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Ri Ho-jun won North Korea's first Olympic gold medal, which was also their first medal of any kind. He did so in the mixed 50 metre rifle prone event. 16-year-old Rick DeMont had originally won gold in the men's 400 metre freestyle event but was disqualified after ephedrine, a banned substance, was found in his system.
Semi-final at the 1971 European Rowing Championships; New Zealand is ahead of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. The 1972 New Zealand eight was a team of Olympic gold medallists in rowing from New Zealand, having previously won the 1971 European Rowing Championships.
The 1972 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1972), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad (German: Spiele der XX. Olympiade) and officially branded as Munich 1972 (German: München 1972; Bavarian: Minga 1972), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
Basketball: Men's tournament: September 9 Silver: Mable Fergerson Kathy Hammond Madeline Manning Cheryl Toussaint: Athletics: Women's 4 × 400 m relay: September 10
Event Gold Silver Bronze 15 km details: Sven-Åke Lundbäck Sweden Fyodor Simachov Soviet Union Ivar Formo Norway 30 km details: Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union Pål Tyldum Norway
Event Gold Silver Bronze Light flyweight details: György Gedó Hungary Kim U-gil North Korea Ralph Evans Great Britain Enrique Rodríguez Spain Flyweight details: Georgi Kostadinov
This was the seventeenth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Three finalists, but no medalists, from 1968 returned: fourth-place finisher Amadou Gakou of Senegal, sixth-place Tegegne Bezabeh of Ethiopia, and seventh-place Andrzej Badeński of Poland (who had won bronze in 1964).
The men's eight competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from 27 August to 2 September at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim. [1] There were 15 boats (135 competitors) from 15 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. [2]