Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's rings
Introduction The men's rings 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 August 27, 29 and September 1 at the Olympiahalle. 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 top two places were the same as in 1968, while the next two places were taken by the same gymnasts but in the opposite order. The event was won by Akinori Nakayama of Japan, the nation's third consecutive victory in the men's rings; Nakayama was the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the event. Mikhail Voronin's second consecutive silver extended the Soviet Union's podium streak in the rings to six Games. Nakayama and Voronin were the fifth and sixth men to earn multiple medals in the rings. Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan took bronze, switching places with fourth-place finisher Sawao Kato from the previous Games (where Kato took bronze and Tsukahara fourth).
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: gold medalist Akinori Nakayama of Japan, silver medalist Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Sawao Kato of Japan, and fourth-place finisher Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan. Nakayama, Tsukahara, and Voronin (in that order) had comprised the podium at the 1970 World Championships.Liechtenstein, New Zealand, and North Korea each made their debut in the men's rings. 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   Akinori Nakayama    9.70  9.70  '''19.40'''  9.700  9.650  '''19.350'''   Mikhail Voronin    9.60  9.65  '''19.25'''  9.625  9.650  '''19.275'''   Mitsuo Tsukahara    9.45  9.60  '''19.05'''  9.525  9.700  '''19.225''' 4  Sawao Kato    9.50  9.60  '''19.10'''  9.550  9.600  '''19.150''' 5  Eizo Kenmotsu    9.60  9.50  '''19.10'''  9.550  9.400  '''18.950''' Klaus Köste    9.45  9.55  '''19.00'''  9.500  9.450  '''18.950''' 7  Nikolai Andrianov    9.50  9.50  '''19.00'''  Did not advance 8  Shin Heung-do    9.30  9.65  '''18.95'''  Did not advance 9  Teruichi Okamura    9.45  9.45  '''18.90'''  Did not advance 10  Andrzej Szajna    9.40  9.45  '''18.85'''  Did not advance Wolfgang Thüne    9.50  9.35  '''18.85'''  Did not advance 12  Matthias Brehme    9.40  9.40  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Shigeru Kasamatsu    9.30  9.50  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Sylwester Kubica    9.30  9.50  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Edvard Mikaelian    9.45  9.35  '''18.80'''  Did not advance 16  Viktor Klimenko    9.40  9.30  '''18.70'''  Did not advance Wolfgang Klotz    9.40  9.30  '''18.70'''  Did not advance Walter Mossinger    9.30  9.40  '''18.70'''  Did not advance 19  Makoto Sakamoto    9.35  9.30  '''18.65'''  Did not advance 20  Dan Grecu    9.20  9.30  '''18.50'''  Did not advance Mikolaj Kubica    9.20  9.30  '''18.50'''  Did not advance 22  Li Song-sob    8.90  9.50  '''18.40'''  Did not advance Alexander Maleev    9.25  9.15  '''18.40'''  Did not advance Vladimir Schukin    9.10  9.30  '''18.40'''  Did not advance Günter Spies    9.20  9.20  '''18.40'''  Did not advance 26  Eberhard Gienger    9.10  9.25  '''18.35'''  Did not advance Kim Song-yu    9.00  9.35  '''18.35'''  Did not advance 28  Marshall Avener    9.15  9.15  '''18.30'''  Did not advance 29  Jifi Fejtek    9.15  9.10  '''18.25'''  Did not advance Imre Molnár    9.10  9.15  '''18.25'''  Did not advance 31  Peter Rohner    9.15  9.05  '''18.20'''  Did not advance Reinhard Rychly    9.00  9.20  '''18.20'''  Did not advance 33  Janez Brodnik    9.05  9.05  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Ho Yun-hang    8.95  9.15  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Wilhelm Kubica    8.80  9.30  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Petre Mihaiuc    8.90  9.20  '''18.10'''  Did not advance 37  Steven Hug    9.00  9.05  '''18.05'''  Did not advance Vladislav Nehasil    9.05  9.00  '''18.05'''  Did not advance Nicolae Oprescu    9.00  9.05  '''18.05'''  Did not advance 40  István Kiss    8.90  9.10  '''18.00'''  Did not advance 41  Jo Jong-ryol    8.70  9.25  '''17.95'''  Did not advance 42  Antal Kisteleki    9.00  8.90  '''17.90'''  Did not advance Mauno Nissinen    8.90  9.00  '''17.90'''  Did not advance Pavel Stanovsky    8.95  