1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Jamaica)

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Jamaica took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 33 athletes (21 men and 12 women). These competed in six sports in 27 competitions. The athlete Lennox Miller was selected as the flag bearer for the opening ceremony and was then the only athlete to win a medal for his country at these games.

Medals

Medalist

bronze

sport	competition	Surname
athletics	100 m	Lennox Miller

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Oliver Wright

  Light heavyweight: 17th place

athletics

Men

• Lennox Miller

  100 m: bronze

• Michael Fray

  100 m: Final 5th place

• Richard Hardware

  200 m: semi-finals

• Donald Quarrie

  200 m: semi-finals DNF

• Leighton Priestley

  400 m: quarter-finals

  4 × 400 m: advance

• Byron Dyce

  800 m: advance

  1500 m: advance

• Godfrey Murray

  110 m hurdles: forward

• Kim Rowe

  4 × 400 m: advance

• Trevor Campbell

  4 × 400 m: advance

• Alfred Daley

  4 × 400 m: advance

• Henry Jackson

  Long jump: 26th place in qualification

  Triple jump: Qualification DNF

Women

• Rosie Allwood

  Women, 100 m: semi-finals

  Women, 200 m: Final 8th place

  Women, 4 × 400 m: advance

• Una Morris

  Women, 200 m: quarter-finals

  Women, 4 × 400 m: advance

• Yvonne Saunders

  Women, 400 m: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 400 m: advance

• Ruth Williams-Simpson

  Women, 400 m: forward

  Women, 4 × 400 m: advance

• Leleith Hodges

  Women, 4 × 100 m: preliminary run DNF

• Vilma Charlton

  Women, 4 × 100 m: preliminary run DNF

• Carol Cummings

  Women, 4 × 100 m: preliminary run DNF

• Debbie Byfield

  Women, 4 × 100 m: preliminary run DNF

• Andrea Bruce

  Women, high jump: Final 9th ​​place

• Audrey Reid

  Women, high jump: Final 11th place

Cycling

train

• Honson Chin

  Sprint: 2nd lap (hope run)

  Tandem: 1st round (hope run)

• Maurice Hugh-Sam

  Sprint: 1st lap (hope run)

  4000 m team pursuit: 21st place in qualification

• Howard Fenton

  1000 m time trial: 26th place

  Tandem: 1st round (hope run)

  4000 m team pursuit: 21st place in qualification

• Michael Lecky

  4000 m single pursuit: 26th place in qualification

  4000 m team pursuit: 21st place in qualification

• Radcliffe Lawrence

  4000 m team pursuit: 21st place in qualification

Street

• Howard Fenton

  Road race: DNF

• Radcliffe Lawrence

  Road race: DNF

• Michael Lecky

  Road race: DNF

• Xavier Mirander

  Road race: DNF

swim

• Belinda Phillips

  Women, 200 m freestyle: preliminary

  Women, 400 m freestyle: preliminary

  Women, 800 m freestyle: preliminary

sailing

• Michael Keith Nunes

  Dragons: 22nd place

• John Burrowes

  Dragons: 22nd place

• Michael Anthony Nunes

  Dragons: 22nd place

Diving

• Betsy Sullivan

  Women, jumping 3 m: 29th place in the qualification

Web links

1. ↑ Jamaican Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Results of the 1972 Summer Olympics (PDF; 29.4 MB)