Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

The men's parallel bars 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 August 27, 29 and September 1 at the Olympiahalle. There were 112 competitors from 26 nations (with 1 of the 113 gymnasts not starting in this apparatus); nations entering the team event had 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts.[1] Japan reached the height of its success in the event this year: putting four men into the six-man final and sweeping the medals. Sawao Kato earned Japan's third consecutive gold medal in the parallel bars, tying Switzerland for most golds all-time; Kato would break that tie in 1976 with his second (and Japan's fourth) gold medal. Shigeru Kasamatsu took silver while Eizo Kenmotsu earned bronze.

Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Sawao Kato (1970)
VenueOlympiahalle
Dates27 August – 1 September
Competitors112 from 26 nations
Winning score19.475
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sawao Kato
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Shigeru Kasamatsu
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
← 1968
1976 →

Background

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This was the 13th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the six finalists from 1968 returned: gold medalist Akinori Nakayama of Japan, silver medalist Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union, and fifth-place finisher Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan. Nakayama had also won the 1970 world championship, with Voronin and Kenmotsu tied for second.[1]

Liechtenstein, New Zealand, and North Korea each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its 12th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. 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 score. (One gymnast who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the vault.) These 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. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final.[1][2]

Schedule

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All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Monday, 27 August 1972 11:15
19:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Wednesday, 29 August 1972 10:00
18:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 1 September 1972 19:30 Final

