Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei
Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu
Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl
Olga Orban-Szabo

Field hockey

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  West Germany*1001
2  Pakistan0101
3  India0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's   West Germany (FRG)
Wolfgang Baumgart
Horst Drose
Dieter Freise
Werner Kaessmann
Carsten Keller
Detlev Kittstein
Ulrich Klaes
Peter Kraus
Michael Krause
Michael Peter
Wolfgang Rott
Fritz Schmidt
Rainer Seifert
Wolfgang Strodter
Eckart Suhl
Eduard Thelen
Peter Trump
Ulrich Vos
  Pakistan (PAK)
Rashid Abdul
Akhtar Rasool
Ul Akhtar
Jahangir Butt
Fazalur Rehman
Islahuddin Siddiquee
Muhammad Asad Malik
Shahnaz Sheikh
Munawwaruz Zaman
Ahmad Riaz
Saeed Anwar
Saleem Sherwani
Iftikar Syed
Mudassar Asghar
Zahid Sheikh
  India (IND)
B. P. Govinda
Charles Cornelius
Manuel Frederick
Michael Kindo
V.J. Philips
Ashok Kumar
M. P. Ganesh
Krishnamurty Perumal
Ajitpal Singh
Harbinder Singh
Harcharan Singh
Harmik Singh
Kulwant Singh
Mukhbain Singh
Virinder Singh
Vece Paes

Football

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Poland1001
2  Hungary0101
3  East Germany0011
  Soviet Union0011
Totals (4 entries)1124

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's   Poland (POL)
Hubert Kostka
Zbigniew Gut
Jerzy Gorgoń
Zygmunt Anczok
Lesław Ćmikiewicz
Zygmunt Maszczyk
Jerzy Kraska
Kazimierz Deyna
Zygfryd Szołtysik
Włodzimierz Lubański
Robert Gadocha
Ryszard Szymczak
Antoni Szymanowski
Joachim Marx
Grzegorz Lato
Marian Ostafiński
Kazimierz Kmiecik
Marian Szeja
  Hungary (HUN)
István Géczi
Péter Vépi
Miklós Páncsics
Péter Juhász
Lajos Szűcs
Mihály Kozma
Antal Dunai
Lajos Kű
Béla Váradi
Ede Dunai
László Bálint
Lajos Kocsis
Kálmán Tóth
László Branikovits
József Kovács
Csaba Vidács
Adám Rothermel
  East Germany (GDR)
Jürgen Croy
Manfred Zapf
Konrad Weise
Bernd Bransch
Jürgen Pommerenke
Jürgen Sparwasser
Hans-Jürgen Kreische
Joachim Streich
Wolfgang Seguin
Peter Ducke
Frank Ganzera
Lothar Kurbjuweit
Eberhard Vogel
Harald Irmscher
Ralf Schulenberg
Reinhard Häfner
Siegmar Wätzlich
  Soviet Union (URS)
Oleh Blokhin
Murtaz Khurtsilava
Yuriy Istomin
Volodymyr Kaplychnyi
Viktor Kolotov
Yevgeni Lovchev
Sergei Olshansky
Yevhen Rudakov
Vyacheslav Semyonov
Gennadi Evryuzhikhin
Oganes Zanazanyan
Andrei Yakubik
Arkady Andreasyan
Revaz Dzodzuashvili
Yozhef Sabo
Yuriy Yeliseyev
Volodymyr Onyshchenko
Anatoliy Kuksov
Vladimir Pilgui

Gymnastics

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union66416
2  Japan55616
3  East Germany3429
4  Hungary0011
Totals (4 entries)14151342

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Sawao Kato
  Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
  Japan
Akinori Nakayama
  Japan
Team all-around
details
  Japan (JPN)
Shigeru Kasamatsu
Sawao Kato
Eizo Kenmotsu
Akinori Nakayama
Teruichi Okamura
Mitsuo Tsukahara
  Soviet Union (URS)
Nikolai Andrianov
Viktor Klimenko
Alexander Maleev
Edvard Mikaelian
Vladimir Schukin
Mikhail Voronin
  East Germany (GDR)
Matthias Brehme
Wolfgang Klotz
Klaus Köste
Jürgen Paeke
Reinhard Rychly
Wolfgang Thüne
Floor exercise
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Nikolai Andrianov
  Soviet Union
Akinori Nakayama
  Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
  Japan
Horizontal bar
details
Mitsuo Tsukahara
  Japan
Sawao Kato
  Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
  Japan
Parallel bars
details
Sawao Kato
  Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
  Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
  Japan
Pommel horse
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Viktor Klimenko
  Soviet Union
Sawao Kato
  Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
  Japan
Rings
details
Akinori Nakayama
  Japan
Mikhail Voronin
  Soviet Union
Mitsuo Tsukahara
  Japan
Vault
details
Klaus Köste
  East Germany
Viktor Klimenko
  Soviet Union
Nikolai Andrianov
  Soviet Union

