Poland_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics

Poland at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Poland at the; 1972 Summer Olympics
IOC code	POL
NOC	Polish Olympic Committee
Website	www.pkol.pl (in Polish)
in Munich, West Germany; August 26, 1972 – September 10, 1972
Competitors	290 (252 men and 38 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearer	Waldemar Baszanowski
Medals; Ranked 7th	Gold 7 Silver 5 Bronze 9 Total 21
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Austria (1908–1912); Russian Empire (1912)

Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Poland competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 290 competitors, 252 men and 38 women, took part in 150 events in 22 sports.^[1]

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Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Total score
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Score	Seed	Score	Seed
Tomasz Leżański	Individual	1128	41	1109	48	2237	46

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Total score
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Score	Seed	Score	Seed
Maria Mączyńska	Individual	1173	12	1198	5	2371	6
Jadwiga Szoszler-Wilejto		1165	14	1132	22	2297	18
Irena Szydłowska		1224 OR	1	1183	9	2407

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andrzej Badeński	400 m	46.21	1 Q	46.19	2 Q	46.38	8	Did not advance
Tadeusz Cuch	100 m	10.89	5	Did not advance
Tadeusz Gorzechowski	20 km walk	—						DNS
Zbigniew Jaremski	400 m	46.20	2 Q	46.52	3 Q	DNS		Did not advance
Marek Jóźwik	110 m hurdles	14.06	2 Q	—		14.06	5	Did not advance
Tadeusz Kulczycki	400 m hurdles	50.19	4 Q	—		50.80	5	Did not advance
Andrzej Kupczyk	800 m	1:48.5	2 Q	—		1:46.69	4 Q	1:47.10	7
Bronisław Malinowski	3000 m steeplechase	8:28.2	2 Q	—				8:28.0	4
Bronisław Malinowski	5000 m	13:48.2	8	Did not advance
Kazimierz Maranda	3000 m steeplechase	8:50.4	10	—				Did not advance
Ludomir Nitkowski	20 km walk	—						DNS
Winicjusz Nowosielski	50 km walk	—						DNS
Zenon Nowosz	100 m	10.36	3 Q	10.40	4 Q	10.42	4 Q	10.46	7
Zenon Nowosz	200 m	DNS		Did not advance
Jan Ornoch	20 km walk	—						1:32:01.6	7
Jan Ornoch	50 km walk	—						DNF
Andrzej Siennicki	50 km walk	—						DNS
Edward Stawiarz	Marathon	—						2:28:12	40
Henryk Szordykowski	1500 m	3:44.2	3 Q	—		3:42.5	6	Did not advance
Stanisław Wagner	100 m	10.62	3 Q	10.61	4	Did not advance
Jan Werner	400 m	45.93	4 Q	46.02	3 Q	46.26	6	Did not advance
Leszek Wodzyński	110 m hurdles	14.03	3 Q	—		13.81	3 Q	13.72	6
Mirosław Wodzyński	110 m hurdles	14.02	4 Q	—		14.63	8	Did not advance
Tadeusz Zieliński	3000 m steeplechase	8:49.8	11	—				Did not advance
Stanisław Wagner Tadeusz Cuch Jerzy Czerbniak Zenon Nowosz	4 × 100 m relay	39.11	1 Q	—		38.90	3 Q	39.03	6
Jan Werner Jan Balachowski Zbigniew Jaremski Andrzej Badeński	4 × 400 m relay	3:02.52	1 Q	—				3:01.05	5

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Bogusław Białek	High jump	—		DNS
Wojciech Buciarski	Pole vault	5.00	12 q	5.00	10
Grzegorz Cybulski	Long jump	8.01	3 Q	7.58	12
Jerzy Homziuk	Long jump	7.63	20	Did not advance
Michał Joachimowski	Triple jump	16.43	6 Q	16.69	7
Edmund Jaworski	Javelin throw	—		DNS
Jan Kobuszewski	Long jump	—		DNS
Władysław Komar	Shot put	20.60	1 Q	21.18
Stanisław Lubiejewski	Hammer throw	64.80	23	Did not advance
Tadeusz Ślusarski	Pole vault	5.00	11 q	NM

Athlete	Event	100 m	LJ	SP	HJ	400 m	100H	DT	PV	JT	1500 m	Final	Rank
Tadeusz Janczenko	Result	10.64	7.28	14.45	2.04	49.10	16.89	45.26	4.50	63.80	5:01.5	7861	8
Tadeusz Janczenko	Points	895	877	756	891	847	670	786	932	807	400	7861	8
Ryszard Katus	Result	10.89	7.09	14.39	1.92	49.10	14.41	43.00	4.50	59.96	4:31.9	7984
Ryszard Katus	Points	831	838	752	788	847	914	744	932	761	577	7984
Ryszard Skowronek	Result	10.78	7.42	14.24	1.98	48.10	15.74	33.66	NM	DNS	DNS	DNF
Ryszard Skowronek	Points	859	905	743	840	893	773	555	0	DNS	DNS	DNF

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	1st Tie	2nd Tie
Soviet Union	7	0	639	479	+160	14
Italy	5	2	547	471	+76	12	1W–1L	1.072
SFR Yugoslavia	5	2	582	484	+98	12	1W–1L	1.013
Puerto Rico	5	2	570	531	+39	12	1W–1L	0.917
West Germany	3	4	482	518	−36	10
Poland	2	5	520	536	−16	9
Philippines	1	6	526	666	−140	8
Senegal	0	7	405	586	−181	7

Semifinals (September 5)			9th place (September 9)

A5	Spain	76

B6	Poland	87
			B6	Poland	83

			A6	Australia	91
B5	West Germany	69

A6	Australia	70	11th place (September 8)


			A5	Spain	84

			B5	West Germany	83

Athlete	Event	1 Round	2 Round	3 Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Roman Rozek	Light Flyweight	Lee Suk-Un (KOR) L 0-5	Did not advance
Leszek Blazynski	Flyweight	BYE	Chander Narayanan (IND) W 3-2	Arturo Delgado (MEX) W 5-0	You Man-Chong (KOR) W 3-2	Georgi Kostadinov (BUL) L 0-5	Did not advance
Józef Reszpondek	Bantamweight	Aldo Cosentino (FRA) L 0-5	Did not advance
Ryszard Tomczyk	Featherweight	Juan Francisco García (MEX) W 4-1	Rudolf Vogel (SUI) W KO-2	Boris Kuznetsov (URS) L 0-5	Did not advance
Jan Szczepanski	Lightweight	BYE	Kasamiro Marchlo (SUD) W 5-0	James Busceme (USA) W 5-0	Charlie Nash (IRL) W TKO-3	Samuel Mbugua (KEN) W WO	László Orbán (HUN) W 5-0
Krzysztof Pierwieniecki	Light Welterweight	Walter Desiderio Gomez (ARG) L 0-5	Did not advance
Alfons Stawski	Welterweight	BYE	Richard Murunga (KEN) W 1-4	Did not advance
Wiesław Rudkowski	Light Middleweight	BYE	Antonio Castellini (ITA) W 5-0	Nayden Stanchev (BUL) W 5-0	Rolando Garbey (CUB) W 4-1	Peter Tiepold (GDR) W 4-1	Dieter Kottysch (FRG) L 2-3
Witold Stachurski	Middleweight	BYE	Peter Dula (KEN) W 4-1	Reima Virtanen (FIN) L TKO-3	Did not advance
Janusz Gortat	Light Heavyweight	Jaroslav Kral (TCH) W 5-0	Raymond Russell (USA) W 3-2	—	Rudi Hornig (FRG) W TKO-1	Mate Parlov (YUG) L 0-5	Did not advance
Ludwik Denderys	Heavyweight	Teófilo Stevenson (CUB) L TKO-1	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Preliminary				Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank
Jan Frączek Ryszard Seruga	Men's C-2	366.31	5	386.78	6	366.31	5
Jerzy Jeż Wojciech Kudlik		DNF		416.10	13	416.10	13
Maciej Rychta Zbigniew Leśniak		459.64	12	455.70	16	455.70	17
Jerzy Stanuch	Men's K-1	317.09	8	480.52	34	317.09	14
Wojciech Gawroński	Men's K-1	343.10	13	355.11	20	343.10	23
Maria Ćwiertniewicz	Women's K-1	450.64	3	432.30	3	432.30	4
Kunegunda Godawska-Olchawa	Women's K-1	473.26	5	441.05	5	441.05	5

