Olympics History Timeline 1971 - 1980 |
| Year | Venue and Date | Medal count | Records | Nations participating | Athletes participating | No. of Events | News | Main Events |
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| 1971 | 
Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre And Israel's Deadly Response 
LIFE® - Olga Korbut on Balance Beam during Summer Olympics, 1972 Photographic Print Dominis, John Buy at AllPosters.com |
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| 1972 | Munich, West Germany August 26 - September 11 |
USSR finished in first position in the final medal rankings,
with 50gold medals and 99 medals overall United States finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 33 gold medals and 94 medals overall |
Mark Spitz, a swimmer from the United States, set a world
record when he won seven gold medals (while on the way to setting a new
world record for each of his seven gold medals) in a single Olympics Dave Wottle won the AAU 800m title before equalling the world record over 800m of 1:44.3 at the US Olympic Trials. In the Olympic 800m final, Wottle immediately dropped to the rear of the field, and stayed there for the first 600m, at which point he started to pass runner after runner up the final straightaway, finally grabbing the lead in the final metres to win by just 0.03 seconds |
121 | 7124 | 195 in 23 sports | The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. | Australian swimmer Shane Gould won three gold medals and two silvers at the age of 15. |
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| 1976 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 17 - August 1 |
USSR finished in first position in the final medal rankings,
with 49 gold medals and 125 medals overall East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 40 gold medals and 90 medals overall |
92 | 6028 | 198 in 21 sports | The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci of Romania scored seven perfect
10s and won three gold medals, including the prestigious All Around. The
score board could only hold 3 digits and the score was shown as 1:00. In
women's gymnastics three gold medals were also been won by Nellie Kim of
USSR. Nikolai Andrianov of USSR won four gold medals, including All Around,
in men's gymnastics. Alberto Juantorena of Cuba became the first man to win both the 400 m and 800 m at the same Olympics. Finland's Lasse Virιn also achieved a double in the 5000 and 10,000 m and finished 5th in the marathon, thereby failing to equal Emil Zαtopek's 1952 achievements. |
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| 1979 | 
Jim Craig Autographed With the American Flag in the 1980 Olympics 16 x 20 Photograph (Unframed) |
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| 1980 | Moscow, U.S.S.R. July 19 - August 3 |
USSR finished in first position in the final medal rankings, with 80 gold medals and 195 medals overall East Germany finished in second position in the final medal rankings, with 47 gold medals and 126 medals overall |
80 | 5,217 | 203 in 21 sports | The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union. Another candidate in the bid to organize the Olympics was Los Angeles | Women's field hockey was an Olympic sport for the first
time. Six countries competed: Austria, India, Poland, Czechoslovakia, USSR,
Zimbabwe. The gold medal was won by the team of Zimbabwe. |
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