Athletics with the Olympic Games of summer of 1972

The Athlétisme is one of the most important sports of the Olympic Games, it was registered with the program of all the editions. With the Olympic Games of summer of 1972 with Munich, were held 38 tests (14 female and 24 male).

Striking facts

  • Doubled Valeri Borzov which gains the 100m and 200m (men).

  • Doubled Renate Stecher which gains the 100m and 200m (women).
  • Kipchoge Keino gains the 500m and thus gains one 2nd gold medal after that gained with the 1500m in 1968, to see Athlétisme with the Olympic Games of summer of 1968.
  • the Finn Lasse Virén makes a success of doubled the 5000-10000m, it will carry out the same performance at the time of the competitions of Athlétisme to the Olympic Games of summer of 1976.
  • the American Frank Shorter, who was born in Munich, gains the race of the marathon in its birthplace.

Table of the medals for the athletics

  • Four countries dominate clearly with the assessment of the medals, East Germany finishes at the head at the time of these plays disputed in West Germany!

Sprint

100 meters men

100 meters women

200 meters men

200 meters women

400 meters men

400 meters women

Middle-distance race

800 meters men

800 meters women

1.500 meters men

1.500 meters women

Basic race

5.000 meters men

10.000 meters men

Races of hedges

100 meters hedges women

110 meters hurdles men

Rod Milburn gains the 110m hedges by establishing new world records.

400 meters hedges men

  • John Akii-Bua beats the world records of the 400m hedges in 47,82s.

3.000 meters steeple men

Relay

4 X 100 meters men

  • Composition of the team of the United States: Lawrence J. BLACK, Robert TAYLOR, Gerald A. TINKER and Edward James BINDER.

4 X 100 meters women

  • Composition of the team of the West Germany: Christiane KRAUSE, Ingrid BECKER-MICKLER, Annegret RICHTER-IRRGANG and Heidemarie ROSENDAHL.

4 X.400 meters men

  • Composition of the team of Kenya: Charles ASATI, Hezekiah Munyoro NYAMAU, Robert OUKO and Julius BLOOD.

  • Composition of the team of France: Gilles BERTOULD (Stage Of Rennes), Daniel VELASQUEZ, Francis KERBIRIOU (Stage Of Rennes), Jacques CARETTE

4 X.400 meters women

  • Composition of the team of East Germany: Dagmar KÄSLING, Rita KÜHNE, Helga SEIDLER and Monika ZEHRT.

Races on road

Marathon men

20 km go men

50 km go men

Jumps

High jump men

High jump women

Jump with the pole men

Long jump men

Long jump women

Triple jump men

Throws

Shot put men

  • the 3 performances are separate only of 4cm!

Shot put women

Throwing the discus men

Throwing the discus women

Throwing the hammer men

Throwing the javelin men

Throwing the javelin women

Combined tests

Decathlon men

Pentathlon women

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