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
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Ludmila Tourischeva
  Soviet Union
Karin Janz
  East Germany
Tamara Lazakovich
  Soviet Union
Team all-around
details
  Soviet Union (URS)
Lyubov Burda
Olga Korbut
Antonina Koshel
Tamara Lazakovich
Elvira Saadi
Ludmila Tourischeva
  East Germany (GDR)
Irene Abel
Angelika Hellmann
Karin Janz
Richarda Schmeißer
Christine Schmitt
Erika Zuchold
  Hungary (HUN)
Ilona Békési
Mónika Császár
Marta Kelemen
Anikó Kéry
Krisztina Medveczky
Zsuzsa Nagy
Balance beam
details
Olga Korbut
  Soviet Union
Tamara Lazakovich
  Soviet Union
Karin Janz
  East Germany
Floor exercise
details
Olga Korbut
  Soviet Union
Ludmila Tourischeva
  Soviet Union
Tamara Lazakovich
  Soviet Union
Uneven bars
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Karin Janz
  East Germany
Olga Korbut
  Soviet Union
None awarded
(as there was a tie for silver)
Erika Zuchold
  East Germany
Vault
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Karin Janz
  East Germany
Erika Zuchold
  East Germany
Ludmila Tourischeva
  Soviet Union

Handball

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Yugoslavia (YUG)1001
2  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0101
3  Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's   Yugoslavia (YUG)
Abaz Arslanagić
Petar Fajfrić
Hrvoje Horvat
Milorad Karalić
Đorđe Lavrnić
Milan Lazarević
Zdravko Miljak
Slobodan Mišković
Branislav Pokrajac
Nebojša Popović
Miroslav Pribanić
Albin Vidović
Zoran Živković
Zdenko Zorko
  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Ladislav Beneš
František Brůna
Vladimír Haber
Vladimír Jarý
Jiří Kavan
Arnošt Klimčík
Jaroslav Konečný
František Králík
Jindřich Krepindl
Vincent Lafko
Andrej Lukošík
Pavel Mikeš
Petr Pospíšil
Ivan Satrapa
Zdeněk Škára
Jaroslav Škarvan
  Romania (ROU)
Ştefan Birtalan
Adrian Cosma
Marin Dan
Alexandru Dincă
Cristian Gaţu
Gheorghe Gruia
Roland Gunesch
Gabriel Kicsid
Ghiţă Licu
Cornel Penu
Valentin Samungi
Simion Schöbel
Werner Stöckl
Constantin Tudosie
Radu Voina

Judo

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan3014
2  Netherlands2002
3  Soviet Union1124
4  Great Britain0123
5  West Germany*0112
6  Poland0101
  South Korea0101
8  France0033
9  Brazil0011
  East Germany0011
  North Korea0011
Totals (11 entries)651223

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Lightweight
63 kg
details
Takao Kawaguchi
  Japan
vacant[3] Kim Yong-ik
  North Korea
Jean-Jacques Mounier
  France
Half middleweight
70 kg
details
Toyokazu Nomura
  Japan
Antoni Zajkowski
  Poland
Dietmar Hötger
  East Germany
Anatoliy Novikov
  Soviet Union
Middleweight
80 kg
details
Shinobu Sekine
  Japan
Oh Seung-lip
  South Korea
Jean-Paul Coche
  France
Brian Jacks
  Great Britain
Half-heavyweight
93 kg
details
Shota Chochishvili
  Soviet Union
David Starbrook
  Great Britain
Paul Barth
  West Germany
Chiaki Ishii
  Brazil
Heavyweight
+93 kg
details
Wim Ruska
  Netherlands
Klaus Glahn
  West Germany
Motoki Nishimura
  Japan
Givi Onashvili
  Soviet Union
Open category
details
Wim Ruska
  Netherlands
Vitali Kuznetsov
  Soviet Union
Jean-Claude Brondani
  France
Angelo Parisi
  Great Britain

