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Team All-Around, Women

Date27 – 28 August 1972 — 08:30-15:00 (27/8), 10:00-18:00 (28/8)
StatusOlympic
LocationSporthalle, Olympiapark, München
Participants114 from 19 countries
FormatSix-person teams. Each gymnast to perform a compulsory and an optional exercise on all four apparatuses. Top five scores per team on each of the eight exercises count towards the team score.

As at every Olympics from 1952-92, save for the 1984 boycott year, the Soviet Union won the gold medal in this event. Their 1972 victory was an easy one over the German Democratic Republic (GDR), who won silver in this event for the first time. Hungary placed third, winning their first medal in the event since 1956, and this was the only women’s gymnastics medal in München not won by the Soviet Union or the GDR.

PosNumberCompetitorsNOCPointsCompulsory PointsOptional Points
1Soviet UnionURS380.50189.15191.35Gold
257Lyudmila Turishcheva
253Olga Korbut
255Tamara Lazakovich
251Lyubov Burda
256Elvira Saadi
254Antanina Koshal
252Nina Dronova DNS
2East GermanyGDR376.55187.30189.25Silver
93Karin Janz
97Erika Zuchold
92Angelika Hellmann
91Irene Abel
96Christine Schmitt
95Richarda Schmeißer
94Sylvia Schaefer DNS
3HungaryHUN368.25182.15186.10Bronze
121Ilona Békési
122Mónika Császár
126Krisztina Medveczky
125Anikó Kéry
124Márta Kelemen
127Zsuzsa Nagy
123Margit Horváth DNS
4United StatesUSA365.90182.10183.80
266Cathy Rigby
261Kimberly Chace
265Roxanne Pierce
264Joan Moore
263Linda Metheny
267Nancy Thies
262Debra Hill DNS
5CzechoslovakiaTCH365.00182.15182.85
245Marianna Némethová-Krajčírová
243Zdena Dorňáková
241Soňa Brázdová
242Zdenka Bujnáčková
244Hana Lišková
247Marcela Váchová
246Bohumila Řimnáčová DNS
6RomaniaROU360.70179.00181.70
211Elena Ceampelea
213Alina Goreac
214Anca Grigoraș
217Elisabeta Turcu
215Paula Ioan
216Marcela Păunescu
212Mariana Gheciov DNS
7JapanJPN359.75179.10180.65
144Miyuki Matsuhisa-Hironaka
142Takako Hasegawa
143Eiko Hirashima
146Kayoko Hashiguchi-Saka
141Kazue Hanyu
145Toshiko Miyamoto
147Nobue Yabe DNS
8West GermanyFRG357.95177.50180.45
105Uta Schorn
103Jutta Oltersdorf
102Andrea Niederheide
101Angelika Kern
107Ulrike Weyh
104Ingrid Santer
106Ingrid Wendel DNS
9NetherlandsNED353.50174.50179.00
116Ans Smulders-van Gerwen
111Ans Dekker
113Ikina Morsch
115Nel van der Voort
114Linda Toorop
117Margo Velema
112Margot Hilders DNS
10PolandPOL350.90174.10176.80
196Łucja Matraszek-Chydzińska
192Joanna Bartosz
191Małgorzata Barlak-Kamasińska
197Danuta Fidusiewicz-Prusinowska
194Dorota Klencz
195Danuta Lubowska
193Aleksandra Jankowicz DNS
11CanadaCAN350.25172.70177.55
23Jennifer Diachun
25Teresa McDonnell
24Nancy McDonnell
21Lise Arsenault-Goertz
26Sharon Tsukamoto
22Susan Buchanan
12ItalyITA349.80173.45176.35
135Gabriella Marchi
137Monica Stefani
132Cinzia Delisi
136Rita Peri
134Maria Grazia Mancuso
131Angela Alberti
133Paola Fiammenghi DNS
13SwitzerlandSUI348.30173.65174.65
222Käthi Fritschi
221Patrizia Bazzi
227Judith Steiger
223Liselotte Marti
224Jacqueline Sievert
225Christine Steger
226Ruth Steger DNS
14NorwayNOR346.80172.35174.45
175Unni Holmen
177Jill Kvamme-Schau
176Gro Sandberg
173Sidsel Ekholdt
174Bente Hansen
171Trine Andresen
172Helga Braathen DNS
15FranceFRA346.20171.95174.25
72Mireille Cayre
77Véronique Tilmont
75Pascale Hermant
73Catherine Daugé
71Nadine Audin
74Elvire Gertosio
76Astrid Sippel DNS
16BulgariaBUL346.05174.80171.25
14Irina Hitrova
12Elena Georgieva
11Maya Blagoeva
17Reneta Tsvetkova
15Evdokiya Pandezova
13Marieta Ilieva
16Krassimira Stoycheva DNS
17YugoslaviaYUG339.55168.10171.45
271Nataša Bajin-Šljepica
274Slaviča Kundačina
276Marija Težak
275Nevenka Puškarević
273Erna Havelka
272Olga Bumbić
18Great BritainGBR333.95165.50168.45
83Pamela Hutchinson
87Elaine Willett
81Barbara Alred
84Avril Lennox
82Pam Hopkins
85Yvonne Mugridge
86Anne Parkinson DNS
19MexicoMEX333.90165.95167.95
163Ana María Casas
166Patricia Ollinger
164Patricia García
167Laura Rivera
165María Antonieta Hernández
162Hilda Amezaga
161Elsa Amezaga DNS

