1972 Summer Olympics / Archery

Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Munich
Competition venue	English garden
Nations	27
Athletes	95 (55 , 44 )
date	September 7-10, 1972
decisions	2
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Aerial view of the English Garden

At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , archery competitions were held for the first time in 52 years . The program included a competition for men and women. The competitions were held from September 7th to 10th in the English Garden .

After a large number of competitions were shot at tournaments in the early years of Olympic archery, the Olympic archery tournament in Munich was shot as a so-called double FITA round. In the FITA round, the women shot 36 arrows each at a distance of 70 m, 60 m, 50 m and 30 m away and the men at 90 m, 70 m, 50 m and 30 m distance. In total, each participant had to shoot 288 competition arrows. While the two longer distances, both men and women, shot at target faces with a diameter of 122 cm, a face with a diameter of 80 cm was used for the two shorter distances.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	United States	2	-	-	2
2	Poland	-	1	-	1
	Sweden	-	1	-	1
4th	Finland	-	-	1	1
	Soviet Union	-	-	1	1
total		2	2	2	6th

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Single men	John Williams ( USA )	Gunnar Jervill ( SWE )	Kyösti Laasonen ( FIN )
Single women	Doreen Wilber ( USA )	Irena Szydłowska ( POL )	Emma Gaptschenko ( URS )

Results

Men

→ Main article : 1972 Summer Olympics / Archery - singles (men)

space	athlete	country	Points
1	John Williams	United States	2528
2	Gunnar Jervill	SWE	2481
3	Kyösti Laasons	FIN	2467
4th	Robert Cogniaux	BEL	2445
5	Edwin Eliason	United States	2438
6th	Donald Jackson	CAN	2437
7th	Viktor Sidoruk	URS	2427
8th	Arne Jacobsen	THE	2423

Women

→ Main article : 1972 Summer Olympics / Archery - singles (women)

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Doreen Wilber	United States	2424
2	Irena Szydłowska	POLE	2407
3	Emma Gaptschenko	URS	2403
4th	Ketewan Lossaberidze	URS	2402
5	Linda Myers	United States	2385
6th	Maria Maczynska	POLE	2371
7th	Gu Kim-ho	PRK	2369
8th	Alla Peunowa	URS	2364

literature

Kicker-Sportmagazin : Born in 1972: Issue No. 74, Olympia-Verlag GmbH

Web links

• Film report on the 1972 archery competition
• Results of the competitions pages 239–241 (PDF; 29.4 MB)