1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	7th / 8th September 1972
Medalist Mykola Awilow ( URS )   Leonid Lytwynenko ( URS )   Ryszard Katus ( POL )

The men's decathlon at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was played on September 7th and 8th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part. The decathlon table, modified in 1971, was used to determine the number of points.

Olympic champion was Mykola Avilov from the Soviet Union, who set a new world record . The silver medal went to his compatriot Leonid Lytwynenko , while the bronze went to Ryszard Katus from Poland .

For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Horst Beyer , Hans-Joachim Perk and Hans-Joachim Walde started . All three athletes could not finish the competition. Beyer and Perk broke it off after the third, Walde after the fourth.
The GDR was represented by Joachim Kirst and Stefan Schreyer . Schreyer finished fifth in the final ranking, Kirst broke off the competition after the sixth discipline.
Heinz Born and Ruedi Mangisch started for Switzerland. Born finished 19th in the final ranking, Mangisch did not compete after the ninth discipline.
The Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer finished the decathlon in ninth place.
Decathletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	8417 points (8310)	Bill Toomey ( USA )	Heidelberg , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	May 14, 1967
Olympic record	8193 points (8064)		Mexico City , Mexico	September 6, 1960

Remarks:

• The scores result from the decathlon table developed in 1971. The number of points is given in brackets that would have been obtained using the current ranking table from 1985.
• The 1960 Olympic champion Rafer Johnson had reached 8392 points there. In terms of numbers, this is more than Bill Toomeys o. G. Olympic record. However, these results are not comparable because a different rating system was used in 1960. Using the points table currently valid in 1972, Toomey's result achieved in 1968 is significantly better than that of Rafer Johnson from 1960.

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. The scoring was based on the points table from 1971.

Competition schedule

On September 7th (from 10 a.m.) the following were completed:
100 m
long jump,
shot put,
high jump
400 m

On September 8th (from 9 a.m.) the following were completed:
110 m hurdles
Discus throw
Pole vault
Javelin throw
1500 m

Note: In the shot put, discus and javelin throw as well as in the long jump, the respective best distances are printed in bold. In the high jump or pole vault, the last valid attempt is printed in bold.

Attendees

Olympic champion Mykola Awilow from the USSR

33 athletes from 19 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Mykola Awilow	Soviet Union
József Bakai	Hungary
Jeff Bannister	United States
Jeff Bennett	United States
Horst Beyer	BR Germany
Heinz Born	Switzerland
Clifford Brooks	Barbados
Luis Alberto Flores Asturias	Guatemala
Peter Gabbett	Great Britain
Radu Gavrilaş	Romania
Regis Ghesquière	Belgium
Lennart Hedmark	Sweden
Freddy Herbrand	Belgium
Boris Ivanov	Soviet Union
Tadeusz Janczenko	Poland
Bruce Jenner	United States
Ryszard Katus	Poland
Barry King	Great Britain
Joachim Kirst	GDR
Yves Le Roy	France
Roger Lespagnard	Belgium
Leonid Lytwynenko	Soviet Union
Ruedi Mangisch	Switzerland
Gerry Moro	Canada
Wilfred Mwalawanda	Malawi
Hans-Joachim Perk	BR Germany
Jean-Pierre Schoebel	France
Stefan Schreyer	GDR
Vijay Singh Chauhan	India
Ryszard Skowronek	Poland
Steen Smidt-Jensen	Denmark
Hans-Joachim Walde	BR Germany
Sepp Zeilbauer	Austria

