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1972 Track & Field medal counts
Total Gold Silver Bronze
United States 22 6 8 8
East Germany 21 9 7 5
Soviet Union 17 9 7 1
West Germany 11 6 3 2
Kenya 6 2 2 2
Finland 4 3 0 1
Bulgaria 4 0 2 2
Poland 3 1 0 2
United Kingdom (Great Britain) 3 0 1 2
Czechoslovakia 2 1 0 1
Australia 2 0 2 0
Belgium 2 0 2 0
Romania 2 0 2 0
France 2 0 1 1
Cuba 2 0 0 2
Ethiopia 2 0 0 2
Italy 2 0 0 2
Uganda 1 1 0 0
Tunisia 1 0 1 0
Austria 1 0 0 1
Brazil 1 0 0 1
Jamaica 1 0 0 1
New Zealand 1 0 0 1
Sweden 1 0 0 1
Medal winners:
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1972 Men's 100 m Valery Borsov URS Robert Taylor USA Lennox Miller JAM
1972 Men's 200 m Valery Borsov URS Larry Black USA Pietro Mennea ITA
1972 Men's 400 m Vincent Matthews USA Wayne Collett USA Julius Sang KEN
1972 Men's 800 m Dave Wottle USA Yevgeni Arzhanov URS Mike Boit KEN
1972 Men's 1,500 m Pekka Vasala FIN Kipchoge Keino KEN Rodney Dixon NZL
1972 Men's 5,000 m Lasse Viren FIN Mohamed Gammoudi TUN Ian Stewart GBR
1972 Men's 10,000 m Lasse Viren FIN Emiel Puttemans BEL Miruts Yifter ETH
1972 Men's Marathon Frank Shorter USA Karel Lismont BEL Mamo Wolde ETH
1972 Men's 110 m Hurdles Rodney Milburn USA Guy Drut FRA Thomas Hill USA
1972 Men's 400 m Hurdles John Akii-Bua UGA Ralph Mann USA David Hemery GBR
1972 Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase Kipchoge Keino KEN Benjamin Jipcho KEN Tapio Kantanen FIN
1972 Men's 4 x 100 m Relay United States USA Soviet Union URS West Germany FRG
1972 Men's 4 x 400 m Relay Kenya KEN Great Britain GBR France FRA
1972 Men's 20 km Walk Peter Frenkel GDR Vladimir Golubnichiy URS Hans Reimann GDR
1972 Men's 50 km Walk Bernd Kannenberg FRG Vladimir Soldatenko URS Larry Young USA
1972 Men's High Jump Yury Tarmak URS Stefan Junge GDR Dwight Stones USA
1972 Men's Pole Vault Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Robert Seagren USA Jan Johnson USA
1972 Men's Long Jump Randy Williams USA Hans Baumgartner FRG Arnie Robinson USA
1972 Men's Triple Jump Viktor Saneyev URS Jorg Drehmel GDR Nelson Prudencio BRA
1972 Men's Shot Put Wladyslaw Komar POL George Woods USA Harmut Briesenick GDR
1972 Men's Discus Ludvik Danek TCH Jay Silvester USA Rickard Bruch SWE
1972 Men's Hammer Throw Anatoli Bondarchuk URS Jochen Sachse GDR Vasili Khmelevski URS
1972 Men's Javelin Klaus Wolfermann FRG Janis Lusis URS William Schmidt USA
1972 Men's Decathlon Nikolai Avilov URS Leonid Litvinenko URS Ryszard Katus POL
1972 Women's 100 m Renate Stecher GDR Raelene, Boyle AUS Silvia Chivas CUB
1972 Women's 200 m Renate Stecher GDR Raelene, Boyle AUS Irena Szewinska-Kirszenstein POL
1972 Women's 400 m Monika Zehrt GDR Rita Wilden FRG Kathy Hammond USA
1972 Women's 800 m Hildegard Falck FRG Niole Sabaite URS Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR
1972 Women's 1,500 m Ludmila Bragina URS Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR Paola Cacchi ITA
1972 Women's 100 m Hurdles Annelie Ehrhardt GDR Valeria Bufanu ROM Karin Balzer GDR
1972 Women's 4 x 100 m Relay West Germany FRG East Germany GDR Cuba CUB
1972 Women's 4 x 400 m Relay East Germany GDR United States USA West Germany FRG
1972 Women's High Jump Ulrike Meyfarth FRG Yordanka Blagoyeva BUL Ilona Gusenbauer AUT
1972 Women's Long Jump Heide Rosendahl FRG Diana Yorgova BUL Eva Suranova TCH
1972 Women's Shot Put Nadyezda Chizhova URS Margitta Gummel GDR Ivanka Khristova BUL
1972 Women's Discus Faina Melnik URS Argentina Menis ROM Vassilka Stoyeva BUL
1972 Women's Javelin Ruth Fuchs GDR Jaqueline Todten GDR Kathy Schmidt USA
1972 Women's Pentathlon Mary Peters GDR Heide Rosendahl FRG Burglinde Pollak GDR
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