Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

The following is the list of squads for each of the 16 teams that competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Group A

Australia

The following players represented Australia:

• Anatoli Koltuniewicz
• Brian Kerle
• Eddie Palubinskas
• Glenn Marsland
• Ian Watson
• Ken James
• Perry Crosswhite
• Peter Byrne
• Ray Tomlinson
• Richard Duke
• Tom Bender
• Bill Wyatt

Brazil

The following players represented Brazil:

• Marquinhos
• Adilson
• Mosquito
• Hélio Rubens Garcia
• Zé Geraldo
• José Aparecido
• Dodi
• Luiz Menon
• Radvilas Gorauskas
• Fransergio
• Bira

Cuba

The following players represented Cuba:

• Juan Domecq
• Ruperto Herrera
• Juan Roca
• Pedro Chappé
• José Miguel Álvarez
• Rafael Cañizares
• Conrado Pérez
• Miguel Calderón
• Tomás Herrera
• Oscar Varona
• Alejandro Urgellés
• Franklin Standard

Czechoslovakia

The following players represented Czechoslovakia:

• Jan Blažek
• Jan Bobrovský
• Jiří Balaštík
• Jiří Konopásek
• Jiří Pospíšil
• Jiří Růžička
• Jiří Zedníček
• Jiří Zídek
• Kamil Brabenec
• Petr Novický
• Zdeněk Douša
• Zdeněk Kos

Egypt

The following players represented Egypt:

• Sherif Fouad Aboulkheir
• Ahmed Abdel Hamid El-Saharty
• Awad Abdel Nabi
• Sayed Tewfik El-Sayed
• Adel Ibrahim Ismail
• Fahti Mohamed Kamel
• Mohamed Essam Khaled
• Kamal Kamel Mohammed
• Talaat Guenidi
• Ismail Selim Mohamed
• El-Sayed Abdel Hamid Mobarak

Japan

The following players represented Japan:

• Atsushi Somatomo
• Hirofumi Numata
• Katsuhiko Sugita
• Kazufumi Sakai
• Kenji Soda
• Kunihiko Yokoyama
• Masatomo Taniguchi
• Mineo Yoshikawa
• Nobuo Chigusa
• Nobuo Hattori
• Satoshi Mori
• Shigeaki Abe

Spain

The following players represented Spain:

• Carmelo Cabrera
• Cliff Luyk
• Enrique Margall
• Francisco Buscató
• Gonzalo Sagi-Vela
• Jesús Iradier
• Juan Antonio Corbalán
• Luis Santillana
• Miguel Estrada
• Rafael Rullán
• Vicente Ramos
• Wayne Brabender

United States

The following players represented the United States:

• Kenny Davis
• Doug Collins
• Tom Henderson
• Mike Bantom
• Bobby Jones
• Dwight Jones
• Jim Forbes
• Jim Brewer
• Tommy Burleson
• Tom McMillen
• Kevin Joyce
• Ed Ratleff

Group B

Italy

The following players represented Italy:

• Dino Meneghin
• Giorgio Giomo
• Giulio Iellini
• Giuseppe Brumatti
• Ivan Bisson
• Luigi Serafini
• Marino Zanatta
• Massimo Masini
• Mauro Cerioni
• Ottorino Flaborea
• Pierluigi Marzorati
• Renzo Bariviera

Philippines

The following players represented the Philippines:

• Jun Papa
• Danny Florencio
• Ed Ocampo
• Freddie Webb
• Jimmy Mariano
• Manny Paner
• Marte Samson
• Ciso Bernardo
• Ricardo Cleofas
• Rogelio Melencio
• Rosalio Martirez
• William Adornado

Poland

The following players represented Poland:

• Andrzej Kasprzak
• Andrzej Seweryn
• Eugeniusz Durejko
• Franciszek Niemiec
• Grzegorz Korcz
• Jan Dolczewski
• Janusz Cegliński
• Mieczysław Łopatka
• Piotr Langosz
• Ryszard Białowąs
• Waldemar Kozak
• Andrzej Pasiorowski

Puerto Rico

The following players represented Puerto Rico:

• Earl Brown
• Billy Baum
• Héctor Blondet
• Jimmy Thordsen
• Joe Hatton
• Mariano Ortiz
• Neftalí Rivera
• Raymond Dalmau
• Ricky Calzada
• Rubén Rodríguez
• Teo Cruz
• Mickey Coll

Senegal

The following players represented Senegal:

• Abdourahmane N'Diaye
• Alioune Badara Guèye
• Assane Thiam
• Babacar Seck
• Boubacar Traoré
• Cheikh Amadou Fall
• Joseph Diandy
• Doudas Leydi Camara
• Moustafa Diop
• Papa Malick Diop
• Pierre Martin Sagna
• Sylvestre Lopis

Soviet Union

The following players represented the Soviet Union:

• Anatoli Polivoda
• Sergei Belov
• Zurab Sakandelidze
• Gennadi Volnov
• Sergei Kovalenko
• Modestas Paulauskas
• Alzhan Zharmukhamedov
• Aleksandr Boloshev
• Ivan Edeshko
• Mikheil Korkia
• Ivan Dvorny
• Alexander Belov

West Germany

The following players represented West Germany:

• Dieter Kuprella
• Dietrich Keller
• Hans-Jörg Krüger
• Helmut Uhlig
• Holger Geschwindner
• Joachim Linnemann
• Jochen Pollex
• Jürgen Wohlers
• Karl Ampt
• Klaus Weinand
• Norbert Thimm
• Rainer Pethran

Yugoslavia

The following players represented Yugoslavia:

• Blagoja Georgievski
• Damir Šolman
• Dragan Kapičić
• Dragutin Čermak
• Krešimir Ćosić
• Ljubodrag Simonović
• Milun Marović
• Miroljub Damjanović
• Nikola Plećaš
• Ratomir Tvrdić
• Vinko Jelovac
• Žarko Knežević

References

1. Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
2. Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters
3. Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters
4. Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters
5. 1972 Olympic men's basketball final
6. 2004 United States men's Olympic basketball team
7. 1972 United States men's Olympic basketball team
8. Cameroon men's national basketball team
9. United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics
10. Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics
11. Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters
12. Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics
13. 2012 United States men's Olympic basketball team
14. Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics
15. Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics
16. United States men's national basketball team
17. Spain at the 2024 Summer Olympics
18. Brazil men's national basketball team
19. France at the 2024 Summer Olympics
20. Poland at the 2024 Summer Olympics