1972 Summer Olympics / Diving

Diving at the XX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Munich
Competition venue	Olympic swimming pool
Nations	25th
Athletes	91 (41 women, 50 men)
date	August 27 - September 4, 1972
decisions	4th
← Mexico City 1968 Montreal 1976 →

At the XX. 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich found four competitions in Diving place, two each for women and men. The venue was the Olympic swimming pool in the Olympic Park .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Italy	1	1	1	3
	United States	1	1	1	3
3	Sweden	1	1	-	2
4th	Soviet Union	1	-	-	1
5	Czechoslovakia	-	1	-	1
6th	GDR	-	-	2	2

Olympic swimming pool

Medalist

Men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Vladimir Wassin	Franco Cagnotto	Craig Lincoln
Diving 10 m	Klaus Dibiasi	Richard Rydze	Franco Cagnotto

Women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Jump 3 m	Micki King	Ulrika Knape	Marina Janicke
Diving 10 m	Ulrika Knape	Milena Duchková	Marina Janicke

Time schedule

Competitions	August September
Men	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th
Jump 3 m
Diving 10 m
Women	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th
Jump 3 m
Diving 10 m

000

qualification

final

Results men

Jump 3 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Vladimir Wassin	594.09
2	ITA	Franco Cagnotto	591.63
3	United States	Craig Lincoln	577.29
4th	ITA	Klaus Dibiasi	559.05
5	United States	Michael Finneran	557.34
6th	URS	Vyacheslav Strahov	556.20
7th	GDR	Falk Hoffmann	544.95
8th	FRG	Norbert Huda	524.16
12	GDR	Helge Ziethen	511.02
19th	FRG	Gerhard Hölzl	327.42
30th	FRG	Reinhard von Bauer	299.79
31	AUT	Rudolf Kruspel	293.58
32	AUT	Josef Kien	285.30

Date: August 29th and 30th, 1972
32 participants from 16 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ITA	Klaus Dibiasi	504.12
2	United States	Richard Rydze	480.75
3	ITA	Franco Cagnotto	475.83
4th	GDR	Lothar Matthes	465.75
5	URS	Dawit Hambarzumjan	463.56
6th	United States	Richard Early	462.45
7th	URS	Vladimir Kapirullin	459.21
8th	MEX	Carlos Girón	442.41
10	GDR	Falk Hoffmann	436.71
16	FRG	Karl-Heinz Schwemmer	281.55
18th	AUT	Niki Stajković	280.29
23	GDR	Wolfram Ristau	268.59
24	FRG	Bernd Wucherpfennig	267.87
30th	FRG	Klaus Konzorr	260.01
33	AUT	Rudolf Kruspel	248.07
35	SUI	Sandro Rossi	225.87

Date: September 3rd and 4th, 1972
35 participants from 18 countries

Results women

Jump 3 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Micki King	450.03
2	SWE	Ulrika Knape	434.19
3	GDR	Marina Janicke	430.92
4th	United States	Janet Ely	420.99
5	CAN	Beverly Boys	418.89
6th	SWE	Agneta Henriksson	417.48
7th	United States	Cynthia Potter	413.58
8th	POLE	Elzbieta Wierniuk	408.36
9	GDR	Heidi Becker	405.78
11	GDR	Christa Koehler	394.20
13	FRG	Michaela Herweck	261.78

From left: Knape, King, Janicke

Date: August 27th and 28th, 1972
30 participants from 18 countries

Diving 10 m

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	SWE	Ulrika Knape	390.00
2	TCH	Milena Duchková	370.92
3	GDR	Marina Janicke	360.54
4th	United States	Janet Ely	352.68
5	United States	Micki King	346.38
6th	GDR	Sylvia Fiedler	341.67
7th	CAN	Nancy Robertson	334.02
8th	AUT	Ingeborg Pertmayr	321.03
15th	FRG	Maximiliane Michael	183.48
24	FRG	Ursula Sapp	162.39

Date: September 1st and 2nd, 1972
27 participants from 17 countries

Web links

• Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1972 Summer Games (PDF, 29.4 MB)