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Top 25 Lists - 1972
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Men
Women
1972
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Yordanka Blagoeva
BUL
1.94
2
Ilona Gusenbauer
AUT
1.93
3
Ulrike Meyfarth
FRG
1.92
4
Rita Schmidt
GDR
1.90
5
Miloslava Hübnerova
TCH
1.87
6
Rita Gildemeister
GDR
1.86
6
Deborah Brill
CAN
1.86
6
Barbara Inkpen
GBR
1.86
9
Magdolina Komka
HUN
1.85
9
Antonina Lazareva
URS
1.85
Long Jump
1
Heide Rosendahl
FRG
6.78
2
Diana Yorgova
BUL
6.77
3
Margrit Olfert-Herbst
GDR
6.72
4
Angelika Liebsch
GDR
6.69
5
Eva Suranova-Kucmanova
TCH
6.67
6
Lynette Tillett
AUS
6.60
7
Kristina Albertus
GDR
6.58
8
Heidemarie Räbiger
GDR
6.57
9
Martha Watson
USA
6.55
10
Brigite Roesen
FRG
6.51
Shot Put
1
Nadezhda Chizhova
URS
21.03
2
Margitta Gummel
GDR
20.22
3
Ivanka Khristova
BUL
19.55
4
Marianne Adam
GDR
19.43
5
Esfir Dolzhenko
URS
19.36
6
Marita Lange
GDR
19.25
7
Helena Fibingerova
TCH
19.18
8
Ludwika Chewinska
POL
19.06
9
Raisa Taranda
URS
18.91
10
Hannelore Friedel
GDR
18.90
Discus Throw
1
Argentina Menis
ROU
67.32
2
Faina Melnik
URS
66.76
3
Liesel Westermann
FRG
64.96
4
Vasilka Stoeva
BUL
64.34
5
Tamara Danilova
URS
62.86
6
Carmen Ionescu
ROU
62.78
7
Gabriele Hinzmann
GDR
62.36
8
Lia Manoliu
ROU
62.06
9
Olimpia Catarama
ROU
61.10
9
Karin Illgen
GDR
61.10
Javelin Throw
1
Ruth Fuchs
GDR
65.06
2
Ewa Gryziecka
POL
62.70
3
Jacqueline Todten
GDR
62.54
4
Petra Rivers
AUS
62.24
5
Marion Becker
FRG
61.42
6
Kathy Schmidt
USA
61.12
7
Nina Marakina
URS
61.04
8
Ameli Koloska
FRG
61.02
9
Lyutviya Mollova
BUL
60.58
10
Eva Janko
AUT
60.48
Pentathlon
1
Mary Peters
GBR
4801
2
Heide Rosendahl
FRG
4791
3
Burglinde Pollak
GDR
4768
4
Valentina Tikhomirova
URS
4739
5
Christine Bodner
GDR
4693
6
Nadyezhda Tkachenko
URS
4579
7
Monika Peikert
GDR
4522
8
Deborah Van Kiekebelt
CAN
4508
9
Liesel Prokop
AUT
4497
10
Nedyalka Angelova
BUL
4496