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

Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Viktor Klimenko
Venue	Olympiahalle
Dates	27 August – 1 September
Competitors	111 from 26 nations
Winning score	19.125
Medalists
Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union Sawao Kato  Japan Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan

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. 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.

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.

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	1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Viktor Klimenko	Soviet Union	9.50	9.55	19.05	9.525	9.600	19.125
	Sawao Kato	Japan	9.40	9.60	19.00	9.500	9.500	19.000
	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

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net