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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

Participating nations

•  Argentina (7)
•  Australia (7)
•  Austria (9)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Canada (14)
•  Czechoslovakia (3)
•  Denmark (5)
•  Finland (10)
•  France (19)
•  Great Britain (23)
•  Hong Kong (3)
•  India (3)
•  Ireland (4)
•  Israel (15)
•  Italy (4)
•  Jamaica (8)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kenya (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Netherlands (15)
•  New Zealand (5)
•  Norway (11)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (14)
•  Rhodesia (12)
•  South Africa (9)
•  Spain (14)
•  Sweden (10)
•  Switzerland (6)
•  United States (20)
•  West Germany (19)
•  Yugoslavia (3)

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

References

1. שיאים וזהב לנכים, מעריב, 8.8.1972 (in Hebrew)

External links

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

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