US swimmer Mark Spitz won an incredible seven gold medals and broke seven world records. Yet the media star of the Munich Games was the tiny Soviet ...
Leading up to the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, Wottle won the ...
The biggest surprise of the Games was the victory of 21-year-old "Paquito" Fernandez Ochoa, who won the slalom by a full second. His gold medal was the first ...
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only; Q = Qualified
Wottle then won the 800 meters at the 1972 U.S. Olympic trials with a world
The event was won by Dave Wottle of the United States, the first title in the event for an American since 1956 and the eighth overall win in the men's 800 metres for ...
Your 1972 victory helped trigger the running boom in the US. If an American were to win gold medal in the 2008 Olympic marathon – I'm not ...
At the US Olympic Trials in 1972, both Hart and Rey Robinson repeated the world record, running the 100 m in 9.9 seconds, and were favored to win the race at ...
the decathlon — and then jogged around the track one more time for a victory lap.
Munich won its Olympic bid on April 26, 1966, at the 64th IOC Session at Rome,