Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse
Introduction These are the results of the men's pommel horse competition, 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 August 27, 29 and September 1 at the Sports Hall. There were 111 competitors from 26 nations (with 2 of the 113 gymnasts not starting in this apparatus); nations entering the team event had 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union, the nation's fourth victory in the men's pommel horse. Sawao Kato (silver) and Eizo Kenmotsu (bronze) returned Japan to the pommel horse podium after a one-Games absence.
Background This was the 13th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the six finalists from 1968 returned: bronze medalist Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Wilhelm Kubica of Poland, fifth-place finisher Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan, and sixth-place finisher Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union. Three-time world champion and two-time gold medalist Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia had retired in 1970, leaving the field open to other competitors. Kenmotsu and Klimenko had finished second and third at the 1970 World Championships.Liechtenstein, New Zealand, and North Korea each made their debut in the men's pommel horse. The United States made its 12th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.
Competition format Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. 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 score. (One gymnast who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the vault.) These 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. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round Monday, 27 August 1972  '''11:15''''''19:00'''  '''Preliminary: Compulsory''' Wednesday, 29 August 1972  '''10:00''''''18:00'''  '''Preliminary: Voluntary''' Saturday, 1 September 1972  '''19:30'''  '''Final'''
Results One-hundred eleven gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on August 27 and 29.The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 1.Rank  Gymnast  Nation  Preliminary  Final Compulsory  Voluntary  Total   Prelim. Final  Total   Viktor Klimenko    9.50  9.55  '''19.05'''  9.525  9.600  '''19.125'''   Sawao Kato    9.40  9.60  '''19.00'''  9.500  9.500  '''19.000'''   Eizo Kenmotsu    9.50  9.60  '''19.10'''  9.550  9.400  '''18.950''' 4  Shigeru Kasamatsu    9.50  9.55  '''19.05'''  9.525  9.400  '''18.925''' 5  Mikhail Voronin    9.40  9.45  '''18.85'''  9.425  9.450  '''18.875''' 6  Wilhelm Kubica    9.15  9.55  '''18.70'''  9.350  9.400  '''18.750''' 7  Akinori Nakayama    9.30  9.40  '''18.70'''  Did not advance 8  Matthias Brehme    9.25  9.35  '''18.60'''  Did not advance Edvard Mikaelian    9.35  9.25  '''18.60'''  Did not advance Imre Molnár    9.20  9.40  '''18.60'''  Did not advance 11  Steven Hug    9.15  9.40  '''18.55'''  Did not advance Mikolaj Kubica    9.15  9.40  '''18.55'''  Did not advance 13  Klaus Köste    9.20  9.30  '''18.50'''  Did not advance 14  Jürgen Paeke    9.20  9.25  '''18.45'''  Did not advance Wolfgang Thüne    9.45  9.00  '''18.45'''  Did not advance 16  Jifi Fejtek    9.10  9.25  '''18.35'''  Did not advance 17  Nikolai Andrianov    9.50  8.80  '''18.30'''  Did not advance Sylwester Kubica    9.10  9.20  '''18.30'''  Did not advance 19  Marshall Avener    8.95  9.30  '''18.25'''  Did not advance Alexander Maleev    9.15  9.10  '''18.25'''  Did not advance Reinhard Ritter    9.05  9.20  '''18.25'''  Did not advance 22  Mauno Nissinen    9.10  9.10  '''18.20'''  Did not advance 23  Wolfgang Klotz    9.10  9.05  '''18.15'''  Did not advance 24  Milenko Kersnic    8.90  9.20  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Zoltán Magyar    9.05  9.05  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Roberto Léon Richards    8.75  9.35  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Vladimir Schukin    9.05  9.05  '''18.10'''  Did not advance 28  Mieczyslaw Strzalka    8.95  9.10  '''18.05'''  Did not advance 29  Max Brühwiler    8.90  9.10  '''18.00'''  Did not advance Béla Herczeg    8.85  9.15  '''18.00'''  Did not advance Teruichi Okamura    9.05  8.95  '''18.00'''  Did not advance 32  Ladislav Morava    8.85  9.10  '''17.95'''  Did not advance Reinhard Rychly    8.90  9.05  '''17.95'''  Did not advance 34  Bernd Effing    8.80  9.10  '''17.90'''  Did not advance Li Song-sob    8.85  9.05  '''17.90'''  Did not advance Andrzej Szajna    8.90  9.00  '''17.90'''  Did not advance Mitsuo Tsukahara    9.20  8.70  '''17.90'''  Did not advance 38  Petre Mihaiuc    8.80  9.05  '''17.85'''  Did not advance 39  Mircea Gheorghiu    8.75  9.05  '''17.80'''  Did not advance Heinz Häussler    8.95  8.85  '''17.80'''  Did not advance 41  Robert Bretscher    8.80  8.95  '''17.75'''  Did not advance Dan Grecu    8.65  9.10  '''17.75'''  Did not advance Walter Mossinger    8.90  8.85  '''17.75'''  Did not advance Stefan Zoev    9.00  8.75  '''17.75'''  Did not advance 45  István Bérczi    8.70  9.00  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Zoran Ivanovic    8.70  9.00  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Kim Song-yu    8.60  9.10  '''17.70'''  Did not advance István Kiss    8.70  9.00  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Tore Lie    8.65  9.05  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Peter Rohner    8.95  8.75  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Miloš Vratič    8.40  9.30  '''17.70'''  Did not advance 52  Jerzy Kruza    8.75  8.85  '''17.60'''  Did not advance Gheorghe Paunescu    8.65  8.95  '''17.60'''  Did not advance 54  Ho Yun-hang    8.55  9.00  '''17.55'''  Did not advance 55  Franco Donega    8.55  8.95  '''17.50'''  Did not advance Kim Song-il    8.45  9.05  '''17.50'''  Did not advance Jean-Pierre Miens    8.50  9.00  '''17.50'''  Did not advance 58  Bohumil Mudrik    8.70  8.75  '''17.45'''  Did not advance 59  Shin Heung-do    8.35  9.05  '''17.40'''  Did not advance 60  Bruno Banzer    8.35  9.00  '''17.35'''  Did not advance Pavel Stanovsky    9.00  8.35  '''17.35'''  Did not advance 62  Steve Mitruk    8.70  8.60  '''17.30'''  Did not advance 63  Jim Culhane Jr.    8.35  8.90  '''17.25'''  Did not advance 64  Philippe Gaille    8.70  8.50  '''17.20'''  Did not advance Antal Kisteleki    8.20  9.00  '''17.20'''  Did not advance 66  Jo Jong-ryol    8.80  8.35  '''17.15'''  Did not advance 67  Janez Brodnik    8.05  9.05  '''17.10'''  Did not advance 68  Christian Deuza    8.75  8.25  '''17.00'''  Did not advance 69  Eberhard Gienger    9.10  7.85  '''16.95'''  Did not advance Vladislav Nehasil    8.30  8.65  '''16.95'''  Did not advance 71  Edwin Greutmann    8.30  8.60  '''16.90'''  Did not advance Jorge Rodriguez    8.00  8.90  '''16.90'''  Did not advance 73  Stan Wild    7.95  8.90  '''16.85'''  Did not advance 74  Ole Benediktson    8.35  8.45  '''16.80'''  Did not advance 75  Bernard Farjat    7.90  8.85  '''16.75'''  Did not advance 76  Günter Spies    7.90  8.75  '''16.65'''  Did not advance 77  John Crosby Jr.    7.75  8.85  '''16.60'''  Did not advance 78  Drago Sostaric    7.80  8.75  '''16.55'''  Did not advance 79  Luigi Coppa    7.50  9.00  '''16.50'''  Did not advance 80  Dimitar Koychev    8.05  8.35  '''16.40'''  Did not advance Geno Radev    7.75  8.65  '''16.40'''  Did not advance 82  Christian Guiffroy    7.55  8.70  '''16.25'''  Did not advance 83  René Badell    7.55  8.60  '''16.15'''  Did not advance Nicolae Oprescu    7.45  8.70  '''16.15'''  Did not advance 85  Maurizio Milanetto    7.80  8.30  '''16.10'''  Did not advance 86  Constantin Petrescu    8.85  7.15  '''16.00'''  Did not advance Agustin Sandoval    7.80  8.20  '''16.00'''  Did not advance 88  Jorge Cuervo    7.20  8.75  '''15.95'''  Did not advance 89  Ivan Kondev    7.50  8.40  '''15.90'''  Did not advance 90  Peter Lloyd    7.30  8.40  '''15.70'''  Did not advance 91  Bill Norgrave    7.60  8.00  '''15.60'''  Did not advance 92  Carmine Luppino    6.90  8.60  '''15.50'''  Did not advance 93  Ivica Hmjelovac    7.55  7.80  '''15.35'''  Did not advance 94  Cecilio Ugarte    7.70  7.60  '''15.30'''  Did not advance 95  Henri Boërio    6.75  8.35  '''15.10'''  Did not advance Bozhidar Iliev    7.25  7.85  '''15.10'''  Did not advance 97  George Greenfield    6.35  8.70  '''15.05'''  Did not advance Georges Guelzec    7.25  7.80  '''15.05'''  Did not advance 99  André Simard    6.35  8.50  '''14.85'''  Did not advance 100  Rogelio Mendoza    6.00  8.70  '''14.70'''  Did not advance 101  Adolfo Lampronti    7.35  7.20  '''14.55'''  Did not advance Terry Sale    6.50  8.05  '''14.55'''  Did not advance 103  José Ginés    7.00  7.40  '''14.40'''  Did not advance 104  Emilio Sagre    5.95  8.35  '''14.30'''  Did not advance 105  Makoto Sakamoto    5.35  8.75  '''14.10'''  Did not advance Fedele Spatazza    5.75  8.35  '''14.10'''  Did not advance 107  Eddie Arnold    6.65  7.25  '''13.90'''  Did not advance 108  Dimitar Dimitrov    5.50  8.00  '''13.50'''  Did not advance 109  Ian Clarke    5.00  7.95  '''12.95'''  Did not advance 110  Luis Ramirez    4.55  8.35  '''12.90'''  Did not advance 111  Miloslav Netusil    9.25  0.00  '''9.25'''  Did not advance —  Hans Ettlin      Did not advance Bruce Medd      Did not advance
References * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com* www.gymn-forum.net