Modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team

The team modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics was one of two events (both for men), along with the individual competition. As usual in Olympic modern pentathlon, one competition was held and each competitor's score was included to the Individual competition event results table and was also added to his teammates' scores to be included to the Team competition event results table. This competition consisted of 5 disciplines:

• Equestrian, held on August 27
• Fencing, held on August 28
• Shooting, held on August 29
• Swimming, held on August 30
• Cross-country, held on August 31

Men's modern pentathlon at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Dates	August 27–31
Competitors	57 from 19 nations
Medalists
Pavel Lednev Boris Onischenko Vladimir Shmelev  Soviet Union Pál Bakó András Balczó Zsigmond Villányi  Hungary Risto Hurme Martti Ketelä Veikko Salminen  Finland

Results

Rank	Nation	Pentathlete						Total	Team score
	Soviet Union	Boris Onischenko	945	1080	1066	1128	1120	5339	15968
		Pavel Lednev	1060	1020	1022	1092	1135	5329
		Vladimir Shmelev	920	960	1022	1176	1222	5300
	Hungary	András Balczó	1060	1040	956	1060	1279	5395	15348
		Zsigmond Villányi	975	980	868	1100	1123	5046
		Pál Bakó	940	800	868	1120	1135	4907
	Finland	Risto Hurme	950	980	1044	1068	1051	5093	14812
		Veikko Salminen	1015	800	714	1216	1135	4880
		Martti Ketelä	1045	800	912	1016	1066	4839
4	United States	Charles Richards	1060	740	956	1260	1045	5061	14802
		John Fitzgerald	1090	840	868	1204	1060	5062
		Scott Taylor	965	700	626	1100	1288	4679
5	Sweden	Björn Ferm	1100	940	978	1112	1150	5280	14708
		Bo Jansson	1005	860	780	1076	1030	4751
		Hans-Gunnar Liljenvall	1020	840	670	1048	1099	4677
6	West Germany	Heiner Thade	1065	980	956	1012	1150	5163	14682
		Walter Esser	1000	840	824	1080	1093	4837
		Hole Rößler	945	700	846	1140	1051	4682
7	France	Michel Gueguen	1100	840	846	1152	1126	5064	14559
		Jean-Pierre Giudicelli	960	700	868	1084	1237	4849
		Raoul Gueguen	930	780	824	1016	1096	4646
8	Poland	Ryszard Wach	1100	700	956	1076	1126	4958	14785
		Janusz Pyciak-Peciak	1070	920	560	1060	1222	4832
		Stanislaw Skwira	785	800	846	1160	904	4495
9	Great Britain	Jeremy Robert Fox	1100	1000	868	1024	1300	5292	14257
		Barry Lillywhite	1070	840	582	1052	994	4538
		Robert Lawson Phelps	955	700	736	1000	1036	4427
10	Italy	Mario Medda	895	740	1088	1040	1087	4850	13913
		Giovanni Perugini	1065	800	736	1024	946	4571
		Nicolo Deligia	1055	720	736	912	1069	4492
11	Austria	Wolfgang Leu	1085	840	934	1012	973	4844	13865
		Peter Zobl-Wessely	880	800	846	908	1120	4554
		Bruno Jerebicnik	835	900	824	908	1000	4467
12	Romania	Dumitru Spirlea	975	840	1022	932	1015	4784	13655
		Marian Cosmescu	1045	660	824	996	967	4492
		Albert Covacs	815	580	714	1204	1066	4379
13	Japan	Masaru Sakano	1050	560	846	972	1177	4605	13569
		Yuso Makihira	1005	760	736	876	1213	4590
		Akira Kubo	860	680	912	880	1042	4374
14	Denmark	Jørn Steffensen	1005	780	934	1028	1129	4876	13547
		Klaus Petersen	990	760	692	1108	949	4499
		Heitmann René	910	640	626	1008	988	4172
15	Switzerland	Urs Hugi	1075	940	846	952	826	4639	13359
		Hans Müller	965	700	846	948	937	4396
		Beat Ganz	1030	640	670	888	1096	4324
16	Bulgaria	Georgi Stoyanov	1100	700	890	944	1027	4661	12957
		Velko Bratanov	785	640	956	916	1024	4321
		Angel Pepeliankov	1060	700	0	1080	1135	3975
17	Mexico	Gilberto Toledano Sanchez	1090	780	670	908	988	4436	12901
		Eduardo Olivera Lastra	960	740	868	1020	844	4432
		Juan José Castilla Ramos	935	620	714	752	1012	4033
18	Netherlands	Jan Bekkenk	930	700	692	1008	1084	4414	12340
		Rob Vonk	870	480	692	1208	877	4127
		Henk Krediet	985	880	802	0	1132	3799
19	Canada	Scott Scheuermann	1005	420	824	1044	769	4062	11335
		Kenneth Maaten	880	540	780	792	991	3983
		George Skene	0	480	714	1108	988	3290

External links

• Official Olympic Report