1972 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Kiel
Competition venue	Olympic Center Schilksee
Nations	42
Athletes	323 (323 )
date	August 29 - September 8, 1972
decisions	6th
← Mexico City 1968 Montréal 1976 →

At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , six sailing competitions were held. The venue for the sailing competitions from August 29 to September 8, 1972 , was the Olympic Center on the Kiel Fjord in the Schilksee district of Kiel .

Competitions and schedule

Olympiazentrum Kiel - venue for the sailing competitions

Competitions and schedule sailing
Competitions	August September
	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.
Finn dinghy	1	2	3	4th			5	6th			7th
Flying Dutchman	1	2	3	4th			5	6th			7th
star	1	2	3	4th			5	6th			7th
Tempest	1	2	3	4th			5	6th			7th
Dragons	1	2	3	4th			5				6th
Soling	1	2	3	4th			5				6th

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Races

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country
1	Australia	2	-	-	2
2	France	1	1	-	2
	Great Britain	1	1	-	2
4th	United States	1	-	2	3
5	Soviet Union	1	-	1	2
6th	Sweden	-	2	-	2
7th	Greece	-	1	-	1
	GDR	-	1	-	1
9	BR Germany	-	-	2	2
10	Canada	-	-	1	1
total		6th	6th	6th	18th

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Finn dinghy	Serge Maury	Iliad Chatzipavlis	Viktor Potapov
Flying Dutchman	Great Britain Rodney Pattison Christopher Davies	France Yves Pajot Marc Pajot	BR Germany Ullrich Libor Peter Naumann
star	Australia David Forbes John Anderson	Sweden Pelle Petterson Stellan Westerdahl	BR Germany Willi Kuhweide Karsten Meyer
Tempest	Soviet Union Valentin Mankin Vitaly Dyrdyra	Great Britain Alan Warren David Hunt	United States Glen Foster Peter Dean
Dragons	Australia John Cuneo Thomas Anderson John Shaw	GDR Paul Borowski Konrad Weichert Karl-Heinz Thun	United States Donald Cohan Charles Horter John Marshall
Soling	United States Harry Melges William Bentsen William Allen	Sweden Stig Wennerström Bo Knape Stefan Krook Lennart Roslund	Canada David Miller John Ekels Paul Côté

Results

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Serge Maury	58.0
2	GRE	Iliad Chatzipavlis	71.0
3	URS	Viktor Potapov	74.7
4th	OUT	John Bertrand	76.7
5	SWE	Thomas Lundqvist	81.0
6th	FIN	Kim Weber	85.7
7th	GDR	Hans-Christian Schröder	91.0
8th	HUN	György Fináczy	94.0

Participants: 35 sailors

Flying Dutchman

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	GBR	Rodney Pattison Christopher Davies	22.7
2	FRA	Yves Pajot Marc Pajot	40.7
3	FRG	Ullrich Libor Peter Naumann	51.1
4th	BRA	Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes	62.4
5	YUG	Anton Grego Simo Nikolić	63.7
6th	URS	Vladimir Leontiev Valery Subanov	67.7
7th	THE	Hans Fogh Ulrik Brock	74.4
8th	OUT	Francis Mark Bethwaite Timothy Alexander	75.7

Participants: 29 teams
The Olympic champions Pattison and Davies won four out of seven races.

star

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	OUT	David Forbes John Anderson	28.1
2	SWE	Pelle Petterson and Stellan Westerdahl	44.0
3	FRG	Willi Kuhweide Karsten Meyer	47.7
4th	BRA	Jörg's brother Jan Willem Aten	52.7
5	ITA	Flavio Scala Mauro Testa	58.4
6th	PRT	Antonio Mardel Correia Ulrich Henrique Anjos	68.4
7th	GBR	Stuart Jardine John Wastall	68.7
8th	HUN	András Gosztonyi György Holovits	74.0

Participants: 18 teams

Tempest

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	URS	Valentin Mankin Vitaly Dyrdyra	28.1
2	GBR	Alan Warren David Hunt	34.4
3	United States	Glen Foster Peter Dean	47.7
4th	SWE	John Albrechtson Ingvar Hansson	57.4
5	NED	Bernard Staartjes Kees Kurpershoek	58.7
6th	NOR	Peder Lundejr Aksel Gresvig	70.0
7th	BRA	Mario Buckup Peter Ficker	73.7
8th	IRL	David Wilkins Sean Whitaker	74.7

Participants: 21 teams

Dragons

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	OUT	John Cuneo Thomas Anderson John Shaw	13.7
2	GDR	Paul Borowski Konrad Weichert Karl-Heinz Thun	41.7
3	United States	Donald Cohan Charles Horter John Marshall	47.7
4th	FRG	Franz Heilmeier Richard Kuchler Konrad Glas	47.7
5	NZL	Ronald Watson Noel Everett Fraser Beer	51.0
6th	SWE	Jörgen Sundelin Peter Sundelin Ulf Sundelin	67.4
7th	THE	Poul Høj Jensen Frank Høj Jensen Gunnar Dahlgaard	68.0
8th	FIN	Kurt Nyman Göran Schauman Antero Sotamaa	68.7

Participants: 23 teams
The Olympic champions from Australia won three out of six races.

Soling

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Harry Melges William Bentsen William Allen	8.7
2	SWE	Stig Wennerström Bo Knape Stefan Krook Lennart Roslund	31.7
3	CAN	David Miller John Ekels Paul Côté	47.1
4th	FRA	Jean Marie le Guillou Bernard Drubay Jean-Yves Pellerin	53.0
5	GBR	John Oakeley Charles Reynolds Barry Dunning	54.7
6th	BRA	Axel Schmidt-Preben Patrick Mascarenhas Erik Schmidt-Preben	64.7
7th	URS	Timir Pinegin Walentin Samotaikin Rais Galimow	65.0
8th	POLE	Zygfryd Perlicki Józef Blaszczyk Stefan Stefanski	75.0

Participants: 26 teams
The Olympic champions from the USA won three of six races.

literature

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

Web links

• Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schedule and results of the competitions, pages 500–511 (PDF; 29.4 MB)

Coordinates: 54 ° 25 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 13 ″  E