1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pentathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	2nd / 3rd September 1972
Medalists Mary Peters ( GBR )   Heide Rosendahl ( FRG )   Burglinde Pollak ( GDR )

The women's pentathlon at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was played on September 2nd and 3rd, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 30 athletes took part, 28 of whom were able to finish the competition. The all-round table modified in 1971 was used to determine the number of points.

The Olympic champion was the British Mary Peters , who set a new world record . The silver medal went to Heide Rosendahl from the Federal Republic of Germany, the bronze went to Burglinde Pollak from the GDR.

In addition to Rosendahl, Margot Eppinger and Karen Mack competed for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Mack was seventh in the final ranking, Eppinger twelfth.
In addition to Pollak, the GDR - officially GDR - was represented by Christine Bodner and Monika Peikert . Bodner was fourth in the final ranking, Peikert was eighteenth.
Kathrin Lardi from Switzerland was 26th, the Austrian Liese Prokop broke off the competition after the third discipline.
Pentathletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	4775 points	Burglinde Pollak GDR	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	5th / 6th September 1970
Olympic record	4652 points	Irina Press Soviet Union	Tokyo Pentathlon , Japan	16./17. October 1964

Note on the records:

Since 1969, the 80-meter hurdles discipline that had been part of the program up to that point was replaced by the 100-meter hurdles , so that all records that had been in effect up to that point were no longer valid.

The above The world record number of points is the result of converting the original value of 5406 points according to the points table from 1969 into the rating system valid from 1971, which was also used at the games in Munich .

The above The Olympic record was achieved in 1964 with 5246 points according to the then valid rating. This number corresponds to 4652 points according to the rating system valid in Munich , but is not entirely comparable due to the different competitions as described above.

Conducting the competition

Like today the heptathlon and the decathlon for men, the competition was held over two days. Day one - here September 3rd - was reserved for the 100-meter hurdles , the shot put and the high jump . On the second day - here September 4th - the long jump and the 200-meter run took place. The basis for the evaluation was the all-around table from 1971. In the event of a tie in the final score, the number of better placements decided.

Competition schedule

On September 2nd, starting at 9.30 a.m., the following were completed:

100 meter hurdles

Shot put

high jump

On September 3rd from 11.00 a.m. the following were completed:

Long jump

200 meter run

Note: In the shot put and long jump the best distances are in, in the high jump the last valid attempt is printed in bold.

Attendees

30 athletes from 20 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Nedjalka Angelova	Bulgaria
Christine Bodner	GDR
Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary
Ng Mei Chai	Malaysia
Marie-Christine Debourse	France
Odette Ducas	France
Margot Eppinger	BR Germany
Gale Fitzgerald	United States
Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia
Jane Frederick	United States
Diane Jones	Canada
Debbie Van Kiekebelt	Canada
Kathrin Lardi	Switzerland
Lin Chun-yu	Taiwan
Karen Mack	BR Germany
Margaret Murphy	Ireland
Edith Noeding	Peru
Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria
Margit Papp	Hungary
Mary Peters	Great Britain
Burglinde Pollak	GDR
Read Procopius	Austria
Heide Rosendahl	BR Germany
Valentina Tikhomirova	Soviet Union
Lyn Tillett	Australia
Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union
Lucía Vaamonde	Venezuela
Elena Vintilă	Romania
Ann Wilson	Great Britain

The following athletes were registered, but did not start:

Marilyn King	United States
Ruth Martin-Jones	Great Britain
Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia

Disciplines

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in five runs.

Christine Bodner set the fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles in the Olympic pentathlon with 13.25 seconds .

