Editing 1972 Summer Olympics

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{{Infobox Olympic games|1972|Summer|Olympics|
| image       = 1972 Summer Olympics logo.svg
| image_size  = 290
| caption     = Emblem of the 1972 Summer Olympics
| host_city   = [[Munich]], West Germany <small>(now in modern day Germany after reunification)</small>
| motto       = ''The Cheerful Games''<br />([[German language|German]]: ''Heitere Spiele'')
| nations     = 121
| athletes    = 7,134 (6,075 men, 1,059 women) 
| events      = 195 in 21 [[Olympic sports|sports]] (28 disciplines)
| opening     = 26 August 1972
| closing     = 11 September 1972{{efn|Originally scheduled for 10 September, the date was reset to the following day by the organizers due to a suspension caused by the Munich massacre.}}
| opened_by   = [[President of Germany|President]] [[Gustav Heinemann]]<ref name="Opening and Cauldron">{{cite press release|title=Factsheet – Opening Ceremony of the Games of the Olympiad|url=https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf|url-status=dead|publisher=International Olympic Committee|date=9 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814215458/https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Reference_documents_Factsheets/Opening_ceremony_of_the_Games_of_the_Olympiad.pdf|archive-date=14 August 2016|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref>
| closed_by   = [[President of the International Olympic Committee|IOC President]] [[Avery Brundage]]
| cauldron    = Günther Zahn<ref name="Opening and Cauldron"/>
| stadium     = [[Olympiastadion (Munich)|Olympiastadion]]
| summer_prev = [[1968 Summer Olympics|Mexico City 1968]]
| summer_next = [[1976 Summer Olympics|Montreal 1976]]
| winter_prev = [[1972 Winter Olympics|Sapporo 1972]]
| winter_next = [[1976 Winter Olympics|Innsbruck 1976]]
}}
{{1972 Summer Olympics}}

The '''1972 Summer Olympics''' ({{Langx|de|Olympische Sommerspiele 1972}}), officially known as the '''Games of the XX Olympiad''' ({{Langx|de|Spiele der XX. Olympiade}}) and officially branded as '''Munich 1972''' ({{langx|de|München 1972}}; {{Langx|bar|Minga 1972}}), were an international [[multi-sport event]] held in [[Munich]], [[West Germany]], from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the second [[Summer Olympics]] to be held in Germany, after the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Games]] in [[Berlin]], which had taken place under the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi rule]]. Germany became only the second country at that point after the United States to have two different cities host the Summer Olympics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Olympic Host Cities – Architecture of the Games |url=https://architectureofthegames.net/olympic-host-cities/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |language=en}}</ref>

The West German government had been eager to have the Munich Olympics present a [[Democracy|democratic]] and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by the Games' official motto, ''"Die Heiteren Spiele"'',<ref name="DER SPIEGEL 35/1972">{{cite news|title=Ein Geschenk der Deutschen an sich selbst|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42872049.html|newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]]|number=35/1972|pages=28–29|language=de|date=21 August 1972|quote=… für die versprochene Heiterkeit der Spiele, die den Berliner Monumentalismus von 1936 vergessen machen und dem Image der Bundesrepublik in aller Welt aufhelfen sollen}}</ref> or "the cheerful Games".<ref>{{cite book|title=Digitized version of the Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972 (Volume 2)|date=1972|language=de|publisher=proSport GmbH & Co. KG. München Ed. Herbert Kunze|page=22|url=http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1972/1972s2pt2.pdf|quote=…  the theme of the "cheerful Games"…|access-date=13 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225173415/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/25278/rec/38|archive-date=25 December 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The logo of the Games was a blue solar logo (the "Bright Sun") by [[Otl Aicher]], the designer and director of the visual conception commission.<ref>{{cite web|title=Official Emblem – Munich 1972 Olympics|url=http://www.olympic.org/content/olympic-games/all-past-olympic-games/summer/munich-1972/munich-1972-collection/?tab=Emblem|access-date=8 April 2013}}</ref> The hostesses wore sky-blue [[dirndl]]s as a promotion of Bavarian cultural heritage.<ref name="typisch">{{Cite news|url=https://www.focus.de/reisen/deutschland/oktoberfest/oktoberfest-tracht-ein-dirndl-gehoert-nicht-auf-die-wiesn_aid_436037.html|title=Typisch Oktoberfest? Darum gehört ein Dirndl eigentlich nicht auf die Wiesn|last=Strassmair|first=Michaela|website=www.focus.de|date=September 2019|access-date=9 May 2020|language=de}}</ref> The Olympic mascot, the [[dachshund]] "[[Waldi]]", was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Olympic Fanfare was composed by [[Herbert Rehbein]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/253064764/b9571a52d1|title=Herbert Rehbein: Olympic Fanfare Munich 1972 (TV Intro)|access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref> The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals.

The Olympic Park (''[[Olympiapark]]'') was based on [[Frei Otto]]'s plans and became a Munich landmark after the Games. The competition sites, designed by architect [[Günther Behnisch]], included the Olympic [[swimming hall]], the Olympics Hall (''Olympiahalle'', a multipurpose facility) and the [[Olympic Stadium, Munich|Olympic Stadium]] (''Olympiastadion''), and an Olympic village very close to the park. The design of these stadia was considered revolutionary, with sweeping canopies of [[acrylic glass]] stabilized by metal ropes, used on such a large scale for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Uhrig |first1=Klaus |title=Die gebaute Utopie: Das Münchner Olympiastadion |url=http://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendungen/schulfernsehen/kunst-olympiastadion-muenchen100.html |access-date=13 February 2015 |date=20 March 2014 |language=de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213081418/http://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendungen/schulfernsehen/kunst-olympiastadion-muenchen100.html |archive-date=13 February 2015 }}</ref>

The event was overshadowed by the [[Munich massacre]] in the second week, in which 11 [[Israel]]i [[Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics|athletes and coaches]] and a West German police officer at the Olympic Village were killed by the Palestinian militant organisation [[Black September Organization|Black September]].

