Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics a 1.5 nm radius circle for course area C. Because of the distance to Munich and the fact that no sailing was scheduled for 6 and 7 September, the killings of 11 Israeli athletes had less impact on sailing than it had on the other events in Munich. Only a few of the sailing teams did not start at the last day of the races. Among them the Israelian Flying Dutchman team of: Yair Michaeli and Izchak Nir. During the sailing regattas at the 1972 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes: Sailing at
Somalia at the Olympics take part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, but after Seego was posted as Somalia's ambassador to Belgium, based in Brussels, those who succeeded him were unable to take the nation to the Games and the Committee was entirely abandoned. The idea was resurrected in 1971, with the national associations of athletics, basketball and football signing up under the Committee's charter. Shortly prior to the 1972 Summer Olympics, it was recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), allowing it to compete. Somalia made their Summer Olympic debut at the 1972 Games in Munich, West Germany, sending three athletes;