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

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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 →

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.

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 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[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 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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sawao Kato  Japan 9.60 9.75 19.35 9.675 9.800 19.475
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Shigeru Kasamatsu  Japan 9.55 9.70 19.25 9.625 9.750 19.375
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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[edit]

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