1972 Olympics

At the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Sapporo, Japan, one ice hockey event was held: men's ice hockey. Games were held at the Makomanai Ice Arena and at the Tsukisamu Indoor Skating Rink.

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Soviet Union Vladislav Tretiak Alexander Pashkov Vitaly Davydov Viktor Kuzkin Alexander Ragulin Gennadiy Tsygankov Vladimir Lutchenko Valeri Vasiliev Igor Romishevsky Yevgeny Mishakov Alexander Maltsev Alexander Yakushev Vladimir Vikulov Anatoli Firsov Valeri Kharlamov Yury Blinov Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Vladimir Shadrin Yevgeny Zimin	United States of America Mike Curran Pete Sears Wally Olds Tom Mellor Frank Sanders Jim McElmury Charles Brown Dick McGlynn Ron Naslund Robbie Ftorek Stu Irving Kevin Ahearn Henry Boucha Craig Sarner Timothy Sheehy Keith Christiansen Mark Howe	Czechoslovakia Vladimír Dzurilla Jiří Holeček Vladimír Bednář Rudolf Tacjnár 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

Qualification matches

Winners (in bold) as well as the gold medalist at the previous Olympics (USSR) qualify for the Group A to play for 1st-6th places. Other teams played in Group B for 7th-11th places.

• February 3
  • Japan 2-8 Czechoslovakia
  • Sweden 8-1 Yugoslavia

• February 4
  • USA 5-3 Switzerland
  • Poland 4-0 West Germany
  • Finland 13-1 Norway

Group A

First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	5	4	0	1	33	13	9
2	United States of America	5	3	2	0	18	15	6
3	Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	26	13	6
4	Sweden	5	2	2	1	17	13	5
5	Finland	5	2	3	0	14	24	4
6	Poland	5	0	5	0	9	39	0

• February 5
  • Sweden 5-1 USA
  • Czechoslovakia 14-1 Poland
  • USSR 9-3 Finland

• February 7
  • USSR 3-3 Sweden
  • USA 5-1 Czechoslovakia
  • Finland 5-1 Poland

• February 8
  • Czechoslovakia 7-1 Finland

• February 9
  • Sweden 5-3 Poland
  • USSR 7-2 USA

• February 10
  • USSR 9-3 Poland
  • Czechoslovakia 2-1 Sweden
  • USA 4-1 Finland

• February 12
  • USA 6-1 Poland

• February 13
  • Finland 4-3 Sweden
  • USSR 5-2 Czechoslovakia

Group B

Teams, which lost their games in the qualification round, played in this group.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
7	Federal Republic of Germany	4	3	1	0	22	10	6
8	Norway	4	3	1	0	16	14	6
9	Japan	4	2	1	1	17	16	5
10	Switzerland	4	0	2	2	9	16	2
11	Yugoslavia	4	0	3	1	9	17	1

• February 6
  • Norway 5-2 Yugoslavia
  • West Germany 5-0 Switzerland

• February 7
  • Japan 3-3 Switzerland
  • West Germany 6-2 Yugoslavia

• February 9
  • Japan 3-2 Yugoslavia
  • West Germany 5-1 Norway

• February 10
  • Japan 4-5 Norway
  • Switzerland 3-3 Yugoslavia

• February 12
  • Japan 7-6 West Germany
  • Norway 5-3 Switzerland

1972 Olympics leading scorer Valeri Kharlamov

Leading scorers

Player	GP	G	A	Pts
Valeri Kharlamov ()	5	9	6	15
Václav Nedomanský ()	5	6	3	9
Vladimir Vikulov ()	5	5	4	9
Craig Sarner ()	5	4	5	9
Aleksandr Maltsev ()	5	4	3	7
Kevin Ahearn ()	5	4	3	7
Anatoli Firsov ()	5	2	5	7
Yury Blinov()	5	3	3	6
Jiří Kochta ()	5	3	3	6
Richard Farda ()	5	1	5	6

Final Ranking

1. USSR
2. United States
3. Czechoslovakia
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. Poland
7. West Germany
8. Norway
9. Japan
10. Switzerland
11. Yugoslavia

Team Photos

United States

See Also

• 1972 Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team
• 1972 Finland national ice hockey team
• 1972 Japan national ice hockey team
• 1972 Norway national ice hockey team
• 1972 Poland national ice hockey team
• 1972 Soviet Union national ice hockey team
• 1972 Sweden national ice hockey team
• 1972 Switzerland national ice hockey team
• 1972 United States national ice hockey team
• 1972 West Germany national ice hockey team
• 1972 Yugoslavia national ice hockey team

References

• Jeux Olympiques 1972