United States at the 1972 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	USA
Nocname:	United States Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1972
Flagcaption:	Flag of the United States
Location:	Sapporo
Competitors:	103 (77 men, 26 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Dianne Holum (speed skating)
Rank:	5
Gold:	3
Silver:	2
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto

The United States competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Speed skating	Women's 1500 meters
		Speed skating	Women's 500 meters
		Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
		Speed skating	Women's 3000 meters
		Ice hockey	Men's tournament
		Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
		Figure skating	Women's singles
		Speed skating	Women's 1000 meters

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Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Dianne Holum	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Anne Henning	Speed skating	1	0	1	2

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Classification	Final
		Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bob Cochran	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill	1:53.39	8
David Currier	1:54.96	17
Hank Kashiwa	1:55.60	25
Mike Lafferty	1:54.38	14
Rick Chaffee	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	1:39.23	36	1:45.09	31	3:24.32	30
Bob Cochran	1:35.39	19	1:40.15	16	3:15.54	17
David Currier
Hank Kashiwa	1:37.42	28	1:40.71	19	3:18.13	21
Rick Chaffee	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	1:47.81	3
Bob Cochran
Terry Palmer	1:45.82	4	58.78	21	55.50	13	1:54.28	16
Tyler Palmer	57.68	15	54.37	4	1:52.05	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karen Budge	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill	1:40.68	14
Marilyn Cochran	1:41.96	28
Susan Corrock	1:37.68
Sandy Poulsen	1:41.25	21
Karen Budge	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	1:35.57	23
Barbara Cochran	1:33.16	11
Marilyn Cochran	1:35.27	20
Sandy Poulsen
Patty Boydstun	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	48.11	13	47.48	9	1:35.59	8
Barbara Cochran	46.05	1	45.19	2	1:31.24
Marilyn Cochran
Susan Corrock	48.09	12	47.67	10	1:35.76	9

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Jay Bowerman	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	1:29:13.71	7	45
Dennis Donahue	1:23:20.39	4	24
Peter Karns	1:20:59.67	2	14
Terry Morse	1:28:40.14	7	41
Jay Bowerman Dennis Donahue Peter Karns Terry Morse	Relay	1:57:24.32	1 (0+1)	6

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Paul Lamey Howard Siler	align=left rowspan=2	Two-man	1:18.13	16	1:16.93	12	1:15.52	15	1:16.04	16	5:06.62	16
Boris Said Thomas Becker	1:17.34	13	1:17.23	15	1:16.66	21	1:17.71	20	5:08.94	19
Jim Hickey Jim Bridges Howard Siler Thomas Becker	align=left rowspan=2	Four-man
Boris Said James Copley Ken Morris Phil Duprey	1:12.31	13	1:12.34	7	1:11.80	14	1:11.98	12	4:48.43	14

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Tim Caldwell	align=left rowspan=4	15 km	51:17.92	54
Everett Dunklee	49:52.20	44
Larry Martin	53:13.91	58
Ronny Yeager	51:36.54	55
Mike Elliott	align=left rowspan=4	30 km	1:43:15.03	26
Mike Gallagher	1:43:39.41	30
Bob Gray	1:46:38.31	42
Clark Matis	1:52:18.52	53
Everett Dunklee	align=left rowspan=4	50 km	2:56:42.49	27
Bob Gray	3:01:15.37	33
Joe McNulty
Gene Morgan	2:54:01.52	24
Tim Caldwell Mike Elliott Mike Gallagher Larry Martin	4 × 10 km relay	2:14:37.28	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Barbara Britch	align=left rowspan=4	5 km	18:18.37	31
Margie Mahoney	19:15.13	39
Alison Owen-Spencer	18:54.76	36
Martha Rockwell	17:50.34	18
Trina Hosmer	align=left rowspan=4	10 km	40:40.56	41
Margie Mahoney	39:27.95	36
Alison Owen-Spencer	38:50.05	35
Martha Rockwell	36:34.22	16
Barbara Britch Alison Owen-Spencer Martha Rockwell	3 × 5 km relay	53:38.60	11

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Individual

Athlete	Event			Total
		Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Gordon McKellen	align=left rowspan=3	Men's singles	10	9	2511.0	89	10
John Misha Petkevich	6	2	2591.5	47	5
Kenneth Shelley	5	3	2596.0	43	4
Julie Lynn Holmes	align=left rowspan=3	Ladies' singles	2	8	2627.0	39	4
Janet Lynn	4	1	2663.1	27
Suna Murray	13	9	2426.2	102	12

Mixed

Athlete	Event			Total
		Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Barbara Brown Douglas Berndt	align=left rowspan=3	Pairs	12	13	366.9	114	12
Melissa Militano Mark Militano	8	7	393.0	65.5	7
JoJo Starbuck Kenneth Shelley	4	4	406.8	35	4

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Summary

Roster

• Mike Curran

• Peter 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

First Round
Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.