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Bodner 13.25 s 966 02 Peters 13.29 s 960 03 Rosendahl 13.34 s 953 04th Pollak 13.53 s 927 05 Wilson 13.61 s 916 06th Bruzsenyák 13.65 s 911 07th Tikhomirova 13.77 s 895 08th Tkachenko 13.81 s 890 09 Angelova 13.84 s 886 10 Fočić 13.96 s 871 Oshikoya 12 Debourse 14.03 s 862 13 Vintilă 14.06 s 858 14th Procopius 14.11 s 852 15th Eppinger 14.12 s 851 16 Peikert 14.23 s 837 17th Noeding 14.24 s 836 18th Tillett 14.26 s 834 19th Van Kiekebelt 14.39 s 818 20th Mack 14.45 s 811 21st Fitzgerald 14.47 s 809 22nd Vaamonde 14.53 s 801 23 Ducas 14.55 s 799 24 Frederick 14.60 s 793 25th Lardi 14.63 s 790 26th Jones 14.79 s 772 27 Cardboard 14.91 s 758 28 Lin 14.98 s 750 29 Murphy 15.18 s 729 30th Chai 18.46 s 440

Shot put

Nadia Tkachenko, USSR

Mary Peters took the lead with 41 points ahead of Burglinde Pollak. Heide Rosendahl, the Soviet athlete Walentina Tichomirowa and the Austrian Liese Prokop, the silver medalist from Mexico City, followed in the next place . The previous leading Christine Bodner slipped to seventh place.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Peters 15.03 m 16.20 m 14.41 m 960 02 Pollak 15.56 m 16.04 m 15.31 m 952 03 Procopius 15.14 m x 13.93 m 903 04th Jones 14.82 m 15.05 m 13.78 m 898 05 Tikhomirova x 14.56 m 14.64 m 875 06th Peikert 14.14 m 13.51 m 13.95 m 846 07th Mack 14.10 m 13.11 m 13.08 m 844 08th Angelova 13.96 m 13.54 m 13.85 m 836 09 Rosendahl 13.62 m 13.86 m 13.56 m 830 10 Tkachenko 13.67 m 13.64 m 13.69 m 820 11 Van Kiekebelt x 13.16 m 12.63 m 789 Cardboard 13.11 m 13.16 m 13.12 m 13 Frederick 12.92 m 12.63 m 12.69 m 775 14th Eppinger 12.70 m 11.78 m 12.65 m 762 15th Fočić 12.01 m 12.58 m 12.36 m 755 16 Bodner 12.31 m 12.51 m 12.46 m 750 17th Bruzsenyák 12.48 m x 12.23 m 749 18th Debourse 11.86 m 12.05 m 12.10 m 725 19th Tillett 11.46 m 10.51 m 11.15 m 685 20th Ducas x 10.47 m 11.32 m 676 21st Lin 10.48 m 11.31 m 10.11 m 676 22nd Fitzgerald x 11.25 m 9.63 m 672 23 Wilson 10.55 m 10.55 m 10.86 m 647 24 Vintilă 8.62 m 10.64 m x 632 25th Murphy 9.95 m 10.06 m 10.57 m 627 26th Noeding 10.38 m 9.98 m 10.43 m 618 Vaamonde 9.94 m 10.43 m 10.28 m 28 Lardi x 10.18 m 9.73 m 601 29 Oshikoya 9.66 m 10.00 m 9.72 m 589 30th Chai x 6.95 m 6.89 m 363

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Peters 1920 02 Pollak 1879 03 Rosendahl 1783 04th Tikhomirova 1770 05 Procopius 1755 06th Angelova 1722 07th Bodner 1716 08th Tkachenko 1710 09 Peikert 1683 10 Jones 1670 11 Bruzsenyák 1660 12 Mack 1655 13 Fočić 1626 14th Eppinger 1613 15th Van Kiekebelt 1607 16 Debourse 1587 17th Frederick 1568 18th Wilson 1563 19th Cardboard 1547 20th Tillett 1519 21st Vintilă 1490 22nd Fitzgerald 1481 23 Ducas 1475 24 Oshikoya 1460 25th Noeding 1451 26th Lin 1426 27 Vaamonde 1419 28 Lardi 1391 29 Murphy 1356 30th Chai 803

high jump

At 1.82 m, Mary Peters achieved the greatest height in the high jump in the Olympic pentathlon.