Disciplines

100 meter run

The GDR athlete Stefan Schreyer - here doing the shot put

Joachim Kirst, GDR

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Janczenko 10.64 s 895 02 Gabbett 10.65 s 893 03 Bennett 10.73 s 872 04th Skowronek 10.78 s 859 05 Mangisch 10.79 s 857 06th Schreyer 10.82 s 849 07th Katus 10.89 s 831 08th Le Roy 10.94 s 819 09 Zeilbauer 10.97 s 812 10 Avilov 11.00 s 804 Herbrand 12 Smidt-Jensen 11.07 s 787 13 Bakai 11.08 s 785 14th Bannister 11.09 s 783 15th Schoebel 11.11 s 778 Forest 17th Kirst 11.12 s 775 18th Lytwynenko 11.13 s 773 19th Brooks 11.19 s 759 20th Ivanov 11.24 s 747 21st Lespagnard 11.27 s 740 22nd King 11.32 s 728 23 Perk 11.34 s 724 24 Born 11.35 s 721 Jenner Singh Chauhan 27 Ghesquière 11.45 s 699 28 Moro 11.49 s 690 29 Hedmark 11.53 s 681 30th Gavrilaş 11.57 s 672 31 Flores Asturias 11.59 s 668 32 Beyer 11.64 s 657 33 Mwalawanda 11.95 s 591

Long jump

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Avilov 7.68 m x x 957 02 Kirst x 7.59 m 7.29 m 939 03 Schreyer 7.44 m x 7.26 m 909 04th Skowronek 7.25 m 7.42 m x 905 05 Le Roy 7.08 m 7.29 m 7.32 m 885 06th Herbrand 7.30 m 7.26 m 7.21 m 881 07th Janczenko 7.01 m 7.26 m 7.28 m 877 08th Bennett 7.13 m 7.15 m 7.26 m 873 09 Ghesquière 6.98 m 7.03 m 7.21 m 863 10 Bannister 7.15 m 7.20 m 7.16 m 862 11 Gabbett 6.87 m x 7.19 m 859 12 Bakai 7.05 m 7.16 m x 853 Forest 6.60 m 6.74 m 7.16 m Zeilbauer x 6.79 m 7.16 m 15th Katus x x 7.09 m 838 16 King 7.03 m 7.06 m x 832 17th Lespagnard 6.86 m 7.01 m 6.96 m 822 18th Smidt-Jensen 6.77 m 6.95 m 6.89 m 810 19th Mangisch 6.82 m x 6.94 m 808 20th Born x 6.92 m x 804 Singh Chauhan 6.82 m x 6.92 m 22nd Moro 6.86 m 6.91 m 6.88 m 802 23 Gavrilaş 6.90 m 6.71 m x 800 24 Hedmark 6.78 m x 6.89 m 798 Schoebel 6.42 m 6.89 m 6.53 m 26th Perk x x 6.82 m 782 27 Brooks 6.64 m 6.81 m 5.23 m 780 Lytwynenko 6.81 m 6.57 m 6.71 m 29 Ivanov 6.59 m 6.26 m 6.57 m 734 30th Jenner 6.49 m 6.53 m 6.46 m 721 31 Beyer x x 6.51 m 717 Flores Asturias 6.51 m 6.02 m x 33 Mwalawanda x x 5.68 m 533

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Janczenko 1772 02 Skowronek 1764 03 Avilov 1761 04th Schreyer 1758 05 Gabbett 1752 06th Bennett 1745 07th Kirst 1714 08th Le Roy 1704 09 Herbrand 1685 10 Katus 1669 11 Mangisch 1665 Zeilbauer 13 Bannister 1644 14th Bakai 1638 15th Forest 1631 16 Smidt-Jensen 1597 17th Schoebel 1576 18th Ghesquière 1562 Lespagnard 20th King 1560 21st Lytwynenko 1553 22nd Brooks 1539 23 Born 1525 Singh Chauhan 25th Perk 1506 26th Moro 1492 27 Ivanov 1481 28 Hedmark 1479 29 Gavrilaş 1472 30th Jenner 1442 31 Flores Asturias 1385 32 Beyer 1374 33 Mwalawanda 1124