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Medal round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1		5	4	0	1	33	13	9
2		5	3	2	0	18	15	6
3		5	3	2	0	26	13	6
4		5	2	2	1	17	13	5
5		5	2	3	0	14	24	4
6		5	0	5	0	9	39	0

• Sweden 5-1 USA
• USA 5-1 Czechoslovakia
• USSR 7-2 USA
• USA 4-1 Finland
• USA 6-1 Poland

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ralph Havens	align=left rowspan=4	Singles	55.17	30	54.84	28	54.31	32	54.00	32	3:38.32	32
James Murray	55.31	33	55.22	34	53.94	27	53.46	23	3:37.93	28
Terry O'Brien	55.41	34	55.21	32	54.02	28	53.64	26	3:38.24	31
Bob Rock	55.98	38	55.25	35	53.85	26	1:13.96	44	3:59.04	44
Robert Berkley Richard Cavanaugh	align=left rowspan=2	Doubles	46.58	17	46.59	17	1:33.17	17
Jack Elder Frank Jones	46.48	16	46.11	14	1:32.59	15

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Peggy Frair	align=left rowspan=2	Singles
Kathleen Ann Roberts-Homstad	47.68	19	46.64	15	46.17	14	45.49	12	3:05.98	15

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Jump 1	Jump 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Mike Devecka	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	77.6	79.5	157.1	27	50:00.0	205.735	6	362.835	21
Bob Kendall	67.9	71.1	139.0	38	54:34.0	164.635	38	303.635	39
Jim Miller	80.8	58.9	139.7	37	51:09.9	195.250	17	334.950	34
Teyck Weed	66.5	63.3	129.8	40	52:26.2	183.805	29	313.605	38

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Scott Berry	align=left rowspan=4	Normal hill	67.5	87.7	66.0	84.3	172.0	52
Jerry Martin	76.0	105.3	69.5	91.9	197.2	34
Ron Steele	75.0	99.2	71.5	93.1	192.3	41
Greg Swor	70.5	93.0	67.0	86.4	179.4	50
Scott Berry	align=left rowspan=4	Large hill	79.0	76.1	81.5	75.6	151.7	47
Jerry Martin	89.0	89.1	77.5	74.0	163.1	36
Ron Steele	86.5	86.6	89.0	91.1	177.7	25
Greg Swor	80.5	77.2	91.5	95.6	172.8	30

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Neil Blatchford	align=left rowspan=4	500 m	40.67	15
Pete Eberling	40.58	11
Greg Lyman	41.30	20
John Wurster
Dan Carroll	align=left rowspan=4	1500 m	2:07.24	7
Gary Jonland	2:09.55	14
Clark King	2:14.83	30
Bill Lanigan	2:12.31	25
Dan Carroll	align=left rowspan=3	5000 m	7:44.72	10
Charles Gilmore	8:03.04	20
Clark King	8:07.20	21
Dan Carroll	align=left rowspan=2	10,000 m	15:44.41	9
Clark King	16:39.82	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Anne Henning	align=left rowspan=3	500 m	43.33
Kay Lunda	44.95	7
Sheila Young	44.53	4
Anne Henning	align=left rowspan=3	1000 m	1:31.62
Dianne Holum	1:32.41	6
Sheila Young	1:34.97	17
Connie Carpenter-Phinney	align=left rowspan=3	1500 m	2:23.93	7
Dianne Holum	2:20.85
Leah Poulos	2:31.29	24
Dianne Holum	align=left rowspan=3	3000 m	4:58.67
Jeanne Omelenchuk	5:32.87	22
Leah Poulos	5:17.38	17

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2009-06-22.
• Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com