Peters was able to extend their lead to 93 points over Burglinde Pollak. Valentina Tichomirowa held her third place, Heide Rosendahl slipped to fifth.

Classification space Surname 1.35 m 1.40 m 1.45 m 1.50 m 1.55 m 1.60 m 1.65 m 1.68 m 1.71 m 1.74 m 1.76 m 1.78 m 1.80 m 1.82 m 1.84 m Points 01 Peters - - - - O O O O xxo O xxo O O O xxx 1049 02 Bodner - - - - O O O xo xo O O xxx 993 Mack - - - - - O O O O xxo O xxx Cardboard - - - - - O O O O O x o xxx Pollak - - - - O xo O xxo O xo O xxx 06th Frederick - - - - O O O O xxo x o xxx 974 Jones - - - - - O xo xo xo xx o xxx Tikhomirova - - - - O O O O O O xxx 09 Fočić - - - O O O xxo xo x o xxx 945 10 Angelova - - - - O O O O xxx 915 Van Kiekebelt - - - - O O O O xxx Oshikoya - - - - - O O xx o xxx Vintilă - - - - O O O x o xxx 14th Bruzsenyák - - - - - xxo O xxx 885 Debourse - - - - - O x o xxx Fitzgerald - O O O O O O xxx Procopius - - - - O O O xxx Rosendahl - - - O O O O xxx Tkachenko - - - O O O O xxx Wilson - - - - O O O xxx 21st Chai - - O O xo O xxx 834 Eppinger - - - O O O xxx Lardi - - - - O O xxx Peikert - - - - - O xxx Tillett - - O O O xx o xxx 26th Ducas - - O O xx o xxx 781 Noeding - O O O O xxx 28 Lin - - O O xxx 726 Murphy - - O O xxx Vaamonde O O O O xxx Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Peters 2969 02 Pollak 2872 03 Tikhomirova 2744 04th Bodner 2709 05 Rosendahl 2668 06th Mack 2648 07th Jones 2644 08th Procopius 2640 09 Angelova 2637 10 Tkachenko 2595 11 Fočić 2571 12 Bruzsenyák 2545 13 Frederick 2542 14th Cardboard 2540 15th Van Kiekebelt 2522 16 Peikert 2517 17th Debourse 2472 18th Wilson 2448 19th Eppinger 2447 20th Vintilă 2405 21st Oshikoya 2375 22nd Fitzgerald 2366 23 Ducas 2256 24 Tillett 2353 25th Noeding 2235 26th Lardi 2225 27 Lin 2152 28 Vaamonde 2145 29 Murphy 2062 30th Chai 1637

Long jump

Burglinde Pollak, GDR

Monika Peikert from the GDR

The Austrian Liese Prokop and the Malaysian Ng Mei Chai did not compete in this fourth discipline.

At 6.83 m, Heide Rosendahl achieved the largest distance in the long jump in the Olympic pentathlon. However, due to the strong tail wind, this distance was not suitable for the best list.
Mary Peters' lead over Burglinde Pollak shrank to 47 points. Behind Pollak in third place was the winner of the long jump, Heide Rosendahl, who had become Olympic champion in this discipline in the individual competition three days earlier. However, Rosendahl was still 74 points behind Pollak.