Shot put

Joachim Kirst took the lead in front of his teammate Stefan Schreyer. The previously leading Tadeusz Janczenko fell back to third, Mykola Awilow climbed to fourth.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Kirst 16.09 m x x 852 02 Bakai 15.10 m 15.50 m 15.84 m 838 03 King 15.25 m 15.29 m 15.28 m 806 04th Schreyer 15.02 m x 14.76 m 790 05 Forest 14.09 m 13.03 m 14.57 m 763 06th Ivanov 14.23 m 14.47 m x 757 07th Janczenko 14.21 m 14.19 m 14.45 m 756 08th Hedmark 14.43 m x x 754 09 Beyer 13.66 m 13.76 m 14.42 m 754 Singh Chauhan 13.23 m 14.42 m x 11 Katus 14.39 m x x 752 12 Avilov 14.14 m x 14.36 m 750 13 Ghesquière 13.57 m 13.89 m 14.32 m 747 14th Skowronek 14.24 m x x 743 15th Bannister 14.21 m 13.51 m x 741 16 Lytwynenko x 13.98 m 14.18 m 739 17th Moro 13.77 m 13.99 m x 727 18th Herbrand 13.67 m x 13.91 m 722 19th Le Roy 13.90 m 13.61 m 13.90 m 722 20th Schoebel 13.79 m 13.62 m 13.04 m 715 21st Gabbett 13.46 m x 13.59 m 702 22nd Jenner 13.27 m 13.54 m 13.56 m 700 23 Zeilbauer 13.49 m 13.30 m x 696 24 Smidt-Jensen 13.18 m 12.32 m 13.35 m 687 25th Perk x 12.55 m 13.34 m 686 26th Born 12.24 m 12.75 m 13.06 m 669 27 Lespagnard x 12.66 m 12.92 m 660 28 Bennett 11.54 m 12.82 m 12.06 m 653 29 Gavrilaş 12.44 m 12.47 m 12.65 m 642 30th Mangisch 11.43 m 12.27 m x 617 Mwalawanda 12.27 m 12.19 m x 32 Flores Asturias 10.24 m 8.89 m 11.78 m 584 33 Brooks 11.71 m 11.46 m x 580

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kirst 2566 02 Schreyer 2548 03 Janczenko 2528 04th Avilov 2511 05 Skowronek 2507 06th Bakai 2476 07th Gabbett 2454 08th Le Roy 2426 09 Katus 2421 10 Herbrand 2407 11 Bennett 2398 12 Forest 2394 13 Bannister 2385 14th King 2366 15th Zeilbauer 2361 16 Ghesquière 2309 17th Lytwynenko 2292 18th Schoebel 2291 19th Smidt-Jensen 2284 20th Mangisch 2282 21st Singh Chauhan 2279 22nd Ivanov 2238 23 Hedmark 2233 24 Lespagnard 2222 25th Moro 2219 26th Born 2194 27 Perk 2192 28 Jenner 2142 29 Beyer 2128 30th Brooks 2119 31 Gavrilaş 2114 32 Flores Asturias 1969 33 Mwalawanda 1741

high jump

The following athletes did not take part in the high jump : Horst Beyer and Hans-Joachim Perk, both BR Germany, as well as the Swede Lennart Hedmark.

With 2.12 m, Mykola Awilow achieved the highest height in the high jump in the Olympic decathlon. Awilow then tore 2.14 m three times.

With this performance, Awilow moved up to second place, 38 points behind Joachim Kirst. Tadeusz Janczenko, Ryszard Skowronek and Stefan Schreyer followed in third to fifth.

