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Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

The men's rings 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 111 competitors from 26 nations (with 2 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] The top two places were the same as in 1968, while the next two places were taken by the same gymnasts but in the opposite order. The event was won by Akinori Nakayama of Japan, the nation's third consecutive victory in the men's rings; Nakayama was the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the event. Mikhail Voronin's second consecutive silver extended the Soviet Union's podium streak in the rings to six Games. Nakayama and Voronin were the fifth and sixth men to earn multiple medals in the rings. Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan took bronze, switching places with fourth-place finisher Sawao Kato from the previous Games (where Kato took bronze and Tsukahara fourth).

Men's rings
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Akinori Nakayama
VenueOlympiahalle
Dates27 August – 1 September
Competitors111 from 26 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Akinori Nakayama  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan
← 1968
1976 →

Background edit

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 Sawao Kato of Japan, and fourth-place finisher Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan. Nakayama, Tsukahara, and Voronin (in that order) had comprised the podium at the 1970 World Championships.[1]

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

Competition format edit

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 edit

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 edit

One-hundred eleven 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 1⁄2 Prelim. Final Total
  Akinori Nakayama   Japan 9.70 9.70 19.40 9.700 9.650 19.350
  Mikhail Voronin   Soviet Union 9.60 9.65 19.25 9.625 9.650 19.275
  Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan 9.45 9.60 19.05 9.525 9.700 19.225
4 Sawao Kato   Japan 9.50 9.60 19.10 9.550 9.600 19.150
5 Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan 9.60 9.50 19.10 9.550 9.400 18.950
Klaus Köste   East Germany 9.45 9.55 19.00 9.500 9.450 18.950
7 Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
8 Shin Heung-do   North Korea 9.30 9.65 18.95 Did not advance
9 Teruichi Okamura   Japan 9.45 9.45 18.90 Did not advance
10 Andrzej Szajna   Poland 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Wolfgang Thüne   East Germany 9.50 9.35 18.85 Did not advance
12 Matthias Brehme   East Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
Shigeru Kasamatsu   Japan 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Sylwester Kubica   Poland 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Edvard Mikaelian   Soviet Union 9.45 9.35 18.80 Did not advance
16 Viktor Klimenko   Soviet Union 9.40 9.30 18.70 Did not advance
Wolfgang Klotz   East Germany 9.40 9.30 18.70 Did not advance
Walter Mossinger   West Germany 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
19 Makoto Sakamoto   United States 9.35 9.30 18.65 Did not advance
20 Dan Grecu   Romania 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica   Poland 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
22 Li Song-sob   North Korea 8.90 9.50 18.40 Did not advance
Alexander Maleev   Soviet Union 9.25 9.15 18.40 Did not advance
Vladimir Schukin   Soviet Union 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
Günter Spies   West Germany 9.20 9.20 18.40 Did not advance
26 Eberhard Gienger   West Germany 9.10 9.25 18.35 Did not advance
Kim Song-yu   North Korea 9.00 9.35 18.35 Did not advance
28 Marshall Avener   United States 9.15 9.15 18.30 Did not advance
29 Jifi Fejtek   Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.10 18.25 Did not advance
Imre Molnár   Hungary 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance
31 Peter Rohner   Switzerland 9.15 9.05 18.20 Did not advance
Reinhard Rychly   East Germany 9.00 9.20 18.20 Did not advance
33 Janez Brodnik   Yugoslavia 9.05 9.05 18.10 Did not advance
Ho Yun-hang   North Korea 8.95 9.15 18.10 Did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica   Poland 8.80 9.30 18.10 Did not advance
Petre Mihaiuc   Romania 8.90 9.20 18.10 Did not advance
37 Steven Hug   United States 9.00 9.05 18.05 Did not advance
Vladislav Nehasil   Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.00 18.05 Did not advance
Nicolae Oprescu   Romania 9.00 9.05 18.05 Did not advance
