Gymnastics at the 1972 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 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The qualification and final rounds took place on 27, 29 and 30 August at the Sports Hall. There were 113 competitors from 26 nations. 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.
Background 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.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.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 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.
Schedule 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 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 Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Final Total  Sawao Kato   115.10  57.5509.2509.4009.6009.5009.6009.75057.100'''114.650'''  Eizo Kenmotsu   114.75  57.3759.4509.6009.5009.6009.4509.60057.200'''114.575'''  Akinori Nakayama   114.25  57.1259.5009.4009.5509.4509.6509.65057.200'''114.325''' 4 Nikolai Andrianov   113.80  56.9009.4509.5509.5509.7509.4009.65057.300'''114.200''' 5 Shigeru Kasamatsu   114.40  57.2009.5009.5509.5009.2509.2009.50056.500'''113.700''' 6 Viktor Klimenko   112.65  56.3259.4509.3509.3509.4009.6509.55056.750'''113.075''' Klaus Köste   113.25  56.6259.3509.1509.3509.4009.6009.60056.450'''113.075''' 8 Mitsuo Tsukahara   112.25  56.1259.3009.2009.7009.4009.2009.85056.650'''112.775''' 9 Wolfgang Thüne   112.15  56.0759.0009.4009.4009.4009.4009.50056.100'''112.175''' 10 Matthias Brehme   112.45  56.2259.0509.3509.3509.2009.5009.45055.900'''112.125''' 11 Teruichi Okamura   111.20  55.6009.0009.2509.4509.6009.5509.60056.450'''112.050''' 12 Mikhail Voronin   112.95  56.4758.8009.4009.5509.0008.9009.40055.050'''111.525''' 13 Li Song-sob   110.75  55.3759.4508.9009.3509.4009.4009.50056.000'''111.375''' 14 Eberhard Gienger   109.75  54.8759.2009.3509.4509.3509.3509.60056.300'''111.175''' 15 Andrzej Szajna   111.15  55.5759.2508.7509.0009.5009.3509.55055.400'''110.975''' 16 Vladimir Schukin   110.20  55.1009.1509.0509.3009.4509.2009.55055.700'''110.800''' 17 Wolfgang Klotz   111.05  55.5259.2009.0009.2009.0509.3009.50055.250'''110.775''' 18 Alexander Maleev   110.70  55.3509.0509.1509.3009.1509.2509.40055.300'''110.650''' 19 Imre Molnár   110.55  55.2759.0509.3508.8509.3509.4009.35055.350'''110.625''' 20 Wilhelm Kubica   109.90  54.9509.1009.4509.3509.0009.4009.30055.600'''110.550''' 21 Edvard Mikaelian   112.50  56.2509.2008.3009.2509.0009.0009.55054.300'''110.550''' 22 Sylwester Kubica   110.75  55.3759.1509.3009.2509.4008.4009.45054.950'''110.325''' 23 Peter Rohner   109.40  54.7009.2009.1008.9509.5009.2009.40055.350'''110.050''' 24 Walter Mossinger   109.70  54.8509.1008.8009.4008.9509.3009.60055.150'''110.000''' 25 Günter Spies   108.70  54.3509.0509.2009.3509.1009.2009.50055.400'''109.750''' 26 Reinhard Rychly   109.95  54.9759.1009.0008.8509.2509.1509.35054.700'''109.675''' 27 Kim Song-il   108.25  54.1259.1009.2009.2009.2009.3009.35055.350'''109.475''' 28 Jürgen Paeke   109.35  54.6759.1509.2008.4009.2509.3509.40054.750'''109.425''' 29 Zoltán Magyar   108.70  54.3508.8509.5009.0009.1009.2009.20054.850'''109.200''' 30 Kim Song-yu   109.45  54.7258.9008.9509.4509.0009.3508.75054.400'''109.125''' 31 Steven Hug   109.45  54.7259.0509.3009.0009.1508.2509.40054.150'''108.875''' 32 Danuţ Grecu   108.10  54.0509.1009.1009.2009.2009.2009.00054.800'''108.850''' 33 Janez Brodnik   107.80  53.9008.9009.0009.1009.2009.3009.45054.950'''108.850''' 34 Petre Mihăiuc   109.30  54.6509.1508.5509.1508.8509.0509.25054.000'''108.650''' 35 Mauno Nissinen   107.85  53.9258.9508.8009.2008.9509.4009.30054.600'''108.525''' 36 Jifi Fejtek   107.95  53.9758.7009.2509.1509.0509.0509.30054.500'''108.475''' 37  Mikołaj Kubica   111.25  38  Bernd Effing    107.75  Shin Heung-do    107.75 40  Ladislav Morava    107.55 41  Vladislav Nehasil    107.45 42  Gheorghe Păunescu    107.25 43  Robert Bretscher    107.00 44  Reinhard Ritter    106.80 44  Miloš Vratič    106.80 46  István Kiss   106.65  47  Milenko Kersnić    106.60 48  Mieczysław Strzałka    106.45 Ho Yun-hang    106.45 50  Jerzy Kruża    106.35 Marshall Avener    106.35 52  Heinz Häussler    106.25 Pavel Stanovský    106.25 54  Jo Jong-ryol    106.15 55  Edwin Greutmann    105.90 56  Makoto Sakamoto    105.70 57  Béla Herczeg    105.60 Stefan Zoev    105.60 59  Max Brühwiler    105.40 Jean-Pierre Miens    105.40 61  Jorge Cuervo    105.35 62  Antal Kisteleki    105.30 63  Mircea Gheorghiu    105.00 64  István Bérczi    104.95 65  Christian Guiffroy    104.90 66  Philippe Gaille    104.80 67  Nicolae Oprescu    104.60 68  Jorge Rodríguez    104.25 69  Roberto Léon Richards    104.20 70  Geno Radev    104.05 71  Zoran Ivanović    103.85 72  Christian Deuza    103.75 Jim Culhane Jr.    103.75 74  Constantin Petrescu    103.70 75  Franco Donegà    103.60 76  Henri Boërio    103.45 77  Bohumil Mudřík    103.30 John Crosby Jr.    103.30 79  Ivica Hmjelovac    103.10 80  René Badell    103.05 81  Tore Lie    102.60 82  Bernard Farjat    102.50 83  Dimitar Koychev    102.20 George Greenfield   102.20  85  Luigi Coppa    102.05 86  Drago Šoštarić    101.90 87  Maurizio Milanetto    101.55 88  Bruno Banzer    101.35 89  Cecilio Ugarte    101.15 90  Ivan Kondev    100.90 91  Agustín Sandoval    100.85 92  Peter Lloyd   100.70  93  Stan Wild    100.55 94  Emilio Sagre    100.40 95  Georges Guelzec    100.20 96  José Ginés    99.35 97  Bozhidar Iliev    99.30 Steve Mitruk    99.30 99  Carmine Luppino    99.15 100  Dimitar Dimitrov    98.95 101  Adolfo Lampronti    98.65 102  Ole Benediktson    98.50 103  Eddie Arnold    97.45 104  André Simard    97.30 105  Luis Ramírez    97.25 106  Rogelio Mendoza    97.05 107  Bill Norgrave    96.90 108  Fedele Spatazza    95.85 109  Ian Clarke    94.35 110  Terry Sale    92.05 111  Miloslav Netušil    54.50 112  Bruce Medd    16.95 113  Hans Ettlin    11.05
References
External links * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com* www.gymn-forum.net