Floor Exercise

Date27 – 28 August 1972
PosCompetitorsNOCPointsCompulsory PointsOptional Points
1Soviet UnionURS95.9548.0047.95
2East GermanyGDR94.2546.6547.60
3United StatesUSA92.2045.6546.55
4RomaniaROU91.8545.8046.05
5HungaryHUN91.5545.0546.50
6CzechoslovakiaTCH91.0545.1045.95
7JapanJPN89.6544.5045.15
8PolandPOL89.6044.9544.65
9West GermanyFRG89.4544.5044.95
10NetherlandsNED88.9044.0044.90
11CanadaCAN88.8044.2044.60
12ItalyITA88.3044.0044.30
13NorwayNOR88.1543.7044.45
14FranceFRA87.9043.7044.20
15SwitzerlandSUI87.7543.5544.20
16BulgariaBUL87.6544.0543.60
17YugoslaviaYUG86.4043.0043.40
18Great BritainGBR85.5042.5043.00
19MexicoMEX85.2041.7543.45

Vault

Date27 – 28 August 1972
PosCompetitorsNOCPointsCompulsory PointsOptional Points
1Soviet UnionURS95.2047.5547.65
2East GermanyGDR94.7546.8547.90
3CzechoslovakiaTCH92.3045.9546.35
4HungaryHUN91.3544.7046.65
5United StatesUSA90.9045.1045.80
6RomaniaROU90.4044.0546.35
7West GermanyFRG90.1544.5045.65
8BulgariaBUL89.5045.1544.35
9JapanJPN89.3543.6545.70
10CanadaCAN89.2043.6545.55
11NetherlandsNED88.2043.7044.50
12PolandPOL88.1043.4544.65
13SwitzerlandSUI87.4543.5043.95
14NorwayNOR87.2042.9044.30
15FranceFRA86.7043.3043.40
16YugoslaviaYUG85.8543.3042.551
17MexicoMEX85.2042.5542.65
18ItalyITA85.0543.2041.85
19Great BritainGBR83.0540.7042.35

Uneven Bars

Date27 – 28 August 1972
PosCompetitorsNOCPointsCompulsory PointsOptional Points
1East GermanyGDR95.6548.0047.65
2Soviet UnionURS95.2547.7047.55
3HungaryHUN93.8547.0046.85
4CzechoslovakiaTCH92.9546.3046.65
5JapanJPN92.0045.9046.10
6United StatesUSA91.9045.7546.15
7West GermanyFRG91.3545.1546.20
8RomaniaROU90.8045.0545.75
9ItalyITA90.1543.9046.25
10NetherlandsNED89.5544.0045.55
11PolandPOL88.5043.4545.05
12SwitzerlandSUI87.7544.0043.75
13CanadaCAN87.7042.8044.90
14NorwayNOR87.3043.4543.85
15FranceFRA87.2542.2045.05
16BulgariaBUL84.4043.0041.40
17YugoslaviaYUG83.7540.2543.50
=18Great BritainGBR83.0040.9542.05
=18MexicoMEX83.0041.2541.75

Balance Beam

Date27 – 28 August 1972
PosCompetitorsNOCPointsCompulsory PointsOptional Points
1Soviet UnionURS94.1045.9048.20
2East GermanyGDR91.9045.8046.10
3HungaryHUN91.5045.4046.10
4United StatesUSA90.9045.6045.30
5JapanJPN88.7545.0543.70
6CzechoslovakiaTCH88.7044.8043.90
7RomaniaROU87.6544.1043.55
8West GermanyFRG87.0043.3543.65
9NetherlandsNED86.8542.8044.05
10ItalyITA86.3042.3543.95
11SwitzerlandSUI85.3542.6042.75
12PolandPOL84.7042.2542.45
13CanadaCAN84.5542.0542.50
14BulgariaBUL84.5042.6041.90
15FranceFRA84.3542.7541.60
16NorwayNOR84.1542.3041.85
17YugoslaviaYUG83.5541.5542.00
18Great BritainGBR82.4041.3541.05
19MexicoMEX80.5040.4040.10