1972 Summer Olympics

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1972 Summer Olympics - Games of the XX Olympiad, in Munich, West Germany. This event is the 391^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 521^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “1972 Summer Olympics” in English Wikipedia has 72.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 43 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 521^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7723^rd most popular in AI.

The 391^st most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “1972 Summer Olympics” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1972 Summer Olympics”, its content was written by 487 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2871 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7723^rd place).

1972 Summer Olympics is on the 521^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 391^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 8600 times in English Wikipedia (2340^th place) and cited 48453 times in all languages (3284^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2652 in August 2012
• Global: #849 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #809 in August 2008
• Global: #585 in August 2008

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		72.1474
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		71.7546
3	Norwegian (no) Sommer-OL 1972		47.0199
4	Swedish (sv) Olympiska sommarspelen 1972		45.1685
5	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		43.6472
6	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu de 1972		37.2491
7	Chinese (zh) 1972年夏季奥林匹克运动会		37.0615
8	Bulgarian (bg) Летни олимпийски игри 1972		35.4724
9	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		34.8315
10	Hindi (hi) 1972 ग्रीष्मकालीन ओलम्पिक		32.9939

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		6 817 629
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		2 146 648
3	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		1 165 780
4	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		1 137 439
5	Japanese (ja) 1972年ミュンヘンオリンピック		997 407
6	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1972		720 475
7	Italian (it) Giochi della XX Olimpiade		649 187
8	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		641 233
9	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1972		418 357
10	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 1972		245 826

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		22 344
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		5 575
3	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		5 214
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		2 387
5	Japanese (ja) 1972年ミュンヘンオリンピック		2 386
6	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		1 744
7	Italian (it) Giochi della XX Olimpiade		1 574
8	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1972		1 434
9	Chinese (zh) 1972年夏季奥林匹克运动会		1 070
10	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1972		789

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		487
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		429
3	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		165
4	Italian (it) Giochi della XX Olimpiade		142
5	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		120
6	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 1972		107
7	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		106
8	Japanese (ja) 1972年ミュンヘンオリンピック		106
9	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת מינכן (1972)		92
10	Chinese (zh) 1972年夏季奥林匹克运动会		74

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		3
2	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu de 1972		2
3	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		2
4	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		1
5	Korean (ko) 1972년 하계 올림픽		1
6	Norwegian (no) Sommer-OL 1972		1
7	Serbian (sr) Летње олимпијске игре 1972.		1
8	Chinese (zh) 1972年夏季奥林匹克运动会		1
9	Arabic (ar) الألعاب الأولمبية الصيفية 1972		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) 1972 Yay Olimpiya Oyunları		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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