Gymnastics at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Sports Hall
Dates	27 August – 1 September 1972
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Hall in Munich from 27 August through 1 September.^[1]

Format of competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her in Competition II.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

No limits were imposed as to how many gymnasts each country could enter into the individual all-around final or apparatus finals.

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Sawao Kato  Japan	Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan	Akinori Nakayama  Japan
Team all-around details	Japan (JPN) Shigeru Kasamatsu Sawao Kato Eizo Kenmotsu Akinori Nakayama Teruichi Okamura Mitsuo Tsukahara	Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Andrianov Viktor Klimenko Alexander Maleev Edvard Mikaelian Vladimir Schukin Mikhail Voronin	East Germany (GDR) Matthias Brehme Wolfgang Klotz Klaus Köste Jürgen Paeke Reinhard Rychly Wolfgang Thüne
Floor exercise details	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu  Japan
Horizontal bar details	Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan	Sawao Kato  Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu  Japan
Parallel bars details	Sawao Kato  Japan	Shigeru Kasamatsu  Japan	Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan
Pommel horse details	Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union	Sawao Kato  Japan	Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan
Rings details	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan
Vault details	Klaus Köste  East Germany	Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union	Nikolai Andrianov  Soviet Union

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Ludmila Tourischeva  Soviet Union	Karin Janz  East Germany	Tamara Lazakovich  Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Burda Olga Korbut Antonina Koshel Tamara Lazakovich Elvira Saadi Ludmila Tourischeva	East Germany (GDR) Irene Abel Angelika Hellmann Karin Janz Richarda Schmeißer Christine Schmitt Erika Zuchold	Hungary (HUN) Ilona Békési Mónika Császár Marta Kelemen Anikó Kéry Krisztina Medveczky Zsuzsa Nagy
Balance beam details	Olga Korbut  Soviet Union	Tamara Lazakovich  Soviet Union	Karin Janz  East Germany
Floor exercise details	Olga Korbut  Soviet Union	Ludmila Tourischeva  Soviet Union	Tamara Lazakovich  Soviet Union
Uneven bars details	Karin Janz  East Germany	Olga Korbut  Soviet Union Erika Zuchold  East Germany	None awarded
Vault details	Karin Janz  East Germany	Erika Zuchold  East Germany	Ludmila Tourischeva  Soviet Union

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	6	4	16
2	Japan	5	5	6	16
3	East Germany	3	4	2	9
4	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		14	15	13	42