1972 Summer Olympics medal table
1972 Summer Olympics medals | |
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Location | Munich, West Germany |
Highlights | |
Most gold medals | Soviet Union (50) |
Most total medals | Soviet Union (99) |
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, took place in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August through 11 September 1972. A total of 7,134 athletes from 121 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 195 events from 23 sports.[1]
Men's indoor
The Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the Munich massacre. On September 5 a group of eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September Organization broke into the Olympic Village and took nine Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed in the first moments of the break-in; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours. Late in the evening of September 5, the terrorists and their hostages were transferred by helicopter to the military airport of Fürstenfeldbruck, ostensibly to board a plane bound for an undetermined Arab country. The German authorities planned to ambush them there, but underestimated the number of terrorists and were thus undermanned. During a botched rescue attempt, all of the Israeli hostages were killed. Four of them were shot, then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated a grenade inside the helicopter in which the hostages were sitting. The five remaining hostages were then machine-gunned by another terrorist.
Athletes from 48 NOCs won medals, leaving 73 NOCs unrepresented on the medal table. The
Medal table
The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals won by an NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.[3]
* Host nation (West Germany)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 50 | 27 | 22 | 99 |
2 | United States | 33 | 31 | 30 | 94 |
3 | East Germany | 20 | 23 | 23 | 66 |
4 | West Germany* | 13 | 11 | 16 | 40 |
5 | Japan | 13 | 8 | 8 | 29 |
6 | Australia | 8 | 7 | 2 | 17 |
7 | Poland | 7 | 5 | 9 | 21 |
8 | Hungary | 6 | 13 | 16 | 35 |
9 | Bulgaria | 6 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
10 | Italy | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 |
11 | Sweden | 4 | 6 | 6 | 16 |
12 | Great Britain | 4 | 5 | 9 | 18 |
13 | Romania | 3 | 6 | 7 | 16 |
14 | Cuba | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
Finland | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
16 | Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
17 | France | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 |
18 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
19 | Kenya | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
20 | Yugoslavia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
21 | Norway | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
22 | North Korea | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
23 | New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
24 | Uganda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
25 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
26 | Switzerland | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
27 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
28 | Iran | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
29 | Belgium | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Greece | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
31 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Colombia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
33 | Argentina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lebanon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Mexico | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Pakistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Turkey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
41 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Ethiopia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
43 | Ghana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Niger | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (48 entries) | 195 | 195 | 210 | 600 |
Medal changes
Olympics | Athlete | Country | Medal | Event | Ref |
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1972 Summer Olympics | Bakhvain Buyadaa | Mongolia | Judo, Men's 63 kg (X) | [12] | |
Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek) | Netherlands | Cycling, Men's team time trial (X) | [13] | ||
Jaime Huélamo | Spain | Cycling, Men's individual road race (X) | [13] | ||
Rick DeMont | United States | Swimming, Men's 400 m freestyle |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Munich 1972". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Buchanon and Mallon (1999), p. 329
- ^ a b c d Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "1972 München Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gymnastics at the 1972 München Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ^ Wilkinson Johnson (2008), p. 205
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "1980 Moskva Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "1988 Seoul Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ Elliott, Helene (2002-08-28). "Taking a Tumble". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- ^ Woolum (1998), pp. 166–167
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sawao Kato". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lasse Virén". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
- ^ Black Belt magazine January 1973
- ^ a b Historical Dictionary of Cycling By Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans. Scarecrow Press. 2011. p. xxiv
External links
- "Munich 1972". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
- "1972 Summer Olympics". Olympedia.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- "Olympic Analytics/1972_1". olympanalyt.com.
- Buchanon, Ian; Mallon, Bill (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5574-7. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- Wilkinson Johnson, Molly (2008). Training socialist citizens: sports and the state in East Germany. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. ISBN 978-90-04-16957-9. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- Woolum, Janet (1998). Outstanding women athletes. Phoenix, United States: The Oryx Press. p. 166. ISBN 1-57356-120-7. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
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