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.Official Report, vol. 3, p. 192.

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round Monday, 27 August 1972 11:1519:00 Preliminary: Compulsory Wednesday, 29 August 1972 10:0018:00 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 Prelim. Final Total Viktor Klimenko 9.50 9.55 19.05 9.525 9.600 19.125 Sawao Kato 9.40 9.60 19.00 9.500 9.500 19.000 Eizo Kenmotsu 9.50 9.60 19.10 9.550 9.400 18.950 4 Shigeru Kasamatsu 9.50 9.55 19.05 9.525 9.400 18.925 5 Mikhail Voronin 9.40 9.45 18.85 9.425 9.450 18.875 6 Wilhelm Kubica 9.15 9.55 18.70 9.350 9.400 18.750 7 Akinori Nakayama 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance 8 Matthias Brehme 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance Edvard Mikaelian 9.35 9.25 18.60 Did not advance Imre Molnár 9.20 9.40 18.60 Did not advance 11 Steven Hug 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance Mikolaj Kubica 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance 13 Klaus Köste 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance 14 Jürgen Paeke 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance Wolfgang Thüne 9.45 9.00 18.45 Did not advance 16 Jifi Fejtek 9.10 9.25 18.35 Did not advance 17 Nikolai Andrianov 9.50 8.80 18.30 Did not advance Sylwester Kubica 9.10 9.20 18.30 Did not advance 19 Marshall Avener 8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance Alexander Maleev 9.15 9.10 18.25 Did not advance Reinhard Ritter 9.05 9.20 18.25 Did not advance 22 Mauno Nissinen 9.10 9.10 18.20 Did not advance 23 Wolfgang Klotz 9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance 24 Milenko Kersnic 8.90 9.20 18.10 Did not advance Zoltán Magyar 9.05 9.05 18.10 Did not advance Roberto Léon Richards 8.75 9.35 18.10 Did not advance Vladimir Schukin 9.05 9.05 18.10 Did not advance 28 Mieczyslaw Strzalka 8.95 9.10 18.05 Did not advance 29 Max Brühwiler 8.90 9.10 18.00 Did not advance Béla Herczeg 8.85 9.15 18.00 Did not advance Teruichi Okamura 9.05 8.95 18.00 Did not advance 32 Ladislav Morava 8.85 9.10 17.95 Did not advance Reinhard Rychly 8.90 9.05 17.95 Did not advance 34 Bernd Effing 8.80 9.10 17.90 Did not advance Li Song-sob 8.85 9.05 17.90 Did not advance Andrzej Szajna 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance Mitsuo Tsukahara 9.20 8.70 17.90 Did not advance 38 Petre Mihaiuc 8.80 9.05 17.85 Did not advance 39 Mircea Gheorghiu 8.75 9.05 17.80 Did not advance Heinz Häussler 8.95 8.85 17.80 Did not advance 41 Robert Bretscher 8.80 8.95 17.75 Did not advance Dan Grecu 8.65 9.10 17.75 Did not advance Walter Mossinger 8.90 8.85 17.75 Did not advance Stefan Zoev 9.00 8.75 17.75 Did not advance 45 István Bérczi 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance Zoran Ivanovic 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance Kim Song-yu 8.60 9.10 17.70 Did not advance István Kiss 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance Tore Lie 8.65 9.05 17.70 Did not advance Peter Rohner 8.95 8.75 17.70 Did not advance Miloš Vratič 8.40 9.30 17.70 Did not advance 52 