# List of 1972 Winter Olympics medal winners

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.

## Alpine skiing
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Downhill details | Bernhard Russi Switzerland | Roland Collombin Switzerland | Heini Messner Austria |
| Giant slalom details | Gustav Thöni Italy | Edy Bruggmann Switzerland | Werner Mattle Switzerland |
| Slalom details | Francisco Fernández Ochoa Spain | Gustav Thöni Italy | Roland Thöni Italy |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Downhill details | Marie-Theres Nadig Switzerland | Annemarie Moser-Pröll Austria | Susan Corrock United States |
| Giant slalom details | Marie-Theres Nadig Switzerland | Annemarie Moser-Pröll Austria | Wiltrud Drexel Austria |
| Slalom details | Barbara Cochran United States | Danièle Debernard France | Florence Steurer France |

## Biathlon

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's Individual details | Magnar Solberg Norway | Hansjörg Knauthe East Germany | Lars-Göran Arwidson Sweden |
| Men's Relay details | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Tikhonov Rinnat Safin Ivan Biakov Viktor Mamatov | Finland (FIN) Esko Saira Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola Mauri Röppänen | East Germany (GDR) Hansjörg Knauthe Joachim Meischner Dieter Speer Horst Koschka |

## Bobsleigh

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Two-man details | West Germany (FRG) Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider | West Germany (FRG) Horst Floth Pepi Bader | Switzerland (SUI) Jean Wicki Edy Hubacher |
| Four-man details | Switzerland (SUI) Jean Wicki Hans Leutenegger Werner Camichel Edy Hubacher | Italy (ITA) Nevio De Zordo Adriano Frassinelli Corrado Dal Fabbro Gianni Bonichon | West Germany (FRG) Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Bodo Bittner Manfred Schumann |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 15 km details | Sven-Åke Lundbäck Sweden | Fyodor Simachov Soviet Union | Ivar Formo Norway |
| 30 km details | Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union | Pål Tyldum Norway | Johs Harviken Norway |
| 50 km details | Pål Tyldum Norway | Magne Myrmo Norway | Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union |
| 4×10 km details | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Voronkov Yuriy Skobov Fyodor Simachov Vyacheslav Vedenin | Norway (NOR) Oddvar Brå Pål Tyldum Ivar Formo Johs Harviken | Switzerland (SUI) Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 5 km details | Galina Kulakova Soviet Union | Marjatta Kajosmaa Finland | Helena Šikolová Czechoslovakia |
| 10 km details | Galina Kulakova Soviet Union | Alevtina Olyunina Soviet Union | Marjatta Kajosmaa Finland |
| 3×5 km details | Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Mukhachyova Alevtina Olyunina Galina Kulakova | Finland (FIN) Helena Takalo Hilkka Riihivuori Marjatta Kajosmaa | Norway (NOR) Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre |

## Figure skating

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's singles details | Ondrej Nepela Czechoslovakia | Sergei Chetverukhin Soviet Union | Patrick Péra France |
| Ladies' singles details | Beatrix Schuba Austria | Karen Magnussen Canada | Janet Lynn United States |
| Pairs details | Soviet Union (URS) Irina Rodnina Alexei Ulanov | Soviet Union (URS) Liudmila Smirnova Andrei Suraikin | East Germany (GDR) Manuela Groß Uwe Kagelmann |

## Ice hockey

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's team details | Soviet Union (URS) Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davydov Viktor Kuskin Alexander Ragulin Gennadiy Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Valeri Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeni Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoly Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeni Zimin | United States (USA) Mike Curran Pete Sears Wally Olds Tom Mellor Frank Sanders Jim McElmury Charles Brown Dick McGlynn Ronald Naslund Robbie Ftorek Stu Irving Kevin Ahearn Henry Boucha Craig Sarner Timothy Sheehy Keith Christiansen Mark Howe Tim Regan Bruce McIntosh | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Vladimír Dzurilla Jiří Holeček Vladimír Bednář Rudolf Tajcnár Oldřich Machač František Pospíšil Josef Horešovský Karel Vohralík Václav Nedomanský Jiří Holík Jaroslav Holík Jiří Kochta Eduard Novák Richard Farda Josef Černý Vladimír Martinec Ivan Hlinka Bohuslav Šťastný |

## Luge

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's singles details | Wolfgang Scheidel East Germany | Harald Ehrig East Germany | Wolfram Fiedler East Germany |
| Women's singles details | Anna-Maria Müller East Germany | Ute Rührold East Germany | Margit Schumann East Germany |
| Doubles details | East Germany (GDR) Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow Italy (ITA) Paul Hildgartner Walter Plaikner | None awarded | East Germany (GDR) Klaus-Michael Bonsack Wolfram Fiedler |

## Nordic combined

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual details | Ulrich Wehling East Germany | Rauno Miettinen Finland | Karl-Heinz Luck East Germany |

## Ski jumping

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Normal hill individual details | Yukio Kasaya Japan | Akitsugu Konno Japan | Seiji Aochi Japan |
| Large hill individual details | Wojciech Fortuna Poland | Walter Steiner Switzerland | Rainer Schmidt East Germany |

## Speed skating
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 500 metres details | Erhard Keller West Germany | Hasse Börjes Sweden | Valery Muratov Soviet Union |
| 1500 metres details | Ard Schenk Netherlands | Roar Grønvold Norway | Göran Claeson Sweden |
| 5000 metres details | Ard Schenk Netherlands | Roar Grønvold Norway | Sten Stensen Norway |
| 10000 metres details | Ard Schenk Netherlands | Kees Verkerk Netherlands | Sten Stensen Norway |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 500 metres details | Anne Henning United States | Vera Krasnova Soviet Union | Lyudmila Titova Soviet Union |
| 1000 metres details | Monika Pflug West Germany | Atje Keulen-Deelstra Netherlands | Anne Henning United States |
| 1500 metres details | Dianne Holum United States | Stien Kaiser Netherlands | Atje Keulen-Deelstra Netherlands |
| 3000 metres details | Stien Kaiser Netherlands | Dianne Holum United States | Atje Keulen-Deelstra Netherlands |