40 István Kiss   Hungary 8.90 9.10 18.00 Did not advance
41 Jo Jong-ryol   North Korea 8.70 9.25 17.95 Did not advance
42 Antal Kisteleki   Hungary 9.00 8.90 17.90 Did not advance
Mauno Nissinen   Finland 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance
Pavel Stanovsky   Czechoslovakia 8.95 8.95 17.90 Did not advance
Mieczyslaw Strzalka   Poland 8.80 9.10 17.90 Did not advance
46 Reinhard Ritter   West Germany 8.95 8.85 17.80 Did not advance
47 George Greenfield   United States 8.85 8.90 17.75 Did not advance
Zoltán Magyar   Hungary 9.00 8.75 17.75 Did not advance
49 Philippe Gaille   Switzerland 8.85 8.85 17.70 Did not advance
Kim Song-il   North Korea 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance
Jürgen Paeke   East Germany 8.50 9.20 17.70 Did not advance
52 Dimitar Koychev   Bulgaria 8.90 8.75 17.65 Did not advance
Ladislav Morava   Czechoslovakia 8.80 8.85 17.65 Did not advance
54 Edwin Greutmann   Switzerland 9.00 8.60 17.60 Did not advance
55 Jorge Cuervo   Cuba 8.75 8.80 17.55 Did not advance
Jerzy Kruza   Poland 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance
Miloš Vratič   Yugoslavia 8.75 8.80 17.55 Did not advance
58 Max Brühwiler   Switzerland 8.60 8.90 17.50 Did not advance
Heinz Häussler   West Germany 8.55 8.95 17.50 Did not advance
Cecilio Ugarte   Spain 8.65 8.85 17.50 Did not advance
61 Bernd Effing   West Germany 8.60 8.85 17.45 Did not advance
Gheorghe Paunescu   Romania 8.60 8.85 17.45 Did not advance
63 Adolfo Lampronti   Italy 8.50 8.85 17.35 Did not advance
64 Jim Culhane Jr.   United States 8.50 8.80 17.30 Did not advance
65 Dimitar Dimitrov   Bulgaria 8.65 8.55 17.20 Did not advance
Ivica Hmjelovac   Yugoslavia 8.50 8.70 17.20 Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik   Czechoslovakia 8.45 8.75 17.20 Did not advance
Stefan Zoev   Bulgaria 8.60 8.60 17.20 Did not advance
69 Henri Boërio   France 8.55 8.60 17.15 Did not advance
Ivan Kondev   Bulgaria 8.40 8.75 17.15 Did not advance
Jean-Pierre Miens   France 8.65 8.50 17.15 Did not advance
Fedele Spatazza   Italy 8.60 8.55 17.15 Did not advance
73 Maurizio Milanetto   Italy 8.30 8.80 17.10 Did not advance
74 Emilio Sagre   Cuba 8.45 8.60 17.05 Did not advance
75 Christian Deuza   France 8.10 8.90 17.00 Did not advance
Drago Sostaric   Yugoslavia 8.40 8.60 17.00 Did not advance
77 René Badell   Cuba 8.20 8.75 16.95 Did not advance
István Bérczi   Hungary 8.55 8.40 16.95 Did not advance
Bernard Farjat   France 8.30 8.65 16.95 Did not advance
Mircea Gheorghiu   Romania 8.35 8.60 16.95 Did not advance
Constantin Petrescu   Romania 8.30 8.65 16.95 Did not advance
Jorge Rodriguez   Cuba 8.50 8.45 16.95 Did not advance
83 Tore Lie   Norway 8.25 8.65 16.90 Did not advance
Geno Radev   Bulgaria 8.40 8.50 16.90 Did not advance
85 John Crosby Jr.   United States 7.85 9.00 16.85 Did not advance
Christian Guiffroy   France 8.10 8.75 16.85 Did not advance
Carmine Luppino   Italy 8.00 8.85 16.85 Did not advance
88 Luigi Coppa   Italy 8.25 8.55 16.80 Did not advance
Milenko Kersnic   Yugoslavia 8.05 8.75 16.80 Did not advance
90 Zoran Ivanovic   Yugoslavia 8.15 8.60 16.75 Did not advance
Bill Norgrave   Great Britain 8.55 8.20 16.75 Did not advance
92 Béla Herczeg   Hungary 8.50 8.20 16.70 Did not advance
Bozhidar Iliev   Bulgaria 8.85 7.85 16.70 Did not advance
94 Robert Bretscher   Switzerland 7.50 9.10 16.60 Did not advance
Franco Donega   Italy 7.95 8.65 16.60 Did not advance
96 Eddie Arnold   Great Britain 8.50 8.00 16.50 Did not advance
97 André Simard   Canada 7.70 8.75 16.45 Did not advance
98 Peter Lloyd   Australia 8.15 8.10 16.25 Did not advance
Agustin Sandoval   Spain 8.00 8.25 16.25 Did not advance
100 Roberto Léon Richards   Cuba 7.75 8.45 16.20 Did not advance
101 Luis Ramirez   Cuba 7.55 8.60 16.15 Did not advance
102 Ian Clarke   Australia 8.15 7.90 16.05 Did not advance
Georges Guelzec   France 7.45 8.60 16.05 Did not advance
104 Bruno Banzer   Liechtenstein 7.45 8.55 16.00 Did not advance
Steve Mitruk   Canada 7.75 8.25 16.00 Did not advance
106 José Ginés   Spain 7.55 8.30 15.85 Did not advance
Stan Wild   Great Britain 8.00 7.85 15.85 Did not advance
108 Rogelio Mendoza   Mexico 6.90 8.35 15.25 Did not advance
109 Ole Benediktson   Denmark 6.90 8.25 15.15 Did not advance
110 Terry Sale   New Zealand 6.60 7.35 13.95 Did not advance
111 Miloslav Netusil   Czechoslovakia 9.05 0.00 9.05 Did not advance
— Hans Ettlin   Switzerland DNS Did not advance
Bruce Medd   Canada DNS Did not advance

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 192.
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