Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Poland
games=1972 Summer
competitors=
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gold=7
silver=5
bronze=9
total=21
rank=7

Poland competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Medalists

Gold

* Wladyslaw Komar - Athletics, Men's Shot Put
* Jan Szczepański - Boxing, Men's Flyweight
* Witold Woyda - Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
* Marek Dąbrowski, Jerzy Kaczmarek, Lech Koziejowski, Witold Woyda, and Arkadiusz Godel - Fencing, Men's Foil Team
* Anczok, Ćmikiewicz, Deyna, Gadocha, Gorgoń, Gut, Jarosik, Kmiecik, Kostka, Kraska, Lato, Lubański, Marx, Maszczyk, Ostafiński, Szeja, Szołtysik, Szymanowski, and Szymczak - Football, Men's Team Competition
* Jozef Zapędzki - Shooting, 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (60 shots)
* Zygmunt Smalcerz - Weightlifting, Men's Flyweight

Silver

* Irena Szydłowska - Archery, Women's Individual Competition
* Wieslaw Rudkowski - Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
* Lucjan Lis, Edward Barcik, Stanisław Szozda, and Ryszard Szurkowski　- Cycling, Men's Road Team Time Trial
* Antoni Zajkowski - Judo, Men's Half-Middleweight
* Norbert Ozimek - Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight

Bronze

* Irena Szewińska - Athletics, Women's 200m
* Ryszard Katus - Athletics, Men's Decathlon
* Leszek Błażyński - Boxing, Men's Flyweight
* Janusz Gortat - Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
* Władysław Szuszkiewicz and Rafal Maciej Piszcz - Canoe, Men's Kayak Flatwater K-2 1.000m
* Andrzej Bek, and Benedykt Kocot - Cycling Track, Men's 2.000m Tandem
* Zbigniew Kaczmarek - Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
* Kazimierz Lipień - Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Featherweight
* Czesław Kwieciński - Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Light-Heavyweight

Results by event

=Archery=

In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Poland entered one man and three women. They took home a silver medal in the women's competition.

Women's:
* Irena Szydlowska - 2407 points (silver medal)
* Maria Maczynska - 2371 points (6th place)
* Jad Szoszler-Wilejto - 2297 points (18th place)

Men's:
* Tomasz Lezanski - 2237 points (46th place)

=Athletics=

Men's 100 metres
*Tadeusz Cuch:* First Heat — 10.89s (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres
*Andrzej Kupczyk:* Heat — 1:48.5:* Semifinals — 1:46.7:* Final — 1:47.1 (→ 7th place)

Men's 1500 metres
*Henryk Szordykowski:* Heat — 3:44.2:* Semifinals — 3:42.5 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres
*Bron Malinowski:* Heat — 13:48.2 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x100m Relay
*Stanislaw Wagner, Tadeusz Cuch, Jerzy Czerbniak, and Zenon Nowosz:* Heat — 39.11s :* Semifinals — 38.90s:* Final — 39.03s (→ 6th place)

Men's High Jump
*Boguslaw Bialek:* Qualification Round — NM (→ did not advance)

=Basketball=

Men's Team Competition
* Poland - 10th place
* Preliminary round - (2-5)
* Semi–Final - defeated Spain (87 - 76)
* Final - lost to Australia (83 -91)
* Roster - Ryszard Bialowas, Janusz Ceglinski, Jan Dolczewski, Eugeniusz Durejko, Andrzej Kasprzak, Grzegorz Korcz, Waldemar Kozak, Piotr Langosz, Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Franciszek Niemiec, Andrzej Pasiorowski, and Andrzej Seweryn

=Boxing=

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)
*Roman Rożek :* First Round — Lost to Lee Suk-Un (KOR), 0:5

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
* Józef Reszpondek :* First Round — Lost to Aldo Cosentino (FRA), 0:5