Modern pentathlon

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)1113
2  Hungary (HUN)1102
3  Finland (FIN)0011
Totals (3 entries)2226

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
details
András Balczó
  Hungary
Boris Onishchenko
  Soviet Union
Pavel Lednyov
  Soviet Union
Team
details
  Soviet Union (URS)
Boris Onishchenko
Pavel Lednyov
Vladimir Shmelyov
  Hungary (HUN)
András Balczó
Zsigmond Villányi
Pál Bakó
  Finland (FIN)
Risto Hurme
Veikko Salminen
Martti Ketelä

Rowing

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  East Germany (GDR)3137
2  Soviet Union (URS)2002
3  New Zealand (NZL)1102
4  West Germany (FRG)*1012
5  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0112
6  Argentina (ARG)0101
  Norway (NOR)0101
  Switzerland (SUI)0101
  United States (USA)0101
10  Netherlands (NED)0011
  Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (11 entries)77721

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Single sculls
details
Yury Malyshev
  Soviet Union
Alberto Demiddi
  Argentina
Wolfgang Güldenpfennig
  East Germany
Double sculls
details
  Soviet Union
Aleksandr Timoshinin
Gennadi Korshikov
  Norway
Frank Hansen
Svein Thøgersen
  East Germany
Joachim Böhmer
Uli Schmied
Coxless pair
details
  East Germany
Siegfried Brietzke
Wolfgang Mager
  Switzerland
Heinrich Fischer
Alfred Bachmann
  Netherlands
Roel Luynenburg
Ruud Stokvis
Coxed pair
details
  East Germany
Wolfgang Gunkel
Jörg Lucke
Klaus-Dieter Neubert
  Czechoslovakia
Oldřich Svojanovský
Pavel Svojanovský
Vladimír Petříček
  Romania
Ștefan Tudor
Petre Ceapura
Ladislau Lovrenschi
Coxless four
details
  East Germany
Frank Forberger
Frank Rühle
Dieter Grahn
Dieter Schubert
  New Zealand
Dick Tonks
Dudley Storey
Ross Collinge
Noel Mills
  West Germany
Joachim Ehrig
Peter Funnekötter
Franz Held
Wolfgang Plottke
Coxed four
details
  West Germany
Peter Berger
Hans-Johann Färber
Gerhard Auer
Alois Bierl
Uwe Benter
  East Germany
Dietrich Zander
Reinhard Gust
Eckhard Martens
Rolf Jobst
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig
  Czechoslovakia
Otakar Mareček
Karel Neffe
Vladimír Jánoš
František Provazník
Vladimír Petříček
Eight
details
  New Zealand
Tony Hurt
Wybo Veldman
Dick Joyce
John Hunter
Lindsay Wilson
Joe Earl
Trevor Coker
Gary Robertson
Simon Dickie
  United States
Lawrence Terry
Franklin Hobbs
Pete Raymond
Tim Mickelson
Gene Clapp
Bill Hobbs
Cleve Livingston
Mike Livingston
Paul Hoffman
  East Germany
Hans-Joachim Borzym
Jörg Landvoigt
Harold Dimke
Manfred Schneider
Hartmut Schreiber
Manfred Schmorde
Bernd Landvoigt
Heinrich Mederow
Dietmar Schwarz

Sailing

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Australia (AUS)2002
2  France (FRA)1102
  Great Britain (GBR)1102
4  United States (USA)1023
5  Soviet Union (URS)1012
6  Sweden (SWE)0202
7  East Germany (GDR)0101
  Greece (GRE)0101
9  West Germany (FRG)*0022
10  Canada (CAN)0011
Totals (10 entries)66618

