1972 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , eight canoeing competitions were held for men and three for women. The venue for the canoe slalom sport was from 28. – 30. August 1972 the ice canal in Augsburg , the canoe racing competitions were held from 5th to 9th September 1972 held on the regatta course Oberschleißheim .

Competitions and schedule

Regatta course Oberschleißheim - venue for competitions in canoe racing

Eiskanal Augsburg - venue for the canoe slalom competitions

VL

leader

HL

Reunion

HF

Semifinals

final

Competitions and schedule canoe racing
Competitions	August September
Men	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.
Kayak single (K-1) 1000 m									VL		HL	HF
Two-seater kayak (K-2) 1000 m									VL		HL	HF
Kayak quad (K-4) 1000 m									VL		HL	HF
Canoe single (C-1) 1000 m									VL			HF
Canoe two-man (C-2) 1000 m									VL		HL	HF
Women	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.
Kayak single (K-1) 500 m									VL		HL	HF
Two kayaks (K-2) 500 m									VL			HF
Canoe slalom competitions and schedule
Competitions	August September
Men	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.
Kayak Single (K-1)
Canadian One (C-1)
Canadian Twos (C-2)
Women	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.
Kayak Single (K-1)

Canoe racing men

Single kayak 1000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Oleksander Schaparenko	URS	3: 48.06
2	Rolf Peterson	SWE	3: 48.35
3	Géza Csapó	HUN	3: 49.38
4th	Jean-Pierre Burny	BEL	3: 50.29
5	Ladislav Soucek	TCH	3: 51.05
6th	Joachim Mattern	GDR	3: 51.94
7th	Erik Hansen	THE	3: 52.15
8th	Grzegorz Śledziewski	POLE	3: 53.22
9	llkka Nummisto	FIN	3: 54.10

Participants: 24 canoeists
final on September 9th

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Nikolai Gorbachev Viktor Kratasyuk	3: 31.23
2	HUN	József Deme János Rátkai	3: 32.00
3	POLE	Władysław Szuszkiewicz Rafał Piszcz	3: 33.83
4th	GDR	Rainer Kurth Alexander Slatnow	3: 34.16
5	ROU	Costel Coșniță Vasile Simiocenco	3: 35.66
6th	FRA	Jean-Pierre Cordebois Didier Niquet	3: 36.51
7th	AUT	Günther Pfaff Helmut Hediger	3: 36.61
8th	FRG	Jürgen Riemenschneider Horst Mattern	3: 38.67
9	BUL	Wassil Tchilingirow Alexandar Donkow	3: 45.40

Participants: 25 teams
final on September 9th

Quad kayak 1000 m

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Yuri Filatov Yuri Stetsenko Volodymyr Morozov Valery Didenko	3: 14.02
2	ROU	Aurel Vernescu Mihai Zafiu Roman Vartolomeu Atanasia Sciotnic	3: 15.07
3	NOR	Egil Søby Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Jan Johansen	3: 15.27
4th	ITA	Alberto Ughi Pierangelo Congiu Mario Pedretti Oreste Perri	3: 15.60
5	FRG	Rudolf Blass Eberhard Fischer Rainer Hennes Hans – Erich Pasch	3: 16.63
6th	HUN	István Szabó Péter Vérhelyi Zoltán Bakó Csongor Vargha	3: 16.88
7th	FIN	Kari Markkanen Heikki Mäkelä llkka Nummisto Jorma Lehtosalo	3: 16.92
8th	SWE	Lars Andersson Gunnar Utterberg Per Larsson Hans Nilsson	3: 17.39
9	TCH	Ladislav Soucek Zdenëk Bohutinsky Lubomîr Kadnér Pavel Kvasil	3: 20.22

Participants: 20 teams
final on September 9th

Single canoe 1000 m

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Ivan Patzaichin	ROU	4: 09.94
2	Támas Wichmann	HUN	4: 12.42
3	Detlef Lewe	FRG	4: 13.63
4th	Dirk way	GDR	4: 14.38
5	Wassyl Yurchenko	URS	4: 14.43
6th	Boris Lyubenov	BUL	4: 14.65
7th	Jirî Ctvrtecka	TCH	4: 14.98
8th	Roberto Altamirano	MEX	4: 20.39
9	Jerzy Opara	POLE	4: 21.05

