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1972
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Yuriy Tarmak
URS
2.25
2
Kestutis Sapka
URS
2.24
2
Hermann Magerl
FRG
2.24
4
Stefan Junge
GDR
2.23
4
Vladimir Abramov
URS
2.23
6
Jan Dahlgren
SWE
2.22
7
Tom Woods
USA
2.215
8
Ron Jourdan
USA
2.21
8
Barry Schur
USA
2.21
8
Janos Tihanyi
HUN
2.21
Pole Vault
1
Robert Seagren
USA
5.63
2
Kjell Isaksson
SWE
5.59
3
Steve Smith
USA
5.50
3
Jan Johnson
USA
5.50
3
Wolfgang Nordwig
GDR
5.50
6
Dave Roberts
USA
5.49
7
Renato Dionisi
ITA
5.45
8
Antti Kalliomäki
FIN
5.41
9
Christos Papanicolau
GRE
5.40
10
Hans Lagerqvist
SWE
5.36
Long Jump
1
Randy Williams
USA
8.34
2
Preston Carrington
USA
8.22
3
Henry Hines
USA
8.19
4
Hans Baumgartner
FRG
8.18
5
Arnie Robinson
USA
8.14
6
William Rea
USA
8.11
7
Max Klauss
GDR
8.10
8
Christian Tourret
FRA
8.08
9
Phil Shinnick
USA
8.07
9
Grzegorz Cybulski
POL
8.07
Triple Jump
1
Viktor Saneyev
URS
17.44
2
Jörg Drehmel
GDR
17.31
3
Carol Corbu
ROU
17.10
4
Dave Smith
USA
17.07
5
Nelson Prudencio
BRA
17.05
6
Michal Joachimowski
POL
16.95
7
Heinz-Günter Schenk
GDR
16.94
8
John Craft
USA
16.83
9
Gennadiy Bessonov
URS
16.82
10
Pedro Perez
CUB
16.80
Shot Put
1
Hartmut Briesenick
GDR
21.54
2
Al Feuerbach
USA
21.52
3
George Woods
USA
21.38
4
Hans-Peter Gies
GDR
21.31
5
Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg
GDR
21.32
6
Randy Matson
USA
21.19
7
Wladyslaw Komar
POL
21.18
8
Brian Oldfield
USA
20.97
8
Jaroslav Brabec
TCH
20.97
10
Fred DeBernardi
USA
20.92
Discus Throw
1
Rickard Bruch
SWE
68.40
2
Ludvik Danek
TCH
66.64
3
Tim Vollmer
USA
66.57
4
Jon Cole
USA
65.91
5
John Van Reenen
RSA
65.79
6
Jay Silvester
USA
65.58
7
Geza Fejer
HUN
65.28
8
Detlef Thorith
GDR
64.82
9
Klaus-Peter Hennig
FRG
64.80
10
Ferenc Tegla
HUN
64.48
Hammer Throw
1
Anatoliy Bondarchuk
URS
75.88
2
Jochen Sachse
GDR
74.96
3
Aleksey Spiridonov
URS
74.54
4
Mario Vecchiato
ITA
74.36
5
Vasiliy Khmelevskiy
URS
74.04
6
Karl-Hans Riehm
FRG
73.92
7
Uwe Beyer
FRG
73.88
8
Iosif Gamskiy
URS
73.84
9
Walter Schmidt
FRG
73.38
10
Valentin Dmitrenko
URS
73.24
Javelin Throw
1
Janis Lusis
URS
93.80
2
Klaus Wolfermann
FRG
90.48
3
Hannu Siitonen
FIN
88.58
4
Miklos Németh
HUN
87.14
5
Manfred Stolle
GDR
86.00
6
Jorma Kinnunen
FIN
85.50
7
Valeriy Belan
URS
85.42
8
Aleksandr Makarov
URS
85.04
9
Bjørn Grimnes
NOR
84.70
10
Fred Luke
USA
84.56
Decathlon
1
Nikolay Avilov
URS
8454
2
Ryszard Skowronek
POL
8147
3
Jeff Bannister
USA
8120
4
Jeff Bennett
USA
8076
5
Peter Gabbett
GBR
8040
6
Leonid Litvinenko
URS
8035
7
Tadeusz Janczenko
POL
8006
8
Aleksandr Grebenyuk
URS
8005
9
Toomas Berendsen
URS
8000
10
Boris Ivanov
URS
7997