Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around
Introduction The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 18, 20 and 21st at the Montreal Forum. There were 90 competitors from 20 nations. Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, the nation's fourth victory in the event (matching Italy for most among nations at that point). It was the Soviets' return to the podium in the event after a one-Games absence in 1972 snapped a five-Games medal streak. Japan, which had swept the medals in 1972, took silver and bronze this time. Two-time defending champion Sawao Kato finished second, becoming the first man to earn three medals in the men's all-around and the most decorated man in the event's history (later tied by Kōhei Uchimura with two golds and a silver from 2008 to 2016). Mitsuo Tsukahara earned bronze.
Background This was the 17th 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.Four of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1972 Games returned: two-time gold medalist Sawao Kato of Japan, silver medalist (and 1968 fourth-place finisher) Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan, fourth-place finisher Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, and eighth-place finisher Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan. Reigning (1974) World Champion Shigeru Kasamatsu of Japan missed the 1976 Games with an emergency appendectomy; Andrianov had been the runner-up with Kenmotsu third.Israel made its debut in the event. France and Italy both made their 15th appearance, tied for most among nations.
Competition format The competition format followed the preliminary and final format introduced in 1972, but placed a limit on the number of finalists per nation. 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. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final—except that each nation was limited to 3 finalists. 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.
Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) Date Time Round Sunday, 18 July 1976  '''12:30''''''19:15''''''21:00'''  '''Preliminary: Compulsory''' Tuesday, 20 July 1976  '''15:00''''''19:00''''''20:45'''  '''Preliminary: Voluntary''' Wednesday, 21 July 1976  '''20:00'''  '''Final'''
Results Ninety gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 18 and 20.The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 21.Each country was limited to three competitors 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 Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Final Total  Nikolai Andrianov   116.50  58.2509.8009.7009.7509.8009.6509.70058.400'''116.650'''  Sawao Kato   115.90  57.9509.6009.6009.4509.5509.7009.80057.700'''115.650'''  Mitsuo Tsukahara   115.75  57.8759.5009.6009.4009.8009.7009.70057.700'''115.575''' 4 Alexander Dityatin   115.15  57.5759.7009.7009.7509.7509.6009.45057.950'''115.525''' 5 Hiroshi Kajiyama   115.25  57.6259.6009.6509.6509.6509.6509.60057.800'''115.425''' 6 Andrzej Szajna   113.85  56.9259.6009.6009.6009.8009.5509.55057.700'''114.625''' 7 Michael Nikolay   112.90  56.4509.3009.8509.4509.6009.3509.60057.150'''113.600''' 8 Imre Molnár  113.65  56.8259.2009.7009.2509.6509.5009.45056.750'''113.575''' 9 Zoltán Magyar   114.25  57.1259.4509.9008.9509.2009.2509.55056.300'''113.425''' 10 Bernd Jäger   112.95  56.4759.1509.5509.5009.5509.4509.65056.850'''113.325''' 11 Lutz Mack   113.00  56.5009.2009.4509.5009.5509.4009.55056.650'''113.150''' 12 Wayne Young   111.55  55.7759.5509.5509.6009.5509.4509.55057.250'''113.025''' 13 Ferenc Donáth  113.60  