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Galina Kulakova of the USSR won all three cross-country skiing events for women. Dutch skater Ard Schenk won three gold medals in speed skating.
2 lut 1972 · The biggest surprise of the Games was the victory of 21-year-old "Paquito" Fernandez Ochoa, who won the slalom by a full second. His gold medal was the first ever to be won by a Spanish athlete in the Olympic Winter Games. NOCs: 35. Athletes: 1,006 (205 women, 801 men) Events: 35. Volunteers: N/A. Media: N/A. Important Work
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.
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.
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.
Galina KULAKOVA of the USSR won all three women's events in Cross-country. Ard SCHENK of the Netherlands won three golds in Speed skating with a wide margin and became a national hero in the Netherlands. That a flower was named in his honor: Crocus chrysanthus Ard Schenk. Full List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners.