== Host city selection ==

{|class="wikitable"
|+ 1972 Summer Olympics bidding results<ref name=votes>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml |title=Past Olympic host city election results |publisher=[[GamesBids]] |access-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=2 style="background:silver;"| Round
|-
! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
|-
| [[Munich]] || {{flag|West Germany}} || style="text-align:center;"|'''29''' || style="text-align:center;"|'''31'''
|-
| [[Madrid]] || {{flagicon|Francoist Spain}} [[Francoist Spain|Spain]] || style="text-align:center;"|16 || style="text-align:center;"|16
|-
| [[Montréal]] || {{flag|Canada}} || style="text-align:center;"|6 || style="text-align:center;"|13
|-
| [[Detroit]] || {{flag|United States|1960}} || style="text-align:center;"|6 || style="text-align:center;"|
|}

Munich won its Olympic bid on 26 April 1966, at the 64th [[IOC Session]] in [[Rome]], [[Italy]], over bids presented by Detroit, Madrid, and Montréal. Montréal would eventually host the following [[1976 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games in 1976]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html|title=IOC VOTE HISTORY|work=aldaver.com|access-date=11 June 2008|archive-date=25 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html|url-status=usurped}}</ref> Other bids, including one from the two cities that expressed interest alongside [[Paris]], submitted a letter to the IOC to make an official bid, but it ultimately did not materialize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archives CIO - Ville candidate Jeux de l'Olympiade - 1972 Paris - C-J04-1972_001_SD 9.pdf |url=https://library.olympics.com/default/basicfilesdownload.ashx?itemGuid=4BCF3AFC-AF6A-4124-8629-978909906313}}</ref>

== Munich massacre ==
{{Main|Munich massacre}}

The Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the "Munich massacre". Just before dawn on 5 September, a group of eight members of the Palestinian [[Black September (group)|Black September]] militant organization broke into the [[Olympic Village]] and took eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed in the first moments of the break-in; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours.

Late in the evening of 5 September that same day, the terrorists and their nine remaining hostages were transferred by helicopter to the military airport of [[Fürstenfeldbruck]], ostensibly to board a plane bound for an undetermined Arab country. The German authorities planned to ambush them there, but underestimated the numbers of their opposition and were thus undermanned. During a botched rescue attempt, all of the Israeli hostages were killed. Four of them were shot, then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated a grenade inside the helicopter in which the hostages were sitting. The 5 remaining hostages were then shot and killed with a machine gun.

{{Quote box|width=28%|align=left|quote="Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said that there were 11 hostages. Two were killed in their rooms, yesterday morning. Nine were killed at the airport, tonight. They're all gone."|source=—After a series of conflicting reports and rumours, [[Jim McKay]] of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] brought the news at 3:24 a.m. local time.<ref name=BR>{{cite news |title=Transcend – Munich Massacre |work=Bleacher Report Media Lab |url=http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/transcend/#munich-massacre |access-date=27 March 2017 }}</ref>}}
All but three of the terrorists were killed as well. Although arrested and imprisoned pending trial, they were released by the West German government on 29 October 1972, in exchange for the [[Lufthansa Flight 615|hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615]]. Two of those three were supposedly hunted down and assassinated later by the [[Mossad]].<ref name=Calahan>[https://fas.org/irp/eprint/calahan.htm Countering Terrorism: The Israeli Response To The 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre And The Development Of Independence Covert Action Teams], M.A. thesis by Alexander B. Calahan at Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 1995.</ref> [[Jamal Al-Gashey]], who is believed to be the sole survivor, is still living today in hiding in an unspecified African country with his wife and two children. The Olympic events were suspended several hours after the initial attack for the first time in the modern [[Olympic Games]] history, but once the incident was concluded, [[Avery Brundage]], the [[International Olympic Committee]] president, declared that "the Games must go on". A memorial ceremony was then held in the Olympic stadium, and the competitions resumed after a stoppage of 34 hours. Due to the suspension, the Games that were originally to close on 10 September were rescheduled to 11 September.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/munich-1972|title=1972 Olympics – Munich Summer Games results & highlights|date=7 February 2019|website=International Olympic Committee|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref> The attack prompted heightened security at subsequent Olympics beginning with the [[1976 Winter Olympics]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

The massacre led the German federal government to re-examine its anti-terrorism policies, which at the time were dominated by a pacifist approach imposed after World War II. This led to the creation of the elite counter-terrorist unit [[GSG 9]], similar to the [[British SAS]]. It also led Israel to launch the [[Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre]], in which those suspected of involvement were systematically tracked down and assassinated.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

The events of the Munich massacre were chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary, ''[[One Day in September]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Movies {{ndash}} One Day in September (1999)|last1=Deming|first1=Mark|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/186705/One-Day-in-September/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215045841/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/186705/One-Day-in-September/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 December 2014|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2014|access-date=6 May 2015}}</ref> An account of the aftermath is also dramatized in three films: the 1976 made-for-TV movie ''[[21 Hours at Munich]]'', the 1986 made-for-TV movie ''[[Sword of Gideon]]'',<ref>{{cite news|title=Television {{ndash}} Sword of Gideon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/62766/Sword-of-Gideon/overview|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=6 May 2015}}</ref> [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 2005 film ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dargis|first1=Manohla|title=An Action Film About the Need to Talk|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/movies/23muni.html?_r=0|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 December 2005|access-date=6 May 2015}}</ref> In her film ''1972'', Artist [[Sarah Morris]] interviews Georg Sieber, a former police psychiatrist who advised the Olympics' security team, about the events and aftermath of Black September.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Herbert|first1=Martin|title=Sarah Morris|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/sarah_morris2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218194532/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/sarah_morris2/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 December 2008|website=frieze.com|publisher=Frieze Magazine|access-date=6 May 2015}}</ref> [[September 5 (film)|September 5]] historical drama thriller was released in 2024.

