Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The qualification and final rounds took place on 27, 29 and 30 August at the Sports Hall.[1] There were 113 competitors from 26 nations.[2] Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Sawao Kato of Japan, the third man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the event; it was Japan's third consecutive victory in the event (matching the Soviet Union for second-most at that point after Italy's four). The Japanese gymnasts swept the medals, with Eizo Kenmotsu earning silver and Akinori Nakayama. Kato and Nakayama, who had also taken bronze in 1968, were the eighth and ninth men to win multiple medals overall in the event. It was the first medal sweep in the event since France did it in the first edition in 1900. This broke the Soviet Union's five-Games medal streak, with their best gymnast (Nikolai Andrianov) finishing fourth.

Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Umm al-Quwain stamp depicting gold medalist Sawao Kato on the pommel horse
VenueOlympiahalle
Dates27–30 August
Competitors113 from 26 nations
Winning score114.650
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sawao Kato
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
← 1968
1976 →

Background

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This was the 16th appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.[2]

Five of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1968 Games returned: gold medalist Sawao Kato of Japan, silver medalist Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Akinori Nakayama of Japan, fourth-place finisher Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan, and seventh-place finisher Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union. Kenmotsu was the reigning (1970) World Champion, with teammates Mitsuo Tsukahara and Nakayama finishing second and third.[2]

Liechtenstein, New Zealand, and North Korea each made their debut in the event. France and Italy both made their 14th appearance, tied for most among nations.

Competition format

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All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around preliminary score. (One gymnast who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the vault.) Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these scores plus half of the preliminary score resulted in a final total.

Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120. With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.

The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score; the top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals; others were ranked 7th through 111th.[2][3]

Schedule

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All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 27 August 1972 11:15
19:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 29 August 1972 10:00
18:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Wednesday, 30 August 1972 20:00 Final

