1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Albania)

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Albania took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of five athletes (four men and one woman). It was Albania's first participation in the Olympic Games; the second followed in Barcelona in 1992 .

Ymer Pampuri won the first partial press competition . At the Olympic Games, however, it was not the individual disciplines that were evaluated, only the three-way battle. In Albania, however, only pushing was practiced , leaving Pampuri behind in pushing and tearing . Nevertheless, his partial victory and new Olympic record was a high point in Albanian sports history.

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Ymer Pampuri

  Featherweight: 9th place

shoot

• Fatos Pilkati

  Free target pistol: 24th place

• Afërdita Tusha

  Free target pistol: 51st place

• Ismail Rama

  Small bore, lying: 22nd place

• Beqir Kosova

  Small caliber, lying: 66th place

Web links

• Albanian Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1972 Summer Olympics / Participants in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on October 27, 2012
2. ^ Weightlifting at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's Featherweight Military Press. In: Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 27, 2012 .