Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation
Great Britain at the
1972 Summer Olympics
IOC codeGBR
NOCBritish Olympic Association
in Munich
Competitors284 (210 men and 74 women) in 18 sports
Flag bearers David Broome (opening)
Richard Meade (closing)
Medals
Ranked 12th
Gold
4
Silver
5
Bronze
9
Total
18
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 284 competitors, 210 men and 74 women, took part in 159 events in 18 sports.[1] British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

The Great Britain team included 69-year-old equestrian Lorna Johnstone - the oldest British athlete ever to appear in the Olympic Games.

Medallists

Medals by sport
Sport Total
Equestrian 2 1 0 3
Athletics 1 1 2 4
Sailing 1 1 0 2
Judo 0 1 2 3
Swimming 0 1 0 1
Boxing 0 0 3 3
Cycling 0 0 1 1
Shooting 0 0 1 1
Total 4 5 9 18

Gold

Silver

  • David Hemery, David Jenkins, Alan Pascoe, and Martin Reynolds – Athletics, men's 4x400 metres relay
  • Ann Moore – Equestrian, jumping individual competition
  • David Starbrook – Judo, men's half-heavyweight (93 kg)
  • David Wilkie – Swimming, men's 200m breaststroke
  • David Hunt and Alan Warren (helmsman) – sailing, Tempest

Bronze

  • Ian Stewart – Athletics, men's 5000 metres
  • David Hemery – Athletics, men's 400m hurdles
  • Ralph Evans – Boxing, men's light flyweight
  • George Turpin – Boxing, men's bantamweight
  • Alan Minter – Boxing, men's light middleweight
  • Michael Bennett, Ian Hallam, Ronald Keeble, and William Moore – Cycling, men's 4000m team pursuit
  • Brian Jacks – Judo, men's middleweight (80 kg)
  • Angelo Parisi – Judo, men's open category
  • John Kynoch – Shooting, men's running game target

Archery

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Great Britain entered three men and three women. Their highest placing competitor was Lynne Evans, at 16th place in the women's competition.

Men's individual competition:

  • Roy Matthews – 2385 points (→ 17th place)
  • John Snelling – 2356 points (→ 26th place)
  • Ronald Bishop – 2244 points (→ 45th place)

Women's individual competition:

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Brian Green
  • Heat, round 1 – 10.41
  • Heat, round 2 – 10.58
  • Semifinals – 10.52 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 10.54
  • Heat, round 2 – 10.53 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 10.58
  • Heat, round 2 – 10.60 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

  • Brian Green
  • Heat, round 1 – 21.26
  • Heat, round 2 – 21.41 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 metres

  • Martin Reynolds
  • Heat, round 1 – 46.46
  • Heat, round 2 – 46.11
  • Semifinals – 46.71 (→ did not advance)
  • David Jenkins
  • Heat, round 1 – 46.15
  • Heat, round 2 – 45.99
  • Semifinals – 45.91 (→ did not advance)
  • Gary Armstrong
  • Heat, round 1 – 46.48
  • Heat, round 2 – 47.10 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

  • Andy Carter
  • Heat – 1:47.6
  • Semifinals – 1:46.5
  • Final – 1:46.6 (→ 6th place)
  • Heat – 1:47.5
  • Semifinals – 1:48.4 (→ did not advance)
  • Colin Campbell
  • Heat – 1:54.8 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres

  • Heat – 3:40.8
  • Semifinals – 3:38.2
  • Final – 3:39.0 (→ 5th place)
  • Heat – 3:42.1
  • Semifinals – 3:45.8 (→ did not advance)
  • John Kirkbride
  • Heat – 3:45.3 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

  • Ian Stewart
  • Heat – 13:33.0
  • Final – 13:27.6 (→ 3rd place)
  • Heat – 13:38.2
  • Final – 13:43.2 (→ 11th place)

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  • David Bedford
  • Heat – 13:49.8
  • Final – 13:43.2 (→ 12th place)

Men's 10000 metres

  • David Bedford
  • Heat – 27:53.6
  • Final – 28:05.4(→ 6th place)
  • Heat – 28:31.4 (→ did not advance)
  • Dave Holt
  • Heat – 28:46.8(→ did not advance)

Men's marathon

  • Ron Hill 2:16:30.6 (→ 6th place)
  • Donald MacGregor 2:16:34.4 (→ 7th place)
  • Colin Kirkham 2:21:54.8 (→ 20th place)

Men's 110m hurdles

  • Heat – 14.08
  • Semifinals – 14.24 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 13.94
  • Semifinals – 14.37 (→ did not advance)
  • David Wilson
  • Heat – 14.31 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m hurdlles

  • Heat – 49.72
  • Semifinals – 49.66
  • Final – 48.52 (→ 3rd place)

Men's 3000m steeplechase

  • Andy Holden
  • Heat – 8:33.8 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 8:35.0 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 8:38.8 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m relay

  • Heat – 39.63
  • Semifinals – 39.47 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m relay

  • Semifinals – 3:01.3
  • Final – 3:00.5 (→ 2nd place)

Men's long jump

  • Qualification – 7.86
  • Final – 7.91 (→ 7th place)
  • Qualification – 7.64 (→ did not advance)

Men's pole vault

  • Qualification – 4.80 (→ did not advance)

Men's shot put

  • Qualification – 18.94 (→ did not advance)

Men's discus

  • Qualification – 57.24 (→ did not advance)
  • John Watts
  • Qualification – 53.86 (→ did not advance)

Men's javelin

  • Qualification – 74.68 (→ did not advance)

Men's hammer throw

  • Barry Williams
  • Qualification – 66.32
  • Final – 68.18 (→ 16th place)
  • Howard Payne
  • Qualification – 64.56 (→ did not advance)

