List of 1972 Summer Olympics medal winners

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	0	0	2
2	Poland	0	1	0	1
2	Sweden	0	1	0	1
4	Finland	0	0	1	1
4	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	9	7	1	17
2	East Germany	8	7	5	20
3	United States	6	8	8	22
4	West Germany*	6	3	2	11
5	Finland	3	0	1	4
6	Kenya	2	2	2	6
7	Great Britain	1	1	2	4
8	Poland	1	0	2	3
9	Czechoslovakia	1	0	1	2
10	Uganda	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria	0	2	2	4
12	Australia	0	2	0	2
	Belgium	0	2	0	2
	Romania	0	2	0	2
15	France	0	1	1	2
16	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
17	Cuba	0	0	2	2
	Ethiopia	0	0	2	2
	Italy	0	0	2	2
20	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		38	38	38	114

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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	3	1	1	5
2	Soviet Union	2	0	0	2
3	Hungary	1	2	1	4
4	Poland	1	1	2	4
5	Bulgaria	1	1	0	2
6	United States	1	0	3	4
7	West Germany*	1	0	1	2
7	Yugoslavia	1	0	1	2
9	Kenya	0	1	2	3
10	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
	Uganda	0	1	0	1
15	Great Britain	0	0	3	3
16	Colombia	0	0	2	2
17	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	Ghana	0	0	1	1
	Niger	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		11	11	22	44

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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Reinhard Eiben East Germany	Reinhold Kauder West Germany	Jamie McEwan United States
Men's C-2 details	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 details	Siegbert Horn East Germany	Norbert Sattler Austria	Harald Gimpel East Germany

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres details	Ivan Patzaichin Romania	Tamás Wichmann Hungary	Detlef Lewe West Germany
C-2 1000 metres details	Soviet Union Vladas Česiūnas Yuri Lobanov	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Bulgaria Fedia Damianov Ivan Burtchin
K-1 1000 metres details	Aleksandr Shaparenko Soviet Union	Rolf Peterson Sweden	Géza Csapó Hungary
K-2 1000 metres details	Soviet Union Nikolai Gorbachev Viktor Kratasyuk	Hungary József Deme János Rátkai	Poland Władysław Szuszkiewicz Rafał Piszcz
K-4 1000 metres details	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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	0	1	3
2	West Germany*	1	0	1	2
3	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
7	Australia	0	3	0	3
8	East Germany	0	2	1	3
9	Poland	0	1	1	2
10	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
11	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	5	19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany*	1	0	0	1
2	Pakistan	0	1	0	1
3	India	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Poland 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 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 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
Men's			Soviet Union 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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	6	4	16
2	Japan	5	5	6	16
3	East Germany	3	4	2	9
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		14	15	13	42

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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union	Karin Janz East Germany	Tamara Lazakovich Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Lyubov Burda Olga Korbut Antonina Koshel Tamara Lazakovich Elvira Saadi Ludmila Tourischeva	East Germany Irene Abel Angelika Hellmann Karin Janz Richarda Schmeißer Christine Schmitt Erika Zuchold	Hungary 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 details	Karin Janz East Germany	Olga Korbut Soviet Union	None awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Uneven bars details	Karin Janz East Germany	Erika Zuchold East Germany	None awarded (as there was a tie for silver)
Vault details	Karin Janz East Germany	Erika Zuchold East Germany	Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union

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

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

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

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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

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

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 David Edgar John Murphy Jerry Heidenreich Mark Spitz	3:26.42 (WR)	Soviet Union Vladimir Bure Viktor Mazanov Viktor Aboimov Igor Grivennikov	3:29.72	East Germany Roland Matthes Wilfried Hartung Peter Bruch Lutz Unger	3:32.42
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States John Kinsella Fred Tyler Steve Genter Mark Spitz	7:35.78 (WR)	West Germany Klaus Steinbach Werner Lampe Hans Vosseler Hans Fassnacht	7:41.69	Soviet Union Igor Grivennikov Viktor Mazanov Georgi Kulikov Vladimir Bure	7:45.76
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States Mike Stamm Tom Bruce Mark Spitz Jerry Heidenreich	3:48.16 (WR)	East Germany Roland Matthes Klaus Katzur Hartmut Flöckner Lutz Unger	3:52.26	Canada Erik Fish William Mahony Bruce Robertson Robert Kasting	3:53.26

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 details	United States Shirley Babashoff Jane Barkman Jenny Kemp Sandy Neilson	3:55.19 (WR)	East Germany Andrea Eife Kornelia Ender Elke Sehmisch Gabriele Wetzko	3:55.55	West Germany Gudrun Beckmann Heidemarie Reineck Angela Steinbach Jutta Weber	3:57.93
4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States Melissa Belote Cathy Carr Deena Deardurff Sandy Neilson	4:20.75 (WR)	East Germany Christine Herbst Renate Vogel Roswitha Beier Kornelia Ender	4:24.91	West Germany Gudrun Beckmann Vreni Eberle Silke Pielen Heidemarie Reineck	4:26.46

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Japan 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 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 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 details	Soviet Union 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 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 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

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

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

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