... JORG DREHMEL BRA 17.05 NELSON PRUDENCIO 4. ROM Carol Corbu 16.85 5. USA John Craft 16:83 6. SEN Mamadou Mansur-Dai 16:83 SHOT PUT POL 21.18 WLADYSLAW KOMAR USA 21.17 GEORGE WOODS GDR 21.14 HARTMUT BRIESENICK DECATHLON URS 8,454 MYKOLA ...
... Joerg Drehmel ( German Democratic Republic ) , silver ; Saneyev , gold ; and Nelson Prudencio ( Brazil ) , bronze . At the Pushkin state memorial UNIVORY OF LANESOTA LEONID I. medal at the Mexico Olympics after a hard- fought battle ...
... Jörg Drehmel , in the triple jump . Anatoly Bondarchuk set an Olympic record in the hammer throw with a heave of 75.5 meters . On the women's side , Lyudmila Bragina won the 1,500 - meter race ( the first time that females ran this ...
... Joerg Drehmel whose best jump came in the fifth of six tries . Results of Triple Jump Meters ( ft . ins . ) 1. Victor Saneev , USSR 17.35 ( 56-11 ) 2. Joerg Drehmel , East Germany 17.31 ( 56-912 ) 3. Nelson Prudencio , Brazil 17.05 ( 55 ...
... Jörg Drehmel GDR 17.31 Giuseppe Gentile Nelson Prudencio ITA 17.22 BRA 17.05 1976 Viktor Saneev James Butts USA ... George Woods USA 20.12 Eduard Gushchin URS 20.09 1972 Władysław Komar George Woods USA 21.17 Hartmut Briesenick GDR 21.14 ...
... Jörg Drehmel , who was justifiably regarded as a very possible winner . Viktor took the lead right from the outset , scal- ing 17 m 35 cm in the first round , a mere five centimetres short of the world record , stunning his rivals . In ...
... Jörg Drehmel ( GDR ) in 1971 , he re- tained his Olympic title in 1972 . Later that year he regained the world record he had lost to Pedro Pérez ( CUB ) with an effort . of 17.44 m ( 57 ft 24 in ) . He was Euro- pean Champion again in ...