Swimming
Men's 100m Freestyle
- Klaus Steinbach
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- Heat — 52.91s
- Semifinals — 52.87s
- Final — 52.92s (→ 8th place)
- Kersten Meier
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- Heat — 53.96s
- Semifinals — 54.35s (→ did not advance)
- Gerhard Schiller
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- Heat — 54.28s (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle
- Werner Lampe
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- Heat — 1:55.97
- Final — 1:53.99 (→ Bronze Medal)
- Klaus Steinbach
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- Heat — 1:55.80
- Final — 1:56.65 (→ 6th place)
- Olaf von Schilling
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- Heat — 2:00.27 (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
- Gerhard Schiller, Rainer Jacob, Hans-Günther Vosseler, and Kersten Meier
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- Heat — 3:37.59
- Klaus Steinbach, Werner Lampe, Rainer Jacob, and Hans Faßnacht
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- Final — 3:33.90 (→ 6th place)
Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
- Hans Faßnacht, Gerhard Schiller, Folkert Meeuw, and Hans-Günther Vosseler
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- Heat — 7:53.98
- Klaus Steinbach, Werner Lampe, Hans-Günther Vosseler, and Hans Faßnacht
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- Final — 7:41.69 (→ Silver Medal)
Read more about this topic: West Germany At The 1972 Summer Olympics
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