Josef Stalder | |
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Country represented | Switzerland |
Born | 6 February 1919 |
Died | 2 March 1991 72) | (aged
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Josef Stalder (6 February 1919 – 2 March 1991) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic champion.
Career
He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a gold medal on the horizontal bar, a silver medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal on the parallel bars.[1] He also won four medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
He was the originator and namesake of stalder circles, now a common skill on both the horizontal bar and the uneven bars.
References
- ↑ "1948 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 28 March 2008)
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