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Spain scored its first Winter gold medal courtesy of slalom skier Francisco Fernández Ochoa. Poland did the same with Wojciech Fortuna winning the large hill ski jumping competition. American female speedskaters Anne Henning and Dianne Holum made the United States' best showing in the Winter Games, winning two gold, a silver, and a bronze.
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.
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.
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.
Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Sapporo 1972 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
In April 1966, at the 64th IOC session in Rome, the Winter Olympics 1972 was finally awarded to Sapporo, Japan, with 32 votes. The other candidate cities were Banff, Canada - with 16 votes, Salt Lake City, USA and Lahti, Finland, with seven votes each.
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]
