View source for Czechoslovakia at the 1972 Winter Olympics

{{infobox country at games
| NOC = TCH
| NOCname = [[Czech Olympic Committee|Czechoslovak Olympic Committee]]
| games = Winter Olympics
| year = 1972
| flagcaption = 
| oldcode = 
| website = 
| location = [[Sapporo]]
| competitors = 41 (37 men, 4 women)
| sports = 6
| flagbearer = [[Jiří Raška]] (ski jumping)
| rank = 12
| gold = 1
| silver = 0
| bronze = 2
| officials = 
| appearances = auto
| app_begin_year = 
| app_end_year = 1992
| summerappearances = 
| winterappearances = 
| seealso = {{flagIOC|BOH}} (1900–1912)<br/>{{flagIOC|CZE}} (1994–)<br/>{{flagIOC|SVK}} (1994–)
}}

'''[[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]]''' competed at the '''[[1972 Winter Olympics]]''' in [[Sapporo]], [[Japan]]. [[Ondrej Nepela]] won [[figure skating]] gold medal.

==Medalists==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!Medal
!Name
!Sport
!Event
|-
| {{gold medal}} || {{sortname|Ondrej|Nepela}} || [[Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics|Figure skating]] ||Men's singles
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || {{sortname|Helena|Šikolová}} || [[Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics|Cross-country skiing]] ||Women's 5&nbsp;km
|-
| {{bronze medal}} || [[Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team]]<br/>{{columns-list|colwidth=10em|small=yes|style=width:32em|{{ubl|[[Vladimír Dzurilla]]|[[Jiří Holeček]]|[[Vladimír Bednář]]|[[Rudolf Tajcnár]]|[[Oldřich Machač]]|[[František Pospíšil]]|[[Josef Horešovský]]|[[Karel Vohralík]]|[[Václav Nedomanský]]|[[Jiří Holík]]|[[Jaroslav Holík]]|[[Jiří Kochta]]|[[Eduard Novák]]|[[Richard Farda]]|[[Josef Černý]]|[[Vladimír Martinec]]|[[Ivan Hlinka]]|[[Bohuslav Šťastný]]}}}}
|| [[Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics|Ice hockey]] || [[Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics|Men's competition]]
|}

== Biathlon==
{{main|Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

;Men
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!Event
!Athlete
!Time
!Penalties
!Adjusted time <sup>1</sup>
!Rank
|-
|rowspan="4"|20&nbsp;km
|[[Pavel Ploc (biathlete)|Pavel Ploc]]
|align="center"|1'18:38.79
|align="center"|11
|align="center"|1'29:38.79
|align="center"|47
|-
|[[Stanislav Fajstavr]]
|align="center"|1'19:53.33
|align="center"|9
|align="center"|1'28:53.33
|align="center"|44
|-
|[[Arnošt Hájek]]
|align="center"|1'19:22.37
|align="center"|9
|align="center"|1'28:22.37
|align="center"|39
|-
|[[Ladislav Žižka]]
|align="center"|1'16:36.81
|align="center"|11
|align="center"|1'27:36.81
|align="center"|36
|}
{{ref begin}}
: <sup>1</sup> One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.
{{ref end}}
;Men's 4 x 7.5&nbsp;km relay
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan=2|Athletes
!colspan=3|Race
|-
!Misses <sup>2</sup>
!Time
!Rank
|-
|[[Ladislav Žižka]]<br />[[Pavel Ploc (biathlete)|Pavel Ploc]]<br />[[Ján Húska]]<br />[[Arnošt Hájek]]
|align=center|3
|align=center|2'03:08.17
|align=center|12
|}
{{ref begin}}
: <sup>2</sup> A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.
{{ref end}}

==Cross-country skiing==
{{main|Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

