1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Colombia)

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Colombia took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 59 athletes (55 men and four women) in 39 competitions in eight sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the boxer Alfonso Pérez .

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Prudencio Cardona

  Light flyweight: 1st round

• Calixto Perez

  Flyweight: quarter-finals

• Eduardo Barragán

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

• Clemente Rojas

  Featherweight: bronze

• Alfonso Perez

  Lightweight: bronze

• Emilio Villa

  Light welterweight: 2nd round

• Bonifacio Avila

  Light middleweight: 2nd round

Soccer

Men

• Preliminary round

• Squad
  • goal

  1 Silvio Quintero

  2 Antonio Rivas

  14 Armando Acosta

  • Defense

  3 Gerardo Moncada

  4 Rafael Reyes

  5 Alvaro Calle

  6 Dumas Guette

  15 Vicente Revellon

  17 Orlando Rivas

  • midfield

  7 Fabio Espinosa

  10 Henry Caicedo

  12 Willington Palacios

  13 Ernesto Diaz

  16 Domingo Gonzales

  • attack

  8 Carlos Lugo

  9 Jaime Morón

  11 Alvaro Santamaria

  18 Luis Montano

  19 Angel Torres

Weightlifting

Men

• Lester Francel

  Flyweight: 10th place

• José Martínez

  Lightweight: 16th place

athletics

Men Jimmy Sierra 200 meters: quarter-finals Domingo Tibaduiza 10,000 meters: heats Hernán Barreneche Marathon: 28th place Álvaro Mejía Marathon: 48th place Victor Mora Marathon: 52nd place

Women Juana Mosquera 100 meters: quarter-finals 200 meters: quarter-finals Elsy Rivas 400 meters: heats

Cycling

Men

• Miguel Samacá

  Road race: 9th place

  100 kilometers team time trial: 22nd place

• Fernando Cruz

  Road race: 26th place

  100 kilometers team time trial: 22nd place

• Juan Morales

  Road race: 66th place

• Fabio Acevedo

  Road race: DNF

  100 kilometers team time trial: 22nd place

• Henry Cuevas

  100 kilometers team time trial: 22nd place

• Jairo Díaz

  Spring: Hope run after 1st round

  Tandem sprint: hope run after the 1st lap

• Carlos Galeano

  Spring: Hope run after 1st round

• Jairo Rodríguez

  1000 meter time trial: 23rd place

• Rafael Narváez

  Tandem sprint: hope run after the 1st lap

• Luis Díaz

  4000 meters single pursuit: 5th place

shoot

• Luis Colina

  Rapid Fire Pistol: 40th place

• Guillermo Martínez

  Rapid Fire Pistol: 51st place

• Gilberto Fernández

  Free pistol: 27th place

• Jorge Henao

  Free pistol: 43rd place

• Jaime Callejas

  Small bore, three-position battle: 48th place

  Small caliber, lying: 89th place

• Alfonso Rodríguez

  Small caliber, three-position fight: 55th place

  Small caliber, lying: 71st place

• Helmut Bellingrodt

  Running disc: silver

• Hanspeter Bellingrodt

  Running target: 15th place

• Gerardo González

  Skeet: 27th place

• Manuel González

  Skeet: 43rd place

swim

Men Tomas Becerra 400 meters freestyle: prelims 1500 meters freestyle: prelims Jorge Jaramillo 1500 meters freestyle: prelims 200 meters butterfly: heats

Women Roselina Angee 200 meters freestyle: prelims 400 meters freestyle: prelims 800 meters freestyle: prelims 200 meter medley: prelims 400 meter individual medley: prelims Olga de Angulo 200 meters freestyle: prelims 400 meters freestyle: prelims 800 meters freestyle: prelims 200 meters butterfly: heats

Diving

Men

• Salim Barjum

  Art jumping: 26th place in the qualification

• Diego Henao

  Diving: 26th place in qualification

Web links

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