Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Viktor Klimenko
VenueOlympiahalle
Dates27 August – 1 September
Competitors111 from 26 nations
Winning score19.125
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Klimenko
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sawao Kato
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
← 1968
1976 →

These are the results of the men's pommel horse competition, 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 Sports Hall. 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 event was won by Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union, the nation's fourth victory in the men's pommel horse. Sawao Kato (silver) and Eizo Kenmotsu (bronze) returned Japan to the pommel horse podium after a one-Games absence.

Background

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: bronze medalist Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Wilhelm Kubica of Poland, fifth-place finisher Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan, and sixth-place finisher Viktor Klimenko of the Soviet Union. Three-time world champion and two-time gold medalist Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia had retired in 1970, leaving the field open to other competitors. Kenmotsu and Klimenko had finished second and third at the 1970 World Championships.[1]

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

Competition format

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

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

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 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union 9.50 9.55 19.05 9.525 9.600 19.125
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sawao Kato  Japan 9.40 9.60 19.00 9.500 9.500 19.000
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan 9.50 9.60 19.10 9.550 9.400 18.950
4 Shigeru Kasamatsu  Japan 9.50 9.55 19.05 9.525 9.400 18.925
5 Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union 9.40 9.45 18.85 9.425 9.450 18.875
6 Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.15 9.55 18.70 9.350 9.400 18.750
7 Akinori Nakayama  Japan 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
8 Matthias Brehme  East Germany 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
Edvard Mikaelian  Soviet Union 9.35 9.25 18.60 Did not advance
Imre Molnár  Hungary 9.20 9.40 18.60 Did not advance
11 Steven Hug  United States 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica  Poland 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
13 Klaus Köste  East Germany 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
14 Jürgen Paeke  East Germany 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance
Wolfgang Thüne  East Germany 9.45 9.00 18.45 Did not advance
16 Jifi Fejtek  Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.25 18.35 Did not advance
17 Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union 9.50 8.80 18.30 Did not advance
Sylwester Kubica  Poland 9.10 9.20 18.30 Did not advance
19 Marshall Avener  United States 8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance
Alexander Maleev  Soviet Union 9.15 9.10 18.25 Did not advance
Reinhard Ritter  West Germany 9.05 9.20 18.25 Did not advance
22 Mauno Nissinen  Finland 9.10 9.10 18.20 Did not advance
23 Wolfgang Klotz  East Germany 9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance
24 Milenko Kersnic  Yugoslavia 8.90 9.20 18.10 Did not advance
Zoltán Magyar  Hungary 9.05 9.05 18.10 Did not advance
Roberto Léon Richards  Cuba 8.75 9.35 18.10 Did not advance
Vladimir Schukin  Soviet Union 9.05 9.05 18.10 Did not advance
28 Mieczyslaw Strzalka  Poland 8.95 9.10 18.05 Did not advance
29 Max Brühwiler  Switzerland 8.90 9.10 18.00 Did not advance
Béla Herczeg  Hungary 8.85 9.15 18.00 Did not advance
Teruichi Okamura  Japan 9.05 8.95 18.00 Did not advance
32 Ladislav Morava  Czechoslovakia 8.85 9.10 17.95 Did not advance
Reinhard Rychly  East Germany 8.90 9.05 17.95 Did not advance
34 Bernd Effing  West Germany 8.80 9.10 17.90 Did not advance
Li Song-sob  North Korea 8.85 9.05 17.90 Did not advance
Andrzej Szajna  Poland 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan 9.20 8.70 17.90 Did not advance
38 Petre Mihaiuc  Romania 8.80 9.05 17.85 Did not advance
39 Mircea Gheorghiu  Romania 8.75 9.05 17.80 Did not advance
Heinz Häussler  West Germany 8.95 8.85 17.80 Did not advance
