Tunisia at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Tunisia competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Tunisia at the 1972 Summer Olympics
IOC code	TUN
NOC	Tunisian Olympic Committee
Website	www.cnot.org.tn (in French)
in Munich
Competitors	35 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Salem Boughattas
Medals Ranked 33rd	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

Medalists

Silver

• Mohammed Gammoudi — Athletics, Men's 5000m

Athletics

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mansour Guettaya	800 m	1:49.4	2 Q	N/A		1:49.8	7	Did not advance
	1500 m	3:43.9	5	Did not advance
Mohammed Gammoudi	5000 m	13:49.8	1 Q	N/A				13:27.4
	10,000 m	27:54.69	1 Q	N/A				DNF
Hassan Bergaoui	400 m hurdles	53.70	7	Did not advance
Abdelkader Zaddem	10,000 m	28:14.70	4 Q	Did not advance				28:18.17	8

Boxing

Men

Athlete	Event	1 Round	2 Round	3 Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ali Gharbi	Flyweight	BYE	Tim Dement (USA) L 0-5	Did not advance
Abdelaziz Hammi	Bantamweight	Leopold Agbazo (DAH) W 5-0	Koh Keun-Sang (KOR) L 0-5	Did not advance
Mohamed Majeri	Light-middleweight	BYE	Issoufou Habou (NIG) W 5-0	Alan Jenkinson (AUS) W 5-0	Dieter Kottysch (FRG) L 0-5	Did not advance		5

Handball

Men's Team Competition

Roster:

Ahmed Bel Hadj
Raouf Ben Samir
Moncef Besbès
Taoufik Djemail
Aleya Hamrouni
Mouir Jelili
Mohamed Jeljeli
Mohamed Khalladi
Mohamed Klai
Faouzi Ksouri
Moncef Oueslati
Faouzi Sebabti
Amor Sghaier
Abdelaziz Zaibi
Ridha Zitoun
Rached Boudhina

Group B

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	East Germany	3	3	0	0	51	32	6		X	14:12	16:11	21:9
2.	Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	56	40	3		12:14	X	19:19	25:7
3.	Iceland	3	1	1	1	57	51	3		11:16	19:19	X	27:16
4.	Tunisia	3	0	0	3	32	73	0		9:21	7:25	16:27	X

30 August Czechoslovakia  25-7  Tunisia

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01 September East Germany  21-9  Tunisia

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03 September Iceland  27-16  Tunisia

Classification Matches

07 September Denmark  29-21  Tunisia

15th place match

09 September Spain  23-20  Tunisia

Volleyball

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Soviet Union	10	5	0	15	3	5.000	257	196	1.311
2	Bulgaria	9	4	1	13	8	1.625	294	235	1.251
3	Czechoslovakia	8	3	2	11	6	1.833	230	205	1.122
4	South Korea	7	2	3	7	10	0.700	209	197	1.061
5	Poland	6	1	4	8	12	0.667	237	259	0.915
6	Tunisia	5	0	5	0	15	0.000	90	225	0.400

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Aug	Soviet Union	3–0	Tunisia	15–10	15–6	15–4			45–20
29 Aug	Poland	3–0	Tunisia	15–6	15–11	15–1			45–18
31 Aug	Czechoslovakia	3–0	Tunisia	15–11	15–4	15–10			45–25
02 Sep	South Korea	3–0	Tunisia	15–1	15–3	15–1			45–5
05 Sep	Bulgaria	3–0	Tunisia	15–10	15–5	15–7			45–22

11th place match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
08 Sep	Tunisia	1–3	West Germany	5–15	16–14	4–15	9–15		34–59

Team Roster

• Mohamed Ben Cheikh
• Moncef Ben Soltane
• Samir Lamouchi
• Hamouda Ben Messaoud
• Raja Hayder
• Naceur Bounatouf
• Oueil Behi Mohamed
• Abdelaziz Derbal
• Rafik Ben Amor
• Abdelaziz Bousarsar
• Naceur Ben Othman

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool						Final round
		Round 1 Result	Round 2 Result	Round 3 Result	Round 4 Result	Round 5 Result	Round 6 Result	Final round Result	Rank
Habib Dlimi	−48 kg	Mohamed El-Malky (EGY) L T 8:19	Rahim Aliabadi (IRI) L T 6:58	N/A				Did not advance	16

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database