Peru at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Peru at the Olympic Games
Flag of Peru IOC code  PER NOC Comité Olímpico Peruano Website www.coperu.org (Spanish)
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors	20 (17 men and 3 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Enrique Barza
Medals	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 0
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Peru competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 20 competitors, 17 men and 3 women, took part in 25 events in 7 sports.^[1]

Athletics

Track Events

Men

Athlete	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result
Fernando Acevedo	Men's 400 metres	45.80	3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result
María Luisa Vilca	Women's 100 metres	11.85	6	Did not advance
	Women's 200 metres	24.46	5	24.48	7	Did not advance

Field Events

Women's pentathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	Final	Rank
Edith Noeding	Result	14.24	1.55	10.43	24.41	5.25	3870	24
	Points	836	781	618	899	736

Boxing

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Opposition result	Rank
Carlos Burga	Welterweight	Hodne (NOR) W 4–1	Valdez (USA) L 1–4	Did not advance			17
Oscar Ludeña	Heavyweight	BYE	Hussing (FRG) L KO	Did not advance			5

Cycling

Road

Team^[2]

Rider	Event	Time	Rank
Bernardo Arias Gilberto Chocce Fernando Cuenca Carlos Espinoza	Team time trial	2-30:57.5	30

Individual^[3]

Rider	Event	Time	Rank
Enrique Allyón	Road race	DNF
Gilberto Chocce	Road race
Fernando Cuenca	Road race
Carlos Espinoza	Road race

Fencing

One fencer represented Peru in 1972. The tournament was played by pools where everyone faced everyone on the group and the top fencers moved on to the next round.^[4]

Pool Seven	Pld	BW	BL	GF	GA
Tibor Pézsa (HUN)	5	5	0	25	11
Eddy Ham (NED)	5	3	2	22	13
Bernard Vallée (FRA)	5	3	2	19	12
Anani Mikhaylov (BUL)	5	3	2	19	16
Enrique Barza (PER)	5	1	4	9	24
Bob Foxcroft (CAN)	5	0	5	7	25

Athlete	Event	Round 1
		Opposition Score	Rank
Enrique Barza	Men's sabre
		Pézsa (HUN) L 2–5	5
		Ham (NED) L 0–5
		Vallée (FRA) L 0–5
		Mikhaylov (BUL) L 2–5
		Foxcroft (CAN) W 5–4

Shooting

Two shooters, one man and one woman, represented Peru in 1972.

50 m rifle, prone

• Gladys Baldwin

Trap

• Juan Jorge Giha, Sr.

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Juan Carlos Bello	100 m freestyle	No Show
	200 m freestyle	No Show
	100 m butterfly	57.54	3 Q	57.51	5	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:11.70	2 Q	N/A		2:11.87	7
Guillermo Pacheco	400 m freestyle	4:18.78	7	N/A		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	17:36.36	7	N/A		Did not advance
Alfredo Hunger	100 m breaststroke	1:11.44	6	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:37.20	7	N/A		Did not advance

Wrestling

References

1. "Peru at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
2. "Cycling at the 1972 München Summer Games: Men's 100 kilometres Team Time Trial". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
3. "Cycling at the 1972 München Summer Games: Men's Road Race, Individual". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
4. "Enrique Barza". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 26 August 2012.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports