The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 18, 20 and 21st at the Montreal Forum. There were 90 competitors from 20 nations. Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, the nation's fourth victory in the event (matching Italy for most among nations at that point). It was the Soviets' return to the podium in the event after a one-Games absence in 1972 snapped a five-Games medal streak. Japan, which had swept the medals in 1972, took silver and bronze this time. Two-time defending champion Sawao Kato finished second, becoming the first man to earn three medals in the men's all-around and the most decorated man in the event's history (later tied by Kōhei Uchimura with two golds and a silver from 2008 to 2016). Mitsuo Tsukahara earned bronze.
Background
This was the 17th appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.
Four of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1972 Games returned: two-time gold medalist Sawao Kato of Japan, silver medalist (and 1968 fourth-place finisher) Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan, fourth-place finisher Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, and eighth-place finisher Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan. Reigning (1974) World Champion Shigeru Kasamatsu of Japan missed the 1976 Games with an emergency appendectomy; Andrianov had been the runner-up with Kenmotsu third.
Israel made its debut in the event. France and Italy both made their 15th appearance, tied for most among nations.
Competition format
The competition format followed the preliminary and final format introduced in 1972, but placed a limit on the number of finalists per nation. 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 preliminary score. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final—except that each nation was limited to 3 finalists. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these scores plus half of the preliminary score resulted in a final total.
Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120. With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.
The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals.
Schedule
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Date Time Round Sunday, 18 July 1976 12:3019:1521:00 Preliminary: Compulsory Tuesday, 20 July 1976 15:0019:0020:45 Preliminary: Voluntary Wednesday, 21 July 1976 20:00 Final
Results
Ninety gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 18 and 20. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 21. Each country was limited to three competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes each gymnast's "prelim" score.
Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Final Total Nikolai Andrianov 116.50 58.2509.8009.7009.7509.8009.6509.70058.400116.650 Sawao Kato 115.90 57.9509.6009.6009.4509.5509.7009.80057.700115.650 Mitsuo Tsukahara 115.75 57.8759.5009.6009.4009.8009.7009.70057.700115.575 4 Alexander Dityatin 115.15 57.5759.7009.7009.7509.7509.6009.45057.950115.525 5 Hiroshi Kajiyama 115.25 57.6259.6009.6509.6509.6509.6509.60057.800115.425 6 Andrzej Szajna 113.85 56.9259.6009.6009.6009.8009.5509.55057.700114.625 7 Michael Nikolay 112.90 56.4509.3009.8509.4509.6009.3509.60057.150113.600 8 Imre Molnár 113.65 56.8259.2009.7009.2509.6509.5009.45056.750113.575 9 Zoltán Magyar 114.25 57.1259.4509.9008.9509.2009.2509.55056.300113.425 10 Bernd Jäger 