Classification space Surname 1.60 m 1.65 m 1.70 m 1.75 m 1.80 m 1.83 m 1.86 m 1.89 m 1.92 m 1.95 m 1.98 m 2.01 m 2.04 m 2.06 m 2.08 m 2.10 m 2.12 m Points 01 Avilov - - - - - - - - - O - O xxo O O O O 959 02 Kirst - - - - - - O - O - xo O O xxo xo O xxx 942 03 Herbrand - - - - O - - O - O O O O xxx 891 Janczenko - - - - - - - O - O O O xx o xxx 05 Gavrilaş - - - - - O - O O O O xx o xxx 865 Lespagnard - - O - - O - O O xxo xo x o xxx Smidt-Jensen - - - - - - - xo xo O xo O xxx Zeilbauer - - - - - O - - O O O x o xxx 09 Born - - - - - - O - xxo xo xx o xxx 840 Skowronek - - - - - - O O O O x o xxx 11 Ivanov - - - - O - xo - x o xxx 788 Jenner - - - - xo - O O x o xxx Katus - - - - O - O O O xxx Schreyer - - O - O O O O O xxx Forest - - - - - xo xxo xo xx o xxx 16 Bakai - - - O - O xo x o xxx 760 Ghesquière - - - - - O xxo xx o xxx King - O O O O O O xx o xxx Lytwynenko - - - O O xxo O x o xxx Mangisch - - O - O O O xx o xxx 21st Bannister - - - - - xxo O xxx 734 Bennett - - O O O O O xxx Gabbett - - O O O xo x o xxx Moro O O O xo O xxo xx o xxx 25th Le Roy - O - xo x o x-- 680 Singh Chauhan O O O xo x o xxx 27 Brooks - O O xx o xxx 634 Flores Asturias O O xo O xxx 29 Mwalawanda xo xx o xxx 540 30th Schoebel O xxx 493 Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kirst 3508 02 Avilov 3470 03 Janczenko 3419 04th Skowronek 3347 05 Schreyer 3336 06th Herbrand 3289 07th Bakai 3236 08th Zeilbauer 3226 09 Katus 3209 10 Gabbett 3188 11 Forest 3182 12 Smidt-Jensen 3149 13 Bennett 3132 14th King 3126 15th Bannister 3119 16 Le Roy 3106 17th Lespagnard 3087 18th Ghesquière 3069 19th Lytwynenko 3052 20th Mangisch 3042 21st Born 3034 22nd Ivanov 3026 23 Gavrilaş 2979 24 Singh Chauhan 2959 25th Moro 2953 26th Jenner 2930 27 Schoebel 2784 28 Brooks 2753 29 Flores Asturias 2603 30th Mwalawanda 2281

400 meter run

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

The German bronze medalist from 1964 and silver medalist from 1968 Hans-Joachim Walde did not take part in this fifth discipline.

Mykola Awilow was able to reduce the gap to Joachim Kirst to 16 points.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Gabbett 46.10 s 994 02 Bennett 46.25 s 987 03 Bannister 46.79 s 959 04th Mangisch 47.59 s 918 05 Skowronek 48.08 s 894 06th Lytwynenko 48.40 s 879 07th Avilov 48.45 s 875 08th Le Roy 48.73 s 863 09 Zeilbauer 48.77 s 862 10 Kirst 48.90 s 856 11 Janczenko 49.06 s 848 12 Katus 49.11 s 846 13 Ghesquière 49.13 s 845 14th Schoebel 49.23 s 840 15th Jenner 49.49 s 828 16 Lespagnard 49.51 s 829 Schreyer 18th Brooks 49.75 s 816 19th Herbrand 49.78 s 815 20th Singh Chauhan 49.89 s 810 21st Born 50.01 s 805 22nd King 50.05 s 803 23 Smidt-Jensen 50.13 s 799 24 Ivanov 50.18 s 797 25th Bakai 50.88 s 766 26th Gavrilaş 50.90 s 765 27 Flores Asturias 50.97 s 762 28 Moro 52.02 s 720 29 Mwalawanda 52.68 s 691

