European Gymnastics Championships 1979 (men)

The 13th Men's Gymnastics European Championships in 1979 were held in the Federal Republic of Germany and took place from May 18th to 19th in Essen's Grugahalle . 3,000 spectators followed the competitions on both days. They saw the first success of a Bulgarian gymnast in the all-around competition and the dominance of the athletes from the Soviet Union on the individual devices. There they won five out of six possible apparatus titles and also made Bohdan Makuz, the most successful gymnast of these championships. Local hero Eberhard Gienger, one of the big favorites in the all-around competition, could not meet the high expectations in front of the home crowd. In the all-around competition he failed on the pommel horse and one day later he had to leave the device on his parade device on the horizontal bar at the Gienger somersault . Ultimately, he had to make peace with himself and the host with bronze on the bars .

Results

All-around

May 18, 1979

rank	athlete	Points
1	Stoyan Delchev	57,750
2	Bohdan Makuz	57,450
	Alexander Tkachev
4th	Alexander Ditjatin	57,350
5	Lutz Mack	57,250
6th	Péter Kovács	56,950
7th	Ralph Bärthel	56,700
...
10	Eberhard Gienger
12	Volker Rohrwick
14th	Edgar Jorek
18th	Lutz Hoffmann	55,750

Device finals

May 19, 1979

ground

rank	athlete	Points
1	Stoyan Delchev	19,600
2	Ralph Bärthel	19,500
3	Lutz Mack	19,450
4th	Andrzej Szajna	19,350
5	Eberhard Gienger	19,200
	Kurt Szilier
7th	Ion Checiches	19,100
8th	Alexander Tkachev	18,850

Pommel horse

rank	athlete	Points
1	György Guczoghy	19,150
	Alexander Ditjatin
3	Michel Boutard	19,050
	Bohdan Makuz
5	Kurt Szilier	19,000
6th	Dancho Jordanov	18,950
7th	Stoyan Delchev	18,800
8th	Lutz Mack	18,750

Rings

rank	athlete	Points
1	Alexander Ditjatin	19,350
2	Bohdan Makuz	19,200
3	Lutz Mack	19,150
4th	Willi Moy	19,100
5	Péter Kovács	19,050
	Stoyan Delchev
7th	Volker Rohrwick	18,950
8th	Nicolae Oprescu	18,900

Leap

rank	athlete	Points
1	Bohdan Makuz	19,500
2	Jozef Konečný	19,475
3	Stoyan Delchev	19,400
	Ralph Bärthel
5	Lutz Mack	19,325
6th	Jan Migdau	19,250
7th	Henry Boério	19,200
8th	Willi Moy	19,000

Ingots

rank	athlete	Points
1	Bohdan Makuz	19,550
2	Alexander Ditjatin	19,400
3	Eberhard Gienger	19,300
	Henry Boério
5	Kurt Szilier	19,250
6th	Nicolae Oprescu	19,050
7th	Stoyan Delchev	18,950
8th	Lutz Mack	18,800

Horizontal bar

rank	athlete	Points
1	Alexander Tkachev	19,550
2	Stoyan Delchev	19,450
	Péter Kovács
4th	Alexander Ditjatin	19,400
5	Eberhard Gienger	19,250
6th	Henry Boério	19,200
7th	Ralph Bärthel	19,100
8th	Lutz Hoffmann	19,050

Medal table

rank	country
1	Soviet Union	5	4th	1	10
2	Bulgaria	2	1	1	4th
3	Hungary	1	1	-	2
4th	GDR	-	1	3	4th
5	Czechoslovakia	-	1	-	1
6th	France	-	-	2	2
7th	BR Germany	-	-	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 223 .
• Foosball sports magazine . No. 42 . Olympia-Verlag , Nuremberg, May 1979.

swell

• Karlheinz Heckert: Result lists gymnastics. Retrieved February 22, 2012 .