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United States At The 1972 Summer Olympics
The United States competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 400 competitors, 316 men and 84 women, took part in 185 events in 21 sports. Medalists The United States finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 33 gold and 94 total medals. Gold * Doreen Wilber — Archery, Women's Individual Competition * John Williams — Archery, Men's Individual Competition * Vincent Matthews — Athletics, Men's 400 metres * Dave Wottle — Athletics, Men's 800 metres * Frank Shorter — Athletics, Men's Marathon * Rod Milburn — Athletics, Men's 110 m Hurdles * Larry Black, Eddie Hart, Robert Taylor, and Gerald Tinker — Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m Relay * Randy Williams — Athletics, Men's Long Jump * Ray Seales — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight * Maxine Joyce King — Diving, Women's 3 m Springboard * John Writer — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, Three Positions * Lones Wigger — Shootin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Olympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The USOPC is one of only four NOCs in the world that also serve as the National Paralympic Committee for their country. The USOPC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing U.S. teams for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games and serves as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States. The Olympic Movement is overseen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC is supported by 35 international federations that govern each sport on a global level, National Olympic Committees that oversee Olympic sport as a whole in their respective nations, and national federations that administer each sport at the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Taylor (athlete)
Robert Taylor (September 14, 1948 – November 13, 2007) was an American sprinter. He won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1972 Olympics and placed second in the 100 m final. He is the father of former NFL player Bobby Taylor. Career Taylor won the AAU championships in the 100-meter dash in 1972. At the Munich Olympics, Taylor was second in the 100 m. On the way to the final, Taylor was unwittingly a participant in the first athletics controversy of his career. Unlike his teammates Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson, Taylor was narrowly able to reach the start of his quarter-final race, when their coach Stan Wright unknowingly used an outdated Olympic schedule and failed to deliver his athletes to the track in time. As Taylor told it in a 2000 interview with the ''Tyler Morning Telegraph'',Hicks, Phil (14 November 2007Tyler Olympic star Robert Taylor dies tylerpaper.com. retrieved 26 February 2012. the three athletes and Wright had left the Olympic village for their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Genter
Robert Steven Genter (born January 4, 1951) is an American former competition swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist. He was freestyle specialist who earned a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He also won silver medals in the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle events. In high school, Genter was an All-American in both swimming and water polo. At the 1972 Olympics, he had a collapsed lung several days before the 200-meter freestyle event. Doctors advised him to withdraw; he refused, competed, and won a silver medal. Genter would shave his head before swim meets, for which he was given the nickname "Curly". See also * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of University of California, Los Angeles people * World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Murphy (swimmer)
John Joseph Murphy (born July 19, 1953) is an American former backstroke and freestyle swimmer who won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. At the 1972 Olympics, the 19-year-old also earned a bronze medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke. He attended Indiana University, where he swam for coach James Counsilman's Indiana Hoosiers swim team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. Murphy currently resides in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and serves as a youth swim team coach. See also * List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men) * World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay This article includes the world record progression for the 4×100 metres freestyle relay, and it shows the chronological history of world record times in that compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Heidenreich
Jerome Alan Heidenreich (February 4, 1950 – April 18, 2002) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where he received gold medals in the 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay. He received a silver medal in 100-meter freestyle, and a bronze medal in 100-meter butterfly. He set six world records during his swimming career, all as a relay team member. Heidenreich was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1992. He became a swimming coach in the 1980s. He was married three times. In July 2001, Heidenreich had a mild stroke which left him with a degree of paralysis on his left side. On April 18, 2002 he killed himself with an overdose of prescription medicine at his home in Paris, Texas. See also * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Edgar (swimmer)
David Holmes "Dave" Edgar (born March 27, 1950) is an American former swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Edgar attended the University of Tennessee, where he swam for the Tennessee Volunteers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference competition. He won seven NCAA championships while swimming for the Volunteers, and was named the "Fastest Man Afloat" by ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine. Edgar represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where he received a gold medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on May 1, 2008) He received another gold medal in 4×100-meter freestyle relay at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hencken