== Highlights ==
[[File:Olympic games 1972 pictogramms olympic station 0877 a.jpg|thumb|[[Otl Aicher]]'s signage pictograms designed for the Munich Olympic Games]]
[[File:Olimpiai Stadion, az olimpia megnyitóünnepsége. Fortepan 73767.jpg|right|thumb|Procession of athletes in the Olympic Stadium- 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich, Germany]]

* These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of [[Avery Brundage]].
* [[United States at the Summer Olympics|American]] [[Mark Spitz]] set a [[world record]] when he won seven gold medals (while on the way to setting a new world record for each of his seven gold medals) in a single Olympics, bringing his lifetime total to nine (he had won two golds in [[Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics|Mexico City's Games]] four years earlier). Being [[Jews|Jewish]], Spitz was asked to leave Munich before the closing ceremonies for his own protection, after fears arose that he would be an additional target of those responsible for the [[Munich massacre]]. Spitz's record stood until [[Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]], when it was beaten by [[Michael Phelps]] who won eight gold medals in the pool.
* [[Olga Korbut]], a [[Soviet Union at the Summer Olympics|Soviet]] [[gymnastics|gymnast]], became a media star after winning a gold medal in the team competition event, failing to win in the individual all-around after a fall (she was beaten by teammate [[Lyudmilla Turischeva]]), and finally winning two gold medals in the [[balance beam]] and the [[Floor (gymnastics)|floor exercise]] events.
* In the [[1972 Olympic men's basketball final|final of the men's basketball]], the [[United States men's national basketball team|United States]] lost to the [[Soviet Union men's national basketball team|Soviet Union]] in what is widely considered as the most controversial game in international basketball history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usabasketball.com/history/moly_1972.html |title= USA Basketball |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822182059/http://www.usabasketball.com/history/moly_1972.html |archive-date=22 August 2007}}</ref> In a close-fought match, the U.S. team appeared to have won by a score of 50–49. However, the final three seconds of the game were replayed three times by judges until the Soviet team came out on top and claimed a 51–50 victory.<ref>{{cite web|title=120 years, 120 stories (Part 15) : Soviets beat the Americans amidst controversies involving communist judges|date=3 March 2016|url=http://sports-nova.com/2016/03/04/120-years-120-stories-part-15-soviets-beat-americans-amidst-controversies-involving-communist-judges/|access-date=4 March 2016|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225062628/https://www.sports-nova.com/2016/03/04/120-years-120-stories-part-15-soviets-beat-americans-amidst-controversies-involving-communist-judges/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ultimately the U.S. team refused to accept their silver medals, which are believed to be held in a vault in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}} It has come to light since that five of the medals are missing and believed to be in the hands of a German Olympic official with [[Nazism|Nazi]] ties.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://theathletic.com/3566452/2022/09/09/usa-russia-1972-olympic-medals/|title=Stolen gold and forgotten silver: 50 years after Americans refused medals, some are missing|first=Joe|last=Vardon|website=The Athletic|access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref>
* [[Lasse Virén]] of Finland won the 5,000 and 10,000&nbsp;m (the latter after a fall), a feat he repeated in the [[1976 Summer Olympics]].
* [[Valeriy Borzov]] of the Soviet Union won both the 100&nbsp;m and 200&nbsp;m in [[track and field]]. 
* The 100 metres event was notable for the absence of favorites and world record holders [[Eddie Hart (athlete)|Eddie Hart]] and [[Rey Robinson]] for their quarterfinal heats.  American sprint coach [[Stan Wright (track coach)|Stan Wright]], had been given the wrong starting time. All three qualified American athletes were at the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC television]] headquarters watching what they thought were replays of their morning preliminary races.  In fact, they were watching live coverage of the races they should have been in.  Hart and Robinson, scheduled in the first two races, missed their heats.  The athletes rushed to the stadium, with [[Robert Taylor (sprinter born 1948)|Robert Taylor]] hurrying to take off his warm up uniform before running the later heat.
* Two American 400&nbsp;m runners, [[Vincent Matthews (athlete)|Vincent Matthews]] (gold medalist) and [[Wayne Collett]] (silver medalist), staged a protest on the victory podium, talking to each other and failing to stand at attention during the medal ceremony.<ref name="google.com">{{cite book | last1=Schiller | first1=K. | last2=Young | first2=C. | title=The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany | publisher=University of California Press | series=Weimar and now | year=2010 | isbn=978-0-520-26213-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxEQEqnXdRAC&pg=PT134 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref> They were banned by the IOC, as [[Tommie Smith]] and [[John Carlos]] had been in the [[1968 Summer Olympics]]. Since [[John Smith (sprinter)|John Smith]] had pulled a hamstring in the final and had been ruled unfit to run, the United States were forced to scratch from the 4×400&nbsp;m relay where they would have been heavily favored to win.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/61050 |work=Olympedia |title=400 metres, Men |access-date=4 August 2020}}</ref>
* [[Dave Wottle]] won the [[Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres|men's 800 m]], after being last for the first 600&nbsp;m, at which point he started to pass runner after runner up the final straightaway, finally grabbing the lead in the final 18 metres to win by 0.03 seconds ahead of the favorite, the Soviet [[Yevgeny Arzhanov]]. At the victory ceremony, Wottle forgot to remove his golf cap. This was interpreted by some as a form of protest against the Vietnam War, but Wottle later apologized.
* Australian swimmer [[Shane Gould]] won three gold medals, a silver, and a bronze medal at the age of 15.
* Hurdler [[Abdalá Bucaram]] carried the [[Flag of Ecuador|Ecuadorian]] flag at the opening ceremony. 24 years later he became the [[President of Ecuador]]. In Munich, he had to pull out of his event due to injury.
* [[Team handball|Handball]] (last held in 1936) and [[Archery]] (last held in 1920) returned as Olympic sports after a long absence.
* [[Slalom canoeing]] was held for the first time at the Olympics.
* [[Dan Gable]] won the gold medal in [[sport wrestling|wrestling]] without having a single point scored against him. No other athlete has ever accomplished such a feat in Olympic wrestling.
* [[Wim Ruska]] became the first [[judoka]] to win two gold medals.
* For the first time, the [[Olympic Oath]] was taken by a representative of the referees.
* American [[Frank Shorter]], who was born in Munich, became the first from his country in 64 years to win the Olympic marathon. As Shorter was nearing the stadium, German student Norbert Sudhaus entered the stadium wearing a track uniform, joined the race and ran the last kilometre; thinking he was the winner, the crowd began cheering him before officials realized the hoax and security escorted Sudhaus off the track. Arriving seconds later, Shorter was understandably perplexed to see someone ahead of him and to hear the boos and catcalls meant for Sudhaus. This was the third time in Olympic history that an American had won the marathon (after [[Thomas Hicks (athlete)|Thomas Hicks]] 1904 and [[Johnny Hayes]] 1908) — and in none of those three instances did the winner enter the stadium first.
[[File:1972olympiadCOIN.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|right|Munich Olympics commemorative 10-[[Deutsche Mark|mark]] coin, 1972]]
* [[Rick DeMont]] of the United States originally won the gold medal in the men's 400 metre freestyle swimming. Following the race, the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) stripped DeMont of his gold medal<ref>Neil Amdur, "[https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/09.04.html  Of Gold and Drugs]," ''The New York Times'' (4 September 1972). Retrieved 16 March 2015.</ref> after his post-race urinalysis tested positive for traces of the banned substance [[ephedrine]] contained in his prescription asthma medication, Marax. The positive test following the 400-meter freestyle final also deprived him of a chance at multiple medals, as he was not permitted to swim in any other events at the 1972 Olympics, including the 1,500-meter freestyle for which he was the then-current world record-holder. Before the Olympics, DeMont had properly declared his asthma medications on his medical disclosure forms, but the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) had not cleared them with the IOC's medical committee.<ref name=SR/> The [[United States Olympic Committee]] (USOC) has recognized his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics in 2001, but only the IOC has the power to restore his medal, and it has refused to do so as of 2020.<ref name=DeMont>{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2001/01/30/usoc_demont_ap/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010507004733/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2001/01/30/usoc_demont_ap/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 May 2001 |title=Better late than never |date=30 January 2001 |work=sportsillustrated.cnn.com |agency=Associated Press }}</ref>
* The men's [[pole vault]] field event at the games took place on 1 & 2 September.<ref name="SR">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/ATH/mens-pole-vault.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173850/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/ATH/mens-pole-vault.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Athletics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault |access-date=4 January 2018 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref>  Controversy arose when the new [[Cata-Pole]], used by defending champion [[United States|American]] [[Bob Seagren]] and [[Sweden]]'s [[Kjell Isaksson]], was declared to be illegal, by the [[IAAF]], on 25 July. The pole was banned based on the fact that the pole contained [[carbon fibers]]; after an [[East Germany|East German]]-led protest revealed that it contained no carbon fibers, the ban was lifted on 27 August.  Three days later the IAAF reversed itself again, reinstating the ban. The poles were then confiscated from the athletes. Seagren and Isaksson believed this gave other athletes, like the eventual gold medalist, [[Wolfgang Nordwig]], an unfair advantage.  Seagren and Isaksson were given substitute poles which they had never used before to jump with.  Isaksson, who had lost the [[Men's pole vault world record progression|world record]] to Seagren only two months earlier, didn't clear a height in the qualifying round and was eliminated. After Seagren's last vault he was so incensed by the way IAAF officials handled the event, he took the pole he had been forced to vault with and handed it back to IAAF President [[Adriaan Paulen]].<ref name="SR"/> This was the first Olympics where the pole vault had not been won by an American.  Prior to 1972, the United States  had won 16 straight. Since 1972, the United States has won the men's pole vault only twice, equalling the record of Poland and former republics of the Soviet Union. France has won three times since 1984.
* [[Badminton]] and [[water skiing]] were demonstration sports.