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Finn
details
Serge Maury
  France
Ilias Hatzipavlis
  Greece
Viktor Potapov
  Soviet Union
Flying Dutchman
details
  Great Britain
Rodney Pattisson
Christopher Davies
  France
Yves Pajot
Marc Pajot
  West Germany
Ulli Libor
Peter Naumann
Tempest
details
  Soviet Union
Valentin Mankin
Vitali Dyrdyra
  Great Britain
Alan Warren
David Hunt
  United States
Glen Foster
Peter Dean
Star
details
  Australia
David Forbes
John Anderson
  Sweden
Pelle Petterson
Stellan Westerdahl
  West Germany
Wilhelm Kuhweide
Karsten Meyer
Soling
details
  United States
Harry Melges
William Allen
William Bentsen
  Sweden
Stig Wennerström
Bo Knape
Stefan Krook
  Canada
David Miller
Paul Côté
John Ekels
Dragon
details
  Australia
John Cuneo
Thomas Anderson
John Shaw
  East Germany
Paul Borowski
Karl-Heinz Thun
Konrad Weichert
  United States
Donald Cohan
Charles Horter
John Marshall

Shooting

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States2204
2  Soviet Union1214
3  Italy1012
4  North Korea1001
  Poland1001
  Sweden1001
  West Germany*1001
8  Romania0112
9  Colombia0101
  Czechoslovakia0101
  France0101
12  East Germany0022
13  Austria0011
  Great Britain0011
  Hungary0011
Totals (15 entries)88824

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m pistol
details
Ragnar Skanåker
  Sweden
Dan Iuga
  Romania
Rudolf Dollinger
  Austria
25 m rapid fire pistol
details
Józef Zapędzki
  Poland
Ladislav Falta
  Czechoslovakia
Viktor Torshin
  Soviet Union
50 m running target
details
Yakov Zheleznyak
  Soviet Union
Helmut Bellingrodt
  Colombia
John Kynoch
  Great Britain
50 m rifle prone
details
Ri Ho-jun
  North Korea
Vic Auer
  United States
Nicolae Rotaru
  Romania
50 m rifle three positions
details
John Writer
  United States
Lanny Bassham
  United States
Werner Lippoldt
  East Germany
300 m free rifle three positions
details
Lones Wigger
  United States
Boris Melnik
  Soviet Union
Lajos Papp
  Hungary
Skeet
details
Konrad Wirnhier
  West Germany
Yevgeni Petrov
  Soviet Union
Michael Buchheim
  East Germany
Trap
details
Angelo Scalzone
  Italy
Michel Carrega
  France
Silvano Basagni
  Italy

Swimming

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States (USA)17141243
2  Australia (AUS)62210
3  East Germany (GDR)2529
4  Japan (JPN)2013
5  Sweden (SWE)2002
6  Soviet Union (URS)0235
7  Canada (CAN)0224
8  West Germany (FRG)*0134
9  Hungary (HUN)0123
  Italy (ITA)0123
11  Great Britain (GBR)0101
Totals (11 entries)29292987

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Mark Spitz
  United States
51.22 (WR) Jerry Heidenreich
  United States
51.65 Vladimir Bure
  Soviet Union
51.77
200 m freestyle
details
Mark Spitz
  United States
1:52.78 (WR) Steve Genter
  United States
1:53.73 Werner Lampe
  West Germany
1:53.99
400 m freestyle
details
Brad Cooper
  Australia
4:00.27 (OR) Steve Genter
  United States
4:01.94 Tom McBreen
  United States
4:02.64
1500 m freestyle
details
Mike Burton
  United States
15:52.58 (WR) Graham Windeatt
  Australia
15:58.48 Doug Northway
  United States
16:09.25
100 m backstroke
details
Roland Matthes
  East Germany
56.58 (OR) Mike Stamm
  United States
57.70 John Murphy
  United States
58.35
200 m backstroke
details
Roland Matthes
  East Germany
2:02.82 (WR) Mike Stamm
  United States
2:04.09 Mitch Ivey
  United States
2:04.33
100 m breaststroke
details
Nobutaka Taguchi
  Japan
1:04.94 (WR) Tom Bruce
  United States
1:05.43 John Hencken
  United States
1:05.61
200 m breaststroke
details
John Hencken
  United States
2:21.55 (WR) David Wilkie
  Great Britain
2:23.67 Nobutaka Taguchi
  Japan
2:23.88
100 m butterfly
details
Mark Spitz
  United States
54.27 (WR) Bruce Robertson
  Canada
55.56 Jerry Heidenreich
  United States
55.74
200 m butterfly
details
Mark Spitz
  United States
2:00.70 (WR) Gary Hall, Sr.
  United States
2:02.86 Robin Backhaus
  United States
2:03.23
200 m individual medley
details
Gunnar Larsson
  Sweden
2:07.17 (WR) Tim McKee
  United States
2:08.37 Steve Furniss
  United States
2:08.45
400 m individual medley
details
Gunnar Larsson
  Sweden
4:31.98 (OR) Tim McKee
  United States
4:31.98 (OR) András Hargitay
  Hungary
4:32.70
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
details
  United States (USA)
David Edgar
John Murphy
Jerry Heidenreich
Mark Spitz
3:26.42 (WR)   Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Bure
Viktor Mazanov
Viktor Aboimov
Igor Grivennikov
3:29.72   East Germany (GDR)
Roland Matthes
Wilfried Hartung
Peter Bruch
Lutz Unger
3:32.42
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
details
  United States (USA)
John Kinsella
Fred Tyler
Steve Genter
Mark Spitz
7:35.78 (WR)   West Germany (FRG)
Klaus Steinbach
Werner Lampe
Hans Vosseler
Hans Fassnacht
7:41.69   Soviet Union (URS)
Igor Grivennikov
Viktor Mazanov
Georgi Kulikov
Vladimir Bure
7:45.76
4 × 100 m medley relay
details
  United States (USA)
Mike Stamm
Tom Bruce
Mark Spitz
Jerry Heidenreich
3:48.16 (WR)   East Germany (GDR)
Roland Matthes
Klaus Katzur
Hartmut Flöckner
Lutz Unger
3:52.26   Canada (CAN)
Erik Fish
William Mahony
Bruce Robertson
Robert Kasting
3:53.26