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Kirst 4363 02 Avilov 4347 03 Janczenko 4265 04th Skowronek 4241 05 Gabbett 4182 06th Schreyer 4163 07th Bennett 4119 08th Herbrand 4113 09 Zeilbauer 4088 10 Bannister 4078 11 Katus 4055 12 Bakai 4002 13 Le Roy 3969 14th Mangisch 3960 15th Smidt-Jensen 3950 16 Lytwynenko 3931 17th King 3929 18th Ghesquière 3914 Lespagnard 20th Born 3839 21st Ivanov 3823 22nd Singh Chauhan 3769 23 Jenner 3758 24 Gavrilaş 3744 25th Moro 3671 26th Schoebel 3624 27 Brooks 3569 28 Flores Asturias 3365 29 Mwalawanda 2972

110 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

The previous leader, Joachim Kirst, sustained an injury when he fell on the third hurdle and had to give up the race. Mykola Awilow took the lead and was 259 points ahead of Poland's Ryszard Skowronek. While Tadeusz Janczenko, also from Poland, slipped to seventh place, his compatriot Ryszard Katus overtook him to sixth. In between were Stefan Schreyer, GDR, the Briton Peter Gabbett and Freddy Herbrand from Belgium in third to fifth place.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Avilov 14.31 s 926 02 Katus 14.41 s 914 03 Smidt-Jensen 14.65 s 887 04th Ivanov 14.76 s 874 05 Herbrand 14.87 s 862 06th Schreyer 15.00 s 848 07th Singh Chauhan 15.01 s 847 08th Lytwynenko 15.03 s 845 09 Gavrilaş 15.13 s 835 Zeilbauer 11 Schoebel 15.30 s 817 12 Le Roy 15.34 s 813 13 Born 15.39 s 808 14th Gabbett 15.47 s 800 15th Bennett 15.58 s 789 16 Jenner 15.59 s 788 17th Ghesquière 15.68 s 779 18th Mangisch 15.71 s 776 19th Skowronek 15.74 s 773 20th Lespagnard 15.84 s 764 21st Moro 16.28 s 723 22nd Brooks 16.37 s 715 23 Bakai 16.50 s 703 24 King 16.61 s 694 25th Janczenko 16.89 s 670 26th Flores Asturias 17.44 s 625 27 Mwalawanda 18.54 s 543 DSQ Bannister 0 DNF Kirst

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Avilov 5273 02 Skrowonek 5014 03 Schreyer 5011 04th Gabbett 4982 05 Herbrand 4975 06th Katus 4969 07th Janczenko 4935 08th Zeilbauer 4923 09 Bennett 4908 10 Smidt-Jensen 4837 11 Le Roy 4782 12 Lytwynenko 4776 13 Mangisch 4736 14th Bakai 4705 15th Ivanov 4697 16 Ghesquière 4693 17th Lespagnard 4678 18th Born 4647 19th King 4623 20th Singh Chauhan 4616 21st Gavrilaş 4579 22nd Jenner 4546 23 Schoebel 4441 24 Moro 4394 25th Kirst 4363 26th Brooks 4284 27 Bannister 4078 28 Flores Asturias 3990 29 Mwalawanda 3515

Discus throw

Because of his injury in the hurdles, Joachim Kirst from the GDR and the Canadian Gerry Moro did not take part in this seventh discipline.

With 51.46 m, József Bakai achieved the greatest distance in the discus throw in the Olympic decathlon.

