1972 Summer Olympics / Participants (Yugoslavia)

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Yugoslavia took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 126 athletes (113 men and 13 women) in 73 competitions in 15 sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the water polo player Mirko Sandić .

Participants by sport

basketball

• 5th place

• Dragutin Čermak
• Krešimir Ćosić
• Miroljub Damjanović
• Blagoja Georgievski
• Vinko Jelovac
• Dragan Kapičić
• Žarko Knežević
• Milun Marović
• Nikola Plećaš
• Ljubodrag Simonović
• Damir Šolman
• Rato Tvrdić

Boxing

• Svetomir Belic
• Mate Parlov

  Gold light heavyweight

• Zvonimir Vujin

  Bronze light welterweight

Weightlifting

• Leopold Herenčić
• Jože Urankar

Handball

• gold

• Abas Arslanagic
• Petar Fajfrić
• Hrvoje Horvat
• Milorad Karalić
• Đorđe Lavrnić
• Milan Lazarevic
• Zdravko Miljak
• Slobodan Mišković
• Branislav Pokrajac
• Nebojša Popović
• Miroslav Pribanić
• Albin Vidović
• Zoran Živković
• Zdenko Zorko

Judo

• Pavle Bajčetić
• Slavko Obadov
• Stanko Topolčnik

canoe

• Janez Andrijašič
• Dušan Flipović
• Peter Guzelj
• Tone Hočevar
• Zlatan Ibrahimbegović
• Miloš Kralj
• Dubravko Mataković
• Ivan Ohmut
• Damjan Prelovšek
• Milan Spasovski
• Zlatomir Šuvački
• Dušan Tuma
• Franc Žitnik

athletics

Men Josip Alebić Milorad Čikić Ivan Ivančić Miro Kocuvan Dane Korica Jože Međimurec Zdravko Pečar Milan Spasojevic Strećko Štiglić Laszlo Ubori

Women Breda Babošek Đurđa Fočić Radojka Francoti Snežana Hrepevnik Vera Nikolić Nataša Urbančič

Cycling

• Cvitko Bilić
• Radoš Čubrić
• Eugene Pleško
• Jože Valenčič
• Janez Zakotnik

Wrestling

• Josip Čorak

  Silver light heavyweight, Greco-Roman

• Karlo Čović
• Sreten Damjanović
• Risto Loan
• Momir Kecman
• Slavko Koletić
• Boško Marinko
• Milan Nenadić

  Bronze middleweight, Greco-Roman

• Safer Sali
• Ištvan Semeredi

rowing

• Josip Bajlo
• Romano Bajlo
• Jože Berc
• Ivo Despot
• Zdravko Gracin
• Janez Grbelja
• Zdravko Huljev
• Miloš Janša
• Stevo Macura
• Marko Mandič
• Nikola Mardešić
• Duško Mrduljaš
• Mladen Ninić
• Jure Potočnik
• Jadran Radovčić

shoot

• Petar Bajić
• Zdravko Milutinović

swim

Men Nenad Miloš Predrag Miloš Aleksandar Pavličević Sandro Rudan

Women Zdenka Gašparač

sailing

• Minski Fabris
• Antun Grego
• Simo Nikolić

do gymnastics

Men Janez Brodnik Ivica Hmjelovac Zoran Ivanović Milenko Kersnić Drago Šoštarić Miloš Vratič

Women Nataša Bajin-Šljepica Olga Bumbic Erna Havelka Slaviča Kundačina Nevenka Puškarević Marija Težak

Water polo

• 5th place

• Dušan Antunović
• Siniša Belamarić
• Ozren Bonačić
• Zoran Janković
• Ronald Lopatny
• Miloš Marković
• Uroš Marović
• Đorđe Perišić
• Ratko Rudić
• Mirko Sandić
• Karlo Stipanić

Web links

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