A member of the Soviet Union’s famed basketball team that controversially won the Olympic gold medal at Munich 1972, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, has died at the age of 78, it has been announced.

Aleksandr Kabanov, who struck Olympic gold in 1972 and 1980 as a player for the Soviet Union men’s water polo team and a pair of bronze medals as coach—in 1988 as an assistant with the USSR in ...

Wim Ruska from the Netherlands became the first judoka to win two gold medals. OLYMPIC GAMES MUNICH 1972 MEDAL TABLE COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL USSR 50 27 22 99 U.S. 33 31 30 94 ...

His swimming pursuits at the 1972 Olympics complete, Canada’s Byron MacDonald joined some friends one night in Munich for a live viewing of another big sports event on the go at the time ...