Mykola Awilow was able to further extend his lead. He was now leading with 295 points ahead of Stefan Schreyer and Freddy Herbrand.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Bakai 48.40 m 51.20 m 51.46 m 897 02 Lytwynenko 47.84 m x 44.10 m 833 03 Herbrand 47.12 m x x 820 04th Avilov 46.98 m 43.18 m 46.40 m 818 05 King x x 46.06 m 801 06th Gabbett 42.36 m 39.18 m 45.58 m 792 07th Ghesquière 45.56 m 44.10 m x 792 08th Janczenko 45.26 m 43.14 m x 786 09 Singh Chauhan 45.18 m 43.92 m 41.92 m 785 10 Schreyer 45.08 m 44.68 m x 783 11 Smidt-Jensen 41.32 m 44.80 m 42.70 m 778 12 Le Roy 41.92 m 44.04 m 43.00 m 763 13 Katus 39.00 m 41.98 m 43.00 m 744 14th Jenner x x 42.24 m 729 15th Bannister 41.32 m 39.28 m 42.00 m 724 16 Ivanov x 41.50 m 41.58 m 716 17th Schoebel 40.12 m 40.26 m 41.14 m 708 18th Zeilbauer x 40.84 m 40.16 m 702 19th Gavrilaş 40.52 m 39.90 m 40.18 m 696 20th Born 36.50 m 39.94 m x 672 21st Mwalawanda 38.82 m 38.36 m x 662 22nd Lespagnard 36.78 m 37.86 m 36.64 m 643 23 Mangisch x 36.92 m x 623 24 Bennett x 36.58 m 36.52 m 616 25th Flores Asturias x 33.34 m 35.64 m 597 26th Brooks 33.22 m 33.90 m x 560 27 Skowronek 33.66 m x x 555

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Avilov 6091 02 Schreyer 5796 03 Herbrand 5794 04th Gabbett 5774 05 Janczenko 5721 06th Katus 5713 07th Zeilbauer 5625 08th Smidt-Jensen 5615 09 Lytwynenko 5609 10 Bakai 5602 11 Skowronek 5569 12 Le Roy 5545 13 Bennett 5524 14th Ghesquière 5485 15th King 5424 16 Ivanov 5413 17th Singh Chauhan 5401 18th Mangisch 5359 19th Lespagnard 5321 20th Born 5319 21st Gavrilaş 5275 Jenner 23 Schoebel 5149 24 Brooks 4844 25th Bannister 4802 26th Flores Asturias 4587 27 Mwalawanda 4177

Pole vault

Clifford Brooks from Barbados and Ryszard Skowronek from Poland did not compete in this eighth discipline.

Mykola Awilow extended his lead at the front to 332 points. The athletes had a chance of finishing in a medal up to ninth place. Second and ninth place were separated by just 195 points.

Classification space Surname 3.30 m 3.40 m 3.50 m 3.60 m 3.70 m 3.80 m 3.90 m 4.00 m 4.10 m 4.20 m 4.30 m 4.40 m 4.50 m 4.55 m 4.60 m 4.70 m 4.80 m Points 01 Bennett - - - - - - - - - - - - xo - - O O 1005 Smidt-Jensen - - - - - - - - - O - O - - xxo xxo x o 03 Lespagnard - - - - - - - O - O - xo O - O xxx 957 04th Avilov - - - - - - - O - xo O xo O x o xxx 945 Jenner - - - - - - - - O - xo - xo O xxx 06th Janczenko - - - - - O - O - O O xo xx o xxx 932 Katus - - - - - - - xo - O - O O - xxx Le Roy - - - - - - - - - - O - O - - xxx 09 Gavrilaş - - - O - O xo xo - xo O O xxx 909 Herbrand - - - - - - - xxo O O xo O xxx Lytwynenko - - - - - O - O - O xxo O xxx Schreyer - - - - - O - O O O O O xxx 13 Zeilbauer - - - O - - - O O O O xxx 884 14th Ivanov - - - - - O xo - xo O xxx 884 15th Schoebel - - - - - - - O - O xxx 859 16 Bakai - - - - - - - O - - xxx 807 Bannister - - - O - xxo - O xxx Born - - - xo - O - O - xxx 19th King O O - xo O O x o xxx 780 20th Ghesquière - - O - - O xxx 754 21st Singh Chauhan xo xo O xo O xxx 728 22nd Gabbett - - - O - xxx 700 23 Mwalawanda O 754 ogV Flores Asturias xxx 0 Mangisch - - - xxx Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Avilov 7036 02 Herbrand 6704 03 Schreyer 6703 04th Janczenko 6653 05 Katus 6645 06th Smidt-Jensen 6620 07th Bennett 6529 08th Lytwynenko 6518 09 Zeilbauer 6509 10 Le Roy 6477 11 Gabbett 6474 12 Bakai 6409 13 Ivanov 6297 14th Lespagnard 6278 15th Ghesquière 6239 16 Jenner 6220 17th King 6204 18th Gavrilaş 6184 19th Singh Chauhan 6129 20th Born 6126 21st Schoebel 6008 22nd Bannister 5609 23 Mangisch 5359 24 Mwalawanda 4792 25th Flores Asturias 4687

Javelin throw

Luis Alberto Flores Asturias from Guatemala did not participate in this ninth discipline.

