1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Peru)

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Peru took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of twenty athletes (seventeen men and three women). These competed in seven sports in twenty-five competitions. The fencer Enrique Barza was chosen as the standard bearer for the opening ceremony.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Carlos Burga

  Welterweight: 17th place

• Oscar Ludeña

  Heavyweight: 5th place

fencing

• Enrique Barza

  Saber, singles: 1st round

athletics

Men's

• Fernando Acevedo

  400 m: advance

Women

• María Luisa Vilca

  Women, 100 m: forward

  Women, 200 m: quarter-finals

• Edith Noeding

  Women, pentathlon: 24th place

Cycling

Street

• Enrique Allyón

  Road race: DNF

• Gilberto Chocce

  Road race: DNF

  Team time trial (100 km): 30th place

• Fernando Cuenca

  Road race: DNF

  Team time trial (100 km): 30th place

• Carlos Espinoza

  Road race: DNF

  Team time trial (100 km): 30th place

• Bernardo Arias

  Team time trial (100 km): 30th place

Wrestling

• Javier León

  Greco-Roman flyweight: 2nd round

  Flyweight freestyle: 2nd round

• Juan Velarde

  Greco-Roman bantamweight: 2nd round

  Bantamweight Freestyle: 2nd Round

• Carlos Hurtado

  Greco-Roman featherweight: 2nd round

  Featherweight freestyle: 2nd round

• Miguel Zambrano

  Greco-Roman super heavyweight: 2nd round

  Super heavyweight freestyle: 2nd round

shoot

• Gladys Baldwin

  Lying small bore: 75th place

• Juan Jorge Giha

  Trap: 49th place

swim

• Guillermo Pacheco

  400 m freestyle: preliminary

  1500 m freestyle: preliminary

• Alfredo hungry

  100 m chest: forward

  200 m chest: forward

• Juan Carlos Bello

  100 m freestyle: DNS

  200 m freestyle: DNS

  100 m butterfly: semifinals

  200 m medley: Final 7th place

Web links

1. ↑ Peruvian 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)