The men's individual all-around 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 27, 29 and 30 August at the Sports Hall. There were 113 competitors from 26 nations. Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Sawao Kato of Japan, the third man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the event; it was Japan's third consecutive victory in the event (matching the Soviet Union for second-most at that point after Italy's four). The Japanese gymnasts swept the medals, with Eizo Kenmotsu earning silver and Akinori Nakayama. Kato and Nakayama, who had also taken bronze in 1968, were the eighth and ninth men to win multiple medals overall in the event. It was the first medal sweep in the event since France did it in the first edition in 1900. This broke the Soviet Union's five-Games medal streak, with their best gymnast (Nikolai Andrianov) finishing fourth.
Background
This was the 16th appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.
Five of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1968 Games returned: gold medalist Sawao Kato of Japan, silver medalist Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Akinori Nakayama of Japan, fourth-place finisher Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan, and seventh-place finisher Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union. Kenmotsu was the reigning (1970) World Champion, with teammates Mitsuo Tsukahara and Nakayama finishing second and third.
Liechtenstein, New Zealand, and North Korea each made their debut in the event. France and Italy both made their 14th appearance, tied for most among nations.
Competition format
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 preliminary score. (One gymnast who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the vault.) Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these scores plus half of the preliminary score resulted in a final total.
Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120. With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.
The preliminary 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.Official Report, vol. 3, p. 192.
Schedule
All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
Date Time Round Sunday, 27 August 1972 11:1519:00 Preliminary: Compulsory Tuesday, 29 August 1972 10:0018:00 Preliminary: Voluntary Wednesday, 30 August 1972 20:00 Final
Results
One-hundred thirteen gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on 27 and 29 August. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on 30 August. There was no limit as to how many competitors each country could have in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes each gymnast's "prelim" score.
Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Final Total Sawao Kato 115.10 57.5509.2509.4009.6009.5009.6009.75057.100114.650 Eizo Kenmotsu 114.75 57.3759.4509.6009.5009.6009.4509.60057.200114.575 Akinori Nakayama 114.25 57.1259.5009.4009.5509.4509.6509.65057.200114.325 4 Nikolai Andrianov 113.80 56.9009.4509.5509.5509.7509.4009.65057.300114.200 5 Shigeru Kasamatsu 114.40 57.2009.5009.5509.5009.2509.2009.50056.500113.700 6 Viktor Klimenko 112.65 56.3259.4509.3509.3509.4009.6509.55056.750113.075 Klaus Köste 113.25 56.6259.3509.1509.3509.4009.6009.60056.450113.075 8 Mitsuo Tsukahara 112.25 56.1259.3009.2009.7009.4009.2009.85056.650112.775 9 Wolfgang Thüne 112.15 56.0759.0009.4009.4009.4009.4009.50056.100112.175 10 Matthias Brehme 112.45 56.2259.0509.3509.3509.2009.5009.45055.900112.125 11 Teruichi Okamura 111.20 55.6009.0009.2509.4509.6009.5509.60056.450112.050 12 Mikhail Voronin 112.95 56.4758.8009.4009.5509.0008.9009.40055.050111.525 13 Li Song-sob 110.75 55.3759.4508.9009.3509.4009.4009.50056.000111.375 