8.95  '''17.90'''  Did not advance Mieczyslaw Strzalka    8.80  9.10  '''17.90'''  Did not advance 46  Reinhard Ritter    8.95  8.85  '''17.80'''  Did not advance 47  George Greenfield    8.85  8.90  '''17.75'''  Did not advance Zoltán Magyar    9.00  8.75  '''17.75'''  Did not advance 49  Philippe Gaille    8.85  8.85  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Kim Song-il    8.70  9.00  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Jürgen Paeke    8.50  9.20  '''17.70'''  Did not advance 52  Dimitar Koychev    8.90  8.75  '''17.65'''  Did not advance Ladislav Morava    8.80  8.85  '''17.65'''  Did not advance 54  Edwin Greutmann    9.00  8.60  '''17.60'''  Did not advance 55  Jorge Cuervo    8.75  8.80  '''17.55'''  Did not advance Jerzy Kruza    8.55  9.00  '''17.55'''  Did not advance Miloš Vratič    8.75  8.80  '''17.55'''  Did not advance 58  Max Brühwiler    8.60  8.90  '''17.50'''  Did not advance Heinz Häussler    8.55  8.95  '''17.50'''  Did not advance Cecilio Ugarte    8.65  8.85  '''17.50'''  Did not advance 61  Bernd Effing    8.60  8.85  '''17.45'''  Did not advance Gheorghe Paunescu    8.60  8.85  '''17.45'''  Did not advance 63  Adolfo Lampronti    8.50  8.85  '''17.35'''  Did not advance 64  Jim Culhane Jr.    8.50  8.80  '''17.30'''  Did not advance 65  Dimitar Dimitrov    8.65  8.55  '''17.20'''  Did not advance Ivica Hmjelovac    8.50  8.70  '''17.20'''  Did not advance Bohumil Mudrik    8.45  8.75  '''17.20'''  Did not advance Stefan Zoev    8.60  8.60  '''17.20'''  Did not advance 69  Henri Boërio    8.55  8.60  '''17.15'''  Did not advance Ivan Kondev    8.40  8.75  '''17.15'''  Did not advance Jean-Pierre Miens    8.65  8.50  '''17.15'''  Did not advance Fedele Spatazza    8.60  8.55  '''17.15'''  Did not advance 73  Maurizio Milanetto    8.30  8.80  '''17.10'''  Did not advance 74  Emilio Sagre    8.45  8.60  '''17.05'''  Did not advance 75  Christian Deuza    8.10  8.90  '''17.00'''  Did not advance Drago Sostaric    8.40  8.60  '''17.00'''  Did not advance 77  René Badell    8.20  8.75  '''16.95'''  Did not advance István Bérczi    8.55  8.40  '''16.95'''  Did not advance Bernard Farjat    8.30  8.65  '''16.95'''  Did not advance Mircea Gheorghiu    8.35  8.60  '''16.95'''  Did not advance Constantin Petrescu    8.30  8.65  '''16.95'''  Did not advance Jorge Rodriguez    8.50  8.45  '''16.95'''  Did not advance 83  Tore Lie    8.25  8.65  '''16.90'''  Did not advance Geno Radev    8.40  8.50  '''16.90'''  Did not advance 85  John Crosby Jr.    7.85  9.00  '''16.85'''  Did not advance Christian Guiffroy    8.10  8.75  '''16.85'''  Did not advance Carmine Luppino    8.00  8.85  '''16.85'''  Did not advance 88  Luigi Coppa    8.25  8.55  '''16.80'''  Did not advance Milenko Kersnic    8.05  8.75  '''16.80'''  Did not advance 90  Zoran Ivanovic    8.15  8.60  '''16.75'''  Did not advance Bill Norgrave    8.55  8.20  '''16.75'''  Did not advance 92  Béla Herczeg    8.50  8.20  '''16.70'''  Did not advance Bozhidar Iliev    8.85  7.85  '''16.70'''  Did not advance 94  Robert Bretscher    7.50  9.10  '''16.60'''  Did not advance Franco Donega    7.95  8.65  '''16.60'''  Did not advance 96  Eddie Arnold    8.50  8.00  '''16.50'''  Did not advance 97  André Simard    7.70  8.75  '''16.45'''  Did not advance 98  Peter Lloyd    8.15  8.10  '''16.25'''  Did not advance Agustin Sandoval    8.00  8.25  '''16.25'''  Did not advance 100  Roberto Léon Richards    7.75  8.45  '''16.20'''  Did not advance 101  Luis Ramirez    7.55  8.60  '''16.15'''  Did not advance 102  Ian Clarke    8.15  7.90  '''16.05'''  Did not advance Georges Guelzec    7.45  8.60  '''16.05'''  Did not advance 104  Bruno Banzer    7.45  8.55  '''16.00'''  Did not advance Steve Mitruk    7.75  8.25  '''16.00'''  Did not advance 106  José Ginés    7.55  8.30  '''15.85'''  Did not advance Stan Wild    8.00  7.85  '''15.85'''  Did not advance 108  Rogelio Mendoza    6.90  8.35  '''15.25'''  Did not advance 109  Ole Benediktson    6.90  8.25  '''15.15'''  Did not advance 110  Terry Sale    6.60  7.35  '''13.95'''  Did not advance 111  Miloslav Netusil    9.05  0.00  '''9.05'''  Did not advance —  Hans Ettlin      Did not advance Bruce Medd      Did not advance
References * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com* www.gymn-forum.net