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
*Wiesław Rudkowski → Silver Medal:* First Round — Bye:* Second Round — Defeated Antonio Castellini (ITA), 5:0 :* Third Round — Defeated Nayden Stanchev (BUL), 5:0 :* Quarterfinals — Defeated Rolando Garbey (CUB), 4:1:* Semifinals — Defeated Peter Tiepold (GDR), 4:1 :* Final — Lost to Dieter Kottysch (FRG), 2:3

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)
* Ludwik Denderys:* First Round — Lost to Teófilo Stevenson (CUB), TKO-1

=Cycling=

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race
* Ryszard Szurkowski — 31st place
* Lucjan Lis — 36th place
* Stanislaw Szozda — 76th and last place
* Jan Smyrak — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial
*Janusz Kierzkowski:* Final — 1:07.22 (→ 5th place)

Men's Tandem
* Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot — Bronze Medal

=Football=

Men's Team Competition

* Poland - gold medal
* First round: 3-0-0
* Second round: 2-1-0
* Gold medal match: defeated Hungary, 1-0

=Handball=

Poland tied Sweden and defeated Denmark but lost to the Soviet Union in the first round to finish in third place in the division. This put the team into the ninth- to twelfth-place consolation round, where they defeated Iceland to set up a match with Norway for ninth and tenth places. Poland lost this match.

Men's:
* Poland - 10th place (2-2-1)
* Roster - Zdzisław Antczak, Zbigniew Dybol, Franciszek Gąsior, Jan Gmyrek, Bogdan Kowalczyk, Zygfryd Kuchta, Andrzej Lech, Jerzy Melcer, Helmut Pniocinski, Wladyslaw Popielarski, Hendryk Rozmiarek, Andrzej Sokołowski, Engelbert Szolc, Andrzej Szymczak, Wlodzimierz Wachowicz, and Robert Zawada

=Hockey=

Men's team competition

*Preliminary Round (Group B):* Defeated Kenya (1-0):* Lost to The Netherlands (2-4):* Defeated Mexico (3-0):* Drew with India (2-2):* Drew with New Zealand (3-3):* Lost to Australia (0-1):* Lost to Great Britain (1-2)
*Semi Final Round:* Lost to Australia (1-2)
*Classification Match:* 11th/12th place: Defeated France (7-4) after extra time → 11th place
* Team Roster:* Jerzy Choroba:* Aleksander Ciazynski:* Boleslaw Czainski:* Jerzy Czajka:* Henryk Grotowski:* Stanislaw Iskrzynski:* Zbigniew Juszczak:* Stanislaw Kasprzyk:* Stanislaw Kazmierczak:* Marek Krus:* Zbigniew Loj:* Wlodzimierz Matuszynski:* Stefan Otulakowski:* Ryszard Twardowski:* Stanislaw Wegnerski:* Aleksander Wrona:* Józef Wybieralski:* Witold Ziaja

=Modern pentathlon=

Men's Individual Competition:
* Ryszard Wach — 4958 points (→ 13th place)
* Janusz Pyciak-Peciak — 4832 points (→ 21st place)
* Stanislaw Skwira — 4495 points (→ 40th place)

Men's Team Competition:
* Wach, Pyciak-Peciak, and Skwira — 14285 points (→ 9th place)

Alternate Member:
* Krysztof Trybusiewicz

=Rowing=

Men's Coxed Pairs
*Wojciech Repsz, Wieslaw Dlugosz and Jacek Rylski:*Heat — 7:57.23:*Repechage — 8:10.87:*Semi Finals — 8:20.69:*Final — 7:28.92 (→ 6th place)

=Swimming=

Men's 100m Freestyle
*Zbigniew Pacelt:* Heat — 55.97s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle
*Zbigniew Pacelt:* Heat — 2:01.28 (→ did not advance)

=Volleyball=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A):* Lost to Czechoslovakia (0-3):* Defeated Tunisia (3-0):* Lost to South Korea (1-3):* Lost to Bulgaria (2-3):* Lost to Soviet Union (2-3)
*Classification Match:* 9th/10th place: Defeated Cuba (3-0) → Ninth place
*Team Roster