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Sandy Neilson
  United States
58.59 (OR) Shirley Babashoff
  United States
59.02 Shane Gould
  Australia
59.06
200 m freestyle
details
Shane Gould
  Australia
2:03.56 (WR) Shirley Babashoff
  United States
2:04.33 Keena Rothhammer
  United States
2:04.92
400 m freestyle
details
Shane Gould
  Australia
4:19.04 (WR) Novella Calligaris
  Italy
4:22.44 Gudrun Wegner
  East Germany
4:23.11
800 m freestyle
details
Keena Rothhammer
  United States
8:53.68 (WR) Shane Gould
  Australia
8:56.39 Novella Calligaris
  Italy
8:57.46
100 m backstroke
details
Melissa Belote
  United States
1:05.78 (OR) Andrea Gyarmati
  Hungary
1:06.26 Susie Atwood
  United States
1:06.34
200 m backstroke
details
Melissa Belote
  United States
2:19.19 (WR) Susie Atwood
  United States
2:20.38 Donna Gurr
  Canada
2:23.22
100 m breaststroke
details
Cathy Carr
  United States
1:13.58 (WR) Galina Prozumenshchikova
  Soviet Union
1:14.99 Beverley Whitfield
  Australia
1:15.73
200 m breaststroke
details
Beverley Whitfield
  Australia
2:41.05 (OR) Dana Schoenfield
  United States
2:42.05 Galina Prozumenshchikova
  Soviet Union
2:42.36
100 m butterfly
details
Mayumi Aoki
  Japan
1:03.34 (WR) Roswitha Beier
  East Germany
1:03.61 Andrea Gyarmati
  Hungary
1:03.73
200 m butterfly
details
Karen Moe
  United States
2:15.57 (WR) Lynn Colella
  United States
2:16.34 Ellie Daniel
  United States
2:16.74
200 m individual medley
details
Shane Gould
  Australia
2:23.07 (WR) Kornelia Ender
  East Germany
2:23.59 Lynn Vidali
  United States
2:24.06
400 m individual medley
details
Gail Neall
  Australia
5:02.97 (WR) Leslie Cliff
  Canada
5:03.57 Novella Calligaris
  Italy
5:03.99
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
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  United States (USA)
Shirley Babashoff
Jane Barkman
Jenny Kemp
Sandy Neilson
3:55.19 (WR)   East Germany (GDR)
Andrea Eife
Kornelia Ender
Elke Sehmisch
Gabriele Wetzko
3:55.55   West Germany (FRG)
Gudrun Beckmann
Heidemarie Reineck
Angela Steinbach
Jutta Weber
3:57.93
4 × 100 m medley relay
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  United States (USA)
Melissa Belote
Cathy Carr
Deena Deardurff
Sandy Neilson
4:20.75 (WR)   East Germany (GDR)
Christine Herbst
Renate Vogel
Roswitha Beier
Kornelia Ender
4:24.91   West Germany (FRG)
Gudrun Beckmann
Vreni Eberle
Silke Pielen
Heidemarie Reineck
4:26.46

