Swimming at the 1972 München Summer Games:

The favorite was the 1964 gold medalist and bronze medalist from Mexico City, [Galina Prozumenshchikova], now Stepanova. Stepanova led out the final over American Dana Schoenfield, with two full bodylengths at 150 metres, as another American Claudia Clevenger moved into second on the final turn. But Schoenfield re-grouped and caught Stepanova at 185 metres. Then from nowhere came the unknown Australian Beverley Whitfield, who caught everybody five metres from the wall and won the gold medal. Schoenfield hung on for second with Stepanova winning bronze. This was the fifth individual Olympic breaststroke medal for Galina Prozumenshchikov-Stepanova, who ended her renowned career after the Munich Olympics.