Winter Olympic Games 1972 Sapporo (JPN) 03-13.02

Winter Olympic Games 1972 Sapporo (JPN) 03-13.02

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Winter Olympic Games index

Countries	35
Sports	8
Events	35
Men	800
Women	206
Total	1006
Medals

All events were the same as Grenoble's 1968.

Sports
Cross Country	7
Nordic Combined	1
Ski Jump	2
Alpine Skiing	6
Biathlon	2
Bobsleigh	2
Luge	3
Speed Skating	8
Figure Skating	3
Ice Hockey	1

Discipline	date	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Cross Country
Men 15km	07.02	Sven-Ake Lundback	SWE	Fyodor Simachev	URS	Ivar Formo	NOR
Men 30km	04.02	Vyacheslav Vedenine	URS	Paal Tyldum	NOR	Johs Harviken	NOR
Men 50km	10.02	Pal Tyldum	NOR	Magne Myrmo	NOR	Vyacheslav Vedenine	URS
Men 4x10km Relay	13.02	Soviet Union		Norway		Switzerland
Women 5km	09.02	Galina Koulacova	URS	Marjatta Kajosmaa	FIN	Helena Sikolova	TCH
Women 10km	06.02	Galina Koulacova	URS	Alevtina Olunina	URS	Marjatta Kajosmaa	FIN
Women 3x5km Relay	12.02	Soviet Union		Finland		Norway
Nordic Combined
Nordic Combined	05.02	Ulrich Wehling	GDR	Rauno Mlettinen	FIN	Karl-Heinz Luck	GDR
Ski Jump
Jump K70	06.02	Yukio Kasaya	JPN	Akitsugu Konno	JPN	Seiji Aochi	JPN
Jump K90	11.02	Wojciech Fortuna	POL	Walter Steiner	SUI	Rainer Schmidt	GDR
Biathlon
Biathlon 20km	09.02	Magnar Solberg	NOR	Hans-Jorg Knauthe	GDR	Lars-Goran Arwidson	SWE
Biathlon 4x7.5km Relay	11.02	Soviet Union		Finland		East Germany
Alpine Skiing
Men Downhill	07.02	Bernhaerd Russi	SUI	Rolland Collombin	SUI	Heinrich Messner	AUT
Men Giant Slalom	10.02	Gustavo Thoeni	ITA	Edmund Bruggmann	SUI	Werner Mattle	SUI
Men Slalom	13.02	Francisco Fernadez Ochoa	ESP	Gustavo Thoeni	ITA	Rolando Thoeni	ITA
Women Downhill	05.02	Marie-Therese Nadig	SUI	Annemarie Proell	AUT	Susie Corrock	USA
Women Giant Slalom	08.02	Marie-Therese Nadig	SUI	Annemarie Proell	AUT	Wiltrud Drexel	AUT
Women Slalom	11.02	Barbara Cochran	USA	Danielle Debernard	FRA	Florence Steurer	FRA
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh Doubles	05.02	West Germany	II	West Germany	I	Switzerland	I
Bobsleigh Fours	11.02	Switzerland	I	Italy	I	West Germany	I
Luge
Luge Men Singles	07.02	Wolfgang Scheidel	GDR	Harald Ehrig	GDR	Wolfram Fiedler	GDR
Luge Men Doubles	10.02	Paul Hildgartner	ITA			Klaus Bonsack	GDR
		Walter Plaikner	ITA			Wolfram Fiedler	GDR
		Horst Hornlein	GDR
		Reinhard Bredow	GDR
Luge Women Singles	07.02	Anna-Maria Muller	GDR	Ute Ruhrold	GDR	Margit Schumann	GDR
Speed Skating
Men 500m	05.02	Erhard Keller	FRG	Hasse Borjes	SWE	Valery Muratov	URS
Men 1500m	06.02	Ard Schenk	NED	Roar Gronvold	NOR	Goran Claesson	SWE
Men 5000m	04.02	Ard Schenk	NED	Roar Gronvold	NOR	Sten Stensen	NOR
Men 10000m	07.02	Ard Schenk	NED	Kees Verkerk	NED	Sten Stensen	NOR
Women 500m	09.02	Anne Henning	USA	Vera Krasnova	URS	Lyudmila Titova	URS
Women 1000m	11.02	Monika Pflug	GER	Atje Deelstra	NED	Anne Henning	USA
Women 1500m	10.02	Dianne Holum	USA	Stien Kaiser	NED	Atje Deelstra	NED
Women 3000m	12.02	Stien Kaiser	NED	Dianne Holum	USA	Atje Deelstra	NED
Figure Skating
Figure Skating Pairs	08.02	Irina Rodnina	URS	Lyudmila Smirnova	URS	Manuela Gross	GDR
Figure Skating Pairs	08.02	Aleksey Ulanov	URS	Andrey Suraykin	URS	Uwe Kagelmann	GDR
Figure Skating Men	11.02	Ondrej Nepela	TCH	Sergey Tchetveroukhin	URS	Patrick Pera	FRA
Figure Skating Women	07.02	Beatrix Schuba	AUT	Karen Magnussen	CAN	Janet Lynn	USA
Ice Hockey
Ice Hockey	12.02	Soviet Union		United States		Czechoslovakia

Medals	G	S	B	All
1. Soviet Union	8	5	3	16
2. East Germany	4	3	7	14
3. Switzerland	4	3	3	10
4. Netherlands	4	3	2	9
5. United States	3	2	3	8
6. West Germany	3	1	1	5
7. Norway	2	5	5	12
8. Italy	2	2	1	5
9. Austria	1	2	2	5
10.Sweden	1	1	2	4
11.Japan	1	1	1	3
12.Czechoslovakia	1		2	3
13.Poland	1			1
13.Spain	1			1
15.Finland		4	1	5
16.France		1	2	3
17.Canada		1		1

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