56.8009.1509.8009.5009.3508.9509.20055.950'''112.750''' 14 Robert Bretscher   112.35  56.1759.3009.3509.4509.6009.2509.55056.500'''112.675''' 15 Peter Kormann   110.75  55.3759.6509.3009.5009.6009.4509.60057.100'''112.475''' 16 Eberhard Gienger   113.30  56.6509.2508.82509.4009.1509.2009.70055.550'''112.200''' 17 Edgar Jorek   111.25  55.6259.4509.4509.4009.1509.4509.25056.150'''111.775''' 18 Gustav Tannenberger   110.40  55.2009.4009.4509.3009.5009.4009.50056.550'''111.750''' 19 Volker Rohrwick   112.20  56.1009.4009.5009.1009.5009.3008.65055.450'''111.550''' 20 Jiří Tabák  109.40  54.7009.6009.2009.1509.7009.4009.55056.600'''111.300''' 21 Kurt Thomas   111.05  55.5259.2009.3009.4009.1009.0509.60055.65'''111.175''' 22 Philip Delesalle   109.00  54.5009.3009.6509.3509.5009.3009.15056.250'''110.750''' 23 Henri Boério  112.90  56.4509.1008.6009.5509.1008.7009.00054.050'''110.500''' 24 Keith Carter   109.30  54.6509.1509.3009.3009.3509.2509.30055.650'''110.300''' 25 Miloslav Netušil  109.75  54.8758.7509.4009.4509.5009.4008.85055.350'''110.225''' 26 Maurizio Milanetto   108.95  54.4759.0009.3509.5509.5008.9509.25055.600'''110.075''' 27 Ueli Bachmann   109.60  54.8009.0009.3509.009.4508.9009.50055.200'''110.000''' Philippe Gaille   109.40  54.7008.8509.4509.3009.1509.1009.45055.300'''110.000''' 29 Nicolae Oprescu   110.30  55.1509.0508.2009.3509.5009.2509.40054.750'''109.900''' 30 Eric Koloko   108.25  54.1259.0009.4509.0509.3509.3009.50055.650'''109.775''' 31 Maurizio Montesi   108.10  54.0509.2009.4009.4509.6008.8509.20055.700'''109.750''' 32 Sorin Cepoi   109.95  54.9759.0009.3509.4509.6507.6509.45054.550'''109.525''' 33 Willi Moy   109.50  54.7509.1508.8009.1009.4508.9009.35054.750'''109.500''' 34 Vladimir Markelov   115.40  57.7000.0009.4508.9000.0008.9009.65036.900'''94.600''' 35 Pierre Leclerc   108.70  54.3501.0000.0000.0000.0009.0509.35019.40'''73.750''' 36 Dan Grecu  114.10  57.0503.0000.4000.0000.0000.0000.0003.400'''60.450''' 37  Eizo Kenmotsu    115.15  38  Gennady Krysin    114.25 39  Vladimir Marchenko    113.85 40  Hisato Igarashi    113.55 41  Vladimir Tikhonov    112.15 42  Roland Brückner    112.00 43  Wolfgang Klotz    111.95 44  Béla Laufer    111.60 45  Rainer Hanschke    111.50 46  Tom Beach    110.55 47  Werner Steinmetz    110.30 48  Ion Checicheș    109.85 49  Mihai Borș    109.75 50  Árpád Farkas    109.65 51  Marshall Avener    109.45 52  Bart Conner    109.35 53  Imre Bánrévi    109.15 Ștefan Gal    109.15 55  Vladislav Nehasil    108.90 56  Reinhard Dietze    108.80 57  Bernhard Locher    108.30 58  Peter Rohner    108.25 59  Andrey Keranov    108.20 60  Dimitrios Janulidis   107.95  61  Marian Pieczka    107.75 Reinhard Ritter    107.75 63  Jan Zoulík    107.35 64  Stoyan Delchev    107.15 65  Łukasz Uhma    106.80 66  Georgi Todorov    106.50 Angelo Zucca    106.50 68  Dov Lupi    106.45 69  Roman Tkaczyk    106.35 70  Bernard Decoux    106.15 71  Mariusz Zasada   106.10  72  Ole Benediktson    105.70 73  Ian Neale    105.40 74  Grzegorz Ciastek    105.35 75  Michel Boutard    105.25 76  Nelson Fernández    105.15 Gabriel Calvo    105.15 78  Dimitar Koychev    105.00 79  José de la Casa    104.95 80  Patrick Boutet    104.80 81  Peter Lloyd    104.75 82  Tommy Wilson    103.45 83  Zhivko Rusev    103.20 84  Phil Cheetham    102.80 85  Jeff Davis    102.50 86  Fernando Bertrand    102.35 87  Toncho Todorov    101.70 88  Roberto Richards    100.65 89  Shun Fujimoto    84.55 90  Armin Vock    81.45
References
External links * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com* www.gymn-forum.net