Participants: 13 canoeists
final on September 9th

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Vladas Česiūnas Juri Lobanow	3: 52.60
2	ROU	Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	3: 52.63
3	BUL	Fedia Damianow Ivan Burchin	3: 58.10
4th	FRG	Peter Hoffmann Hermann Glaser	3: 59.24
5	HUN	Miklós Darvas Péter Povázsay	4: 00.42
6th	United States	Roland Mühlen Andréas Wéigand	4: 01.28
7th	GDR	Dirk Weise Dieter Lichtenberg	4: 01.50
8th	SWE	Bernt Lindelöf Eric Zeidlitz	4: 01.60
9	TCH	Petr Mokry Karel Scheder	4: 02.05

Participants: 16 teams
final on September 9th

Canoe racing women

Single kayak 500 m

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Yulia Ryabchinskaya	URS	2: 03.17
2	Mieke Jaapies	NED	2: 04.03
3	Anna pepper	HUN	2: 05.50
4th	Irene Pepinghege	FRG	2: 06.55
5	Bettina Mueller	GDR	2: 06.85
6th	Maria Nichiforov	ROU	2: 07.13
7th	Kate Olsen	THE	2: 07.16
8th	Ingmarie Svensson	SWE	2: 07.61
9	Marcia Smoke	United States	2: 07.98

Participants: 15 female canoeists
final on September 9th

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	URS	Lyudmila Pinajewa Ekaterina Kuryschko	1: 53.50
2	GDR	Ilse Kaschube Petra Grabowsky	1: 54.30
3	ROU	Maria Nichiforov Viorica Dumitru	1: 55.01
4th	HUN	Anna Pfeffer Katalin Hollósy	1: 55.12
5	FRG	Roswitha Esser Renate Breuer	1: 55.64
6th	POLE	Izabela Antonowicz Ewa Grajkowska	1: 57.45
7th	NED	Mieke Jaapies Maria van der Holst	1: 58.11
8th	BUL	Natascha Petrowa Petrana Kolewa	1: 59.40
9	TCH	Anastázie Fridrichová Oldriska Kaplanová	1: 59.84

Participants: 12 teams
final on September 9th

Canoe slalom men

One kayak

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Siegbert Horn	GDR	268.56
2	Norbert Sattler	AUT	270.76
3	Harald Gimpel	GDR	277.95
4th	Ulrich Peters	FRG	282.82
5	Alfred Baum	FRG	288.01
6th	Marian Havlicek	TCH	289.56
7th	Eric Evans	United States	296.34
8th	Jürgen Bremer	GDR	303.15

Participants: 37 canoeists from 14 countries
Final on August 28th

Canadians

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Reinhard Eiben	GDR	315.84
2	Reinhold Kauder	FRG	327.89
3	James McEwan	United States	335.95
4th	Jochen Förster	GDR	354.42
5	Wolfgang Peters	FRG	356.25
6th	Jürgen Koehler	GDR	372.88
7th	Karel Tresuak	TCH	385.07
8th	Petr Sodomka	TCH	391.11

Participants: 22 canoeists from 9 countries
Final on August 28th

Two-man Canadians

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	GDR	Walter Hofmann Rolf-Dieter Amend	310.68
2	FRG	Hans-Otto Schumacher Wilhelm Baues	311.90
3	FRA	Jean-Louis Olry Jean-Claude Olry	315.10
4th	GDR	Jürgen Kretschmer Klaus Trummer	329.57
5	POLE	Jan Fraczek Ryszard Seruga	366.21
6th	YUG	Janez Andrijasic Peter Guzelj	368.01
7th	FRG	Michael Reimann Olaf Fricke	371.86
8th	AUT	Heimo Müllneritsch Helmar Steindl	375.14

Participants: 20 teams from nine countries.
Final on August 30th

Canoe slalom women

One kayak

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Angelika Bahmann	GDR	364.50
2	Gisela Grothaus	FRG	398.15
3	Magdalena Wunderlich	FRG	400.50
4th	Maria Cwiertniewicz	POLE	432.30
5	Kunegunda Godawska	POLE	441.05
6th	Victoria Brown	GBR	443.71
7th	Ulrike Deppe	FRG	456.44
8th	Bohumila Kapplová	TCH	460.16

Participants: 22 canoeists from ten countries
Final on August 30th

Medal table

Medal table canoe
space	country
1	Soviet Union	6th	-	-	6th
2	GDR	4th	1	1	6th
3	Romania	1	2	1	4th
4th	BR Germany	-	3	2	5
5	Hungary	-	2	2	4th
6th	Sweden	-	1	-	1
	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
	Austria	-	1	-	1
9	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Norway	-	-	1	1
	Bulgaria	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
Total		11	11	11	33

literature

Kicker-Sportmagazin : Born 1972: Issue No. 69–73, Olympia-Verlag GmbH

Web links

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schedule and results of the competitions, pp.484–499 (PDF file; 28.08 MB)