Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

, fourteen different artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting . The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique , which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of international elite...

 events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Hall
Olympiahalle
Olympiahalle is a multi-purpose arena in Munich, Germany, part of the Olympic Park and close to the Olympic Stadium.The arena is used for concerts, sporting events, exhibitions or trade fairs. In the past, it served as a part-time home for the defunct ice hockey team EC Hedos München...

 in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 from August 27 through September 1.

Format of competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

 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.

Men's events

Team all-around

Shigeru Kasamatsu
Shigeru Kasamatsu
is a Japanese gymnast, world champion and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Kasamatsu received a gold medal with the Japanese team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a silver medal in parallel bars, and bronze medals in floor exercise and horizontal bar.-World championships:At the 1974 World Artistic...


Sawao Kato
Sawao Kato
Sawao Kato is a Japanese gymnast and one of the most successful athletes of all time at the Olympic Games...


Eizo Kenmotsu
Eizo Kenmotsu
is a Japanese gymnast, seven times world champion and three times Olympic champion.-Olympics:Kenmotsu competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal in horizontal bar....


Akinori Nakayama
Akinori Nakayama
is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic gold medalist. He is a graduate of Chukyo University.Winning six gold medals, two silver medals, and two bronze medals, Nakayama was an important factor in the Japanese men's gymnastics team winning the team competition in the 1968 and 1972 summer Olympic games...


Teruichi Okamura
Mitsuo Tsukahara
Mitsuo Tsukahara
Mitsuo Tsukahara is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He was five times an Olympic Gold Medalist. His remained active in the sport after his retirement from competition...


Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Yefimovich Andrianov was a Soviet/Russian gymnast. He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics...


Viktor Klimenko
Viktor Klimenko (gymnast)
Viktor Klimenko is a former Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Klimenko competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City where he received a silver medal in team combined exercises and a bronze medal in parallel bars.He represented the Soviet Union at the 1972...


Alexander Maleev
Edvard Mikaelian
Vladimir Schukin
Mikhail Voronin
Mikhail Voronin
Mikhail Jakovlievitch Voronin was one of the world's strongest Russian gymnasts, who competed for the USSR in the late 1960s-early 1970s.Voronin trained at Dynamo in Moscow, becoming the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1966. He won gold, silver and bronze medals in the 1968 and 1972...


Matthias Brehme
Wolfgang Klotz
Klaus Köste
Klaus Köste
Klaus Köste is a German gymnast and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in vault at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He competed for East Germany and received bronze medals in team combined exercises in three olympics, in 1964, 1968 and 1972.-References:...


Jürgen Paeke
Jürgen Paeke
Jürgen Paeke is a German gymnast and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo He won international at competition. - References :...


Reinhard Rychly
Wolfgang Thüne
Individual all-around
Floor
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel bars
Horizontal bar

Women's events

Team all-around

Lyubov Burda
Lyubov Burda
Lyubov Viktorovna Burda is a Russian artistic gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. She was a member of the Soviet team who won the Team gold medal at the 1970 World Championships. Individually, she is the 1970 World bronze medalist on vault, a medal she tied for with teammate Ludmilla...


Olga Korbut
Olga Korbut
Olga Valentinovna Korbut , also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team....


Antonina Koshel
Tamara Lazakovich
Tamara Lazakovich
Tamara Vasilyevna Lazakovich , born 11 March 1954 in village Gusevo in the Pravdinskiy rayon of the Kaliningrad region of Russia, was an Soviet gymnast whose competed at the European, World, and Olympic level during the early 1970s.Described as a "perky sparrow" with a "purity of line", Lazakovich...


Elvira Saadi
Elvira Saadi
Elvira Saadi is a retired artistic gymnast from the former Soviet Union who is now an elite gymnastics coach in Canada....


Ludmila Tourischeva

Irene Abel
Irene Abel
Irene Abel is a German gymnast and competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin/ Sportvereinigung Dynamo, and competed for East Germany. Her team took a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics.-External links:...


Angelika Hellmann
Karin Janz
Richarda Schmeisser
Christine Schmitt
Erika Zuchold
Erika Zuchold
Erica Zuchold , is a former East German gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid 1960s to early 1970s....


Ilona Bekesi
Monika Csaszar
Marta Kelemen
Aniko Kery
Krisztina Medveczky
Zsuzsa Nagy
Individual all-around
Vault
Uneven bars
Balance beam
Floor

Medal table

1 6 6 4 16
2 5 5 6 16
3 3 3 3 9
4 0 0 1 1
Total 14 14 14 42

See also

  • Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
    Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
    This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in gymnastics from 1896 to 2008.-All-around, individual:-All-around, team:-Floor exercise:-Horizontal bar:-Parallel bars:-Pommel horse:-Rings:-Vault:-Individual:-Club swinging:...

  • Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
    Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
    This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in gymnastics from 1928 to 2008.-All-Around, Individual:-All-Around, Team:Note: The Chinese team of 2000 was stripped of its bronze medal...

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