Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics consisted of six events, held February near Sapporo, Japan. The downhills were held at Mount Eniwa, and the four technical events at Teine. Six nations won medals in alpine skiing; Switzerland led in medals with three gold, two silver, and a bronze. Switzerland's Marie-Theres Nadig led the individual medal table, with two gold medals. The top men's medalist was Gustav Thöni of Italy with a gold and a silver. The gold medal won in the slalom by Francisco Fernández Ochoa was Spain's first medal at the
Olympiapark (Munich) swimmer Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals there during the 1972 Munich Games. This amounted to a remarkable comeback for Mark Spitz, who had fallen short of the 5 gold medals expected of him at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. The venue also saw significant success by the young women's team of the GDR, which was later found - albeit, the matter was essentially an open secret - to be the result of an extensive doping programme. One notable feature of the Munich "Schwimmhalle" is the way in which the cobbled paths leading to the venue continue under the canopy as