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2 lut 1972 · Before the Sapporo Games, Japan had never won a gold medal in the Olympic Winter Games. But in the normal hill ski-jumping event, Yukio Kasaya led from start to finish to claim gold. His team-mates Akitsugu Konno and Seiji Aochi won the silver and bronze to complete the Japanese clean sweep.
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.
Klasyfikacja medalowa Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1972 – zestawienie państw, reprezentowanych przez narodowe komitety olimpijskie, uszeregowanych pod względem liczby zdobytych medali na XI Zimowych Igrzyskach Olimpijskich w 1972 roku w Sapporo.
Highlights. Ard Schenk won three of the four gold that the Netherlands obtained in speed skating. Ondrej Nepela won for Czechoslovakia its second and last Winter Olympics gold medal. Wojciech Fortuna (ski jumper), Poland's first Winter Olympics gold medalist.
Speed skater Guido Caroli carried the Olympic Torch on the ice during the opening ceremony of the 1956 Winter Olympics. He tripped over a microphone wire and fell, but fortunately he was not harmed and the fire did not go out.
Official medal table of the Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo. Find an alphabetical list of medals and celebrate the achievements of 1972's finest athletes.
The List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners here represent the athletes who competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Sapporo, Japan, from 3 to 13 February 1972. [1]
