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The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the XI Olympic Winter Games (Japanese: 第11回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Hepburn: Dai Jūichi-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (Japanese: 札幌1972), were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It ...
As the host nation, Japan organized a large delegation of 110 members (20 officials, 70 male athletes and 20 female athletes) and won its first ever Winter Olympic gold medal. In the 70-meter ski jump (now the normal-hill event), Japan dominated the winners podium, with Yukio Kasaya capturing the gold medal, Akitsugu Konno the silver and Seiji ...
Sapporo was the first Asian country to host the Winter Olympics. Canada boycotted the Games in protest of Eastern European "state amateurs". Norway's Magne Myrmo became the last athlete to win a cross-country skiing event using all-wooden skis.
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.
After the first shooting round Solberg was in the lead with no misses, 22 seconds ahead of the Swede Lars-Göran Arwidson, with Finland’s Yrjö Salpakari third, 10 seconds behind Arwidson. The favorite Tikhonov had three penalty minutes and was far behind.
After the success of the 1964 Olympics, the IOC was happy to return to the Orient and the city of Sapporo, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The ninth largest city in Japan in 1972, Sapporo was also the largest city to host the Olympic Winter Games to that time.
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. It was the first Winter Olympics in Asia.
