1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Soviet Union)
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The Soviet Union took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 371 athletes (298 men and 73 women) in 180 competitions in 22 sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Alexander Wassiljewitsch Medved .
Participants by sport
basketball
- gold
- Anatoly Polywoda
- Modestas Paulauskas
- Zurab Sakandelidze
- Alshan Sharmukhamedov
- Alexander Boloshev
- Ivan Jadeschka
- Sergei Below
- Micheil Korkia
- Ivan Dworny
- Gennadi Wolnow
- Alexander Below
- Sergei Kovalenko
Archery
Men |
Women
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Boxing
- Nikolai Anfimov
- Gennady Dobrochotov
- Volodimir Ivanov
- Anatoly Kamnev
- Anatoly Chochlow
-
Boris Georgievich Kuznetsov
- Gold featherweight
-
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lemeschew
- Gold middleweight
- Yuri Nesterov
- Vasily Solomin
- Valery Tregubov
- Boris Soriktuev
fencing
Men
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Women
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Soccer
-
- bronze
- goal
- Yevgeny Rudakov 1
- 17 Vladimir Pilgui
- Defense
- Yuri Istomin 2
- Murtas Churzilawa 3
- Yevgeny Lovchev 4
- Vladimir Kaplichni 5
- 12 Revas Dzodsuashvili
- 13 Sergei Olschansky
- midfield
- Viktor Kolotov 6
- 10 Anatoly Kuksov
- 14 Oganes Sanasanjan
- 15 Arkadi Andreasjan
- 16 József Szabó
- Storm
- Volodymyr Onyshchenko 7
- Vyacheslav Semyonov 8
- Andrei Jakubik 9
- 11 Gennady Yevryushikhin
- 18 Yuri Yelissyeev
- 19 Oleh Blochin
Weightlifting
-
Vasily Ivanovich Alexejew
- Bronze bantam weight
-
Gennady Chetin
- Gold super heavyweight
- Vladimir Alexandrovich Kanygin
-
Mucharbi Nurbijewitsch Kirschinow
- Gold lightweight
- Boris Pavlov
- Dawid Adamowitsch Rigert
-
Ditto Shanidze
- Silver featherweight
- Valeryj Sharyj
-
Jaan Talts
- Gold heavyweight
Handball
- 5th place
- Valery walk
- Vasily Ilyin
- Mychajlo Ishchenko
- Yury Klimov
- Valentin Kulev
- Yuriy Lahutyn
- Mikhail Lutsenko
- Vladimir Maximov
- Albert Oganesow
- Alexander Panov
- Oleksandr Rezanov
- Nikolai Semenov
- Anatoly Shevchenko
- Ivan Usaty
- Jānis Vilsons
Judo
-
Shota Chochishvili
- Gold light heavyweight
- Guram Gogolauri
-
Vitaly Jakowlewitsch Kuznetsov
- Silver Open Class
-
Anatoly Novikov
- Bronze welterweight
-
Giwi Onashvili
- Bronze heavyweight
- Sergei Petrovich Suslin
canoe
Men
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Women
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athletics
Modern pentathlon
-
Pavel Serafimowitsch Lednyov
- Bronze single
- Gold team
-
Borys Onyshchenko
- Silver single
- Gold team
-
Vladimir Konstantinovich Schmeljow
- Gold team
Cycling
- Viktor Bikov
-
Gennady Komnatov
- gold
- Serhiy Kravtsov
- Vladimir Kuznetsov
-
Valery Likhachev
- gold
-
Omar Pchakadze
- bronze
- Eduard Rapp
-
Volodimir Semenets
- gold
-
Boris Schuchow
- gold
- Anatoly Starkov
- Anatoly Stepanenko
- Ivan Trifonov
-
Igor Zelowalnikov
- gold
-
Valery Jardi
- gold
- Alexander Yudin
horse riding
- Valentin Gorelkin
- Mamashon Izmailov
-
Ivan Alexandrovich Kalita
- Gold dressage team
-
Ivan Michailowitsch Kisimow
- Gold dressage team
- Vladimir Lanugin
- Viktor Lisitsin
- Viktor Matveev
- Sergei Muhin
- Alexander Nebogow
-
