List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners

The List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners here represent the athletes who competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Sapporo, Japan, from 3 to 13 February 1972.

Alpine skiing

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Downhill	Bernhard Russi  Switzerland	Roland Collombin  Switzerland	Heini Messner  Austria
Giant slalom	Gustav Thöni  Italy	Edy Bruggmann  Switzerland	Werner Mattle  Switzerland
Slalom	Francisco Fernández Ochoa  Spain	Gustav Thöni  Italy	Roland Thöni  Italy

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Downhill	Marie-Theres Nadig  Switzerland	Annemarie Moser-Pröll  Austria	Susan Corrock  United States
Giant slalom	Marie-Theres Nadig  Switzerland	Annemarie Moser-Pröll  Austria	Wiltrud Drexel  Austria
Slalom	Barbara Cochran  United States	Danièle Debernard  France	Florence Steurer  France

Biathlon

See also: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Individual	Magnar Solberg  Norway	Hansjörg Knauthe  East Germany	Lars-Göran Arwidson  Sweden
Men's Relay	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov	Finland (FIN) Esko Saira Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola Mauri Röppänen	East Germany (GDR) Hansjörg Knauthe Joachim Meischner Dieter Speer Horst Koschka

Bobsleigh

See also: Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	West Germany (FRG) Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider	West Germany (FRG) Horst Floth Pepi Bader	Switzerland (SUI) Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher
Four-man	Switzerland (SUI) Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher	Italy (ITA) Nevio De Zordo Adriano Frassinelli Corrado Dal Fabbro Gianni Bonichon	West Germany (FRG) Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann

Cross-country skiing

See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km	Sven-Åke Lundbäck  Sweden	Fyodor Simachov  Soviet Union	Ivar Formo  Norway
30 km	Vyacheslav Vedenin  Soviet Union	Pål Tyldum  Norway	Johs Harviken  Norway
50 km	Pål Tyldum  Norway	Magne Myrmo  Norway	Vyacheslav Vedenin  Soviet Union
4×10 km	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Voronkov Yuriy Skobov Fyodor Simachov Vyacheslav Vedenin	Norway (NOR) Oddvar Brå Pål Tyldum Ivar Formo Johs Harviken	Switzerland (SUI) Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union	Marjatta Kajosmaa  Finland	Helena Šikolová  Czechoslovakia
10 km	Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union	Alevtina Olyunina  Soviet Union	Marjatta Kajosmaa  Finland
3×5 km	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Mukhachyova Alevtina Olyunina Galina Kulakova	Finland (FIN) Helena Takalo Hilkka Riihivuori Marjatta Kajosmaa	Norway (NOR) Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre

Figure skating

See also: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Ondrej Nepela  Czechoslovakia	Sergei Chetverukhin  Soviet Union	Patrick Péra  France
Ladies' singles	Beatrix Schuba  Austria	Karen Magnussen  Canada	Janet Lynn  United States
Pairs	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov	Soviet Union (URS) Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin	East Germany (GDR) Manuela Groß Uwe Kagelmann

Ice hockey

See also: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Soviet Union (URS) Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davydov Viktor Kuskin Alexander Ragulin Gennadiy Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Valeri Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeni Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoly Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeni Zimin	United States (USA) Mike Curran Pete Sears Wally Olds Tom Mellor Frank Sanders Jim McElmury Charles Brown Dick McGlynn Ronald Naslund Robbie Ftorek Stu Irving Kevin Ahearn Henry Boucha Craig Sarner Timothy Sheehy Keith Christiansen Mark Howe Tim Regan Bruce McIntosh	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Vladimír Dzurilla Jiří Holeček Vladimír Bednář Rudolf Tajcnár Oldřich Machač František Pospíšil Josef Horešovský Karel Vohralík Václav Nedomanský Jiří Holík Jaroslav Holík Jiří Kochta Eduard Novák Richard Farda Josef Černý Vladimír Martinec Ivan Hlinka Bohuslav Šťastný

Luge

See also: Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Wolfgang Scheidel  East Germany	Harald Ehrig  East Germany	Wolfram Fiedler  East Germany
Women's singles	Anna-Maria Müller  East Germany	Ute Rührold  East Germany	Margit Schumann  East Germany
Doubles	East Germany (GDR) Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow  Italy (ITA) Paul Hildgartner Walter Plaikner	None awarded	East Germany (GDR) Klaus-Michael Bonsack Wolfram Fiedler

Nordic combined

See also: Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Ulrich Wehling  East Germany	Rauno Miettinen  Finland	Karl-Heinz Luck  East Germany

Ski jumping

See also: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Normal hill individual	Yukio Kasaya  Japan	Akitsugu Konno  Japan	Seiji Aochi  Japan
Large hill individual	Wojciech Fortuna  Poland	Walter Steiner  Switzerland	Rainer Schmidt  East Germany

Speed skating

See also: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres	Erhard Keller  West Germany	Hasse Börjes  Sweden	Valery Muratov  Soviet Union
1500 metres	Ard Schenk  Netherlands	Roar Grønvold  Norway	Göran Claeson  Sweden
5000 metres	Ard Schenk  Netherlands	Roar Grønvold  Norway	Sten Stensen  Norway
10000 metres	Ard Schenk  Netherlands	Kees Verkerk  Netherlands	Sten Stensen  Norway

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres	Anne Henning  United States	Vera Krasnova  Soviet Union	Lyudmila Titova  Soviet Union
1000 metres	Monika Pflug  West Germany	Atje Keulen-Deelstra  Netherlands	Anne Henning  United States
1500 metres	Dianne Holum  United States	Stien Kaiser  Netherlands	Atje Keulen-Deelstra  Netherlands
3000 metres	Stien Kaiser  Netherlands	Dianne Holum  United States	Atje Keulen-Deelstra  Netherlands

See also

• 1972 Winter Olympics medal table

External links

• "Sapporo 1972". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.