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1972
Track
Field
100 y
1
Harold Porter
USA
9.2
1
Herb Washington
USA
9.2
1
Ivory Crockett
USA
9.2
1
Joseph Sincere
USA
9.2
5
Steve Williams
USA
9.3
A
5
Errol Stewart
JAM
9.3
A
5
Gus Brisco
USA
9.3
5
William Holloway
USA
9.3
5
Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa
MDG
9.3
5
Reggie Robinson
USA
9.3
100 m
1
Eddie Hart
USA
9.9
1
Reggie Robinson
USA
9.9
3
Warren Edmonson
USA
10.0
3
Steve Riddick
USA
10.0
3
Cliff Branch
USA
10.0
3
Henry Jackson
USA
10.0
3
Vassilios Papageorgopoulos
GRE
10.0
3
Valeriy Borzov
URS
10.0
3
Pietro Mennea
ITA
10.0
3
Hermes Ramirez
CUB
10.0
200 m
1
Valeriy Borzov
URS
20.00
2
Larry Black
USA
20.0
3
Steve Williams
USA
20.2
*A
3
Larry Burton
USA
20.2
*
3
Ivory Crockett
USA
20.2
*
3
Pietro Mennea
ITA
20.2
7
Donald Quarrie
JAM
20.3
*A
7
Dennis Schultz
USA
20.3
*A
7
Siegfried Schenke
GDR
20.3
7
David Jenkins
GBR
20.3
400 m
1
Wayne Collett
USA
44.1
2
Fred Newhouse
USA
44.2
3
John Smith
USA
44.3
4
Lee Evans
USA
44.6
*
5
Vince Matthews
USA
44.66
6
Karl Honz
FRG
44.70
7
Steve Williams
USA
44.9
*A
8
Julius Sang
KEN
44.92
9
Edsel Garrison
USA
45.1
*
9
Larance Jones
USA
45.1
800 m
1
David Wottle
USA
1.44.3
2
Pekka Vasala
FIN
1.44.5
3
Rick Wohlhuter
USA
1.45.0
4
Ken Swenson
USA
1.45.1
5
Jim Ryun
USA
1.45.2
6
Ron Phillips
USA
1.45.3
6
Yevgeniy Arzhanov
URS
1.45.3
8
Dieter Fromm
GDR
1.45.4
8
Rick Brown
USA
1.45.4
10
Jozef Plachy
TCH
1.45.6
1500 m
1
Pekka Vasala
FIN
3.36.33
2
Kipchoge Keino
KEN
3.36.81
3
Michael Boit
KEN
3.37.4
4
Rodney Dixon
NZL
3.37.46
5
Ivan Ivanov
URS
3.37.8
6
Fanie van Zijl
RSA
3.37.9
7
Jerome Howe
USA
3.38.2
8
Brendan Foster
GBR
3.38.20
9
Peter Stewart
GBR
3.38.22
10
Howell Michael
USA
3.38.3
1 Mile
1
Jim Ryun
USA
3.52.8
2
Peter Stewart
GBR
3.55.3
3
Brendan Foster
GBR
3.55.9
4
Jim Douglas
GBR
3.56.0
4
Fanie van Zijl
RSA
3.56.0
6
John Kirkbride
GBR
3.56.5
7
Steve Prefontaine
USA
3.56.7
8
Tony Polhill
NZL
3.57.0
9
Pekka Vasala
FIN
3.57.2
10
Leonard Hilton
USA
3.57.6
5000 m
1
Emiel Puttemans
BEL
13.13.0
2
Lasse Viren
FIN
13.16.4
3
Dave Bedford
GBR
13.17.2
4
Ian McCafferty
GBR
13.19.8
5
Gianni Del Buono
ITA
13.22.4
6
Steve Prefontaine
USA
13.22.8
7
Ian Stewart
GBR
13.24.2
8
Mariano Haro
ESP
13.26.0
9
Javier Alvarez
ESP
13.26.4
10
Mohamed Gammoudi
TUN
13.27.4
10000 m
1
Lasse Viren
FIN
27.38.4
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
27.52.4
7
Mohamed Gammoudi
TUN
27.54.8
8
Gaston Roelants
BEL
28.03.8
9
Rashid Sharafetdinov
URS
28.05.2
10
Pavel Andreyev
URS
28.07.8
Marathon (42.195 km.)
1
Frank Shorter
USA
2.10.30
2
Vladimir Bugrov
URS
2.11.32
sh
3
John Farrington
AUS
2.12.00
4
Lutz Philipp
FRG
2.12.50
5
Ron Hill
GBR
2.12.51
6
Igor Shcherbak
URS
2.13.16
7
Eckhard Lesse
GDR
2.13.19
8
Leonid Moseyev
URS
2.13.59
9
Kenichi Otsuki
JPN
2.14.01
10
Seppo Nikkari
FIN
2.14.03
110 m Hurdles
1
Rod Milburn
USA
13.24
2
Guy Drut
FRA
13.3
2
Thomas Hill
USA
13.3
2
Frank Siebeck
GDR
13.3
2
Alejandro Casanas
CUB
13.3
6
Jerry Wilson
USA
13.4
6
Leszek Wodzynski
POL
13.4
6
Adam Galant
POL
13.4
9
Willie Davenport
USA
13.50
10
Danny Smith
BAH
13.5
400 m Hurdles
1
John Akii-Bua
UGA
47.82
2
Ralph Mann
USA
48.4
3
David Hemery
GBR
48.52
4
Dick Bruggeman
USA
48.6
5
Jim Seymour
USA
48.64
6
William Koskei
KEN
49.0
A
7
Bruce Collins
USA
49.1
8
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko
URS
49.2
9
Dieter Büttner
FRG
49.21
10
Gary Knoke
AUS
49.3
3000 m Steeplechase
1
Anders Gärderud
SWE
8.20.8
2
Tapio Kantanen
FIN
8.21.0
3
Bronislaw Malinowski
POL
8.22.2
4
Kazimierz Maranda
POL
8.23.6
4
Amos Biwott
KEN
8.23.6
4
Kipchoge Keino
KEN
8.23.6
7
Dusan Moravcík
TCH
8.23.8
8
Ben Jipcho
KEN
8.24.6
9
Mikhail Zhelev
BUL
8.25.4
9
Pekka Päivärinta
FIN
8.25.4