;Men
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan=2|Event
!rowspan=2|Athlete
!colspan=2|Race
|-
!Time
!Rank
|-
|rowspan=3|15&nbsp;km
|[[Ján Michalko]]
|align=center|48:31.64
|align=center|30
|-
|[[Ján Fajstavr]]
|align=center|48:18.22
|align=center|29
|-
|[[Stanislav Henych]]
|align=center|47:25.81
|align=center|21
|-
|rowspan=3|30&nbsp;km
|[[Ján Michalko]]
|align=center|1'46:19.36
|align=center|40
|-
|[[Ján Fajstavr]]
|align=center|1'44:49.45
|align=center|34
|-
|[[Stanislav Henych]]
|align=center|1'39:24.29
|align=center|9
|-
|rowspan=2|50&nbsp;km
|[[Ján Michalko]]
|align=center|2'58:31.83
|align=center|30
|-
|[[Ján Fajstavr]]
|align=center|2'51:12.92
|align=center|19
|}

;Men's 4 × 10&nbsp;km relay
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan=2|Athletes
!colspan=2|Race
|-
!Time
!Rank
|-
|[[Stanislav Henych]]<br />[[Ján Fajstavr]]<br />[[Ján Michalko]]<br />[[Ján Ilavský]]
|align=center|2'11:27.55
|align=center|8
|}

;Women
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan=2|Event
!rowspan=2|Athlete
!colspan=2|Race
|-
!Time
!Rank
|-
|rowspan=4|5&nbsp;km
|[[Milena Chlumová]]
|align=center|18:12.22
|align=center|27
|-
|[[Milena Cillerová]]
|align=center|17:56.22
|align=center|22
|-
|[[Alena Bartošová]]
|align=center|17:47.25
|align=center|16
|-
|[[Helena Šikolová]]
|align=center|17:07.32
|align=center|{{bronze03}}
|-
|rowspan=4|10&nbsp;km
|[[Milena Cillerová]]
|align=center|37:40.70
|align=center|30
|-
|[[Alena Bartošová]]
|align=center|37:01.73
|align=center|27
|-
|[[Milena Chlumová]]
|align=center|36:59.87
|align=center|26
|-
|[[Helena Šikolová]]
|align=center|35:29.33
|align=center|7
|}

;Women's 3 × 5&nbsp;km relay
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan=2|Athletes
!colspan=2|Race
|-
!Time
!Rank
|-
|[[Alena Bartošová]]<br />[[Helena Šikolová]]<br />[[Milena Cillerová]]
|align=center|51:16.16
|align=center|6
|}

==Figure skating==
{{main|Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

;Men
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!Athlete
!CF
!FS
!Points
!Places
!Rank
|- align=center
|align=left| [[Ondrej Nepela]]
|1
|4
|2739.1
|9
|{{gold01}}
|}

==Ice hockey==
{{main|Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

===First round===
Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.

{{OneLegStart}}
{{OneLegResult|{{ih|JPN}}|| 2–8 |'''{{ih|TCH}}'''}}
|}

===Medal round===
{| border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Rank
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="150"|Team
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pld
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|W
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|L
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|T
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GF
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GA
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pts
|- align=center
|'''1'''
|align=left|{{ih|URS}}
|5||4||0||1||33||13||'''9'''
|- align=center
|'''2'''
|align=left|{{ih|USA}}
|5||3||2||0||18||15||'''6'''
|- align=center bgcolor="#cc9966"
|'''3'''
|align=left|{{ih|TCH}} {{bronze03}}
|5||3||2||0||26||13||'''6'''
|- align=center
|'''4'''
|align=left|{{ih|SWE}}
|5||2||2||1||17||13||'''5'''
|- align=center
|'''5'''
|align=left|{{ih|FIN}}
|5||2||3||0||14||24||'''4'''
|- align=center
|'''6'''
|align=left|{{ih|POL}}
|5||0||5||0||9||39||'''0'''
|}
*Czechoslovakia 14-1 Poland
*USA 5-1 Czechoslovakia
*Czechoslovakia 7-1 Finland
*Czechoslovakia 2-1 Sweden
*USSR 5-2 Czechoslovakia

===Leading scorers===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; padding: 3px; border-spacing: 0; border: 0;"
! style="width: 14em;"  | Player
! style="width: 2.5em;" | GP
! style="width: 2.5em;" | G
! style="width: 2.5em;" | A
! style="width: 2.5em;" | Pts
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |'''2nd''' [[Václav Nedomanský]]
|5||6||3||9
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |'''9th''' [[Jiří Kochta]]
|5||3||3||6
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |'''10th''' [[Richard Farda]]
|5||1||5||6
|}