41 Robert Bretscher  Switzerland 8.80 8.95 17.75 Did not advance
Dan Grecu  Romania 8.65 9.10 17.75 Did not advance
Walter Mossinger  West Germany 8.90 8.85 17.75 Did not advance
Stefan Zoev  Bulgaria 9.00 8.75 17.75 Did not advance
45 István Bérczi  Hungary 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance
Zoran Ivanovic  Yugoslavia 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance
Kim Song-yu  North Korea 8.60 9.10 17.70 Did not advance
István Kiss  Hungary 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance
Tore Lie  Norway 8.65 9.05 17.70 Did not advance
Peter Rohner  Switzerland 8.95 8.75 17.70 Did not advance
Miloš Vratič  Yugoslavia 8.40 9.30 17.70 Did not advance
52 Jerzy Kruza  Poland 8.75 8.85 17.60 Did not advance
Gheorghe Paunescu  Romania 8.65 8.95 17.60 Did not advance
54 Ho Yun-hang  North Korea 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance
55 Franco Donega  Italy 8.55 8.95 17.50 Did not advance
Kim Song-il  North Korea 8.45 9.05 17.50 Did not advance
Jean-Pierre Miens  France 8.50 9.00 17.50 Did not advance
58 Bohumil Mudrik  Czechoslovakia 8.70 8.75 17.45 Did not advance
59 Shin Heung-do  North Korea 8.35 9.05 17.40 Did not advance
60 Bruno Banzer  Liechtenstein 8.35 9.00 17.35 Did not advance
Pavel Stanovsky  Czechoslovakia 9.00 8.35 17.35 Did not advance
62 Steve Mitruk  Canada 8.70 8.60 17.30 Did not advance
63 Jim Culhane Jr.  United States 8.35 8.90 17.25 Did not advance
64 Philippe Gaille  Switzerland 8.70 8.50 17.20 Did not advance
Antal Kisteleki  Hungary 8.20 9.00 17.20 Did not advance
66 Jo Jong-ryol  North Korea 8.80 8.35 17.15 Did not advance
67 Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 8.05 9.05 17.10 Did not advance
68 Christian Deuza  France 8.75 8.25 17.00 Did not advance
69 Eberhard Gienger  West Germany 9.10 7.85 16.95 Did not advance
Vladislav Nehasil  Czechoslovakia 8.30 8.65 16.95 Did not advance
71 Edwin Greutmann  Switzerland 8.30 8.60 16.90 Did not advance
Jorge Rodriguez  Cuba 8.00 8.90 16.90 Did not advance
73 Stan Wild  Great Britain 7.95 8.90 16.85 Did not advance
74 Ole Benediktson  Denmark 8.35 8.45 16.80 Did not advance
75 Bernard Farjat  France 7.90 8.85 16.75 Did not advance
76 Günter Spies  West Germany 7.90 8.75 16.65 Did not advance
77 John Crosby Jr.  United States 7.75 8.85 16.60 Did not advance
78 Drago Sostaric  Yugoslavia 7.80 8.75 16.55 Did not advance
79 Luigi Coppa  Italy 7.50 9.00 16.50 Did not advance
80 Dimitar Koychev  Bulgaria 8.05 8.35 16.40 Did not advance
Geno Radev  Bulgaria 7.75 8.65 16.40 Did not advance
82 Christian Guiffroy  France 7.55 8.70 16.25 Did not advance
83 René Badell  Cuba 7.55 8.60 16.15 Did not advance
Nicolae Oprescu  Romania 7.45 8.70 16.15 Did not advance
85 Maurizio Milanetto  Italy 7.80 8.30 16.10 Did not advance
86 Constantin Petrescu  Romania 8.85 7.15 16.00 Did not advance
Agustin Sandoval  Spain 7.80 8.20 16.00 Did not advance
88 Jorge Cuervo  Cuba 7.20 8.75 15.95 Did not advance
89 Ivan Kondev  Bulgaria 7.50 8.40 15.90 Did not advance
90 Peter Lloyd  Australia 7.30 8.40 15.70 Did not advance
91 Bill Norgrave  Great Britain 7.60 8.00 15.60 Did not advance
92 Carmine Luppino  Italy 6.90 8.60 15.50 Did not advance
93 Ivica Hmjelovac  Yugoslavia 7.55 7.80 15.35 Did not advance
94 Cecilio Ugarte  Spain 7.70 7.60 15.30 Did not advance
95 Henri Boërio  France 6.75 8.35 15.10 Did not advance
Bozhidar Iliev  Bulgaria 7.25 7.85 15.10 Did not advance
97 George Greenfield  United States 6.35 8.70 15.05 Did not advance
Georges Guelzec  France 7.25 7.80 15.05 Did not advance
99 André Simard  Canada 6.35 8.50 14.85 Did not advance
100 Rogelio Mendoza  Mexico 6.00 8.70 14.70 Did not advance
101 Adolfo Lampronti  Italy 7.35 7.20 14.55 Did not advance
Terry Sale  New Zealand 6.50 8.05 14.55 Did not advance
103 José Ginés  Spain 7.00 7.40 14.40 Did not advance
104 Emilio Sagre  Cuba 5.95 8.35 14.30 Did not advance
105 Makoto Sakamoto  United States 5.35 8.75 14.10 Did not advance
Fedele Spatazza  Italy 5.75 8.35 14.10 Did not advance
107 Eddie Arnold  Great Britain 6.65 7.25 13.90 Did not advance
108 Dimitar Dimitrov  Bulgaria 5.50 8.00 13.50 Did not advance
109 Ian Clarke  Australia 5.00 7.95 12.95 Did not advance
110 Luis Ramirez  Cuba 4.55 8.35 12.90 Did not advance
111 Miloslav Netusil  Czechoslovakia 9.25 0.00 9.25 Did not advance
Hans Ettlin  Switzerland DNS Did not advance
Bruce Medd  Canada DNS Did not advance

References

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