Finland at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Finland at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  FIN
NOC Finnish Olympic Committee
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors
Medals Gold
3		 Silver
1		 Bronze
4		 Total
8
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Finland competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

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[edit] Medals

Finland finished in 14th position in the final medal rankings, with three gold medals and eight medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Tapio Kantanen — Athletics, Men's 3,000m Steeplechase
  • Kyösti Laasonen — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
  • Ristó Hurme, Veikko Salminen, and Martti Ketelä — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
  • Risto Björlin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Finland entered three men. They won a bronze medal.

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Kyösti Laasonen — 2467 points (→ Bronze Medal)
  • Olavi Laurila — 2372 points (→ 20th place)
  • Jorma Sandelin — 2278 points (→ 40th place)

[edit] Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Antti Rajamäki
  • First Heat — 10.52s (→ did not advance)
  • Raimo Vilen
  • First Heat — 11.00s (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres

  • Heat — 3:40.9
  • Semifinals — 3:37.9
  • Final — 3:36.3 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Pekka Paivarinta
  • Heat — 3:40.9
  • Semifinals — 3:45.1 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

  • Heat — 13:42.0 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100m Relay

  • Heat — 39.54s
  • Semifinals — 39.30s (→ did not advance)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Mikko Saarinen
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated David Attan (KEN), TKO-2
  • Third Round — Lost to Peter Tiepold (GDR), 0:5

[edit] Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race (200 km)

  • Harry Hannus — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Mauno Uusivirta — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Tapani Vuorenhela — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Ole Wackström — did not finish (→ no ranking)

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard:

  • Pentti Koskinen — 336.99 points (15th place)

Women's 3m Springboard:

  • Laura Kivelä — 236.25 points (24th place)

Women's 10m Platform:

  • Laura Kivelä — 172.65 points (22nd place)

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Ristó Hurme — 5094 points (→ 8th place)
  • Veikko Salminen — 4852 points (→ 17th place)
  • Martti Ketelä — 4849 points (→ 19th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Hurme, Salminen, and Ketelä — 14812 points (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

[edit] Rowing

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Leo Ahonen, Leif Anderson and Antero Yli-lkkelä
  • Heat — 8:06.56
  • Repechage — 8:11.89 (→ did not advance)