Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Poland competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 290 competitors, 252 men and 38 women, took part in 150 events in 22 sports.

Medalists

Gold

• Wladyslaw Komar - Athletics, Men's Shot Put
• Jan Szczepański - Boxing, Men's Flyweight
• Witold Woyda - Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
• Marek Dąbrowski, Jerzy Kaczmarek, Lech Koziejowski, Witold Woyda, and Arkadiusz Godel - Fencing, Men's Foil Team
• Anczok, Ćmikiewicz, Deyna, Gadocha, Gorgoń, Gut, Jarosik, Kmiecik, Kostka, Kraska, Lato, Lubański, Marx, Maszczyk, Ostafiński, Szeja, Szołtysik, Szymanowski, and Szymczak - Football, Men's Team Competition
• Józef Zapędzki - Shooting, 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (60 shots)
• Zygmunt Smalcerz - Weightlifting, Men's Flyweight

Silver

• Irena Szydłowska - Archery, Women's Individual Competition
• Wiesław Rudkowski - Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
• Lucjan Lis, Edward Barcik, Stanisław Szozda, and Ryszard Szurkowski　- Cycling, Men's Road Team Time Trial
• Antoni Zajkowski - Judo, Men's Half-Middleweight
• Norbert Ozimek - Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight

Bronze

• Irena Szewińska - Athletics, Women's 200m
• Ryszard Katus - Athletics, Men's Decathlon
• Leszek Błażyński - Boxing, Men's Flyweight
• Janusz Gortat - Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
• Władysław Szuszkiewicz and Rafal Maciej Piszcz - Canoe, Men's Kayak Flatwater K-2 1.000m
• Andrzej Bek, and Benedykt Kocot - Cycling Track, Men's 2.000m Tandem
• Zbigniew Kaczmarek - Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
• Kazimierz Lipień - Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Featherweight
• Czesław Kwieciński - Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Light-Heavyweight

Archery

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Poland entered one man and three women. They took home a silver medal in the women's competition.

Men

Women

Athletics

Men

Track & road events

Field events

Combined events – Decathlon

Women

Track & road events

Field events

Basketball

Preliminary round

Group B

Classification brackets

9th–12th place

• Team roster

- 10th place

• Ryszard Bialowas
• Janusz Ceglinski
• Eugeniusz Durejko
• Jan Dolczewski

• Andrzej Kasprzak
• Grzegorz Korcz
• Waldemar Kozak
• Piotr Langosz

• Mieczyslaw Łopatka
• Franciszek Niemiec
• Andrzej Pasiorowski
• Andrzej Seweryn

Head coach

Boxing

Men

Canoeing

Slalom

Sprint

Men

Women

Cycling

Twelve cyclists represented Poland in 1972.

Road

Track

1000m time trial

Men's Sprint

Pursuit

Men's Tandem

Diving

Men

Women

Equestrian

Eventing

Show jumping

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Poland in 1972.

Men

Women

Football

First round

Group D

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Second round

Group 2

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Gold medal match

=== === Gold medal

• Zygmunt Anczok
• Lesław Ćmikiewicz
• Kazimierz Deyna
• Robert Gadocha
• Jerzy Gorgoń
• Zbigniew Gut

• Andrzej Jarosik
• Kazimierz Kmiecik
• Hubert Kostka
• Jerzy Kraska
• Grzegorz Lato
• Włodzimierz Lubański

• Joachim Marx
• Zygmunt Maszczyk
• Marian Ostafiński
• Marian Szeja
• Zygfryd Szołtysik
• Antoni Szymanowski
• Ryszard Szymczak

Head coach

• Kazimierz Górski

Gymnastics

Artistic

Men

Individual finals

Women

Handball

Poland tied Sweden and defeated Denmark but lost to the Soviet Union in the first round to finish in third place in the division. This put the team into the ninth- to twelfth-place consolation round, where they defeated Iceland to set up a match with Norway for ninth and tenth places. Poland lost this match.

Preliminary round

Group A

• Sweden tied Poland, 13–13
• Poland def. Denmark, 11–8
• Soviet Union def. Poland, 17–11

Classification 9-12

• Poland def. Iceland, 20–17
• Norway def. Japan, 19–17

Classification 9/10

• Norway def. Poland, 23–20

====== 10th place

• Zdzisław Antczak
• Zbigniew Dybol
• Franciszek Gąsior
• Jan Gmyrek
• Bogdan Kowalczyk
• Zygfryd Kuchta

• Andrzej Lech
• Jerzy Melcer
• Helmut Pniocinski
• Wladyslaw Popielarski
• Hendryk Rozmiarek

• Andrzej Sokołowski
• Engelbert Szolc
• Andrzej Szymczak
• Wlodzimierz Wachowicz
• Robert Zawada

Head coach

• Janusz Czerwiński

Hockey

Men's team competition

Preliminary round

Group B

<br/> August 27, 1972

• Kenya &ndash; Poland 0-1 (0–1)

August 28, 1972

• Netherlands &ndash; Poland 4-2 (3–0)

August 30, 1972

• Poland &ndash; Mexico 3-0 (1–0)

August 31, 1972

• India &ndash; Poland 2-2 (1–0)

September 2, 1972

• New Zealand &ndash; Poland 3-3 (1–2)

September 3, 1972

• Australia &ndash; Poland 1-0 (1–0)

September 4, 1972

• Poland &ndash; Great Britain 1-2 (1-1)

Men's Classification Matches

September 8, 1972

• 11th/12th place: France &ndash; Poland 4-7 (2–1) after extra time

====== 12th place

• Jerzy Choroba
• Aleksander Ciazynski
• Boleslaw Czainski
• Jerzy Czajka
• Henryk Grotowski
• Stanisław Iskrzynski

• Zbigniew Juszczak
• Stanisław Kasprzyk
• Stanisław Kazmierczak
• Marek Krus
• Zbigniew Loj
• Wlodzimierz Matuszynski

• Stefan Otulakowski
• Ryszard Twardowski
• Stanisław Wegnerski
• Aleksander Wrona
• Józef Wybieralski
• Witold Ziaja

Head coach

Judo

Men

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Poland in 1972.

Alternate Member:

• Krzysztof Trybusiewicz

Rowing

Men

Sailing

Open

Shooting

Thirteen shooters, 12 men and one woman, represented Poland in 1972. Józef Zapędzki won gold in the 25 m rapid fire pistol.

Open

Swimming

Men

Volleyball

Preliminary round

Pool A

9th–10th places

9th place match

Weightlifting

Men

Wrestling

Men's freestyle

Men's Greco-Roman

References