1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Ceylon)

CEY

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Ceylon took part in the Olympic Games for the seventh timeat the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . Although the countryrenamed itself Sri Lanka three months before the Games began, it still performed under its old name in Munich. The country sent four athletes.

Participants by sport

athletics

• Sunil Gunawardene

  100 m: heats

  200 m: quarter-finals

• Lucien Rosa

  10,000 m: heats

  Marathon: not finished

• Wickramesinghe Wimaladasa

  400 m: quarter-finals

shoot

• Daya Rajasinghe Nadarajasingham

  Small caliber lying: 65.

Web links

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