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Olympic Grandstand

on BBC One London

Non-stop action from Munich and London
Introduced by Frank Bough and David Vine

10.10 Swimming Heats: Men's 100m Freestyle

10.40-12.45 and 1.45-2.40 Gillette Cup Final From Lord's: Lancashire v Warwickshire

12.45 Football Preview
Introduced by Sam Leitch

1.0 Rowing Finals
The climax of five days of competition over the specially constructed 2,000m Olympic rowing regatta course.

1.30-1.45 Swimming Heats: Men's 200m Backstroke, Men's 200m Breaststroke

2.40 Athletics
Five gold medal events to be decided including, at 4.15, the 400m Hurdles with David Hemerey's title at stake
Pole Vault Final
Bob Seagren's world record is now 18ft 5f ins - more than nine inches higher than his winning leap at the Mexico Olympics. Standards are soaring and this spectacular event could produce another' world record today.
Olympic champion: R. Seagren (USA) Olympic record: 17ft 5iins
100m (Women). Semi-finals
Discus Final (Men)
Olympic champion: A. Oerter (USA) Olympic record: 212ft 61ins
400m (Women). Heats
Pentathlon High Jump
4.15 400m Hurdles Final (Men)
The Kenyan Bill Koskei led 1972's early rankings with 49 secs, but then the Americans Ralph Mann and Dick Bruggeman closed on David Hemery's world record by clocking 48.4 and 48.6 secs respectively.
Olympic champion: D. Hemery (Gt Britain)
World and Olympic record: 48.1 secs
800m Final (Men). Britain's Derek Johnson won the 800m silver medal at Melbourne in 1956. He was edged out of the gold by Tom Courtney (USA) who won in 1 min 47.7secs. Olympic champion: R. Doubell (Australia)
Olympic record: 1 min 44.3 secs
100m Final (Women). This gold looked certain to go to Europe - the East Germans Renate Stecher and Ellen Stropahl and the Czech girl Eva Gleskova have all clocked a world record 11 secs this year. Olympic champion: W. Tyus (USA) Olympic record: 11.0 secs

5.55 Swimming Finals
Semi-finals: Men's 100m Freestyle
Action from four more exciting gold medal events being decided this afternoon at the Olympic Pool
Men's 200m Backstroke
Olympic champion: R. Matthes (E. Germany)
Olympic record: 2 mins 9.6 secs
Men's 200m Breaststroke
Olympic champion: F. Munoz (Mexico) Olympic record: 2 mins 27.8 secs
Women's 100m Backstroke Olympic champion: K. Hall (USA) Olympic record: 1 min 6.2 secs
Women's 100m Breaststroke Olympic champion: D. Bjedov (Yugoslavia)
Olympic record: 1 min 15.8 secs

Results Service and Highlights
Classified football results will be at 5.10*, and action highlights and news of the day's other top events, including the Gillette Cup Final, will be shown between the swimming finals.
(Britain's best ever: page 12: Guide to this week's finals: pages 14-17)

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Presenter:
David Vine
Commentator (Gillette Cup):
Richie Benaud
Commentator (Gillette Cup):
Jim Laker
TV presentation (Gillette Cup):
David Kenning
Presenter (Football Preview):
Sam Leitch
Commentator (Rowing Finals):
Peter West
Commentator (Athletics):
David Coleman
Commentator (Athletics):
Ron Pickering
Commentator (Athletics):
Norris McWhirter
Commentator (Swimming):
Alan Weeks
Commentator (Swimming):
Harry Walker
Director:
Brian Venner
Director:
Richard Tilling
Director:
Jonathan Martin
Director:
Fred Viner
Editor:
Alan Chivers
Editor:
Alan Hart
Editor:
Sam Leitch
Editor:
A.P. Wilkinson
Producer:
Bryan Cowgill

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