112.95 56.4759.1509.5509.5009.5509.4509.65056.850113.325 11 Lutz Mack 113.00 56.5009.2009.4509.5009.5509.4009.55056.650113.150 12 Wayne Young 111.55 55.7759.5509.5509.6009.5509.4509.55057.250113.025 13 Ferenc Donáth 113.60 56.8009.1509.8009.5009.3508.9509.20055.950112.750 14 Robert Bretscher 112.35 56.1759.3009.3509.4509.6009.2509.55056.500112.675 15 Peter Kormann 110.75 55.3759.6509.3009.5009.6009.4509.60057.100112.475 16 Eberhard Gienger 113.30 56.6509.2508.82509.4009.1509.2009.70055.550112.200 17 Edgar Jorek 111.25 55.6259.4509.4509.4009.1509.4509.25056.150111.775 18 Gustav Tannenberger 110.40 55.2009.4009.4509.3009.5009.4009.50056.550111.750 19 Volker Rohrwick 112.20 56.1009.4009.5009.1009.5009.3008.65055.450111.550 20 Jiří Tabák 109.40 54.7009.6009.2009.1509.7009.4009.55056.600111.300 21 Kurt Thomas 111.05 55.5259.2009.3009.4009.1009.0509.60055.65111.175 22 Philip Delesalle 109.00 54.5009.3009.6509.3509.5009.3009.15056.250110.750 23 Henri Boério 112.90 56.4509.1008.6009.5509.1008.7009.00054.050110.500 24 Keith Carter 109.30 54.6509.1509.3009.3009.3509.2509.30055.650110.300 25 Miloslav Netušil 109.75 54.8758.7509.4009.4509.5009.4008.85055.350110.225 26 Maurizio Milanetto 108.95 54.4759.0009.3509.5509.5008.9509.25055.600110.075 27 Ueli Bachmann 109.60 54.8009.0009.3509.009.4508.9009.50055.200110.000 Philippe Gaille 109.40 54.7008.8509.4509.3009.1509.1009.45055.300110.000 29 Nicolae Oprescu 110.30 55.1509.0508.2009.3509.5009.2509.40054.750109.900 30 Eric Koloko 108.25 54.1259.0009.4509.0509.3509.3009.50055.650109.775 31 Maurizio Montesi 108.10 54.0509.2009.4009.4509.6008.8509.20055.700109.750 32 Sorin Cepoi 109.95 54.9759.0009.3509.4509.6507.6509.45054.550109.525 33 Willi Moy 109.50 54.7509.1508.8009.1009.4508.9009.35054.750109.500 34 Vladimir Markelov 115.40 57.7000.0009.4508.9000.0008.9009.65036.90094.600 35 Pierre Leclerc 108.70 54.3501.0000.0000.0000.0009.0509.35019.4073.750 36 Dan Grecu 114.10 57.0503.0000.4000.0000.0000.0000.0003.40060.450 37 Eizo Kenmotsu 115.15 colspan=9 rowspan=23 38 Gennady Krysin 114.25 39 Vladimir Marchenko 113.85 40 Hisato Igarashi 113.55 41 Vladimir Tikhonov 112.15 42 Roland Brückner 112.00 43 Wolfgang Klotz 111.95 44 Béla Laufer 111.60 45 Rainer Hanschke 111.50 46 Tom Beach 110.55 47 Werner Steinmetz 110.30 48 Ion Checicheș 109.85 49 Mihai Borș 109.75 50 Árpád Farkas 109.65 51 Marshall Avener 109.45 52 Bart Conner 109.35 53 Imre Bánrévi 109.15 Ștefan Gal 109.15 55 Vladislav Nehasil 108.90 56 Reinhard Dietze 108.80 57 Bernhard Locher 108.30 58 Peter Rohner 108.25 59 Andrey Keranov 108.20 60 Dimitrios Janulidis 107.95 rowspan=31 colspan=9 61 Marian Pieczka 107.75 Reinhard Ritter 107.75 63 Jan Zoulík 107.35 64 Stoyan Delchev 107.15 65 Łukasz Uhma 106.80 66 Georgi Todorov 106.50 Angelo Zucca 106.50 68 Dov Lupi 106.45 69 Roman Tkaczyk 106.35 70 Bernard Decoux 106.15 71 Mariusz Zasada 106.10 72 Ole Benediktson 105.70 73 Ian Neale 105.40 74 Grzegorz Ciastek 105.35 75 Michel Boutard 105.25 76 Nelson Fernández 105.15 Gabriel Calvo 105.15 78 Dimitar Koychev 105.00 79 José de la Casa 104.95 80 Patrick Boutet 104.80 81 Peter Lloyd 104.75 82 Tommy Wilson 103.45 83 Zhivko Rusev 103.20 84 Phil Cheetham 102.80 85 Jeff Davis 102.50 86 Fernando Bertrand 102.35 87 Toncho Todorov 101.70 88 Roberto Richards 100.65 89 Shun Fujimoto 84.55 90 Armin Vock 81.45
References
External links Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com www.gymn-forum.net