Archery at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's individual
| Men's individual archery at the Games of the XX Olympiad
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| Venue | Englischer Garten | ||||||||||||
| Dates | September 7—10 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 55 from 24 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 2528 | ||||||||||||
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John Williams |
 United States
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Gunnar Jervill |
 Sweden
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Kyösti Laasonen |
 Finland
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The men's individual archery event at the 1972 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme.
The event consisted of a double FITA round. For each round, the archer shot 36 arrows at each of four distances—90, 50, 70, and 30 metres. The highest score for each arrow was 10 points, giving a possible maximum of 2880 points.
The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.
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