John Frederick Hencken (born May 29, 1954) is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Hencken won five Olympic medals during his career, including three golds. Olympic career At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, he won a gold medal in the 200-meter breaststroke and a bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke. Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, Hencken won gold medals in the 100-meter breaststroke and 4×100-meter medley relay, and a silver in the 200-meter breaststroke. During his career Hencken set 21 American and 13 world records. He graduated from Stanford in general engineering and product design, and completed his MBA at the University of Phoenix. 1972 graduate of Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA See also * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame * List of multiple Olympic gold medalists * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Burton (swimmer)
Michael Jay Burton (born July 3, 1947) is an American swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two freestyle distance events. When he was an eighth grader he was hit by a furniture truck while riding a bicycle with a friend. Earlier he loved to play football and basketball, but the injuries due to this accident made him abandon contact sports, and left swimming as one of the few fitness options. Burton graduated from El Camino High School. He won 10 AAU titles, and while at UCLA Burton was a NCCAA champion five times. These included the 500 Free (1970), 1650 Free (1967, 1968, 1970), and 200 Fly (1970), which also became an All-American for these events. Burton was also a four-time Pac-10 champion, he helped lead the Bruins to the Pac-10 Championship Team Title in 1970. He enter the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame as a Character Member. At the 1967 University Games in Tokyo, Japan, he won a gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle, ahead of Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Spitz
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds, a silver, and a bronze, in addition to five Pan American golds, 31 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, and eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles. During those years he set 35 world records, two of which were in trials and unofficial. ''Swimming World Magazine'' named him World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971, and 1972. He was the third athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals. Early life Spitz was born on February 10, 1950, in Modesto, California, the first of three children of Lenore Sylvia (Smith) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lones Wigger
Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937, Great Falls, Montana – December 14, 2017, Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an American sports shooter. Wigger was a member of the United States Olympic team on three occasions, winning two Olympic Gold Medals. He also served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel. Wigger is often regarded as having been the greatest competitive rifle shooter ever to have taken aim for the United States. He made every Olympic Shooting Team between 1968 and 1980, he held or co-held 27 world records – 14 team and 13 individual. He won 58 National Championships of almost every variety beginning in 1963. He was a member of 16 major U.S. international teams, starting with the 1963 Pan-American Games and his record includes: 22 World Championships (two individual, 20 team); seven Pan-American titles; 18 victories in the Championship of the Americas meet; 16 victories in the Council Internationale Sport du Militaire meet; and in those four meets, plus the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Writer
John Henry Writer (born September 17, 1944) is a retired American rifle shooter. He competed in the 50 m three positions event at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. Competing for West Virginia, Writer won the U.S. intercollegiate championships in 1964–1966 and the 1967 national title in smallbore rifle, three position. At the 1972 Olympics he set new world records in the total (1,166) and in the standing phase (381). Writer also won multiple medals at the Pan-American Games in 1967–1975 and at the world championships in 1970–1974. Writer has been inducted into the USA Shooting Hall of fame. References External links * 1944 births Living people Sportspeople from Chicago American male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in shooting Olympic silver medalists for the United States in shooting Medalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Joyce King
Maxine Joyce "Micki" King (born July 26, 1944) is an American former competitive diver and diving coach. She was a gold medal winner at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the three meter springboard event. She was the dominant figure in women's diving in the United States from 1965 to 1972, winning 10 national championships, including both springboard and platform events. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, she was in first place in the three meter springboard event when she broke her left arm on the ninth dive; she completed the tenth dive, but finished in fourth place. In 1972, she made a comeback at the Munich Olympics, winning the gold medal in the three meter springboard event. King was a career officer in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1992, retiring with the rank of colonel. She taught physical education and coached diving at the United States Air Force Academy, becoming the first woman to serve on the faculty of a U.S military academy and the first woman to coach a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