Men's decathlon

Men's 20 km walk

Men's 50 km walk

  • Paul Nihill 4:14:09.4 (→ 9th place)
  • John Warhurst 4:23:21.6 (→ 18th place)
  • Howard Timms 4:34:43.8 (→ 25th place)

Women's 100 metres

  • Heat, round 1 – 11.52
  • Heat, round 2 – 11.57
  • Semifinals – 11.64(→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 11.55
  • Heat, round 2 – 11.58 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 11.45
  • Heat, round 2 – 11.72 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 metres

  • Heat, round 1 – 23.76
  • Heat, round 2 – 23.69
  • Semifinals – 24.03 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 23.97
  • Heat, round 2 – 23.72 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 24.04
  • Heat, round 2 – 24.05 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 metres

  • Heat, round 1 – 53.67
  • Heat, round 2 – 53.01 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 53.31
  • Heat, round 2 – 53.29 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat, round 1 – 54.13 (→ did not advance)

Women's 800 metres

  • Heat – 2:03.6
  • Semifinals – 2:02.4
  • Final – 2:00.2 (→ 7th place)
  • Heat – 2:03.0 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 2:03.6 (→ did not advance)

Women's 1500 metres

  • Heat – 4:13.0
  • Semifinals – 4:07.4
  • Final – 4:04.8 (→ 5th place)
  • Heat – 4:11.3
  • Semifinals – 4:09.4 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 4:14.9 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100m hurdles

  • Heat – 13.37 (→ did not advance)
  • Ann Wilson
  • Heat – 13.53 (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's light flyweight (– 48 kg)

  • Ralph Evans → bronze medal

Men's light middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • First round – bye
  • Second round – defeated Reginald Ford (GUY), KO-2
  • Third round – defeated Valeri Tregubov (URS), 5:0
  • Quarterfinals – defeated Loucif Hanmani (ALG), 4:1
  • Semifinals – lost to Dieter Kottysch (FRG), 2:3

Canoeing

Cycling

Eleven cyclists represented Great Britain in 1972.

Individual road race
  • Phil Bayton – 5th place
  • Phil Edwards – 6th place
  • David Lloyd – did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • John Clewarth – did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial
Sprint
1000m time trial
  • Michael Bennett
  • Final – 1:09.45 (→ 17th place)
Tandem
  • David Rowe and Geoff Cooke → 10th place
Individual pursuit
Individual pursuit

Diving

Men's 3m springboard:

Men's 10m platform:

  • Frank Dufficy – 271.77 points (→ 21st place)
  • Andrew Michael Gill – 268.68 points (→ 22nd place)
  • Brian Wetheridge – 262.59 points (→ 28th place)

Women's 3m springboard:

  • Alison Jean Drake – 378.18 points (→ 12th place)
  • Helen Mary Koppell – 242.22 points (→ 22nd place)

Women's 10m platform:

  • Beverly Williams – 301.26 points (→ 12th place)
  • Helen Mary Koppell – 178.17 points (→ 18th place)

Equestrian

Fencing

19 fencers, 14 men and 5 women, represented Great Britain in 1972.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

Gymnastics

Hockey

Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary round (group B)
  • Defeated Mexico (6-0)
  • Lost to India (0-5)
  • Lost to New Zealand (1-2)
  • Defeated Kenya (2-0)
  • Drew with Australia (1-1)
  • Defeated the Netherlands (3-1)
  • Defeated Poland (2-1)
  • Semi-final Round
  • Defeated Spain (2-0)
  • Classification match
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to Australia (1-2) after extra time → 6th place
  • Team roster

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1972.

Men's individual competition:

Men's team competition:

  • Fox, Lillywhite, and Phelps – 14257 points (→ 9th place)

Alternate member:

  • James Darby

Rowing

Men's single scull

  • Heat – 7:57.49
  • Repechage – 8:10.32
  • Semi-finals – 8:38.62
  • B-final – 8:00.38 (→ 9th place)

Men's double scull

  • (→ 5th place)

Men's coxless pair

  • (→ 12th place)

Men's coxed pair

  • Heat – 7:49.56
  • Repechage – 8:01.14
  • Semi-finals – 8:21.61
  • B-final – 7:59.57 (→ 8th place)

Men's coxless four

  • (→ 7th place)

Men's coxed four

  • (→ 10th place)

Sailing

Flying Dutchman

  • Rodney Pattison (Helmsman) and Chris Davies (gold medal)

Tempest

  • Alan Warren (Helmsman) and David Hunt (silver medal)

Finn

  • Patrick Pym (Helmsman) (12th place)

Dragon

  • Simon Tait (Helmsman), Charles Currey and Ian Hannay

Soling

  • John Oakley (Helmsman), Barry Dunning and Charles Reynolds (5th place)

Star

  • Stuart Jardine (Helmsman) and John Wastall

Shooting

Fourteen male shooters represented Great Britain in 1972. John Kynoch won bronze in the 50 m running target event.

25 m pistol
  • John Cooke
  • Tony Clark
50 m pistol
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, prone
  • John Palin
  • Phil Lawrence
50 m running target
Trap
  • Ronald Carter
  • Brian Bailey
Skeet

Swimming

Men's 100m freestyle

  • Heat – 54.70s (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 55.06s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m freestyle

  • John Mills
  • Heat – 2:00.17 (→ did not advance)
  • Heat – 1:56.99 (→ did not advance)
  • Michael Bailey
  • Heat – 2:00.79 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

  • Heat – 7:58.33
  • Final – 7:55.59 (→ 8th place)

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

  1. ^ "Great Britain at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
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