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellSpacing="0"
|! align="center" bgcolor="#cc9966"|Bronze:
|-
|- valign=top
|[[Vladimír Dzurilla]]<br> [[Jiří Holeček]]<br> [[Vladimír Bednář]]<br> [[Rudolf Tajcnár]]<br> [[Oldřich Machač]]<br> [[František Pospíšil]]<br> [[Josef Horešovský]]<br> [[Karel Vohralík]]<br> [[Václav Nedomanský]]<br> [[Jiří Holík]]<br> [[Jaroslav Holík]]<br> [[Jiří Kochta]]<br> [[Eduard Novák]]<br> [[Richard Farda]]<br> [[Josef Černý]]<br> [[Vladimír Martinec]]<br> [[Ivan Hlinka]]<br> [[Bohuslav Šťastný]]
|}

==Nordic combined ==
{{main|Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping {{small|(Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)}}
* 15&nbsp;km cross-country skiing

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="4"|Ski Jumping
!colspan="3"|Cross-country
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Distance 1
!Distance 2
!Points
!Rank
!Time
!Points
!Rank
!Points
!Rank
|-
|[[Ladislav Rygl, Sr.|Ladislav Rygl]]
|rowspan="4"|Individual
|align="center"|65.5
|align="center"|71.0
|align="center"|160.4
|align="center"|24
|align="center"|51:09.2
|align="center"|195.355
|align="center"|16
|align="center"|355.755
|align="center"|26
|-
|[[Libor Foltman]]
|align="center"|70.5
|align="center"|67.5
|align="center"|155.0
|align="center"|30
|align="center"|DNF
|align="center"|&ndash;
|align="center"|&ndash;
|align="center"|DNF
|align="center"|&ndash;
|-
|[[Tomáš Kučera (skier)|Tomáš Kučera]]
|align="center"|75.5
|align="center"|75.5
|align="center"|191.8
|align="center"|7
|align="center"|51:04.0
|align="center"|196.135
|align="center"|14
|align="center"|387.935
|align="center"|6
|-
|[[Jaroslav Svoboda (skier)|Jaroslav Svoboda]]
|align="center"|71.5
|align="center"|71.5
|align="center"|175.9
|align="center"|19
|align="center"|53:20.2
|align="center"|175.705
|align="center"|33
|align="center"|351.605
|align="center"|28
|}

== Ski jumping ==
{{main|Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Jump 1
!colspan="2"|Jump 2
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Distance
!Points
!Distance
!Points
!Points
!Rank
|-
|[[Rudolf Höhnl]]
|rowspan="4"|Normal hill
|align="center"|73.5
|align="center"|100.8
|align="center"|73.5
|align="center"|100.8
|align="center"|201.6
|align="center"|29
|-
|[[Jiří Raška]]
|align="center"|78.5
|align="center"|112.3
|align="center"|78.0
|align="center"|112.5
|align="center"|224.8
|align="center"|5
|-
|[[Zbyněk Hubač]]
|align="center"|79.0
|align="center"|113.1
|align="center"|75.0
|align="center"|104.7
|align="center"|217.8
|align="center"|11
|-
|[[Karel Kodejška]]
|align="center"|80.0
|align="center"|114.7
|align="center"|75.5
|align="center"|105.5
|align="center"|220.2
|align="center"|7
|-
|[[Zbyněk Hubač]]
|rowspan="3"|Large hill
|align="center"|91.5
|align="center"|96.1
|align="center"|91.5
|align="center"|98.6
|align="center"|194.7
|align="center"|15
|-
|[[Leoš Škoda]]
|align="center"|89.5
|align="center"|96.3
|align="center"|85.0
|align="center"|80.0
|align="center"|176.3
|align="center"|26
|-
|[[Jiří Raška]]
|align="center"|99.0
|align="center"|111.1
|align="center"|89.0
|align="center"|93.6
|align="center"|204.7
|align="center"|10
|}

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070612020125/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
*[http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042620/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1972/ Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com]

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