Poland competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 290 competitors, 252 men and 38 women, took part in 150 events in 22 sports.
Medalists
Gold
Wladyslaw Komar - Athletics, Men's Shot Put
Jan Szczepański - Boxing, Men's Flyweight
Witold Woyda - Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
Marek Dąbrowski, Jerzy Kaczmarek, Lech Koziejowski, Witold Woyda, and Arkadiusz Godel - Fencing, Men's Foil Team Anczok, Ćmikiewicz, Deyna, Gadocha, Gorgoń, Gut, Jarosik, Kmiecik, Kostka, Kraska, Lato, Lubański, Marx, Maszczyk, Ostafiński, Szeja, Szołtysik, Szymanowski, and Szymczak - Football, Men's Team Competition Józef Zapędzki - Shooting, 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (60 shots) Zygmunt Smalcerz - Weightlifting, Men's Flyweight
Silver
Irena Szydłowska - Archery, Women's Individual Competition
Wiesław Rudkowski - Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
Lucjan Lis, Edward Barcik, Stanisław Szozda, and Ryszard Szurkowski - Cycling, Men's Road Team Time Trial Antoni Zajkowski - Judo, Men's Half-Middleweight Norbert Ozimek - Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight
Bronze
Irena Szewińska - Athletics, Women's 200m
Ryszard Katus - Athletics, Men's Decathlon
Leszek Błażyński - Boxing, Men's Flyweight
Janusz Gortat - Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
Władysław Szuszkiewicz and Rafal Maciej Piszcz - Canoe, Men's Kayak Flatwater K-2 1.000m Andrzej Bek, and Benedykt Kocot - Cycling Track, Men's 2.000m Tandem Zbigniew Kaczmarek - Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight Kazimierz Lipień - Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Featherweight Czesław Kwieciński - Wrestling Greco-Roman, Men's Light-Heavyweight
Archery
In the first modern archery competition at the Olympics, Poland entered one man and three women. They took home a silver medal in the women's competition.
Men
Women
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Field events
Combined events – Decathlon
Women
Track & road events
Field events
Basketball
Preliminary round
Group B
Classification brackets
9th–12th place
Team roster
- 10th place
Ryszard Bialowas
Janusz Ceglinski
Eugeniusz Durejko
Jan Dolczewski
Andrzej Kasprzak
Grzegorz Korcz
Waldemar Kozak
Piotr Langosz
Mieczyslaw Łopatka
Franciszek Niemiec
Andrzej Pasiorowski
Andrzej Seweryn
Head coach
Boxing
Men
Canoeing
Slalom
Sprint
Men
Women
Cycling
Twelve cyclists represented Poland in 1972.
Road
Track
1000m time trial
Men's Sprint
Pursuit
Men's Tandem
Diving
Men
Women
Equestrian
Eventing
Show jumping
Fencing
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Poland in 1972.
Men
Women
Football
First round
Group D
Second round
Group 2
Gold medal match
Gold medal
Zygmunt Anczok
Lesław Ćmikiewicz
Kazimierz Deyna
Robert Gadocha
Jerzy Gorgoń
Zbigniew Gut
Andrzej Jarosik
Kazimierz Kmiecik
Hubert Kostka
Jerzy Kraska
Grzegorz Lato
Włodzimierz Lubański
Joachim Marx
Zygmunt Maszczyk
Marian Ostafiński
Marian Szeja
Zygfryd Szołtysik
Antoni Szymanowski
Ryszard Szymczak
Head coach
Kazimierz Górski
Gymnastics
Artistic
Men
Individual finals
Women
Handball
Poland tied Sweden and defeated Denmark but lost to the Soviet Union in the first round to finish in third place in the division. This put the team into the ninth- to twelfth-place consolation round, where they defeated Iceland to set up a match with Norway for ninth and tenth places. Poland lost this match.