Swimming at the IV Paralympic Games
Paralympic Swimming

Swimming at the 1972 Summer Paralympics consisted of 56 events, 28 for men and 28 for women.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	11	10	6	27
2	Poland (POL)	11	10	2	23
3	South Africa (RSA)	8	3	7	18
4	France (FRA)	5	1	1	7
5	Israel (ISR)	4	3	2	9
6	Sweden (SWE)	4	1	3	8
7	Jamaica (JAM)	3	2	3	8
8	Rhodesia (RHO)	2	4	3	9
9	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	5	10
10	Australia (AUS)	1	3	5	9
	United States (USA)	1	3	5	9
12	West Germany (FRG)	1	3	4	8
13	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
14	India (IND)	1	0	0	1
	Kenya (KEN)	1	0	0	1
16	Spain (ESP)	0	4	0	4
17	Norway (NOR)	0	3	1	4
18	Finland (FIN)	0	2	1	3
19	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		56	55	52	163

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m freestyle 1A	Claude Raffin  France	Alan West  Great Britain	None
25 m freestyle 1B	Daniel Jeannin  France	Robert Ockvirk  United States	David Holland  Rhodesia
25 m freestyle 2	John Britton  Kenya	Mohamed Benamar  France	Gerrit Pomp  Netherlands
50 m freestyle 3	Murlikant Petkar  India	Andrzej Seremak  Poland	Olbrich  West Germany
50 m freestyle 4	M. Vanderriet  South Africa	Beltrand de Five Pranger  Spain	Foust  United States
100 m freestyle 5	Bosch  South Africa	Arieh Rubin  Israel	Robert Morrison  Australia
100 m freestyle 6	Harry Lamberts  Netherlands	Francisco Benítez  Spain	Zenon Sokol  Poland
25 m backstroke 1A	Alan West  Great Britain	Matti Launonen  Finland	Hans Lubbering  West Germany
25 m backstroke 1B	Daniel Jeannin  France	Robert Ockvirk  United States	Patrick Reid  Jamaica
25 m backstroke 2	Eric Boulter  Australia	Gerrit Pomp  Netherlands	Risto Liuska  Finland
50 m backstroke 3	Shlomo Finkelstein  Israel	Andrzej Seremak  Poland	Richard Bates  Great Britain
50 m backstroke 4	Stanislaw Mosurek  Poland	Andrew James Scott  Rhodesia	Moshe Levy  Israel
100 m backstroke 5	Ryszard Machowczyk  Poland	Bosch  South Africa	Kevin English  Rhodesia
100 m backstroke 6	Nilsson  Sweden	Francisco Benítez  Spain	George Simpson  Great Britain
25 m breaststroke 1A	Claude Raffin  France	Alan West  Great Britain	None
25 m breaststroke 1B	Patrick Reid  Jamaica	Robert Ockvirk  United States	R. Rosenbaum  United States
25 m breaststroke 2	David Ellis  Great Britain	Risto Liuska  Finland	Gerrit Pomp  Netherlands
50 m breaststroke 3	Andrzej Seremak  Poland	William Thornton  Great Britain	Griggs  United States
50 m breaststroke 4	M. Vanderriet  South Africa	Harald Gunnerup  Norway	Andrew James Scott  Rhodesia
100 m breaststroke 5	Arieh Rubin  Israel	Ryszard Machowczyk  Poland	Mieczyslaw Sobczak  Poland
100 m breaststroke 6	Zenon Sokol  Poland	Harry Lamberts  Netherlands	George Simpson  Great Britain
75 m individual medley 2	Wasnock  Canada	Eric Boulter  Australia	None
75 m individual medley 3	Shlomo Finkelstein  Israel	Olbrich  West Germany	W. Thornton  Great Britain
75 m individual medley 4	Andrew James Scott  Rhodesia	Beltrand de Five Pranger  Spain	M. Vanderriet  South Africa
150 m individual medley 5	Ryszard Machowczyk  Poland	Arieh Rubin  Israel	Robert Morrison  Australia
150 m individual medley 6	Nilsson  Sweden	Harry Lamberts  Netherlands	Alcock  South Africa
3×50 m medley relay 2-4	Israel (ISR)[1] Moshe Levy Joseph Wengier Moshe Mousai	Poland (POL) Stanisław Mosurek Andrzej Seremak Mirosław Deręgowski	United States (USA)
3×100 m medley relay 5-6	Poland (POL) Ryszard Machowczyk Zenon Sokół Mieczysław Sobczak	South Africa (RSA)	Sweden (SWE)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m freestyle 1A	Sandra James  Rhodesia	None	None
25 m freestyle 1B	Delphine van Opdorp-Ariens Kappers  Netherlands	Eileen Robertson  Rhodesia	Tina Morgan  New Zealand
25 m freestyle 2	Schyff  South Africa	Pam Foley  Australia	Sharon Myers  United States
50 m freestyle 3	Anna Pogorzelska  Poland	Netty van der Krieke  Netherlands	M. Schaefer  South Africa
50 m freestyle 4	Alina Wojtowicz  Poland	Bente Gronli  Norway	Pauline English  Australia
100 m freestyle 5	Grazyna Haffke  Poland	Mary Kuivenhoven  Netherlands	Rachel Tassa  Israel
100 m freestyle 6	Ingrid van der Benden  Netherlands	Barbara Kopycka  Poland	Louw  South Africa
25 m backstroke 1A	Karen Donaldson  United States	Mayerhofer  West Germany	Demerakas  Canada
25 m backstroke 1B	Tournier  France	Liebrecht  West Germany	Delphine van Opdorp-Ariens Kappers  Netherlands
25 m backstroke 2	Henny Hilberink  Netherlands	Quirien Jonker  Netherlands	D. Weber  West Germany
50 m backstroke 3	Anna Pogorzelska  Poland	Netty van der Krieke  Netherlands	Nella McPherson  Jamaica
50 m backstroke 4	Le Roux  South Africa	M. Tufuesson  Sweden	Bente Gronli  Norway
100 m backstroke 5	Marijke Ruiter  Netherlands	Grazyna Haffke  Poland	de Baker  Netherlands
100 m backstroke 6	Barbara Kopycka  Poland	Leone Williams  Jamaica	Kerstin Wiksén  Sweden
25 m breaststroke 1A	Mayerhofer  West Germany	Sandra James  Rhodesia	Richetti  Argentina
25 m breaststroke 1B	Delphine van Opdorp-Ariens Kappers  Netherlands	Eileen Robertson  Rhodesia	White  Ireland
25 m breaststroke 2	Schyff  South Africa	Mullings  Jamaica	D. Weber  West Germany
50 m breaststroke 3	Nella McPherson  Jamaica	Anna Pogorzelska  Poland	M. Schaefer  South Africa
50 m breaststroke 4	M. Tufuesson  Sweden	Ora Goldstein  Israel	Sonja Graveland  Netherlands
100 m breaststroke 5	Marijke Ruiter  Netherlands	Mary Kuivenhoven  Netherlands	Galeon  France
100 m breaststroke 6	Ingrid van der Benden  Netherlands	Louw  South Africa	Kerstin Wiksén  Sweden
75 m individual medley 2	Schyff  South Africa	Pam Foley  Australia	Mullings  Jamaica
75 m individual medley 3	Nella McPherson  Jamaica	Netty van der Krieke  Netherlands	Dukelow  Great Britain
75 m individual medley 4	M. Tufuesson  Sweden	Bente Gronli  Norway	Pauline English  Australia
150 m individual medley 5	Marijke Ruiter  Netherlands	Grazyna Haffke  Poland	Mary Kuivenhoven  Netherlands
150 m individual medley 6	Ingrid van der Benden  Netherlands	Barbara Kopycka  Poland	Louw  South Africa
3×50 m medley relay 2-4	South Africa (RSA)	Netherlands (NED) Quirien Jonker Sonja Graveland Netty van der Krieke	Australia (AUS)
3×100 m medley relay 5-6	Netherlands (NED) Mary Kuivenhoven Ingrid van der Benden Marijke Ruiter	Poland (POL)	South Africa (RSA)

References

External links

• Swimming at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (Heidelberg) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)