Jelena Vladimirovna Petushkova
- Silver dressage singles
- Gold dressage team
- Yuri Siabrew
Wrestling
-
Sagalaw Abdulbekowitsch Abdulbekow
- Gold featherweight freestyle
-
Arsen Shachlamasowitsch Alachwerdijew
- Silver flyweight freestyle
-
Ruslan Nuralievich Ashuraliev
- Bronze lightweight freestyle
-
Roman Mikhailovich Dmitriev
- Gold paper weight freestyle
- Yuri Soltanbekowitsch Gussow
- Viktor Michailowitsch Igumenow
-
Rustem Abdullaevich Kazakov
- Gold bantamweight Greco-Roman
-
Shamil Shamschatdinowitsch Chissamutdinow
- Gold lightweight Greco-Roman
- Vitaly Viktorovich Konstantinov
- Ivan Kuleshov
-
Alexander Vasilyevich Medved
- Gold super heavyweight freestyle
- Ever Megrelishvili
-
Anatoly Ivanovich Nasarenko
- Silver middleweight Greco-Roman
-
Valery Grigoryevich Resanzew
- Gold light heavyweight Greco-Roman
-
Anatoly Alexandrovich Roschtschin
- Gold Greco-Roman super heavyweight
-
Gennady Nikolayevich Strachow
- Silver light heavyweight freestyle
-
Levan Tediashvili
- Gold middleweight freestyle
-
Nikolai Ivanovich Jakowenko
- Silver heavyweight Greco-Roman
-
Ivan Sergeyevich Jarygin
- Gold heavyweight freestyle
- Vladimir Anatolyevich Zubkov
rowing
- Valery Bissarnov
- Viktor Dementiev
- Nikolai Petrovich Ivanov
- Igor Kashurov
- Sergei Viktorovich Koljaskin
-
Gennady Yegorovich Korschikow
- Gold double scull
- Yuri Evgenevich Lorenzson
- Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubaturov
-
Yuri Alexandrovich Malyshev
- Gold one
- Alexander Georgievich Martyshkin
- Viktor Mikheev
- Alexander Ivanovich Motin
- Vladimir Yevgenyevich Polyakov
- Igor Alexandrovich Rudakov
- Alexander Viktorovich Ryazankin
- Vitaly Sapronov
- Vladimir Savelov
- Yuri Shamayev
- Alexander Nikolayevich Schitow
- Vladimir Soloviev
- Volodymyr Sterlyk
-
Alexander Ivanovich Timoshinin
- Gold double scull
- Anatoly Petrovich Tkachuk
- Nikolai Vasilyev
- Boris Vladimirovich Vorobyov
- Vladimir Nikolayevich Yeschinow
shoot
- Vladimir Agishev
- Alexander Alipov
- Alexander Androshkin
- Igor Bakalov
- Valentin Michailowitsch Kornew
- Grigory Georgievich Kosych
-
Borys Melnyk
- Silver free rifle three position fight 300 m
- Vitaly Michailowitsch Parchimowitsch
-
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Petrov
- Silver skeet
- Valery Postoialov
- Vladimir Stolipin
-
Viktor Vasilyevich Torzin
- Bronze rapid fire pistol 25 m
- Yuri Zuranow
-
Yakiv Scheleznjak
- Gold running target 50 m
swim
Men
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Women |
sailing
- Boris Budnikov
-
Vitaly Dyrdyra
- Gold tempest
- Rais Galimov
- Nikolai Gromov
- Boris Khabarov
- Vladimir Leontiev
-
Valentin Mankin
- Gold tempest
- Timir Pinegin
-
Viktor Potapov
- Bronze Finn Dinghy
- Vladimir Vasilyev
- Vladimir Yakovlev
- Valentin Samotaikin
- Valery Subanov
do gymnastics
Men
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Women
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volleyball
Men |
Women |
Water polo
- gold
- Anatoly Akimov
- Alexei Barkalov
- Alexander Dolgushin
- Alexander Drewal
- Vadim Gulyayev
- Alexander Kabanov
- Nikolai Melnikov
- Leonid Osipov
- Alexander Schidlowski
- Vladimir Schmudski
- Vyacheslav Sobchenko
Diving
Men |
Women |
Web links
- Soviet Olympic team from 1972 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )