World Championship Sprint
This page lists all information available on the World Championship Sprint. The subnavigation allows you to quickly retrieve the complete 'History' of the top 3 results. In the corresponding medal summary table you can click on a specific year to go to the full results of that year. The right-hand side of the subnavigation links to different 'Statistics' of the World Championship Sprint. The statistics will be updated automatically after every championship.
Results of the 1972 World Championship Sprint Women
| Place | Eskilstuna (SWE) |
| Track | Isstadion |
| Date | 26 - 27 Feb 1972 |
| # | name | 1st 500m | 1st 1000m | 2nd 500m | 2nd 1000m | points | |||||
| 1 | Monika Pflug | FRG | 0:45.15 | (5) | 1:32.39 | (3) | 0:45.36 | (5) | 1:32.76 | (2) | 183.085 |
| 2 | Dianne Holum | USA | 0:45.33 | (8) | 1:31.88 | (1) | 0:45.75 | (11) | 1:32.65 | (1) | 183.345 |
| 3 | Lyudmila Titova | URS | 0:45.32 | (7) | 1:32.57 | (4) | 0:44.94 | (2) | 1:33.79 | (7) | 183.440 |
| 4 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra | NED | 0:44.96 | (3) | 1:32.37 | (2) | 0:45.55 | (7) | 1:33.65 | (5) | 183.520 |
| 5 | Sigrid Sundby | NOR | 0:45.12 | (4) | 1:32.73 | (5) | 0:45.61 | (9) | 1:33.48 | (4) | 183.835 |
| 6 | Leah Poulos | USA | 0:44.64 | (2) | 1:33.17 | (9) | 0:44.99 | (3) | 1:35.81 | (13) | 184.120 |
| 7 | Connie Carpenter | USA | 0:45.34 | (9) | 1:32.93 | (6) | 0:45.45 | (6) | 1:34.73 | (10) | 184.620 |
| 8 | Sheila Young | USA | 0:44.20 | (1) | 1:34.87 | (12) | 0:44.76 | (1) | 1:37.60 | (17) | 185.195 |
| 9 | Ellie van den Brom | NED | 0:45.69 | (14) | 1:33.14 | (8) | 0:46.20 | (17) | 1:33.76 | (6) | 185.340 |
| 10 | Stien Baas-Kaiser | NED | 0:46.00 | (17) | 1:32.93 | (7) | 0:46.56 | (18) | 1:33.17 | (3) | 185.610 |
| 11 | Trijnie Rep | NED | 0:45.76 | (16) | 1:33.47 | (10) | 0:46.14 | (16) | 1:34.49 | (8) | 185.880 |
| 12 | Vera Surovikina | URS | 0:45.75 | (15) | 1:34.55 | (11) | 0:45.95 | (13) | 1:34.54 | (9) | 186.245 |
| 13 | Sylvia Burka | CAN | 0:45.30 | (6) | 1:35.00 | (14) | 0:45.81 | (12) | 1:35.59 | (12) | 186.405 |
| 14 | Sachiko Saito-Yobekura | JPN | 0:45.39 | (10) | 1:35.71 | (15) | 0:45.70 | (10) | 1:35.50 | (11) | 186.695 |
| 15 | Alla Butova-Buyanova | URS | 0:45.40 | (11) | 1:36.05 | (17) | 0:45.59 | (8) | 1:36.99 | (16) | 187.510 |
| 16 | Ann-Sofie Järnström | SWE | 0:45.68 | (13) | 1:35.75 | (16) | 0:46.08 | (14) | 1:36.45 | (14) | 187.860 |
| 17 | Kathryn Lunda | USA | 0:45.66 | (12) | 1:36.57 | (20) | 0:46.12 | (15) | 1:38.71 | (22) | 189.420 |
| 18 | Lena Andersson (1954) | SWE | 0:46.13 | (18) | 1:36.70 | (21) | 0:46.69 | (19) | 1:38.44 | (19) | 190.390 |
| 19 | Kaname Ide | JPN | 0:46.95 | (20) | 1:36.19 | (18) | 0:47.51 | (22) | 1:36.88 | (15) | 190.995 |
| 20 | Inger Karset | NOR | 0:46.77 | (19) | 1:36.80 | (22) | 0:47.07 | (21) | 1:38.56 | (21) | 191.520 |
| 21 | Romana Troicka | POL | 0:47.28 | (21) | 1:37.21 | (23) | 0:46.81 | (20) | 1:40.15 | (23) | 192.770 |
| 22 | Erwina Ryś | POL | 0:47.67 | (22) | 1:37.48 | (24) | 0:48.27 | (23) | 1:38.54 | (20) | 193.950 |
| 23 | Yingshu Piao | CHN | 0:49.51 | (23) | 1:42.36 | (26) | 0:49.37 | (24) | 1:44.19 | (25) | 202.155 |
| 24 | Vera Krasnova | URS | 1:00.96 | (25f) | 1:34.90 | (13) | 0:45.19 | (4) | 1:37.96 | (18) | 202.580 |
| 25 | Tien Cailian | CHN | 0:49.58 | (24) | 1:40.65 | (25) | 0:59.67 | (25f) | 1:42.86 | (24) | 211.005 |
| DNS3 | Tuula Vilkas | FIN | 1:00.97 | (26f) | 1:36.48 | (19) | - | (DNS) | - | 109.210 | |
| Legenda | |
| f | = fall |
| DNS | = did not start |
