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XX Olympic Game, Munich 1972
Men, Field
High Jump
1
Yuriy Tarmak
URS
2.23
2
Stefan Junge
GDR
2.21
3
Dwight Stones
USA
2.21
4
Hermann Magerl
FRG
2.18
5
Adám Szepesi
HUN
2.18
6
Istvan Major
HUN
2.15
6
John Beers
CAN
2.15
8
Rustam Akhmyetov
URS
2.15
Pole Vault
1
Wolfgang Nordwig
GDR
5.50
OR
2
Robert Seagren
USA
5.40
3
Jan Johnson
USA
5.35
4
Reinhard Kuretzky
FRG
5.30
5
Bruce Simpson
CAN
5.20
6
Volker Ohl
FRG
5.20
7
Hans Lagerqvist
SWE
5.20
8
Francois Tracanelli
FRA
5.10
Long Jump
1
Randy Williams
USA
8.24
2
Hans Baumgartner
FRG
8.18
3
Arnie Robinson
USA
8.03
4
Joshua Owusu
GHA
8.01
5
Preston Carrington
USA
7.99
6
Max Klauss
GDR
7.96
7
Alan Lerwill
GBR
7.91
8
Leonid Barkovskiy
URS
7.75
Triple Jump
1
Viktor Saneyev
URS
17.35
2
Jörg Drehmel
GDR
17.31
3
Nelson Prudencio
BRA
17.05
4
Carol Corbu
ROU
16.85
5
John Craft
USA
16.83
6
Mansour Dia Ba
SEN
16.83
7
Michal Joachimowski
POL
16.69
8
Kristen Flogstad
NOR
16.44
Shot Put
1
Wladyslaw Komar
POL
21.18
OR
2
George Woods
USA
21.17
3
Hartmut Briesenick
GDR
21.14
4
Hans-Peter Gies
GDR
21.14
5
Al Feuerbach
USA
21.01
6
Brian Oldfield
USA
20.91
7
Heinfried Birlenbach
FRG
20.37
8
Vilmos Varju
HUN
20.10
Discus Throw
1
Ludvik Danek
TCH
64.40
2
Jay Silvester
USA
63.50
3
Rickard Bruch
SWE
63.40
4
John Powell
USA
62.82
5
Geza Fejer
HUN
62.62
6
Detlef Thorith
GDR
62.42
7
Ferenc Tegla
HUN
60.60
8
Tim Vollmer
USA
60.24
Hammer Throw
1
Anatoliy Bondarchuk
URS
75.50
OR
2
Jochen Sachse
GDR
74.96
3
Vasiliy Khmelevskiy
URS
74.04
4
Uwe Beyer
FRG
71.52
5
Gyula Zsivótzky
HUN
71.38
6
Sandor Eckschmidt
HUN
71.20
7
Edwin Klein
FRG
71.14
8
Shigenobu Murofushi
JPN
70.88
Javelin Throw
1
Klaus Wolfermann
FRG
90.48
OR
2
Janis Lusis
URS
90.46
3
Bill Schmidt
USA
84.42
4
Hannu Siitonen
FIN
84.32
5
Bjorn Grimnes
NOR
83.08
6
Jorma Kinnunen
FIN
82.08
7
Miklos Németh
HUN
81.98
8
Fred Luke
USA
80.06
Decathlon
1
Nikolay Avilov
URS
8454
WR
2
Leonid Litvinenko
URS
8035
3
Ryszard Katus
POL
7984
4
Jeff Bennett
USA
7974
5
Stefan Schreyer
GDR
7950
6
Freddy Herbrandt
BEL
7947
7
Steen Smidt-Jensen
DEN
7945
8
Tadeusz Janczenko
POL
7861