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XX Olympic Game, Munich 1972
Men, Track
100 m
1 Valeriy Borzov URS 10.14  
2 Robert Taylor USA 10.24  
3 Lennox Miller JAM 10.33  
4 Aleksandr Kornelyuk URS 10.36  
5 Mike Fray JAM 10.40  
6 Jobst Hirscht FRG 10.40  
7 Zenon Nowosz POL 10.46  
Hasely Crawford TRI DNF  
200 m
1 Valeriy Borzov URS 20.00  
2 Larry Black USA 20.19  
3 Pietro Mennea ITA 20.30  
4 Larry Burton USA 20.37  
5 Chuck Smith USA 20.55  
6 Siegfried Schenke GDR 20.56  
7 Martin Jellinghaus FRG 20.65  
8 Hans-Joachim Zenk GDR 21.05  
400 m
1 Vince Matthews USA 44.66  
2 Wayne Collett USA 44.80  
3 Julius Sang KEN 44.92  
4 Charles Asati KEN 45.13  
5 Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske FRG 45.31  
6 Markku Kukkoaho FIN 45.49  
7 Karl Honz FRG 45.68  
John Smith USA DNF  
800 m
1 David Wottle USA 1.45.9  
2 Yevgeniy Arzhanov URS 1.45.9  
3 Michael Boit KEN 1.46.0  
4 Franz-Josef Kemper FRG 1.46.5  
5 Robert Ouko KEN 1.46.5  
6 Andy Carter GBR 1.46.6  
7 Andrzej Kupczyk POL 1.47.1  
8 Dieter Fromm GDR 1.48.0  
1500 m
1 Pekka Vasala FIN 3.36.3  
2 Kipchoge Keino KEN 3.36.8  
3 Rodney Dixon NZL 3.37.5  
4 Michael Boit KEN 3.38.4  
5 Brendan Foster GBR 3.39.0  
6 Herman Mignon BEL 3.39.1  
7 Paul-Heinz Wellmann FRG 3.40.1  
8 Vladimir Panteley URS 3.40.2  
5000 m
1 Lasse Viren FIN 13.26.4 OR
2 Mohamed Gammoudi TUN 13.27.4  
3 Ian Stewart GBR 13.27.6  
4 Steve Prefontaine USA 13.28.4  
5 Emiel Puttemans BEL 13.30.8  
6 Harald Norpoth FRG 13.32.6  
7 Per Halle NOR 13.34.4  
8 Nikolay Sviridov URS 13.39.4  
10000 m
1 Lasse Viren FIN 27.38.4 WR
2 Emiel Puttemans BEL 27.39.6  
3 Miruts Yifter ETH 27.41.0  
4 Mariano Haro ESP 27.48.2  
5 Frank Shorter USA 27.51.4  
6 Dave Bedford GBR 28.05.4  
7 Daniel Korica YUG 28.15.2  
8 Abdelkader Zaddem TUN 28.18.2  
Marathon (42.195 km.)
1 Frank Shorter USA 2.12.19  
2 Karel Lismont BEL 2.14.31  
3 Mamo Wolde ETH 2.15.08  
4 Ken Moore USA 2.15.39  
5 Kenji Kimihara JPN 2.16.27  
6 Ron Hill GBR 2.16.30  
7 Donald McGregor GBR 2.16.34  
8 Jack Foster NZL 2.16.56  
110 m Hurdles
1 Rod Milburn USA 13.24 WR
2 Guy Drut FRA 13.34 ER
3 Thomas Hill USA 13.48  
4 Willie Davenport USA 13.50  
5 Frank Siebeck GDR 13.71  
6 Leszek Wodzynski POL 13.72  
7 Lubomir Nádenícek TCH 13.76  
8 Petr Cech TCH 13.86  
400 m Hurdles
1 John Akii-Bua UGA 47.82 WR
2 Ralph Mann USA 48.51  
3 David Hemery GBR 48.52  
4 Jim Seymour USA 48.64  
5 Rainer Schubert FRG 49.65  
6 Stavros Tziortzis GRE 49.66  
6 Yevgeniy Gavrilenko URS 49.66  
8 Yuriy Zorin URS 50.25  
3000 m Steeplechase
1 Kipchoge Keino KEN 8.23.6 OR
2 Ben Jipcho KEN 8.24.6  
3 Tapio Kantanen FIN 8.24.8  
4 Bronislaw Malinowski POL 8.28.0  
5 Dusan Moravcík TCH 8.29.2  
6 Amos Biwott KEN 8.33.6  
7 Romualdas Bite URS 8.34.6  
8 Pekka Päivärinta FIN 8.37.2  
20 km Road Walk
1 Peter Frenkel GDR 1.26.43 OR
2 Vladimir Golubnichiy URS 1.26.56  
3 Hans-Georg Reimann GDR 1.27.17  
4 Gerhard Sperling GDR 1.27.55  
5 Nikolay Smaga URS 1.28.17  
6 Paul Nihill GBR 1.28.45  
7 Jan Ornoch POL 1.32.02  
8 Vittorio Visini ITA 1.32.30  
50 km Road Walk
1 Bernd Kannenberg FRG 3.56.12 OR
2 Veniamin Soldatenko URS 3.58.24  
3 Larry Young USA 4.00.46  
4 Otto Barch URS 4.01.36  
5 Peter Selzer GDR 4.04.06  
6 Gerhard Weidner FRG 4.06.26  
7 Vittorio Visini ITA 4.08.32  
8 Gabriel Hernandez MEX 4.12.10  
Relays
4 x 100 m
1 United States 38.19 WR
  Black, Taylor, Tinker, Hart  
2 Soviet Union 38.50  
  Kornelyuk, Lovyetskiy, Silovs, Borzov  
3 West Germany 38.79  
  Hirscht, Klotz, Wucherer, Ehl  
4 Czechoslovakia 38.82  
5 East Germany 38.90  
6 Poland 39.03  
7 France 39.14  
8 Italy 39.14  
4 x 400 m
1 Kenya 2.59.8  
  Asati, Nyamau, Ouko, Sang  
2 Great Britain 3.00.5 ER
  Reynolds, Pascoe, Hemery, Jenkins  
3 France 3.00.7  
  Bertould, Velasquez, Kerbiriou, Carette  
4 West Germany 3.00.9  
5 Poland 3.01.1  
6 Finland 3.01.1  
7 Sweden 3.02.6  
8 Trinidad 3.03.6