Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics had 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. The competition was held from August 27 to September 1 at the Sports Hall in Munich.

Format of competition

The scoring in the team competition event and in event finals was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics. But in the all-around the scoring system became similar to that of event finals: for the all-around a gymnast showed their skills once more on each of the apparatuses; to get the "Total" value for the all-around performance, marks in the team competition were added together, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" value) and added to the sum of marks for all-around routines ("Final" value).

Medals

Pos	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1	USSR	6	6	4	16
2	Japan	5	5	6	16
3	GDR	3	4	2	9
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1

Men's events

"C" stands for "Compulsory exercises" and "O" stands for "Optional exercises".

Individual all-around

"Prelim" mark is the value from the "Score" column of the team competition table, divided by two.

Rank	Athlete	VT	UB	BB	FX	Final	Prelim.	Total
1	257 Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)	9.65	9.65	9.40	9.90	38.60	38.425	77.025
2	93 Karin Janz (GDR)	9.65	9.70	9.40	9.70	38.45	38.425	76.875
3	255 Tamara Lazakovich (URS)	9.55	9.70	9.75	9.65	38.65	38.200	76.850

Team competition

Rank	Team / Competitor	VT		UB		BB		FX		Total		Score
		C	O	C	O	C	O	C	O	C	O
1	USSR	47.55	47.65	47.70	47.55	45.90	48.20	48.00	47.95	189.15	191.35	380.50
	257 Ludmilla Tourischeva	9.60	9.70	9.60	9.65	9.05	9.75	9.80	9.70	38.05	38.80	76.85
	253 Olga Korbut	9.45	9.60	9.60	9.70	9.25	9.75	9.60	9.75	37.90	38.80	76.70
	255 Tamara Lazakovich	9.60	9.30	9.55	9.50	9.40	9.75	9.70	9.60	38.25	38.15	76.40
	251 Ljubov Burda	9.50	9.55	9.45	9.30	9.00	9.55	9.50	9.50	37.45	37.90	75.35
	Elvira Saadi	9.40	9.40	9.20	9.40	9.20	9.25	9.40	9.40	37.20	37.45	74.65
	Antonina Koshel	9.20	9.40	9.50	8.50	8.95	9.40	9.35	8.70	37.00	36.00	73.00
2	GDR	46.85	47.90	48.00	47.65	45.80	46.10	46.65	47.60	187.30	189.25	376.55
	93 Karin Janz	9.45	9.80	9.85	9.70	9.35	9.50	9.50	9.70	38.15	38.70	76.85
	Erika Zuchold	9.45	9.70	9.70	9.60	9.25	9.35	9.40	9.55	37.80	38.20	76.00
	92 Angelika Hellmann	9.35	9.50	9.60	9.50	9.15	9.20	9.40	9.60	37.50	37.80	75.30
	Irene Abel	9.30	9.55	9.20	9.40	8.90	9.00	9.15	9.25	36.55	37.20	73.75
	Christine Schmitt	9.30	9.35	9.30	9.30	8.90	9.05	9.20	9.30	36.70	37.00	73.70
	Richarda Schmeißer	9.25	8.45	9.55	9.45	9.15	8.85	9.05	9.45	37.00	36.20	73.20
3	Hungary	44.70	46.65	47.00	46.85	45.40	46.10	45.05	46.50	182.15	186.10	368.25
	Ilona Békési	8.90	9.40	9.60	9.55	9.15	9.30	9.10	9.40	36.75	37.65	74.40
	Mónika Császár	9.05	9.30	9.15	9.25	9.25	9.40	9.15	9.30	36.60	37.25	73.85
	Krisztina Medveczky	8.85	9.20	9.40	9.35	9.15	9.35	9.00	9.30	36.40	37.20	73.60
	Anikó Kéry	9.00	9.40	9.40	9.30	8.85	8.95	8.95	9.55	36.20	37.20	73.40
	Márta Kelemen	8.90	9.35	9.45	9.40	9.00	9.10	8.85	8.95	36.20	36.80	73.00
	Zsuzsa Nagy	8.85	9.15	9.15	9.10	8.80	8.75	8.80	8.85	35.60	35.85	71.45

Floor exercise

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	253 Olga Korbut (URS)	9.675	9.90	19.575
2	257 Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)	9.750	9.80	19.550
3	255 Tamara Lazakovich (URS)	9.650	9.80	19.450

Note:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1972.

Pommel horse

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	Viktor Klimenko (URS)	9.525	9.600	19.125
2	Sawao Kato (JPN)	9.500	9.500	19.000
3	Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)	9.550	9.400	18.950

Rings

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	Akinori Nakayama (JPN)	9.700	9.650	19.350
2	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	9.625	9.650	19.275
3	Mitsuo Tsukahara (JPN)	9.525	9.700	19.225

Vault

"Prelim" value is the sum of two marks for compulsory and optional routine on the respective apparatus in the team competition, divided by two.

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	93 Karin Janz (GDR)	9.625	9.90	19.525
2	Erika Zuchold (GDR)	9.575	9.70	19.275
3	257 Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)	9.650	9.60	19.250

Parallel bars

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	Sawao Kato (JPN)	9.675	9.800	19.475
2	Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN)	9.625	9.750	19.375
3	Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)	9.650	9.600	19.250

Horizontal bar

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	Mitsuo Tsukahara (JPN)	9.825	9.900	19.725
2	Sawao Kato (JPN)	9.775	9.750	19.525
3	Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN)	9.750	9.700	19.450

Women's events

"C" stands for "Compulsory exercises" and "O" stands for "Optional exercises".

Uneven bars

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	93 Karin Janz (GDR)	9.775	9.90	19.675
2	253 Olga Korbut (URS)	9.650	9.80	19.450
2	Erika Zuchold (GDR)	9.650	9.80	19.450

Balance beam

Rank	Athlete	Prelim	Final	Total
1	253 Olga Korbut (URS)	9.500	9.90	19.400
2	255 Tamara Lazakovich (URS)	9.575	9.80	19.375
3	93 Karin Janz (GDR)	9.425	9.55	18.975

References

• The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972. Munich: proSport. 1974. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
• "1972 Olympic Games". Gymn-Forum.com. Retrieved May 24, 2006.