Volleyball

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan1102
2  Soviet Union1012
3  East Germany0101
4  North Korea0011
Totals (4 entries)2226

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
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  Japan (JPN)
Masayuki Minami
Katsutoshi Nekoda
Yūzo Nakamura
Tetsuo Nishimoto
Kenji Kimura
Yoshihide Fukao
Yasuhiro Noguchi
Jungo Morita
Tadayoshi Yokota
Seiji Oko
Tetsuo Satō
Kenji Shimaoka
  East Germany (GDR)
Horst Peter
Horst Hagen
Siegfried Schneider
Wolfgang Löwe
Rainer Tscharke
Eckehard Pietzsch
Arnold Schulz
Wolfgang Maibohm
Wolfgang Weise
Jürgen Maune
Rudi Schumann
Wolfgang Webner
  Soviet Union (URS)
Yuriy Poyarkov
Valeri Kravchenko
Yefim Chulak
Yevhen Lapinsky
Vladimir Putyatov
Viktor Borshch
Vladimir Patkin
Leonid Zayko
Aleksandr Saprykin
Yuri Starunsky
Vyacheslav Domani
Vladimir Kondra
Women's
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  Soviet Union (URS)
Lyudmila Buldakova
Lyubov Tyurina
Vera Galushka-Duyunova
Lyudmila Borozna
Tatyana Sarycheva
Nina Smoleyeva
Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova
Rosa Salikhova
Inna Ryskal
Nataliya Kudreva
Galina Leontyeva
Tatyana Gonobobleva
  Japan (JPN)
Katsumi Matsumura
Noriko Yamashita
Toyoko Iwahara
Takako Iida
Sumie Oinuma
Makiko Furukawa
Keiko Hama
Seiko Shimakage
Yaeko Yamazaki
Michiko Shiokawa
Mariko Okamoto
Takako Shirai
  North Korea (PRK)
Ryom Chun-ja
Kim Su-dae
Ri Chun-ok
Paek Myong-suk
Jong Ok-jin
Kim Myong-suk
Jang Ok-rim
Kim Yeun-ja
Kim Zung-bok
Kang Ok-sun
Hwang He-Suk

Water polo

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union1001
2  Hungary0101
3  United States0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's   Soviet Union (URS)
Anatoli Akimov
Aleksei Barkalov
Vadim Gulyaev
Aleksandr Dolgushin
Aleksandr Dreval
Vladimir Shmudski
Aleksandr Kabanov
Leonid Osipov
Viacheslav Sobtschenko
Nikolai Melnikov
Aleksandr Schidlovski
  Hungary (HUN)
András Bodnár
Tibor Cservenyák
István Görgényi
Tamás Faragó
Zoltán Kásás
Ferenc Konrád
István Magas
Dénes Pócsik
László Sárosi
Endre Molnár
István Szívós, Jr.
  United States (USA)
Peter Asch
Steven Barnett
Bruce Bradley
Stanley Cole
James Ferguson
Eric Lindroth
John Parker
Gary Sheerer
James Slatton
Russell Webb
Barry Weitzenberg

Weightlifting

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Bulgaria (BUL)3306
2  Soviet Union (URS)3115
3  Hungary (HUN)1135
4  Poland (POL)1113
5  Norway (NOR)1001
6  Iran (IRI)0101
  Lebanon (LIB)0101
  West Germany (FRG)*0101
9  East Germany (GDR)0022
10  Italy (ITA)0011
  Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (11 entries)99927

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
52 kg
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Zygmunt Smalcerz
  Poland
Lajos Szűcs
  Hungary
Sándor Holczreiter
  Hungary
56 kg
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Imre Földi
  Hungary
Mohammad Nassiri
  Iran
Gennadi Chetin
  Soviet Union
60 kg
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Norair Nurikyan
  Bulgaria
Dito Shanidze
  Soviet Union
János Benedek
  Hungary
67.5 kg
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Mukharby Kirzhinov
  Soviet Union
Mladen Kutchev
  Bulgaria
Zbigniew Kaczmarek
  Poland
75 kg
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Yordan Bikov
  Bulgaria
Mohamed Traboulsi
  Lebanon
Anselmo Silvino
  Italy
82.5 kg
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Leif Jenssen
  Norway
Norbert Ozimek
  Poland
György Horváth
  Hungary
90 kg
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Andon Nikolov
  Bulgaria
Atanas Shopov
  Bulgaria
Hans Bettembourg
  Sweden
110 kg
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Jaan Talts
  Soviet Union
Aleksandr Kraichev
  Bulgaria
Stefan Grützner
  East Germany
+110 kg
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Vasiliy Alekseyev
  Soviet Union
Rudolf Mang
  West Germany
Gerd Bonk
  East Germany