Results

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One-hundred twelve gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on August 27 and 29. The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 1.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
  Sawao Kato   Japan 9.60 9.75 19.35 9.675 9.800 19.475
  Shigeru Kasamatsu   Japan 9.55 9.70 19.25 9.625 9.750 19.375
  Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan 9.65 9.65 19.30 9.650 9.600 19.250
4 Viktor Klimenko   Soviet Union 9.65 9.60 19.25 9.625 9.500 19.125
5 Akinori Nakayama   Japan 9.60 9.65 19.25 9.625 9.250 18.875
6 Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union 9.50 9.55 19.05 9.525 8.450 17.975
7 Eberhard Gienger   West Germany 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
Mikhail Voronin   Soviet Union 9.60 9.45 19.05 Did not advance
9 Klaus Köste   East Germany 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
10 Günter Spies   West Germany 9.55 9.40 18.95 Did not advance
11 Mikolaj Kubica   Poland 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Edvard Mikaelian   Soviet Union 9.50 9.35 18.85 Did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
14 Teruichi Okamura   Japan 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
15 Matthias Brehme   East Germany 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Wolfgang Thüne   East Germany 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
17 Wolfgang Klotz   East Germany 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
Alexander Maleev   Soviet Union 9.35 9.25 18.60 Did not advance
Peter Rohner   Switzerland 9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
Makoto Sakamoto   United States 9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
Andrzej Szajna   Poland 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
22 Li Song-sob   North Korea 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Walter Mossinger   West Germany 9.35 9.20 18.55 Did not advance
24 Janez Brodnik   Yugoslavia 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
Sylwester Kubica   Poland 9.15 9.35 18.50 Did not advance
Imre Molnár   Hungary 9.40 9.10 18.50 Did not advance
27 Max Brühwiler   Switzerland 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Kim Song-yu   North Korea 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
29 Steven Hug   United States 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica   Poland 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
Reinhard Rychly   East Germany 9.20 9.20 18.40 Did not advance
32 Béla Herczeg   Hungary 9.15 9.20 18.35 Did not advance
Milenko Kersnic   Yugoslavia 9.10 9.25 18.35 Did not advance
Kim Song-il   North Korea 9.15 9.20 18.35 Did not advance
Mauno Nissinen   Finland 8.95 9.40 18.35 Did not advance
36 Jürgen Paeke   East Germany 9.00 9.30 18.30 Did not advance
Geno Radev   Bulgaria 9.00 9.30 18.30 Did not advance
38 Bernd Effing   West Germany 9.00 9.25 18.25 Did not advance
Petre Mihaiuc   Romania 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance
Ladislav Morava   Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.20 18.25 Did not advance
Roberto Léon Richards   Cuba 8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance
42 Jifi Fejtek   Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.15 18.20 Did not advance
Edwin Greutmann   Switzerland 8.95 9.25 18.20 Did not advance
Reinhard Ritter   West Germany 9.10 9.10 18.20 Did not advance
45 Vladislav Nehasil   Czechoslovakia 8.95 9.20 18.15 Did not advance
Vladimir Schukin   Soviet Union 9.00 9.15 18.15 Did not advance
47 Robert Bretscher   Switzerland 8.90 9.20 18.10 Did not advance
Jorge Cuervo   Cuba 8.90 9.20 18.10 Did not advance
Ho Yun-hang   North Korea 9.00 9.10 18.10 Did not advance
István Kiss   Hungary 9.10 9.00 18.10 Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik   Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.05 18.10 Did not advance
52 Dan Grecu   Romania 9.00 9.05 18.05 Did not advance
Christian Guiffroy   France 9.05 9.00 18.05 Did not advance
Zoltán Magyar   Hungary 9.00 9.05 18.05 Did not advance
Miloš Vratič   Yugoslavia 8.90 9.15 18.05 Did not advance
56 István Bérczi   Hungary 8.85 9.10 17.95 Did not advance
Shin Heung-do   North Korea 9.00 8.95 17.95 Did not advance
58 John Crosby Jr.   United States 8.65 9.25 17.90 Did not advance
Drago Sostaric   Yugoslavia 8.85 9.05 17.90 Did not advance
60 Franco Donega   Italy 8.85 9.00 17.85 Did not advance
Carmine Luppino   Italy 8.70 9.15 17.85 Did not advance
Jean-Pierre Miens   France 8.85 9.00 17.85 Did not advance
63 Ole Benediktson   Denmark 8.65 9.15 17.80 Did not advance
Jo Jong-ryol   North Korea 8.55 9.25 17.80 Did not advance
Heinz Häussler   West Germany 8.70 9.10 17.80 Did not advance
Zoran Ivanovic   Yugoslavia 8.85 8.95 17.80 Did not advance
Gheorghe Paunescu   Romania 8.70 9.10 17.80 Did not advance
68 Christian Deuza   France 8.85 8.90 17.75 Did not advance
Ivica Hmjelovac   Yugoslavia 8.80 8.95 17.75 Did not advance
Antal Kisteleki   Hungary 8.90 8.85 17.75 Did not advance
71 Mircea Gheorghiu   Romania 9.05 8.65 17.70 Did not advance
72 Jim Culhane Jr.   United States 8.65 9.00 17.65 Did not advance
Jerzy Kruza   Poland 8.60 9.05 17.65 Did not advance
Adolfo Lampronti   Italy 8.60 9.05 17.65 Did not advance
75 René Badell   Cuba 8.60 9.00 17.60 Did not advance
José Ginés   Spain 8.70 8.90 17.60 Did not advance
Stefan Zoev   Bulgaria 8.65 8.95 17.60 Did not advance
78 Georges Guelzec   France 8.45 9.05 17.50 Did not advance
Ivan Kondev   Bulgaria 8.55 8.95 17.50 Did not advance
Constantin Petrescu   Romania 8.55 8.95 17.50 Did not advance
81 Henri Boërio   France 8.15 9.30 17.45 Did not advance
Bernard Farjat   France 8.65 8.80 17.45 Did not advance
Cecilio Ugarte   Spain 8.50 8.95 17.45 Did not advance
84 Tore Lie   Norway 8.70 8.65 17.35 Did not advance
85 Marshall Avener   United States 8.10 9.15 17.25 Did not advance
Luigi Coppa   Italy 8.35 8.90 17.25 Did not advance
Rogelio Mendoza   Mexico 8.45 8.80 17.25 Did not advance
88 Bozhidar Iliev   Bulgaria 8.40 8.80 17.20 Did not advance
Agustin Sandoval   Spain 8.55 8.65 17.20 Did not advance
Bruno Banzer   Liechtenstein 8.70 8.50 17.20 Did not advance
91 Maurizio Milanetto   Italy 8.10 9.05 17.15 Did not advance
Pavel Stanovsky   Czechoslovakia 8.25 8.90 17.15 Did not advance
93 Dimitar Dimitrov   Bulgaria 8.50 8.60 17.10 Did not advance
Luis Ramirez   Cuba 8.20 8.90 17.10 Did not advance
Fedele Spatazza   Italy 8.80 8.30 17.10 Did not advance
96 Dimitar Koychev   Bulgaria 8.30 8.75 17.05 Did not advance
Ian Clarke   Australia 8.45 8.60 17.05 Did not advance
98 Eddie Arnold   Great Britain 8.40 8.60 17.00 Did not advance
99 George Greenfield   United States 7.75 9.05 16.80 Did not advance
Stan Wild   Great Britain 8.00 8.80 16.80 Did not advance
101 Philippe Gaille   Switzerland 7.70 9.05 16.75 Did not advance
102 Jorge Rodriguez   Cuba 7.85 8.80 16.65 Did not advance
André Simard   Canada 7.90 8.75 16.65 Did not advance
Mieczyslaw Strzalka   Poland 8.30 8.35 16.65 Did not advance
105 Peter Lloyd   Australia 8.60 8.00 16.60 Did not advance
106 Bill Norgrave   Great Britain 7.90 8.45 16.35 Did not advance
107 Emilio Sagre   Cuba 8.30 7.95 16.25 Did not advance
108 Steve Mitruk   Canada 7.80 8.40 16.20 Did not advance
109 Nicolae Oprescu   Romania 7.25 8.85 16.10 Did not advance
110 Terry Sale   New Zealand 6.65 8.50 15.15 Did not advance
111 Miloslav Netusil   Czechoslovakia 9.25 0.00 9.25 Did not advance
112 Bruce Medd   Canada 6.30 0.00 6.30 Did not advance
Hans Ettlin   Switzerland DNS Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 192.