Mykola Awilow could hardly take the victory, he was now leading by 344 points. He was also on a world record course . It remained exciting in the battle for the medals.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Mwalawanda 71.28 m x x 894 02 Jenner 63.20 m 66.02 m 60.88 m 833 03 Ivanov 62.54 m 52.14 m 64.84 m 819 04th Zeilbauer 57.66 m 60.04 m 64.46 m 815 05 Janczenko x 62.36 m 63.80 m 807 06th Avilov x 61.66 m 57.96 m 781 Le Roy 49.64 m 61.66 m x 08th Ghesquière 56.88 m 58.82 m 60.88 m 772 09 Schreyer 60.70 m x 59.96 m 770 10 Katus 55.48 m x 59.96 m 761 11 Lytwynenko 55.02 m 57.98 m 58.94 m 748 12 King 57.74 m 53.46 m 55.04 m 733 13 Schoebel 56.74 m 57.54 m 52.96 m 731 14th Bennett 52.00 m 57.48 m 49.14 m 730 15th Gavrilaş 57.16 m x x 726 16 Bannister 56.98 m x x 724 17th Singh Chauhan 36.90 m 48.68 m 56.34 m 716 18th Smidt-Jensen 55.24 m 54.76 m 55.08 m 701 19th Bakai 52.18 m x x 662 20th Lespagnard 50.60 m x 46.32 m 641 21st Herbrand x x 50.42 m 639 22nd Born 46.18 m 48.72 m 47.90 m 615 22nd Gabbett x x x 0 Mangisch

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Avilov 7817 02 Schreyer 7473 03 Janczenko 7460 04th Katus 7406 05 Herbrand 7343 06th Zeilbauer 7324 07th Smidt-Jensen 7321 08th Lytwynenko 7266 09 Bennett 7259 10 Le Roy 7258 11 Ivanov 7116 12 Bakai 7071 13 Jenner 7053 14th Ghesquière 7011 15th King 6937 16 Lespagnard 6919 17th Gavrilaş 6911 18th Singh Chauhan 6845 19th Born 6741 Schoebel 21st Gabbett 6474 22nd Bannister 6333 23 Mwalawanda 5686 24 Mangisch 5359

1500 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

The Swiss Ruedi Mangisch and the British Peter Gabbett did not compete in this last discipline.

With 4: 05.9 min Leonid Lytwynenko achieved the best time in the 1,500 meter run in the Olympic decathlon.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Lytwynenko 4: 05.9 min 768 02 Bennett 4: 12.2 min 718 03 Bannister 4: 15.8 min 690 04th Jenner 4: 18.9 min 668 05 Ghesquière 4: 19.4 min 664 06th Avilov 4: 22.8 min 639 07th Smidt-Jensen 4: 24.7 min 626 08th Herbrand 4: 27.7 min 605 09 Lespagnard 4: 28.7 min 598 10 Katus 4: 31.9 min 577 11 Ivanov 4: 37.4 min 541 Mwalawanda 13 King 4: 38.6 min 533 Singh Chauhan 15th Schoebel 4: 38.8 min 532 16 Gavrilaş 4: 43.1 min 506 17th Born 4: 47.9 min 476 18th Schreyer 4: 48.2 min 475 19th Zeilbauer 4: 58.2 min 418 20th Le Roy 4: 58.9 min 414 21st Janczenko 5: 01.5 min 400 DNF Bakai 0

