1972 Summer Olympics

Quality:

1972 Summer Olympics - Games of the XX Olympiad, in Munich, West Germany. This event is the 400^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 414^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “1972 Summer Olympics” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 414^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7929^th most popular in AI.

The 400^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “1972 Summer Olympics”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2879 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7929^th place).

1972 Summer Olympics is on the 414^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 400^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 545 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3874^th place) and cited 49339 times in all languages (3317^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1367 in November 2009
• Global: #852 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2288 in August 2008
• Global: #570 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, 2026 (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	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		71.2144
2	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		68.8597
3	Norwegian (no) Sommer-OL 1972		66.9351
4	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		44.8825
5	Swedish (sv) Olympiska sommarspelen 1972		43.9319
6	Chinese (zh) 1972年夏季奥林匹克运动会		37.0187
7	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu de 1972		35.6813
8	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		34.7875
9	Bulgarian (bg) Летни олимпийски игри 1972		33.385
10	Hindi (hi) 1972 ग्रीष्मकालीन ओलम्पिक		32.9424

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1972 Summer Olympics		7 070 032
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		2 224 240
3	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		1 215 198
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		1 197 681
5	Japanese (ja) 1972年ミュンヘンオリンピック		1 029 750
6	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1972		738 796
7	Italian (it) Giochi della XX Olimpiade		674 054
8	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		669 418
9	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1972		427 370
10	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 1972		251 360

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		17 415
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		4 793
3	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		2 396
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		2 258
5	Japanese (ja) 1972年ミュンヘンオリンピック		1 664
6	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1972		1 462
7	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		1 213
8	Italian (it) Giochi della XX Olimpiade		1 110
9	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1972		913
10	Persian (fa) المپیک تابستانی ۱۹۷۲		745

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		496
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 1972		435
3	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972		169
4	Italian (it) Giochi della XX Olimpiade		144
5	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 1972		124
6	Japanese (ja) 1972年ミュンヘンオリンピック		109
7	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		107
8	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 1972		107
9	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת מינכן (1972)		92
10	Chinese (zh) 1972年夏季奥林匹克运动会		75

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	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת מינכן (1972)		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) 1972 Yay Olimpiya Oyunları		1
3	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu de 1972		1
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich 1972		1
5	Basque (eu) 1972ko Udako Olinpiar Jokoak		1
6	Croatian (hr) XX. Olimpijske igre – München 1972.		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Літні Олімпійські ігри 1972		1
8	Arabic (ar) الألعاب الأولمبية الصيفية 1972		0
9	Belarusian (be) Летнія Алімпійскія гульні 1972		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Летни олимпийски игри 1972		0

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

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