— 2.15m Final — 2.23m (→ Gold medal) Rustam Akhmetov Qualifying round — 2.15m Final — 2.15m (→ 8th place) Kestusis Shapka Qualifying round — 2.15m Final — 2.15m (→ 12th place)Women's javelin throwSvetlana Korolyova Qualifying round — 55.90 m Final — 56.36 m (→ 8th place) Basketball Men's team competitionPreliminary round (group B) Defeated Senegal (94–52) Defeated West Germany (87–63) Defeated Italy (79–66) Defeated Poland (94–64) Defeated Puerto Rico (100–87) Defeated Philippines (111–80) Defeated Yugoslavia (74–67)Semifinals Defeated Cuba (67–60)Final Defeated United States (51–50) → Gold medalBoxingMen's light middleweight (– 71 kg)Valeri Tregubov First round — bye Second round — defeated Reggie Jones (USA), 3:2 Third round — lost to Alan Minter (GBR), 0:5Men's heavyweight (+ 81 kg) Yuri Nesterov First round — lost to Duane Bobick (USA), 0:5 Canoeing Cycling Fifteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1972. Individual road race Valery Likhachov — 34th place Anatoly Starkov — 35th place Valery Yardy — did not finish (→ no ranking) Ivan Trifonov — did not finish (→ no ranking) Team time trial Boris Shukhov Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Sprint Omar Pkhak'adze Serhiy Kravtsov 1000m time trial Eduard Rapp Final — 1:07.73 (→ 8th place) Tandem Igor Tselovalnikov and Vladimir Semenets — Gold medalTeam pursuit Viktor Bykov Vladimir Kuznetsov Anatoly Stepanenko Aleksandr Yudin DivingMen's 3m springboard Vladimir Vasin – 594.09 points (gold medal)Viacheslav Strahov – 556.20 points (6th place) Vladimir Kapirulin – 329.46 points (18th place)Men's 10m platformDavid Ambarzumian – 463.56 points (5th place) Vladimir Kapirullin – 459.21 points (7th place) Aleksander Gendrikson – 431.04 points (12th place)Women's 3m springboardNatalia Kusnecova – 258.45 points (14th place) Tatjana Shtyreva – 252.42 points (16th place) Tamara Safonova – 252.09 points (17th place)Women's 10m platformAlla Seiina – 314.76 points (10th place) Natalia Kuznecova – 184.02 points (13th place) Tatjana Shtyreva – 177.33 points (19th place) Equestrian Fencing 20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1972. Men's foil Vladimir Denisov Anatoly Koteshev Vasyl Stankovych Men's team foil Vasyl Stankovych, Viktor Putyatin, Anatoly Koteshev, Vladimir Denisov, Leonid Romanov Men's épée Igor Valetov Sergey Paramonov Grigory Kriss Men's team épée Grigory Kriss, Viktor Modzalevsky, Georgi Zažitski, Sergey Paramonov, Igor Valetov Men's sabre Viktor Sidyak Vladimir Nazlymov Mark Rakita Men's team sabre Mark Rakita, Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Eduard Vinokurov, Viktor Bazhenov Women's foil Galina Gorokhova Yelena Novikova-Belova Aleksandra Zabelina Women's team foil Yelena Novikova-Belova, Galina Gorokhova, Aleksandra Zabelina, Svetlana