== Venues ==
{{Main||Venues of the 1972 Summer Olympics}}
[[File:Munich - Olympiapark 3.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of the ''Olympiapark'' in 2014.]]
* Munich Olympic Park (''[[Olympiapark, Munich|Olympiapark]]'')
** [[Olympiastadion (Munich)|Olympic Stadium]] (''Olympiastadion'') – opening/closing ceremonies, athletics, equestrian (jumping team), football (final), modern pentathlon (running), memorial service for Israeli athletes
** Boxing Hall (''[[Boxhalle]]'') – boxing, judo (final)
** Cycling Stadium (''[[Radstadion]]'') – cycling (track)
** [[Olympiahalle|Olympic Sports Hall]] (''Sporthalle'') – gymnastics, handball (final)
** Hockey Facility (''[[Hockeyanlage]]'') – field hockey
** [[Olympia Schwimmhalle|Swimming Hall]] (''Schwimmhalle'') – swimming, diving, water polo (final), modern pentathlon (swimming)
** Volleyball Hall (''[[Volleyballhalle]]'') – volleyball
** [[Olympic Village, Munich|Olympic Village]] (''Olympisches Dorf'')
* Venues in Greater Munich
** Regatta Course (''Regattastrecke''), [[Oberschleißheim]] – canoe sprint, rowing
** [[Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle|Basketball Hall]] (''Basketballhalle''), Siegenburger Straße – basketball, judo
** Fairgrounds, Fencing Hall 1 (''[[Messe München#1972 Summer Olympics|Messegelände]], Fechthalle 1'') – fencing (final)
** Fairgrounds, Fencing Hall 2 (''[[Messe München#1972 Summer Olympics]], Fechthalle 2'') – fencing, modern pentathlon (fencing)
** Fairgrounds, Weightlifting Hall (''[[Messe München#1972 Summer Olympics]], Gewichtheberhalle'') – weightlifting
** Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall (''[[Messe München#1972 Summer Olympics]], Judo- und Ringerhalle'') – judo, wrestling
** Dante Swimming Pool (''[[Dantebad]]'') – water polo
** Shooting Facility (''[[Schießanlage]]''), Hochbrück – shooting, modern pentathlon (shooting)
** Archery Facility (''Bogenschießanlage''), [[Englischer Garten]] – archery
** [[Riding Facility, Riem]] – equestrian (jumping individual, eventing cross-country), modern pentathlon (riding)
** [[Nymphenburg Palace|Dressage Facility Nymphenburg]] – equestrian (dressage)
** [[Grünwald, Bavaria|Grünwald]] – cycling (individual road race)
* Other venues
** Olympic Yachting Center, [[Kiel]]-[[Schilksee]] – water skiing, sailing
** [[Max-Morlock-Stadion|Urban Stadium]] ([[Nuremberg]]) – football/soccer preliminaries
** [[Jahnstadion (Regensburg)]] – football/soccer preliminaries
** [[Dreiflüssestadion]] ([[Passau]]) – football/soccer preliminaries
** [[Tuja-Stadion|ESV-Stadion]] ([[Ingolstadt]]) – football/soccer preliminaries
** [[Augsburg]] – canoe slalom ([[Eiskanal]]), football/soccer preliminaries ([[Rosenaustadion]]), handball preliminaries ([[Sporthalle Augsburg]])
** [[Donauhalle Ulm]] – handball preliminaries
** [[EWS Arena|Hohenstaufenhalle Göppingen]] ([[Göppingen]]) – handball preliminaries
** [[Sporthalle (Böblingen)|Böblingen Sportshalle]] – handball preliminaries
** [[Bundesautobahn 96]] – cycling (road team time trial)