Classification space Surname 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Points 01 Rosendahl 6.83 m x 6.68 m 1082 02 Tillett 6.44 m 5.96 m x 1001 03 Bodner 6.21 m 6.40 m 6.35 m 992 04th Angelova x 6.32 m x 975 05 Wilson 5.92 m 6.19 m 6.31 m 973 06th Bruzsenyák 6.06 m 6.29 m 6.26 m 969 07th Oshikoya x 5.86 m 6.27 m 965 Vintilă 6.26 m 6.15 m 6.27 m 09 Pollak 5.96 m 6.21 m 6.19 m 952 10 Ducas 6.19 m x 5.97 m 947 11 Eppinger x x 6.18 m 945 Tkachenko 6.08 m 6.18 m 5.97 m 13 Tikhomirova x 6.10 m 6.15 m 939 14th Peikert 6.11 m 5.80 m 6.12 m 932 15th Mack 5.99 m 6.11 m x 930 16 Debourse x 6.02 m 5.98 m 910 17th Van Kiekebelt 5.71 m 5.98 m 5.90 m 902 Peters x 5.90 m 5.98 m 19th Fitzgerald x 5.51 m 5.97 m 900 20th Jones 5.70 m 5.88 m 5.93 m 891 21st Fočić 5.92 m x 5.69 m 888 22nd Murphy 5.65 m 5.41 m 5.62 m 828 23 Vaamonde 5.61 m 5.58 m x 819 24 Frederick 5.60 m x 5.54 m 817 Cardboard 5.41 m 5.60 m 4.08 m 26th Lardi 4.11 m 5.36 m 3.12 m 762 27 Lin 5.31 m 5.13 m 5.01 m 750 28 Noeding 5.06 m 5.06 m 5.25 m 736

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Peters 3871 02 Pollak 3824 03 Rosendahl 3750 04th Bodner 3701 05 Tikhomirova 3683 06th Jones 3635 07th Angelova 3612 08th Mack 3578 09 Tkachenko 3540 10 Bruzsenyák 3514 11 Fočić 3459 12 Peikert 3449 13 Van Kiekebelt 3424 14th Wilson 3421 15th Eppinger 3392 16 Vintilă 3370 17th Frederick 3359 18th Cardboard 3357 19th Tillett 3354 20th Oshikoya 3340 21st Debourse 3282 22nd Fitzgerald 3266 23 Ducas 3203 24 Lardi 2987 25th Noeding 2971 26th Vaamonde 2964 27 Murphy 2910 28 Lin 2902

200 meter run

The discipline was carried out in four runs.

Heide Rosendahl achieved the fastest time in the 200-meter run of the Olympic pentathlon with 22.96 s .

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Rosendahl 22.96 s 1041 02 Bodner 23.66 s 970 03 Pollak 23.93 s 944 04th Fitzgerald 23.97 s 940 05 Oshikoya 23.98 s 939 06th Peters 24.08 s 930 07th Eppinger 24.18 s 921 08th Tikhomirova 24.25 s 914 09 Bruzsenyák 24.35 s 905 10 Tillett 24.36 s 904 11 Noeding 24.41 s 899 12 Ducas 24.42 s 898 13 Angelova 24.58 s 884 14th Fočić 24.70 s 873 15th Mack 24.72 s 871 16 Murphy 24.84 s 860 17th Wilson 24.87 s 858 18th Debourse 24.88 s 857 19th Van Kiekebelt 24.98 s 848 20th Tkachenko 25.19 s 830 Vaamonde 22nd Vintilă 25.20 s 829 23 Jones 25.37 s 814 24 Frederick 25.45 s 808 25th Lardi 25.53 s 801 26th Peikert 25.74 s 783 27 Lin 25.86 s 774 28 Cardboard 26.57 s 717

Bottom line

Silver medalist Heide Rosendahl, Federal Republic of Germany, on a stamp of the emirate Umm al-Qaiwain from 1972

Date: 2/3 September 1972

There were two favorites for this competition, which was held for the first time with the 100-meter hurdles instead of the 80-meter hurdles : These were Heide Rosendahl from the Federal Republic of Germany, who had already come as the favorite at the 1968 Olympic Games , but then injured had not been able to compete and had become European champion by a narrow margin in the previous year , as well as Burglinde Pollak from the GDR. She had become vice European champion in the previous year and had set the existing world record in June 1970 .

But in the course of the competition, another athlete, Mary Peters from Great Britain, increasingly came to the fore. It presented itself in a form like never before and surprised with very convincing performances from the start.