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jerzy Opara	C-1 1000 m	4:32.39	3 Q	—		BYE		4:21.05	9
Jan Żukowski Andrzej Gronowicz	C-2 1000 m	4:27.94	5 R	4:05.42	3 Q	4:01.40	4	Did not advance
Grezgorz Śledziewski	K-1 1000 m	4:03.40	3 Q	BYE		3:55.45	2 Q	3:53.22	8
Władysław Szuzkiewicz Rafal Piszcz	K-2 1000 m	3:48.13	2 Q	BYE		3:34.50	2 Q	3:33.63
Zbigniew Niewiadomski Jerzy Dziadkowiec Zdzisław Tomyślak Andrzej Matysiak	K-4 1000 m	3:24.59	2 Q	BYE		3:12.46	4	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Lucjan Lis	Men's road race	4:19:09	36
Jan Smyrak		DNF
Stanisław Szozda		4:20:41	76
Ryszard Szurkowski		4:14:37	31
Lucjan Lis Edward Barcik Stanisław Szozda Ryszard Szurkowski	Team time trial	2:11:47.5

Athlete	Event	Heats	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Round 3	Repechage 3	Repechage Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Andrzej Bek	Men's sprint	Pkhakadze (URS) Chin (JAM) L	Cambroni (MEX) W 11.86	Vačkář (TCH) Cardi (ITA) L	Berkmann (GDR) W 11.87	Balk (NED) Kravtsov (URS) L	Vačkář (TCH) Pedersen (DEN) L	Did not advance
Benedykt Kocot	Men's sprint	Cooke (GBR) Snellinx (BEL) W	BYE		Geschke (GDR) Crutchlow (GBR) L	Balk (NED) L	Did not advance

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping			Total
			Dressage		Cross-country			Final			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Marek Małecki	Signor	Individual	57,00	30	32.00	89.00	51	20.00	109,00	31	109,00	31
Wojciech Mickunas	Tenor		64,67	49	DQ	DNF		DNS			DNF	AC
Jan Skoczylas	Wandal		45,33	13	132,13	132.13	58	10.00	142,13	36	142,13	36
Jacek Wierzchowiecki	Gniew		39,67	7	10,47	10.47	19	20.00	30,47	18	30,47	18
Marek Małecki Wojciech Mickunas Jan Skoczylas Jacek Wierzchowiecki	See above	Team	142.00	5	34.80	126.54	11	50.00	281,60	10	281,60	10

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1		Round 2
Athlete	Horse	Event	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Stefan Grodzicki	Biszka	Individual	8.00	17 Q	DNF		Did not advance	17
Marian Kozicki	Bronz		8.50	21	Did not advance			21
Jan Kowalczyk	Chandzar		DNS
Marian Kozicki Stefan Grodzicki Piotr Wawryniuk Jan Kowalczyk	Bronz Biszka Poprad Jastarnia	Team	107.25	12	Did not advance

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	3	0	11	2	+9	6
East Germany	3	2	1	11	3	+8	4
Colombia	3	1	2	5	12	−7	2
Ghana	3	0	3	1	11	−10	0

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	5
Soviet Union	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6	4
Denmark	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	3
Morocco	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Jerzy Kruża	All-around	17.75	17.60	17.55	18.00	17.65	17.80	106.35	50	Did not advance
Mikołaj Kubica	All-around	18.20	18.55	18.50	18.75	18.85	18.40	111.25	13 Q	Did not finish
Sylwester Kubica	All-around	19.00	18.30	18.80	18.40	18.50	17.75	110.75	17 Q	9.15	9.30	9.25	9.40	8.40	9.45	110.325	22
Wilhelm Kubica	All-around	18.35	18.70 Q	18.10	18.50	18.40	17.85	109.90	23 Q	9.10	9.40	9.35	9.00	9.40	9.30	110.550	20
Mieczysław Strzałka	All-around	17.65	18.05	17.90	18.30	16.65	17.90	106.45	48	Did not advance
Andrzej Szajna	All-around	18.85	17.90	18.85	18.20	18.60	18.75	111.15	15 Q	9.25	8.75	9.00	9.50	9.35	9.55	110.975	15
Jerzy Kruża Mikołaj Kubica Sylwester Kubica Wilhelm Kubica Mieczysław Strzałka Andrzej Szajna	Team all-around	92.20	91.50	92.15	92.30	92.00	90.95	551.10	4	—

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Sweden	3	1	2	0	40	34	4	X	11:11	13:13	16:10
2.	Soviet Union	3	1	2	0	40	34	4	11:11	X	17:11	12:12
3.	Poland	3	1	1	1	35	38	3	13:13	11:17	X	11:8
4.	Denmark	3	0	1	2	30	39	1	10:16	12:12	8:11	X