==Cost==
''The Oxford Olympics Study'' established the outturn cost of the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics at US$1.0 billion in 2015-dollars.<ref>{{Cite book|ssrn=2804554|title=The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games|last1=Flyvbjerg|first1=Bent|last2=Stewart|first2=Allison|last3=Budzier|first3=Alexander|publisher=Saïd Business School Working Papers (Oxford: University of Oxford)|year=2016|location=Oxford|pages=9–13|doi=10.2139/ssrn.2804554 |arxiv=1607.04484 |s2cid=156794182 }}</ref> This includes sports-related costs only, that is, (i) ''operational costs'' incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) ''direct capital costs'' incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games. Indirect capital costs are ''not'' included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost for Munich 1972 compares with costs of US$4.6 billion for Rio 2016, US$15 billion for London 2012 (the most costly Summer Olympics to date) and US$51 billion for Sochi 2014 — the most expensive Olympic Games in history.<ref name="The Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/oct/09/sochi-2014-olympics-money-corruption |title=Sochi 2014: the costliest Olympics yet but where has all the money gone? |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=12 February 2014}}</ref> Average cost for Summer Games since 1960 is US$5.2 billion.

== Sports ==
The 1972 Summer Olympic programme featured 195 events in the following 21 sports:

{{div col|colwidth=17em}}
* Aquatics
** {{GamesSport|Diving|Events=4|Format=d}}
** {{GamesSport|Swimming|Events=29|Format=d}}
** {{GamesSport|Water polo|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Archery|Events=2|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Athletics|Events=38|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Basketball|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Boxing|Events=11|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Canoeing|Format=d}}
** Flatwater <small>(7)</small>
** Slalom <small>(4)</small>
* {{GamesSport|Cycling|Format=d}}
** Road <small>(2)</small>
** Track <small>(5)</small>
* {{GamesSport|Equestrian|Format=d}}
** Dressage <small>(2)</small>
** Eventing <small>(2)</small>
** Show jumping <small>(2)</small>
* {{GamesSport|Fencing|Events=8|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Field hockey|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Football|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Gymnastics|Events=14|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Handball|Events=1|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Judo|Events=6|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Modern pentathlon|Events=2|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Rowing|Events=7|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Sailing|Events=6|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Shooting|Events=8|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Volleyball|Events=2|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Weightlifting|Events=9|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Wrestling|Format=d}}
** Freestyle <small>(10)</small>
** Greco-Roman <small>(10)</small>
{{div col end}}

=== Demonstration sports ===
* {{GamesSport|Badminton|Format=d}}
* {{GamesSport|Water skiing|Format=d}}

== Participating National Olympic Committees ==
[[File:1972 Summer Olympic games countries.png|thumb|upright=1.1|Participants]]
[[File:1972 Summer olympics team numbers.gif|thumb|upright=1.1|Number of competitors per nation.]]
Eleven nations made their first Olympic appearance in Munich: [[Albania]], [[Republic of Dahomey|Dahomey]] (now [[Benin]]), [[Gabon]], [[North Korea]], [[Lesotho]], [[Malawi]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Somalia]], [[Swaziland]], [[Togo]], [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] (now [[Burkina Faso]]).