Results

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One-hundred thirteen gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on 27 and 29 August. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on 30 August. There was no limit as to how many competitors each country could have in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes each gymnast's "prelim" score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim 12
Prelim
Floor Pommel
horse
Rings Vault Parallel
bars
Horizontal
bar
Final Total
  Sawao Kato   Japan 115.10 57.550 9.250 9.400 9.600 9.500 9.600 9.750 57.100 114.650
  Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan 114.75 57.375 9.450 9.600 9.500 9.600 9.450 9.600 57.200 114.575
  Akinori Nakayama   Japan 114.25 57.125 9.500 9.400 9.550 9.450 9.650 9.650 57.200 114.325
4 Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union 113.80 56.900 9.450 9.550 9.550 9.750 9.400 9.650 57.300 114.200
5 Shigeru Kasamatsu   Japan 114.40 57.200 9.500 9.550 9.500 9.250 9.200 9.500 56.500 113.700
6 Viktor Klimenko   Soviet Union 112.65 56.325 9.450 9.350 9.350 9.400 9.650 9.550 56.750 113.075
Klaus Köste   East Germany 113.25 56.625 9.350 9.150 9.350 9.400 9.600 9.600 56.450 113.075
8 Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan 112.25 56.125 9.300 9.200 9.700 9.400 9.200 9.850 56.650 112.775
9 Wolfgang Thüne   East Germany 112.15 56.075 9.000 9.400 9.400 9.400 9.400 9.500 56.100 112.175
10 Matthias Brehme   East Germany 112.45 56.225 9.050 9.350 9.350 9.200 9.500 9.450 55.900 112.125
11 Teruichi Okamura   Japan 111.20 55.600 9.000 9.250 9.450 9.600 9.550 9.600 56.450 112.050
12 Mikhail Voronin   Soviet Union 112.95 56.475 8.800 9.400 9.550 9.000 8.900 9.400 55.050 111.525
13 Li Song-sob   North Korea 110.75 55.375 9.450 8.900 9.350 9.400 9.400 9.500 56.000 111.375
14 Eberhard Gienger   West Germany 109.75 54.875 9.200 9.350 9.450 9.350 9.350 9.600 56.300 111.175
15 Andrzej Szajna   Poland 111.15 55.575 9.250 8.750 9.000 9.500 9.350 9.550 55.400 110.975
16 Vladimir Schukin   Soviet Union 110.20 55.100 9.150 9.050 9.300 9.450 9.200 9.550 55.700 110.800
17 Wolfgang Klotz   East Germany 111.05 55.525 9.200 9.000 9.200 9.050 9.300 9.500 55.250 110.775
18 Alexander Maleev   Soviet Union 110.70 55.350 9.050 9.150 9.300 9.150 9.250 9.400 55.300 110.650
19 Imre Molnár   Hungary 110.55 55.275 9.050 9.350 8.850 9.350 9.400 9.350 55.350 110.625
20 Wilhelm Kubica   Poland 109.90 54.950 9.100 9.450 9.350 9.000 9.400 9.300 55.600 110.550
21 Edvard Mikaelian   Soviet Union 112.50 56.250 9.200 8.300 9.250 9.000 9.000 9.550 54.300 110.550
22 Sylwester Kubica   Poland 110.75 55.375 9.150 9.300 9.250 9.400 8.400 9.450 54.950 110.325
23 Peter Rohner   Switzerland 109.40 54.700 9.200 9.100 8.950 9.500 9.200 9.400 55.350 110.050
24 Walter Mossinger   West Germany 109.70 54.850 9.100 8.800 9.400 8.950 9.300 9.600 55.150 110.000
25 Günter Spies   West Germany 108.70 54.350 9.050 9.200 9.350 9.100 9.200 9.500 55.400 109.750
26 Reinhard Rychly   East Germany 109.95 54.975 9.100 9.000 8.850 9.250 9.150 9.350 54.700 109.675
27 Kim Song-il   North Korea 108.25 54.125 9.100 9.200 9.200 9.200 9.300 9.350 55.350 109.475
28 Jürgen Paeke   East Germany 109.35 54.675 9.150 9.200 8.400 9.250 9.350 9.400 54.750 109.425
29 Zoltán Magyar   Hungary 108.70 54.350 8.850 9.500 9.000 9.100 9.200 9.200 54.850 109.200
30 Kim Song-yu   North Korea 109.45 54.725 8.900 8.950 9.450 9.000 9.350 8.750 54.400 109.125
31 Steven Hug   United States 109.45 54.725 9.050 9.300 9.000 9.150 8.250 9.400 54.150 108.875
32 Danuţ Grecu   Romania 108.10 54.050 9.100 9.100 9.200 9.200 9.200 9.000 54.800 108.850
33 Janez Brodnik   Yugoslavia 107.80 53.900 8.900 9.000 9.100 9.200 9.300 9.450 54.950 108.850
34 Petre Mihăiuc   Romania 109.30 54.650 9.150 8.550 9.150 8.850 9.050 9.250 54.000 108.650
35 Mauno Nissinen   Finland 107.85 53.925 8.950 8.800 9.200 8.950 9.400 9.300 54.600 108.525
36 Jifi Fejtek   Czechoslovakia 107.95 53.975 8.700 9.250 9.150 9.050 9.050 9.300 54.500 108.475
37 Mikołaj Kubica   Poland 111.25 Did not start
38 Bernd Effing   West Germany 107.75 Did not advance
Shin Heung-do   North Korea 107.75
40 Ladislav Morava   Czechoslovakia 107.55
41 Vladislav Nehasil   Czechoslovakia 107.45
42 Gheorghe Păunescu   Romania 107.25
43 Robert Bretscher   Switzerland 107.00
44 Reinhard Ritter   West Germany 106.80
44 Miloš Vratič   Yugoslavia 106.80
46 István Kiss   Hungary 106.65
47 Milenko Kersnić   Yugoslavia 106.60
48 Mieczysław Strzałka   Poland 106.45
Ho Yun-hang   North Korea 106.45
50 Jerzy Kruża   Poland 106.35
Marshall Avener   United States 106.35
52 Heinz Häussler   West Germany 106.25
Pavel Stanovský   Czechoslovakia 106.25
54 Jo Jong-ryol   North Korea 106.15
55 Edwin Greutmann   Switzerland 105.90
56 Makoto Sakamoto   United States 105.70
57 Béla Herczeg   Hungary 105.60
Stefan Zoev   Bulgaria 105.60
59 Max Brühwiler   Switzerland 105.40
Jean-Pierre Miens   France 105.40
61 Jorge Cuervo   Cuba 105.35
62 Antal Kisteleki   Hungary 105.30
63 Mircea Gheorghiu   Romania 105.00
64 István Bérczi   Hungary 104.95
65 Christian Guiffroy   France 104.90
66 Philippe Gaille   Switzerland 104.80
67 Nicolae Oprescu   Romania 104.60
68 Jorge Rodríguez   Cuba 104.25
69 Roberto Léon Richards   Cuba 104.20
70 Geno Radev   Bulgaria 104.05
71 Zoran Ivanović   Yugoslavia 103.85
72 Christian Deuza   France 103.75
Jim Culhane Jr.   United States 103.75
74 Constantin Petrescu   Romania 103.70
75 Franco Donegà   Italy 103.60
76 Henri Boërio   France 103.45
77 Bohumil Mudřík   Czechoslovakia 103.30
John Crosby Jr.   United States 103.30
79 Ivica Hmjelovac   Yugoslavia 103.10
80 René Badell   Cuba 103.05
81 Tore Lie   Norway 102.60
82 Bernard Farjat   France 102.50
83 Dimitar Koychev   Bulgaria 102.20
George Greenfield   United States 102.20
85 Luigi Coppa   Italy 102.05
86 Drago Šoštarić   Yugoslavia 101.90
87 Maurizio Milanetto   Italy 101.55
88 Bruno Banzer   Liechtenstein 101.35
89 Cecilio Ugarte   Spain 101.15
90 Ivan Kondev   Bulgaria 100.90
91 Agustín Sandoval   Spain 100.85
92 Peter Lloyd   Australia 100.70
93 Stan Wild   Great Britain 100.55
94 Emilio Sagre   Cuba 100.40
95 Georges Guelzec   France 100.20
96 José Ginés   Spain 99.35
97 Bozhidar Iliev   Bulgaria 99.30
Steve Mitruk   Canada 99.30
99 Carmine Luppino   Italy 99.15
100 Dimitar Dimitrov   Bulgaria 98.95
101 Adolfo Lampronti   Italy 98.65
102 Ole Benediktson   Denmark 98.50
103 Eddie Arnold   Great Britain 97.45
104 André Simard   Canada 97.30
105 Luis Ramírez   Cuba 97.25
106 Rogelio Mendoza   Mexico 97.05
107 Bill Norgrave   Great Britain 96.90
108 Fedele Spatazza   Italy 95.85
109 Ian Clarke   Australia 94.35
110 Terry Sale   New Zealand 92.05
111 Miloslav Netušil   Czechoslovakia 54.50
112 Bruce Medd   Canada 16.95
113 Hans Ettlin   Switzerland 11.05

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 192.
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