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Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Gymnastics
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
VenueSports Hall
Dates27 August – 1 September 1972
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Hall in Munich from 27 August through 1 September.[1]

Format of competition

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The gymnastics competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:

  • Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
  • Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her in Competition II.
  • Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

No limits were imposed as to how many gymnasts each country could enter into the individual all-around final or apparatus finals.

Medal summary

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Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
Team all-around
details
 Japan (JPN)
Shigeru Kasamatsu
Sawao Kato
Eizo Kenmotsu
Akinori Nakayama
Teruichi Okamura
Mitsuo Tsukahara
 Soviet Union (URS)
Nikolai Andrianov
Viktor Klimenko
Alexander Maleev
Edvard Mikaelian
Vladimir Schukin
Mikhail Voronin
 East Germany (GDR)
Matthias Brehme
Wolfgang Klotz
Klaus Köste
Jürgen Paeke
Reinhard Rychly
Wolfgang Thüne
Floor exercise
details
Nikolai Andrianov
 Soviet Union
Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
 Japan
Horizontal bar
details
Mitsuo Tsukahara
 Japan
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
 Japan
Parallel bars
details
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
 Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
Pommel horse
details
Viktor Klimenko
 Soviet Union
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
Rings
details
Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
Mitsuo Tsukahara
 Japan
Vault
details
Klaus Köste
 East Germany
Viktor Klimenko
 Soviet Union
Nikolai Andrianov
 Soviet Union

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual all-around
details
Ludmila Tourischeva
 Soviet Union
Karin Janz
 East Germany
Tamara Lazakovich
 Soviet Union
Team all-around
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Lyubov Burda
Olga Korbut
Antonina Koshel
Tamara Lazakovich
Elvira Saadi
Ludmila Tourischeva
 East Germany (GDR)
Irene Abel
Angelika Hellmann
Karin Janz
Richarda Schmeißer
Christine Schmitt
Erika Zuchold
 Hungary (HUN)
Ilona Békési
Mónika Császár
Marta Kelemen
Anikó Kéry
Krisztina Medveczky
Zsuzsa Nagy
Balance beam
details
Olga Korbut
 Soviet Union
Tamara Lazakovich
 Soviet Union
Karin Janz
 East Germany
Floor exercise
details
Olga Korbut
 Soviet Union
Ludmila Tourischeva
 Soviet Union
Tamara Lazakovich
 Soviet Union
Uneven bars
details
Karin Janz
 East Germany
Olga Korbut
 Soviet Union
None awarded
(as there was a tie for silver)
Erika Zuchold
 East Germany
Vault
details
Karin Janz
 East Germany
Erika Zuchold
 East Germany
Ludmila Tourischeva
 Soviet Union

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union66416
2 Japan55616
3 East Germany3429
4 Hungary0011
Totals (4 entries)14151342

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
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