Wrestling

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)94114
2  United States (USA)3216
3  Bulgaria (BUL)2428
4  Japan (JPN)2204
5  Romania (ROU)2024
6  Hungary (HUN)1045
7  Czechoslovakia (TCH)1001
8  Iran (IRI)0112
  Sweden (SWE)0112
  West Germany (FRG)*0112
  Yugoslavia (YUG)0112
12  East Germany (GDR)0101
  Greece (GRE)0101
  Mongolia (MGL)0101
  Turkey (TUR)0101
16  Italy (ITA)0022
  Poland (POL)0022
18  Finland (FIN)0011
  North Korea (PRK)0011
Totals (19 entries)20202060

Freestyle

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg
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Roman Dmitriyev
  Soviet Union
Ognyan Nikolov
  Bulgaria
Ebrahim Javadi
  Iran
52 kg
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Kiyomi Kato
  Japan
Arsen Alakhverdiyev
  Soviet Union
Kim Gwong-Hyong
  North Korea
57 kg
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Hideaki Yanagida
  Japan
Richard Sanders
  United States
László Klinga
  Hungary
62 kg
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Zagalav Abdulbekov
  Soviet Union
Vehbi Akdağ
  Turkey
Ivan Krastev
  Bulgaria
68 kg
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Dan Gable
  United States
Kikuo Wada
  Japan
Ruslan Ashuraliyev
  Soviet Union
74 kg
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Wayne Wells
  United States
Jan Karlsson
  Sweden
Adolf Seger
  West Germany
82 kg
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Levan Tediashvili
  Soviet Union
John Peterson
  United States
Vasile Iorga
  Romania
90 kg
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Ben Peterson
  United States
Gennadi Strakhov
  Soviet Union
Károly Bajkó
  Hungary
100 kg
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Ivan Yarygin
  Soviet Union
Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh
  Mongolia
József Csatári
  Hungary
+100 kg
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Aleksandr Medved
  Soviet Union
Osman Duraliev
  Bulgaria
Chris Taylor
  United States

Greco-Roman

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg
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Gheorghe Berceanu
  Romania
Rahim Aliabadi
  Iran
Stefan Angelov
  Bulgaria
52 kg
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Petar Kirov
  Bulgaria
Koichiro Hirayama
  Japan
Giuseppe Bognanni
  Italy
57 kg
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Rustam Kazakov
  Soviet Union
Hans-Jürgen Veil
  West Germany
Risto Björlin
  Finland
62 kg
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Georgi Markov
  Bulgaria
Heinz-Helmut Wehling
  East Germany
Kazimierz Lipień
  Poland
68 kg
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Shamil Khisamutdinov
  Soviet Union
Stoyan Apostolov
  Bulgaria
Gian Matteo Ranzi
  Italy
74 kg
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Vítězslav Mácha
  Czechoslovakia
Petros Galaktopoulos
  Greece
Jan Karlsson
  Sweden
82 kg
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Csaba Hegedűs
  Hungary
Anatoly Nazarenko
  Soviet Union
Milan Nenadić
  Yugoslavia
90 kg
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Valery Rezantsev
  Soviet Union
Josip Čorak
  Yugoslavia
Czesław Kwieciński
  Poland
100 kg
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Nicolae Martinescu
  Romania
Nikolay Yakovenko
  Soviet Union
Ferenc Kiss
  Hungary
+100 kg
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Anatoly Roshchin
  Soviet Union
Aleksandar Tomov
  Bulgaria
Victor Dolipschi
  Romania

References

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  1. ^ Jaime Huelamo
      Spain was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle
      New Zealand was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs.
  2. ^   Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.
  3. ^ The silver medal was originally awarded to Bakhvain Buyadaa of Mongolia, but he was disqualified after he tested positive for excessive caffeine.
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  • "Munich 1972". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.