Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around These are the results of the women's team all-around competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The compulsory and optional rounds took place on August 27 and 28 at the Sports Hall. The team competition saw the first performance of a standing back somersault on the balance beam, by Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. The final score for each team was determined by combining all of the scores earned by the team on each apparatus during the compulsory and
Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics, was held from 4 to 12 February. Eight events were contested at Makomanai Open Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. This was the first Olympics at which electronic times were recorded to the hundredeth of a second. The Netherlands toppd the medal table, with four golds and nine overall, led by Ard Schenk's three gold medals. Schenk led the individual medal table, winning each of the three longer distance events. The most successful female skater was the Netherlands's Stien Kaiser, who won one gold and one silver medal.