Bottom line

Date: 7./8. September 1972

The decathlon of Munich was the second day in a two-class society with a vastly superior Olympic champion Mykola Avilov from the USSR, Olympic fourth from 1968 , and the fighting for positions and medals field far behind. That was not what it looked like during the first day. Above all, the double European champions from 1969 and 1971 set the standards from the third exercise, the shot put . After five disciplines at the end of the first day, Kirst was leading with 4363 points, but Awilow was already just behind with his half-time result of 4347 points. Even behind that, the distances to the athletes in the other places were still tight and the outcome was completely open.

That changed with the 110-meter hurdles , the first exercise of the second day. Awilow ran the fastest time on this route, while Kirst fell on the third hurdle and then had to give up the competition injured. The Soviet decathlete now had a lead of more than 200 points, which he expanded to almost 350 points before the last discipline, the 1,500 meter run . Avilov's achievements were so high that even the world record was still within the realm of possibility. For the athletes behind him there were legitimate prospects for the silver or bronze medal up to ninth place.

Mykola Awilow had to run a time of approx. 4:28 minutes and achieved 4: 22.8 minutes. He became Olympic champion and improved Bill Toomey's previous world record by 39 points. Leonid Lytwynenko was able to move up from eighth to second with his 1500 meter best time - 4: 05.9 min. All direct competitors for the top positions started in the same - the third - run. Nobody could do anything to oppose the pace of the Soviet athlete. Stefan Schreyer, GDR, not only lost his lead of more than 200 points on Lytwynenko, but was also overtaken by the Pole Ryszard Katus and the American Jeff Bennett. Katus made up for the missing 67 points and thus secured the bronze medal.

In order to better classify the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1971, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been only a few deviations: The seventh-placed Steen Smidt-Jensen would have been two ranks further up, while Stefan Schreyer and Freddy Herbrand would each have moved one place down. The ranks eleven / twelve, sixteen / seventeen and 20/21 would be swapped. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1985 rating
1	Mykola Awilow	Soviet Union	8456 WR	8466
2	Leonid Lytwynenko	Soviet Union	8034	7970
3	Ryszard Katus	Poland	7983	7936
4th	Jeff Bennett	United States	7977	7918
5	Stefan Schreyer	GDR	7948	7907
6th	Freddy Herbrand	Belgium	7948	7896
7th	Steen Smidt-Jensen	Denmark	7947	7909
8th	Tadeusz Janczenko	Poland	7860	7790
9	Sepp Zeilbauer	Austria	7742	7693
10	Bruce Jenner	United States	7721	7671
11	Regis Ghesquière	Belgium	7675	7613
12	Yves Le Roy	France	7672	7635
13	Boris Ivanov	Soviet Union	7657	7605
14th	Roger Lespagnard	Belgium	7517	7442
15th	Barry King	Great Britain	7470	7380
16	Radu Gavrilaş	Romania	7416	7296
17th	Vijay Singh Chauhan	India	7378	7305
18th	Jean-Pierre Schoebel	France	7271	7219
19th	Heinz Born	Switzerland	7217	7122
20th	József Bakai	Hungary	7071	6831
21st	Jeff Bannister	United States	7023	6946
22nd	Wilfred Mwalawanda	Malawi	6227	6153

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 50f

Videos

• 100m Munich Olympic Stadium decathlon , published August 1, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed December 4, 2017
• Long jump Munich Olympic Stadium decathlon , published on July 24, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on December 4, 2017
• 400m Munich Olympic Stadium decathlon , published July 24, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed December 4, 2017
• 110m hurdles Munich Olympic Stadium decathlon , published August 1, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on December 4, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed December 4, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 64, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 560 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 4, 2017
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017 
3. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (high jump) , accessed on December 4, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (discus throw) , accessed on December 4, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (1500 m) , accessed on December 4, 2017
6. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 64, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 4, 2017