14 Eberhard Gienger 109.75 54.8759.2009.3509.4509.3509.3509.60056.300111.175 15 Andrzej Szajna 111.15 55.5759.2508.7509.0009.5009.3509.55055.400110.975 16 Vladimir Schukin 110.20 55.1009.1509.0509.3009.4509.2009.55055.700110.800 17 Wolfgang Klotz 111.05 55.5259.2009.0009.2009.0509.3009.50055.250110.775 18 Alexander Maleev 110.70 55.3509.0509.1509.3009.1509.2509.40055.300110.650 19 Imre Molnár 110.55 55.2759.0509.3508.8509.3509.4009.35055.350110.625 20 Wilhelm Kubica 109.90 54.9509.1009.4509.3509.0009.4009.30055.600110.550 21 Edvard Mikaelian 112.50 56.2509.2008.3009.2509.0009.0009.55054.300110.550 22 Sylwester Kubica 110.75 55.3759.1509.3009.2509.4008.4009.45054.950110.325 23 Peter Rohner 109.40 54.7009.2009.1008.9509.5009.2009.40055.350110.050 24 Walter Mossinger 109.70 54.8509.1008.8009.4008.9509.3009.60055.150110.000 25 Günter Spies 108.70 54.3509.0509.2009.3509.1009.2009.50055.400109.750 26 Reinhard Rychly 109.95 54.9759.1009.0008.8509.2509.1509.35054.700109.675 27 Kim Song-il 108.25 54.1259.1009.2009.2009.2009.3009.35055.350109.475 28 Jürgen Paeke 109.35 54.6759.1509.2008.4009.2509.3509.40054.750109.425 29 Zoltán Magyar 108.70 54.3508.8509.5009.0009.1009.2009.20054.850109.200 30 Kim Song-yu 109.45 54.7258.9008.9509.4509.0009.3508.75054.400109.125 31 Steven Hug 109.45 54.7259.0509.3009.0009.1508.2509.40054.150108.875 32 Danuţ Grecu 108.10 54.0509.1009.1009.2009.2009.2009.00054.800108.850 33 Janez Brodnik 107.80 53.9008.9009.0009.1009.2009.3009.45054.950108.850 34 Petre Mihăiuc 109.30 54.6509.1508.5509.1508.8509.0509.25054.000108.650 35 Mauno Nissinen 107.85 53.9258.9508.8009.2008.9509.4009.30054.600108.525 36 Jifi Fejtek 107.95 53.9758.7009.2509.1509.0509.0509.30054.500108.475 37 Mikołaj Kubica 111.25 colspan=9 38 Bernd Effing 107.75 colspan=9 rowspan=76 Shin Heung-do 107.75 40 Ladislav Morava 107.55 41 Vladislav Nehasil 107.45 42 Gheorghe Păunescu 107.25 43 Robert Bretscher 107.00 44 Reinhard Ritter 106.80 44 Miloš Vratič 106.80 46 István Kiss 106.65 47 Milenko Kersnić 106.60 48 Mieczysław Strzałka 106.45 Ho Yun-hang 106.45 50 Jerzy Kruża 106.35 Marshall Avener 106.35 52 Heinz Häussler 106.25 Pavel Stanovský 106.25 54 Jo Jong-ryol 106.15 55 Edwin Greutmann 105.90 56 Makoto Sakamoto 105.70 57 Béla Herczeg 105.60 Stefan Zoev 105.60 59 Max Brühwiler 105.40 Jean-Pierre Miens 105.40 61 Jorge Cuervo 105.35 62 Antal Kisteleki 105.30 63 Mircea Gheorghiu 105.00 64 István Bérczi 104.95 65 Christian Guiffroy 104.90 66 Philippe Gaille 104.80 67 Nicolae Oprescu 104.60 68 Jorge Rodríguez 104.25 69 Roberto Léon Richards 104.20 70 Geno Radev 104.05 71 Zoran Ivanović 103.85 72 Christian Deuza 103.75 Jim Culhane Jr. 103.75 74 Constantin Petrescu 103.70 75 Franco Donegà 103.60 76 Henri Boërio 103.45 77 Bohumil Mudřík 103.30 John Crosby Jr. 103.30 79 Ivica Hmjelovac 103.10 80 René Badell 103.05 81 Tore Lie 102.60 82 Bernard Farjat 102.50 83 Dimitar Koychev 102.20 George Greenfield 102.20 85 Luigi Coppa 102.05 86 Drago Šoštarić 101.90 87 Maurizio Milanetto 101.55 88 Bruno Banzer 101.35 89 Cecilio Ugarte 101.15 90 Ivan Kondev 100.90 91 Agustín Sandoval 100.85 92 Peter Lloyd 100.70 93 Stan Wild 100.55 94 Emilio Sagre 100.40 95 Georges Guelzec 100.20 96 José Ginés 99.35 97 Bozhidar Iliev 99.30 Steve Mitruk 99.30 99 Carmine Luppino 99.15 100 Dimitar Dimitrov 98.95 101 Adolfo Lampronti 98.65 102 Ole Benediktson 98.50 103 Eddie Arnold 97.45 104 André Simard 97.30 105 Luis Ramírez 97.25 106 Rogelio Mendoza 97.05 107 Bill Norgrave 96.90 108 Fedele Spatazza 95.85 109 Ian Clarke 94.35 110 Terry Sale 92.05 111 Miloslav Netušil 54.50 112 Bruce Medd 16.95 113 Hans Ettlin 11.05
References
External links Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com www.gymn-forum.net