[[Rhodesia at the Olympics|Rhodesia]]'s invitation to take part in the 1972 Summer Games was withdrawn by the [[International Olympic Committee]] four days before the opening ceremony, in response to African countries' (such as [[Ethiopia]] and [[Kenya]]) protests against the Rhodesian government. (Rhodesia did, however, [[Rhodesia at the 1972 Summer Paralympics|compete]] in the [[1972 Summer Paralympics]], held a little earlier in [[Heidelberg]].)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/22/newsid_3549000/3549444.stm|title=1972: Rhodesia out of Olympics|date=22 August 1972|access-date=7 May 2023|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19720823&id=FgsyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1790,5361674|title=The Montreal Gazette – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=7 May 2023}}</ref> The [[People's Republic of China]] last competed at the [[1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Summer Games]] but had since withdrawn from the IOC due to a dispute with the [[Republic of China]] over the right to represent China.<ref>{{cite web|title=China and the Olympic Movement|last=Xiao|first=Li|publisher=China Internet Information Center|url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/null/116819.htm|access-date=August 4, 2011}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="width:100%;"
|-
! Participating [[:Category:Nations at the 1972 Summer Olympics|National Olympic Committees]]
|-
|
{{div col|colwidth=18em}}
* {{flagIOC|AFG|1972 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|ALB|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|ALG|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|ARG|1972 Summer|92}}
* {{flagIOC|AUS|1972 Summer|168}}
* {{flagIOC|AUT|1972 Summer|111}}
* {{flagIOC|BAH|1972 Summer|20}}
* {{flagIOC|BAR|1972 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|BEL|1972 Summer|88}}
* {{flagIOC|BER|1972 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|BOL|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|BRA|1972 Summer|81}}
* {{flagIOC|HBR|1972 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|BUL|1972 Summer|130}}
* {{flagIOC|BIR|1972 Summer|18}}
* {{flagIOC|CMR|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|CAN|1972 Summer|208}}
* {{flagIOC|CEY|1972 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|CHA|1972 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|CHI|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|ROC|1972 Summer|21|name=Taiwan}}
* {{flagIOC|COL|1972 Summer|59}}
* {{flagIOC|CGO|1972 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|CRC|1972 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|CUB|1972 Summer|137}}
* {{flagIOC|TCH|1972 Summer|181}}
* {{flagIOC|DAH|1972 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|DEN|1972 Summer|126}}
* {{flagIOC|DOM|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|ECU|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|EGY|1972 Summer|23}}
* {{flagIOC|ESA|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|ETH|1972 Summer|31}}
* {{flagIOC|FIJ|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|FIN|1972 Summer|96}}
* {{flagIOC|FRA|1972 Summer|227}}
* {{flagIOC|GAB|1972 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|GDR|1972 Summer|297}}
* {{flagIOC|FRG|1972 Summer|423}} '''(host)'''
* {{flagIOC|GHA|1972 Summer|35}}
* {{flagIOC|GBR|1972 Summer|284}}
* {{flagIOC|GRE|1972 Summer|60}}
* {{flagIOC|GUA|1972 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|GUY|1972 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|HAI|1972 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|HKG|1972 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|HUN|1972 Summer|232}}
* {{flagIOC|ISL|1972 Summer|25}}
* {{flagIOC|IND|1972 Summer|41}}
* {{flagIOC|INA|1972 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|IRI|1972 Summer|50}}
* {{flagIOC|IRL|1972 Summer|59}}
* {{flagIOC|ISR|1972 Summer|14}}
* {{flagIOC|ITA|1972 Summer|224}}
* {{flagIOC|CIV|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|JAM|1972 Summer|33}}
* {{flagIOC|JPN|1972 Summer|184}}
* {{flagIOC|KEN|1972 Summer|57}}
* {{flagIOC|KHM|1972 Summer|9}}
* {{flagIOC|PRK|1972 Summer|37}}
* {{flagIOC|KOR|1972 Summer|42}}
* {{flagIOC|KUW|1972 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|LIB|1972 Summer|19}}
* {{flagIOC|LES|1972 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|LBR|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|LIE|1972 Summer|6}}
* {{flagIOC|LUX|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|MAD|1972 Summer|11}}
* {{flagIOC|MAW|1972 Summer|16}}
* {{flagIOC|MAS|1972 Summer|45}}
* {{flagIOC|MLI|1972 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|MLT|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|MEX|1972 Summer|174}}
* {{flagIOC|MON|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|MGL|1972 Summer|39}}
* {{flagIOC|MAR|1972 Summer|35}}
* {{flagIOC|NEP|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|NED|1972 Summer|119}}
* {{flagIOC|AHO|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|NZL|1972 Summer|89}}
* {{flagIOC|NCA|1972 Summer|8}}
* {{flagIOC|NIG|1972 Summer|4}}
* {{flagIOC|NGR|1972 Summer|25}}
* {{flagIOC|NOR|1972 Summer|112}}
* {{flagIOC|PAK|1972 Summer|25}}
* {{flagIOC|PAN|1972 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|PAR|1972 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|PER|1972 Summer|20}}
* {{flagIOC|PHI|1972 Summer|53}}
* {{flagIOC|POL|1972 Summer|290}}
* {{flagIOC|POR|1972 Summer|29}}
* {{flagIOC|PUR|1972 Summer|53}}
* {{flagIOC|ROU|1972 Summer|159}}
* {{flagIOC|SMR|1972 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|KSA|1972 Summer|10}}
* {{flagIOC|SEN|1972 Summer|38}}
* {{flagIOC|SIN|1972 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|SOM|1972 Summer|3}}
* {{flagIOC|URS|1972 Summer|371}}
* {{flagIOC|ESP|1972 Summer|123}}
* {{flagIOC|SUD|1972 Summer|26}}
* {{flagIOC|SUR|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|SWZ|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|SWE|1972 Summer|131}}
* {{flagIOC|SUI|1972 Summer|151}}
* {{flagIOC|SYR|1972 Summer|5}}
* {{flagIOC|TAN|1972 Summer|15}}
* {{flagIOC|THA|1972 Summer|33}}
* {{flagIOC|TOG|1972 Summer|7}}
* {{flagIOC|TRI|1972 Summer|19}}
* {{flagIOC|TUN|1972 Summer|35}}
* {{flagIOC|TUR|1972 Summer|43}}
* {{flagIOC|UGA|1972 Summer|33}}
* {{flagIOC|USA|1972 Summer|400}}
* {{flagIOC|VOL|1972 Summer|1}}
* {{flagIOC|URU|1972 Summer|13}}
* {{flagIOC|VEN|1972 Summer|23}}
* {{flagIOC|VIE|1972 Summer|2}}
* {{flagIOC|ISV|1972 Summer|16}}
* {{flagIOC|YUG|1972 Summer|126}}
* {{flagIOC|ZAM|1972 Summer|11}}
{{div col end}}
|}

=== Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees ===
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable" style="border:0;"
|-
! [[List of IOC country codes|IOC Letter Code]]
! Country
! Athletes
|-
|-
| AFG || {{flagIOC|AFG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 8
|-
| ALB || {{flagIOC|ALB|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| ALG || {{flagIOC|ALG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| ARG || {{flagIOC|ARG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 92
|-
| AUS || {{flagIOC|AUS|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 168
|-
| AUT || {{flagIOC|AUT|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 111
|-
| BAH || {{flagIOC|BAH|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 20
|-
| BAR || {{flagIOC|BAR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 13
|-
| BEL || {{flagIOC|BEL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 88
|-
| BER || {{flagIOC|BER|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 9
|-
| BOL || {{flagIOC|BOL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| BRA || {{flagIOC|BRA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 81
|-
| HBR || {{flagIOC|HBR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 1
|-
| BUL || {{flagIOC|BUL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 130
|-
| BIR || {{flagIOC|BIR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 18
|-
| CMR || {{flagIOC|CMR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| CAN || {{flagIOC|CAN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 208
|-
| CEY || {{flagIOC|CEY|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 4
|-
| CHA || {{flagIOC|CHA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 4
|-
| CHI || {{flagIOC|CHI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| ROC || {{flagIOC|ROC|1972 Summer|name=Republic of China}} ||align=center| 21
|-
| COL || {{flagIOC|COL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 59
|-
| CGO || {{flagIOC|CGO|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 6
|-
| CRC || {{flagIOC|CRC|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| CUB || {{flagIOC|CUB|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 137
|-
| TCH || {{flagIOC|TCH|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 181
|-
| DAH || {{flagIOC|DAH|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| DEN || {{flagIOC|DEN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 126
|-
| DOM || {{flagIOC|DOM|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| ECU || {{flagIOC|ECU|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| EGY || {{flagIOC|EGY|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 23
|-
| SAL || {{flagIOC|ESA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| ETH || {{flagIOC|ETH|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 31
|-
| FIJ || {{flagIOC|FIJ|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| FIN || {{flagIOC|FIN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 96
|-
| FRA || {{flagIOC|FRA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 227
|-
| GAB || {{flagIOC|GAB|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 1
|-
| GDR || {{flagIOC|GDR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 297
|-
| GER || {{flagIOC|FRG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 423
|-
| GHA || {{flagIOC|GHA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 35
|-
| GBR || {{flagIOC|GBR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 284
|-
| GRE || {{flagIOC|GRE|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 60
|-
| GUA || {{flagIOC|GUA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 8
|-
| GUY || {{flagIOC|GUY|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| HAI || {{flagIOC|HAI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| HKG || {{flagIOC|HKG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 10
|-
| HUN || {{flagIOC|HUN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 232
|-
| ISL || {{flagIOC|ISL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 25
|-
| IND || {{flagIOC|IND|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 41
|-
| INA || {{flagIOC|INA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 6
|-
| IRN || {{flagIOC|IRI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 50
|-
| IRL || {{flagIOC|IRL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 59
|-
| ISR || {{flagIOC|ISR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 14
|-
| ITA || {{flagIOC|ITA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 224
|-
| CIV || {{flagIOC|CIV|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| JAM || {{flagIOC|JAM|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 33
|-
| JPN || {{flagIOC|JPN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 184
|-
| KEN || {{flagIOC|KEN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 57
|-
| KHM || {{flagIOC|KHM|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 9
|-
| PRK || {{flagIOC|PRK|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 37
|-
| COR || {{flagIOC|KOR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 42
|-
| KUW || {{flagIOC|KUW|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 4
|-
| LIB || {{flagIOC|LIB|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 19
|-
| LES || {{flagIOC|LES|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 1
|-
| LBR || {{flagIOC|LBR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| LIE || {{flagIOC|LIE|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 6
|-
| LUX || {{flagIOC|LUX|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| MAD || {{flagIOC|MAD|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|-
| MAW || {{flagIOC|MAW|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 16
|-
| MAS || {{flagIOC|MAS|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 45
|-
| MLI || {{flagIOC|MLI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| MLT || {{flagIOC|MLT|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| MEX || {{flagIOC|MEX|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 174
|-
| MON || {{flagIOC|MON|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| MGL || {{flagIOC|MGL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 39
|-
| MAR || {{flagIOC|MAR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 35
|-
| NEP || {{flagIOC|NEP|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| HOL || {{flagIOC|NED|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 119
|-
| AHO || {{flagIOC|AHO|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| NZL || {{flagIOC|NZL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 89
|-
| NCA || {{flagIOC|NCA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 8
|-
| NIG || {{flagIOC|NIG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 4
|-
| NGR || {{flagIOC|NGR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 25
|-
| NOR || {{flagIOC|NOR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 112
|-
| PAK || {{flagIOC|PAK|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 25
|-
| PAN || {{flagIOC|PAN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| PAR || {{flagIOC|PAR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| PER || {{flagIOC|PER|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 20
|-
| PHI || {{flagIOC|PHI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 53
|-
| POL || {{flagIOC|POL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 290
|-
| POR || {{flagIOC|POR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 29
|-
| PUR || {{flagIOC|PUR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 53
|-
| ROU || {{flagIOC|ROU|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 159
|-
| SMR || {{flagIOC|SMR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| ARS || {{flagIOC|KSA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 10
|-
| SEN || {{flagIOC|SEN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 38
|-
| SIN || {{flagIOC|SIN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| SOM || {{flagIOC|SOM|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 3
|-
| URS || {{flagIOC|URS|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 371
|-
| ESP || {{flagIOC|ESP|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 123
|-
| SUD || {{flagIOC|SUD|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 26
|-
| SUR || {{flagIOC|SUR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| SWZ || {{flagIOC|SWZ|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| SWE || {{flagIOC|SWE|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 131
|-
| SUI || {{flagIOC|SUI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 151
|-
| SYR || {{flagIOC|SYR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 5
|-
| TAN || {{flagIOC|TAN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 15
|-
| THA || {{flagIOC|THA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 33
|-
| TOG || {{flagIOC|TOG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 7
|-
| TRI || {{flagIOC|TRI|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 19
|-
| TUN || {{flagIOC|TUN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 35
|-
| TUR || {{flagIOC|TUR|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 43
|-
| UGA || {{flagIOC|UGA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 33
|-
| USA || {{flagIOC|USA|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 400
|-
| VOL || {{flagIOC|VOL|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 1
|-
| URU || {{flagIOC|URU|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 13
|-
| VEN || {{flagIOC|VEN|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 23
|-
| VNM || {{flagIOC|VIE|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 2
|-
| ISV || {{flagIOC|ISV|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 16
|-
| YUG || {{flagIOC|YUG|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 126
|-
| ZAM || {{flagIOC|ZAM|1972 Summer}} ||align=center| 11
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=2; style="text-align:right; border:0px; background:#fff;"| '''Total''' ||style="text-align:center; border:0px; background:#fff;"| '''7,134'''
|-
|}

== Calendar ==
:''All times are in [[Central European Time]] ([[UTC+1]])''
<section begin="Calendar"/>
{| class=wikitable style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%;position:relative;width:75%;"
|−8
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#00cc33;text-align:center;"|'''OC'''||Opening ceremony
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#3399ff;text-align:center;"|●||Event competitions
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#ffcc00;text-align:center;"|'''1'''||Gold medal events
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#ee3333;text-align:center;"|'''CC'''||Closing ceremony
|style="width:2.5em; background-color:#89CFF0;text-align:center;"|●||Suspended event competitions
|style="width:2.5em; background:#ffdead; text-align:center"|'''MS'''||Memorial service
|}

