1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iceland)

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Iceland took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 25 athletes (24 men and one woman). These competed in four sports in 16 competitions. The handball player Geir Hallsteinsson was chosen as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony.

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Guðmundur Sigurðsson

  Middle heavyweight: 13th place

• Óskar Sigurpálsson

  Heavyweight: 19th place

Handball

• Men's team

  12th place

• Squad

  Ágúst Ögmundsson

  Axel Axelsson

  Birgir Finnbogason

  Björgvin Björgvinsson

  Geir Hallsteinsson

  Gunnsteinn Skúlason

  Hjalti Einarsson

  Jón Magnússon

  Ólafur Benediktsson

  Ólafur H. Jónsson

  Sigurbergur Sigsteinsson

  Sigurdur Einarsson

  Stefán Gunnarsson

  Stefan Jonsson

  Viðar Símonarson

athletics

Men

• Bjarni Stefánsson

  100 m: advance

  200 m: quarter-finals

• Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson

  800 m: advance

• Erlendur Valdimarsson

  Discus throwing: 23rd place in qualification

Women

• Lára Sveinsdóttir

  Women, high jump: 37th place in qualification

swim

• Finnur Garðarsson

  100 m freestyle: preliminary

  200 m freestyle: preliminary

• Friðrik Guðmundsson

  400 m freestyle: preliminary

  1500 m freestyle: preliminary

• Guðjón Guðmundsson

  100 m chest: forward

  200 m chest: forward

• Gudmunður Gíslason

  200 m layers: advance

  400 m layers: advance

Web links

1. ↑ Icelandic Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Results of the 1972 Summer Olympics (PDF; 29.4 MB)