Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. The competition was held from August 27 to September 1 at the Sports Hall in Munich.

Format of competition

The scoring in the team competition event and in event finals was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics. But in the all-around the scoring system became similar to that of event finals: for the all-around a gymnast showed one's skills once more on each of the apparatuses; to get the "Total" value for the all-around performance, marks in the team competition were added together, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" value) and added to the sum of marks for all-around routines ("Final" value). Judging system was basically the same, as at the previous Olympics.

Medals

Floor exercise

"Prelim" value is the sum of two marks for compulsory and optional routine in the team competition on the respective apparatus, divided by two.

Vault

Women's events

"C" stands for "Compulsory exercises" and "O" stands for "Optional exercises".

Individual all-around

"Prelim" mark is the value from the "Score" column of the team competition table, divided by two.

Uneven bars

References

*cite book
title = The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972
publisher = proSport
location = Munich
year = 1974
url = http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm
*cite web
title = 1972 Olympic Games
work = Gymn-Forum.com
url = http://www.gymn-forum.com/results/Olympics/1972_Munich/1972_Games_main.html
accessdate = May 24
accessyear = 2006