Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics information
Ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Tournament details
Host country
Japan
Dates
3–13 February 1972
Teams
11
Final positions
Champions
Soviet Union (4th title)
Runner-up
United States
Third place
Czechoslovakia
Fourth place
Sweden
Tournament statistics
Games played
30
Goals scored
235 (7.83 per game)
Scoring leader(s)
Valeri Kharlamov (16 points)
← 1968
1976 →
The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was the 12th Olympic Championship. Games were held at the Makomanai Ice Arena and at the Tsukisamu Indoor Skating Rink.[1] The Soviet Union won its fourth gold medal. The United States won the silver, while Czechoslovakia won the bronze. Canada did not send a team to the event for the first time since ice hockey was first competed at the Olympics in 1920, instead competing with and defeating the Soviets in a competition later that year known as the Summit Series.[2] Canada would not send a men's hockey team to the Olympics until 1980.
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Global Information
Japan
Soviet Union (4th title)
United States
Czechoslovakia
Sweden