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
India	7	6	1	0	25	8	12
Netherlands	7	5	1	1	20	9	11
Great Britain	7	4	1	2	15	10	9
Australia	7	3	2	2	18	8	8
New Zealand	7	2	3	2	16	11	7
Poland	7	2	2	3	12	12	6
Kenya	7	1	1	5	8	17	3
Mexico	7	0	0	7	1	40	0

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Net points	Final rank
Blazej Wyszkowski	Finn	25	21	27	5	20	~~DNF~~	26	159.0	24
Zbigniew Kania Krzysztof Szymczak	Flying Dutchman	7	18	13	18	22	23	~~DSQ~~	137.0	21
Tomasz Holc Roman Rutkowski	Tempest	10	14	16	6	15	4	13	95.7	12
Zygfryd Perlicki Józef Błaszczyk Stanisław Stefański	Soling	19	14	5	9	5	14	—	75.0	8
Lech Poklewski Tadeusz Piotrowski Aleksander Bielaczyc	Dragon	20	21	17	2	22	21	—	106.0	20

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	5	5	0	10	15	3	5.000	257	196	1.311	Semifinals
2	Bulgaria	5	4	1	9	13	8	1.625	294	235	1.251	Semifinals
3	Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	8	11	6	1.833	230	205	1.122	5th–8th semifinals
4	South Korea	5	2	3	7	7	10	0.700	209	197	1.061	5th–8th semifinals
5	Poland	5	1	4	6	8	12	0.667	237	259	0.915	9th place match
6	Tunisia	5	0	5	5	0	15	0.000	90	225	0.400	11th place match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Aug	Czechoslovakia	3–0	Poland	15–13	16–14	15–8			46–35
29 Aug	Poland	3–0	Tunisia	15–6	15–11	15–1			45–18
31 Aug	South Korea	3–1	Poland	15–7	13–15	15–11	15–6		58–39
02 Sep	Bulgaria	3–2	Poland	14–16	12–15	15–7	15–3	15–10	71–51
05 Sep	Soviet Union	3–2	Poland	11–15	15–12	15–12	10–15	15–13	66–67

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool						Final round
Athlete	Event	Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Final round Result	Rank
Andrzej Kudelski	−52 kg	Wanelge Castillo (PAN) W T 8:57	Gordon Bertie (CAN) L P	Kiyomi Kato (JPN) L T 2:55	—			Did not advance	11
Zbigniew Żedzicki	−57 kg	An Jea-Won (KOR) W P	Hideaki Yanagida (JPN) L P	Georgios Hatziioannidis (GRE) W T 1:16	Ivan Shavov (BUL) L T 1:23	—		Did not advance	10
Zdzisław Stolarski	−62 kg	Satpal Singh (IND) L P	Orlando Gonçalves (POR) W T 5:27	Théodule Toulotte (FRA) L P	—			Did not advance	11
Włodzimierz Cieślak	−68 kg	André Chardonnens (SUI) W P	Kikuo Wada (JPN) L P	Joseph Gilligan (GBR) W T 7:29	Stefanos Ioannidis (GRE) W P	Dan Gable (USA) L T 4:13	—	Did not advance	7
Jan Wypiorczyk	−82 kg	Lupe Lara (CUB) W T 8:41	Ghulam Dastagir (AFG) W T 5:58	John Peterson (USA) L T 6:35	Peter Neumair (FRG) L P	—		Did not advance	8
Paweł Kurczewski	−90 kg	Ben Peterson (USA) L P	George Saunders (CAN) W P	Raúl García (MEX) W P	Gennadi Strakhov (URS) L T 1:52	—		Did not advance	9
Ryszard Długosz	−100 kg	Julio Tamussin (ITA) W P	József Csatári (HUN) L T 8:28	BYE	Vasil Todorov (BUL) L P	—		Did not advance	6
Stanisław Makowiecki	+100 kg	Yorihide Isogai (JPN) W P	Ştefan Stîngu (ROU) L P	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi (IRN) L T 2:35	—			Did not advance	8

Poland_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics

Medalists

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Archery

Athletics

Basketball

Preliminary round

Group B

Classification brackets

Boxing

Canoeing

Slalom

Sprint

Cycling

Road

Track

Diving

Equestrian

Eventing

Show jumping

Fencing

Men

Women

Football

First round

Group D

Second round

Group 2

Gold medal match

Poland

Gymnastics

Artistic

Handball

Preliminary round

Group A

Classification 9-12

Classification 9/10

Poland

Hockey

Preliminary round

Group B

Men's Classification Matches

Poland

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Volleyball

Preliminary round

9th–10th places

9th place match

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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