{| class=wikitable style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:90%; line-height:1.25em; width:75%; text-align:center;"
|-
!style=width:18%; colspan=2 rowspan=2|August/September 1972
!colspan=6|August
!colspan=11|September
!style=width:6%; rowspan=2|Events
|-
!style=width:4%;|26th<br/>Sat
!style=width:4%;|27th<br/>Sun
!style=width:4%;|28th<br/>Mon
!style=width:4%;|29th<br/>Tue
!style=width:4%;|30th<br/>Wed
!style=width:4%;|31st<br/>Thu
!style=width:4%;|1st<br/>Fri
!style=width:4%;|2nd<br/>Sat
!style=width:4%;|3rd<br/>Sun
!style=width:4%;|4th<br/>Mon
!style=width:4%;|[[Munich massacre|5th<br/>Tue]]
!style=width:4%;|6th<br/>Wed
!style=width:4%;|7th<br/>Thu
!style=width:4%;|8th<br/>Fri
!style=width:4%;|9th<br/>Sat
!style=width:4%;|10th<br/>Sun
!style=width:4%;|11th<br/>Mon
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2|[[File:Olympic Rings Icon.svg|20px]] Ceremonies || style="background-color:#00cc33;" |'''OC'''|| ||  || || || || || || || || ||style="background-color:#ffdead;" |'''MS'''  || || || || ||style="background-color:#ee3333;" |'''CC'''|| {{N/A}}
|-

 | style="text-align:left;" rowspan=4|Aquatics
|-

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 | style="text-align:left;"|[[File:Swimming pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] [[Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics|Swimming]]
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!colspan=2|Daily medal events !! !! 2 !! 8 !! 8 !! 13 !! 27 !! 16 !! 23 !! 14 !! 13 !! [[Munich massacre|‡]]!! 2 !! 16 !! 3 !! 15 !! 34 !! 1 !! rowspan=2|195
|-
!colspan=2|Cumulative total !! !!2 !!10 !!18 !!31 !!58!!74!!97!!111!!124!! !!126 !!142 !!145!! 160!!194  !! 195
|-
!colspan=2 rowspan=2|August/September 1972
!style=width:4%;|26th<br/>Sat
!style=width:4%;|27th<br/>Sun
!style=width:4%;|28th<br/>Mon
!style=width:4%;|29th<br/>Tue
!style=width:4%;|30th<br/>Wed
!style=width:4%;|31st<br/>Thu
!style=width:4%;|1st<br/>Fri
!style=width:4%;|2nd<br/>Sat
!style=width:4%;|3rd<br/>Sun
!style=width:4%;|4th<br/>Mon
!style=width:4%;|[[Munich massacre|5th<br/>Tue]]
!style=width:4%;|6th<br/>Wed
!style=width:4%;|7th<br/>Thu
!style=width:4%;|8th<br/>Fri
!style=width:4%;|9th<br/>Sat
!style=width:4%;|10th<br/>Sun
!style=width:4%;|11th<br/>Mon
!rowspan=2|Total events
|-
!colspan=6|August
!colspan=11|September
|}
<br/>
‡ No medals were awarded on 5 September as all Olympic competitions were suspended during that day although events that were being held at the time of the suspension were allowed to finish to their conclusion.

Note: The Memorial service was held in the [[Olympiastadion (Munich)|Olympic Stadium]] on 6 September which was attended by 80,000 spectators and 3,000 athletes. Following this all Olympic competitions were then allowed to resume after a 34-hour suspension.<section end="Calendar"/>

== Medal count ==
{{Main|1972 Summer Olympics medal table}}
[[File:Mary Peters 1972 Olympic gold medal.JPG|thumb|Gold medal awarded to [[Mary Peters (athlete)|Mary Peters]] for the 1972 Olympic [[Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's pentathlon|women's pentathlon]].]]
These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1972 Games.

{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
 | show_limit     = 
 | remaining_text = 
 | flag_template  = flagIOC
 | event          = 1972 Summer
 | team           = 
 | gold_URS = 50 | silver_URS = 27 | bronze_URS = 22
 | gold_USA = 33 | silver_USA = 31 | bronze_USA = 30
 | gold_GDR = 20 | silver_GDR = 23 | bronze_GDR = 23
 | gold_FRG = 13 | silver_FRG = 11 | bronze_FRG = 16 | host_FRG = yes 
 | gold_JPN = 13 | silver_JPN = 8 | bronze_JPN = 8
 | gold_AUS = 8 | silver_AUS = 7 | bronze_AUS = 2
 | gold_POL = 7 | silver_POL = 5 | bronze_POL = 9
 | gold_HUN = 6 | silver_HUN = 13 | bronze_HUN = 16
 | gold_BUL = 6 | silver_BUL = 10 | bronze_BUL = 5
 | gold_ITA = 5 | silver_ITA = 3 | bronze_ITA = 10
}}
;Key
{{Color box|#ccccff|&nbsp;<nowiki>*</nowiki>&nbsp;|border=darkgray}} Host nation (West Germany)

==Doping==
The report, titled ''"Doping in Germany from 1950 to today"'', details how the West German government helped fund a wide-scale [[Doping in sport|doping]] program.<ref>{{cite news |title=Report: West Germany systematically doped athletes |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2013/08/03/report-west-germany-systematically-doped-athletes-olympics/2615323/ |work=USA Today |date=3 August 2013}}</ref> [[Doping in East Germany|Doping of East German athletes]] also, by the GDR government, was systematic and prevalent at the Munich Games of 1972.<ref>{{cite news |title=Report exposes decades of West German doping |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20130805-doping-rife-among-west-german-athletes-decades-says-report |work=France 24 |date=5 August 2013}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Germany}}
{{IOC seealso|games=1972 Summer Olympics}}
* '''1972 Summer Olympics''' – [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], [[West Germany]] — [[Munich massacre]]
* [[1972 Summer Olympics medal table]]
* [[The Right Honourable|The Rt. Hon.]] [[Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin|The 3rd Baron Killanin]]

== Notes and references ==

===Notes===
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===References===
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{IOC games|games=1972 Summer Olympics}}
* The main theme of the 1972 Summer Olympics by Gunther Noris and the Big Band of Bundeswehr "Munich Fanfare March-Swinging Olympia {{YouTube|x_BNFhMhuXs}}

==Further reading==
* Schiller, Kay, and Christopher Young. ''The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany'' (University of California Press; 2010) 348 pages
* Preuss, Holger. ''The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A Comparison of the Games, 1972–2008'' (2006)
* Oxlade, Chris, et al. Olympics. Rev. ed. London: DK, 2005. Print.

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