Jerzy Kruza 8.75 8.85 17.60 Did not advance Gheorghe Paunescu 8.65 8.95 17.60 Did not advance 54 Ho Yun-hang 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance 55 Franco Donega 8.55 8.95 17.50 Did not advance Kim Song-il 8.45 9.05 17.50 Did not advance Jean-Pierre Miens 8.50 9.00 17.50 Did not advance 58 Bohumil Mudrik 8.70 8.75 17.45 Did not advance 59 Shin Heung-do 8.35 9.05 17.40 Did not advance 60 Bruno Banzer 8.35 9.00 17.35 Did not advance Pavel Stanovsky 9.00 8.35 17.35 Did not advance 62 Steve Mitruk 8.70 8.60 17.30 Did not advance 63 Jim Culhane Jr. 8.35 8.90 17.25 Did not advance 64 Philippe Gaille 8.70 8.50 17.20 Did not advance Antal Kisteleki 8.20 9.00 17.20 Did not advance 66 Jo Jong-ryol 8.80 8.35 17.15 Did not advance 67 Janez Brodnik 8.05 9.05 17.10 Did not advance 68 Christian Deuza 8.75 8.25 17.00 Did not advance 69 Eberhard Gienger 9.10 7.85 16.95 Did not advance Vladislav Nehasil 8.30 8.65 16.95 Did not advance 71 Edwin Greutmann 8.30 8.60 16.90 Did not advance Jorge Rodriguez 8.00 8.90 16.90 Did not advance 73 Stan Wild 7.95 8.90 16.85 Did not advance 74 Ole Benediktson 8.35 8.45 16.80 Did not advance 75 Bernard Farjat 7.90 8.85 16.75 Did not advance 76 Günter Spies 7.90 8.75 16.65 Did not advance 77 John Crosby Jr. 7.75 8.85 16.60 Did not advance 78 Drago Sostaric 7.80 8.75 16.55 Did not advance 79 Luigi Coppa 7.50 9.00 16.50 Did not advance 80 Dimitar Koychev 8.05 8.35 16.40 Did not advance Geno Radev 7.75 8.65 16.40 Did not advance 82 Christian Guiffroy 7.55 8.70 16.25 Did not advance 83 René Badell 7.55 8.60 16.15 Did not advance Nicolae Oprescu 7.45 8.70 16.15 Did not advance 85 Maurizio Milanetto 7.80 8.30 16.10 Did not advance 86 Constantin Petrescu 8.85 7.15 16.00 Did not advance Agustin Sandoval 7.80 8.20 16.00 Did not advance 88 Jorge Cuervo 7.20 8.75 15.95 Did not advance 89 Ivan Kondev 7.50 8.40 15.90 Did not advance 90 Peter Lloyd 7.30 8.40 15.70 Did not advance 91 Bill Norgrave 7.60 8.00 15.60 Did not advance 92 Carmine Luppino 6.90 8.60 15.50 Did not advance 93 Ivica Hmjelovac 7.55 7.80 15.35 Did not advance 94 Cecilio Ugarte 7.70 7.60 15.30 Did not advance 95 Henri Boërio 6.75 8.35 15.10 Did not advance Bozhidar Iliev 7.25 7.85 15.10 Did not advance 97 George Greenfield 6.35 8.70 15.05 Did not advance Georges Guelzec 7.25 7.80 15.05 Did not advance 99 André Simard 6.35 8.50 14.85 Did not advance 100 Rogelio Mendoza 6.00 8.70 14.70 Did not advance 101 Adolfo Lampronti 7.35 7.20 14.55 Did not advance Terry Sale 6.50 8.05 14.55 Did not advance 103 José Ginés 7.00 7.40 14.40 Did not advance 104 Emilio Sagre 5.95 8.35 14.30 Did not advance 105 Makoto Sakamoto 5.35 8.75 14.10 Did not advance Fedele Spatazza 5.75 8.35 14.10 Did not advance 107 Eddie Arnold 6.65 7.25 13.90 Did not advance 108 Dimitar Dimitrov 5.50 8.00 13.50 Did not advance 109 Ian Clarke 5.00 7.95 12.95 Did not advance 110 Luis Ramirez 4.55 8.35 12.90 Did not advance 111 Miloslav Netusil 9.25 0.00 9.25 Did not advance — Hans Ettlin Did not advance Bruce Medd Did not advance

References

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