1972 Summer Olympics / Gymnastics

At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , 14 gymnastics competitions took place, eight for men and six for women. The Munich Olympic Hall was the venue for the gymnastics competitions . The men's competitions were dominated by the Japanese, who won 16 out of 24 medals. Among the women, the gymnasts of the USSR dominated the action with 10 out of 18 possible medals.

Competitions and schedule

Olympiahalle - the venue for gymnastics competitions

Apparatus gymnastics competitions and schedule
Competitions	August September
Men	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.
Team all-around
Individual all-around
ground
Pommel horse
Rings
Leap
Ingots
Horizontal bar
Women	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	01.
Team all-around
Individual all-around
Leap
Uneven bars
Balance beam
ground

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qualification

final

Men

Team all-around

space	country	athlete	Points
1	JPN	Sawao Katō Eizō Kenmotsu Shigeru Kasamatsu Akinori Nakayama Teruichi Okamura Mitsuo Tsukahara	571.25
2	URS	Nikolai Andrianow Viktor Klimenko Alexander Malejew Eduard Mikaeljan Vladimir Shchukin Mikhail Voronin	564.05
3	GDR	Matthias Brehme Wolfgang Klotz Klaus Köste Jürgen Paeke Reinhard Rychly Wolfgang Thüne	559.70
4th	POLE	Mikolaj Kubica Andrzej Szajna Sylwester Kubica Wilhelm Kubica Mieczyslaw Strzalka Jerzy Kruza	551.10
5	FRG	Eberhard Gienger Walter Mössinger Günter Spiess Bernd Effing Reinhard Ritter Heinz Haussier	546.40
6th	PRK	Li Song Sob Kim Song Yu Kim Song Jl Shin Heung Do Ho Yun Hang Jo Jong Ryol	545.05
7th	ROU	Petre Mihaiuc Dan Grecu Gheorghe Păunescu Mircea Gheorghiu Nicolae Oprescu Constantin Petrescu	538.90
8th	HUN	Imre Molnár Zoltán Magyar István Kiss Béla Herczeg Antal Kisteleki István Bérczi	538.60

Final on August 29th

Individual all-around

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Sawao Kato	JPN	114.650
2	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	114.575
3	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	114.325
4th	Nikolai Andrianov	URS	114,200
5	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN	113.700
6th	Viktor Klimenko	URS	113.075
	Klaus Köste	GDR	113.075
8th	Mitsuo Tsukahara	JPN	112.775

Final on August 30th

Device finals

ground

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Nikolai Andrianov	URS	19.175
2	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	19.125
3	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN	19.025
4th	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	18,925
5	Klaus Köste	GDR	18.825
6th	Sawao Kato	JPN	18,750

Final on September 1st

Pommel horse

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Viktor Klimenko	URS	19.125
2	Sawao Kato	JPN	19,000
3	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	18,950
4th	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN	18,925
5	Mikhail Voronin	URS	18.875
6th	Wilhelm Kubica	POLE	18,750

Final on September 1st

Rings

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	19,350
2	Mikhail Voronin	URS	19.275
3	Mitsuo Tsukahara	JPN	19.225
4th	Sawao Kato	JPN	19,150
5	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	18,950
	Klaus Köste	GDR	18,950

Final on September 1st

Leap

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Klaus Köste	GDR	18,850
2	Viktor Klimenko	URS	18.825
3	Nikolai Andrianov	URS	18,800
4th	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	18,550
	Sawao Kato	JPN	18,550
6th	Peter Rohner	SUI	18,525

Final on September 1st

Ingots

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Sawao Kato	JPN	19.475
2	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN	19.375
3	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	19,250
4th	Viktor Klimenko	URS	19.125
5	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	18.875
6th	Nikolai Andrianov	URS	17.975

Final on September 1st

Horizontal bar

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Mitsuo Tsukahara	JPN	19.725
2	Sawao Kato	JPN	19.525
3	Shigeru Kasamatsu	JPN	19,450
4th	Eizō Kenmotsu	JPN	19,350
5	Akinori Nakayama	JPN	19.225
6th	Nikolai Andrianov	URS	19,100

Final on September 1st

Women

Team all-around

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	URS	Lyubov Burda Olga Korbut Antanina Koschal Tamara Lasakowitsch Elwira Saadi Lyudmila Turishcheva	380.50
2	GDR	Irene Abel Angelika Hellmann Karin Janz Richarda Schmeißer Christine Schmitt Erika Zuchold	376.55
3	HUN	Ilona Békési Mónika Császár Márta Kelemen Anikó Kéry Krisztina Medveczky Zsuzsa Nagy	368.25
4th	United States	Cathy Rigby Kimberly Chace Roxanne Pierce Joan Moore Linda Metheny Nancy Thies	365.90
5	TCH	Mariana Némethová-Krajcírová Zdena Dornáková Sona Brézdová Zdena Bujnácková Hana Lišková Marcela Váchová	365.00
6th	ROU	Elena Ceampelea Alina Goreac Anca Grigoraș Elisabeta Turcu Paula Ion Marcela Păunescu	360.70
7th	JPN	Miyuki Matsuhisa Takako Hasegawa Eiko Hirashima Kayoko Saka Kazuo Hanyu Toshiko Miyamoto	359.75
8th	FRG	Uta Schorn Jutta Oltersdorf Andrea Niederheide Angelika Kern Ulrike Weyh Ingrid Santer	357.95

Final on August 28th

Individual all-around

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	77.025
2	Karin Janz	GDR	76.875
3	Tamara Lasakowitsch	URS	76,850
4th	Erika Zuchold	GDR	76,450
5	Lyubov Burda	URS	75.775
6th	Angelika Hellmann	GDR	75.550
7th	Olga Korbut	URS	75.100
8th	Elwira Saadi	URS	75.075

Final on August 29th

Device finals

Leap

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Karin Janz	GDR	19.525
2	Erika Zuchold	GDR	19.275
3	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	19,250
4th	Lyubov Burda	URS	19.225
5	Olga Korbut	URS	19.175
6th	Tamara Lasakowitsch	URS	19.050

Final on August 31st

Uneven bars

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Karin Janz	GDR	19.675
2	Olga Korbut	URS	19,450
	Erika Zuchold	GDR	19,450
4th	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	19,425
5	Ilona Békési	HUN	19.275
6th	Angelika Hellmann	GDR	19.200

Final on August 31st

Balance beam

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Olga Korbut	URS	19,400
2	Tamara Lasakowitsch	URS	19.375
3	Karin Janz	GDR	18.975
4th	Mónika Császár	HUN	18,925
5	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	18,800
6th	Erika Zuchold	GDR	18,700

Final on August 31st

ground

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Olga Korbut	URS	19.575
2	Lyudmila Turishcheva	URS	19,550
3	Tamara Lasakowitsch	URS	19,450
4th	Karin Janz	GDR	19,400
5	Lyubov Burda	URS	19,100
	Angelika Hellmann	GDR	19,100

Final on August 31st

Medal table

Medal table gymnastics
space	country
1	Soviet Union	6th	6th	4th	16
2	Japan	5	5	6th	16
3	GDR	3	3	3	9
4th	Hungary	-	-	1	1
Total		14th	14th	14th	42

literature

Kicker-Sportmagazin : Born in 1972: Issue No. 69–72, Olympia-Verlag GmbH

Web links

1. ↑ Schedule and results of the gymnastics competitions, pp.189–196 (PDF; 29.4 MB)