Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint

Men's cycling sprint at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Munich, West Germany
Date	1-2 September 1972
Competitors	51 from 30 nations
Medalists
Daniel Morelon  France John Nicholson  Australia Omar Pkhakadze  Soviet Union

Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race	men
Team time trial	men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit	men
Team pursuit	men
Sprint	men
1000 m time trial	men
Tandem	men

These are the official results of the Men's Sprint at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, held on 1 to 2 September 1972. There were 51 participants from 30 nations.^[1]

Final classification

Rank	Name	Nationality
	Daniel Morelon	France
	John Nicholson	Australia
	Omar Pkhakadze	Soviet Union
4	Klaas Balk	Netherlands
5	Niels Fredborg	Denmark
	Jürgen Geschke	East Germany
	Massimo Marino	Italy
	Peter van Doorn	Netherlands
9	Karl Köther	West Germany
	Vladimír Vačkář	Czechoslovakia
	Ivan Kučírek	Czechoslovakia
	Robert Maveau	Belgium
	Leslie King	Trinidad and Tobago
	Peder Pedersen	Denmark
	Gérard Quintyn	France
	Ezio Cardi	Italy
	Serhiy Kravtsov	Soviet Union
	Andrzej Bek	Poland
	Jeffrey Spencer	United States
	Benedykt Kocot	Poland
	Roger Young	United States
	Dieter Berkmann	West Germany
	Honson Chin	Jamaica
	Ernie Crutchlow	Great Britain
	Yoshikazu Cho	Japan
	Carlos Reybaud	Argentina
	Neville Hunte	Guyana
	Ed McRae	Canada
	Geoff Cooke	Great Britain
	Hector Edwards	Barbados
	Werner Otto	East Germany
	Taworn Tarwan	Thailand
	Félix Suárez	Spain
	Jairo Díaz	Colombia
	Kensley Reece	Barbados
	Maurice Hugh-Sam	Jamaica
	Yaichi Numata	Japan
	Arturo Cambroni	Mexico
	Geoffery Burnside	Bahamas
	Carlos Galeano	Colombia
	Suriya Chiarasapawong	Thailand
	Shue Ming-fa	Chinese Taipei
	Winston Attong	Trinidad and Tobago
	Daud Ibrahim	Malaysia
	Manu Snellinx	Belgium
	Víctor Limba	Argentina
DNS	Ahmed Abdussal Gariani[2]	Lebanon
	Mabruk Ilmarimi Mah[2]	Lebanon
	Behrouz Rahbar[2]	Iran
	Gholamhosain Koohi[2]	Iran
	Harry Kent[2]	New Zealand

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