In the first discipline, the 100-meter hurdles, she was just behind Christine Bodner, GDR, in second place. Pollak and Rosendahl followed in the next two places. In the shot put , the second exercise, Peters even surpassed Pollak, which was very strong here. These two pentathletes were the only ones to push over the 16-meter mark and were well ahead of all the others. Rosendahl fell back significantly with 13.86 m, she was now third in front of the Soviet heptathlete Valentina Tichomirowa and the Austrian silver medalist from 1968 Liese Prokop. In the high jump , Peters increased to 1.82 m. Pollak stayed within their possibilities with 1.76, while Rosendahl only reached 1.65 m and thus fell behind almost hopelessly at least in the fight for gold and silver. At the end of the first day, Peters was leading with 2969 points and was 97 points ahead of second-placed Pollak. Tichomirowa was already 260 points behind in third place, followed by Bodner and Rosendahl, who were 301 points behind Peters.

On the second day, the long jump Olympic champion Rosendahl came again. In the long jump, her specialty, she achieved 6.83 m, a distance that was only one centimeter below her own world record. However, there was an inadmissible tailwind. Pollak and Peters lagged behind Rosendahl with 6.19 m and 5.98 m respectively. Before the last exercise, Peters was leading with 3871 points, followed by Pollak - 47 points - and Rosendahl - 121 points. Heide Rosendahl was also the best of all pentathletes over 200 meters with 22.96 seconds. With this top time she passed Burglinde Pollak, who was almost a second slower, and won the bronze medal. But the Olympic champion was Mary Peters, who just managed to maintain the lead with her 24.08 seconds. She won by ten points and set a new world record.

For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1971, the points converted according to the current rating system from 1980 are also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been a few deviations: The gold and silver medal winners would have swapped places, as well as places 15/16, 17/18 and 19/20. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1980 rating
1	Mary Peters	Great Britain	4801 WR	4841
2	Heide Rosendahl	BR Germany	4791	4852
3	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4768	4807
4th	Christine Bodner	GDR	4671	4699
5	Valentina Tikhomirova	Soviet Union	4597	4604
6th	Nedjalka Angelova	Bulgaria	4496	4497
7th	Karen Mack	BR Germany	4449	4441
8th	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	4419	4403
9	Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union	4370	4292
10	Diane Jones	Canada	4349	4265
11	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	4332	4234
12	Margot Eppinger	BR Germany	4313	4217
13	Ann Wilson	Great Britain	4279	4204
14th	Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria	4279	4203
15th	Debbie Van Kiekebelt	Canada	4272	4169
16	Lyn Tillett	Australia	4258	4182
17th	Marie-Christine Debourse	France	4239	4136
18th	Monika Peikert	GDR	4232	4138
19th	Gale Fitzgerald	United States	4206	4099
20th	Elena Vintilă	Romania	4199	4118
21st	Jane Frederick	United States	4167	4041
22nd	Odette Ducas	France	4101	3990
23	Margit Papp	Hungary	4074	3945
24	Edith Noeding	Peru	3870	3695
25th	Lucía Vaamonde	Venezuela	3794	3631
26th	Kathrin Lardi	Switzerland	3788	3613
27	Margaret Murphy	Ireland	3770	3598
28	Lin Chun-yu	Taiwan	3676	3483

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 , pp. 62f

Videos

• 85 Dame Mary Peter's Olympic Pentathlon , Munich 1972, published on April 6, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed on December 8, 2017
• Mary Peters Competes in Munich Olympics Pentathlon, 100m hurdles, published on August 17, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on December 8, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed December 8, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 74, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Track and Field Statistics, World Records Progression , Pentathlon, accessed December 8, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 74, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017 
3. ↑ 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 8, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (100 m hurdles) , accessed December 8, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (high jump) , accessed December 8, 2017
6. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (long jump) , accessed December 8, 2017
7. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (200 m) , accessed December 8, 2017
8. ^ SportsReference Women's Pentathlon , accessed December 8, 2017