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Dutch skater Ard Schenk won three gold medals in speed skating. In Women's Alpine skiing, American Barbara Cochran, one of three siblings on the U.S. Ski Team, became the first U.S. woman since Andrea Mead Lawrence to win a gold medal in skiing when she took first place in the slalom.
2 lut 1972 · Relive the moments that went down in history at the 1972 winter Olympics in Sapporo. Access official videos, results, galleries, sport and athletes.
Female cross-country skiier Galina Kulakova matched Schenk’s triple, though a bit more surreptitiously to the world’s media. The Japanese, not usually a winter sports power, were exultant when three of their ski jumpers, led by Yukio Kasaya, swept the medals in the 70 metre ski jumping.
11 sie 2011 · At the time, Sapporo was the largest centre to host the Winter Games. Canada’s lone medal was a silver in figure skating by Karen Magnussen. The 1972 Olympic ladies’ event marked a turning point for the sport as the results eventually led to the elimination of compulsory figures.
Host City: Sapporo 1972. The Winter Olympic Games were held in Sapporo, Japan, in 1972, between Feb 3-13. There was 35 Nations with 1006 participants competing in 35 events. The Soviet Union maintained its top position on the Winter Games medal tally.
The 11th Olympic Winter Games were held over 11 days from 3 to 13 February, 1972, in the city of Sapporo in Hokkaido. In these, the first Winter Olympics to be staged outside Europe and the United States, a total of 1,006 athletes (801 men and 205 women) from 35 countries and regions took part in 35 events in six sports.
For one American skater, Janet Lynn, considered by many the greatest female free skater ever, the change would come too late. Notoriously weak in the compulsories, she would win only bronze in Sapporo and never won a World or Olympic title.
