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Gymnastics At The 1928 Summer Olympics
At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, eight events in gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ... were contested. For the first time at the Olympic Games, women competed in gymnastics. The rope climbing and sidehorse vault events were dropped from the program. Men's events Women's events Although extensive results detailing the performance of the men gymnasts, both teams and individuals, were published in the Official Olympic Report for these 1928 Summer Olympic Games, only the team results (both combined and with respect to exercise) were published for the women, providing no information whatsoever about the capacities of the various individual women who competed here. Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * Medal table References Source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)
The Olympic Stadium (Dutch: ''Olympisch Stadion'', ) is a sporting venue which was used as the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The venue is currently used mostly for athletics, other sports events and concerts. When completed, the stadium had a capacity of 31,600. Following the completion of the rival De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam in 1937, the Amsterdam authorities increased the capacity of the Olympic Stadium to 64,000 by adding a second ring to the stadium. In 1987 the stadium was listed as a national monument. AFC Ajax used the Olympic Stadium for international games until 1996, when the Amsterdam Arena, since 2018 renamed Johan Cruyff Arena, was completed. Renovation started in 1996, and the stadium was refurbished into the original construction of 1928. The second ring of 1937 was removed, reducing capacity to 22,288, and the stadium was made suitable for track and field competitions again. Since 2005, the stadium is home to a sports museum, the Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Gajdoš
Jan Gajdoš (27 December 1903 – 19 November 1945) was a Czech gymnast, representing Czechoslovakia. He competed in two Olympic Games and five gymnastics World Championships. Competitive career His first Olympics was in 1928, where he took silver in the team competition. Switzerland won the competition. Individually, he won no medals, but he finished fourth in the horizontal bar, and eighth in the rings. At his next Olympics, in 1936, he again won no medals, but the team finished fourth in the team competition. At the World Championships, he took three golds in the team competition; in 1926, 1930 and 1938. He also took a team silver in 1934. Individually, he took two silver medals in 1926. In 1930, he took overall silver, behind Josip Primožič, and also won bronze in the pommel horse and rings. In 1934, he won no individual medals, but took sixth place overall. In his last World Championships, in 1938, he won gold both in the individual all-around and floor exercise, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Primožič
Josip "Jože" Primožič (7 February 1900, in Ljubljana – 18 August 1985, in Maribor) was a Yugoslavian gymnast of Slovene ethnicity. He took part in three Olympic Games and three World Championships for Yugoslavia. This gave him a total of 10 medals, two silvers at the 1926 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, four golds and a bronze at the 1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, a bronze at the 1938 World Championships, as well as a silver and a bronze at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population .... At the 1924 Olympics, he won no medals, but Yugoslavia came in fourth in the team competition. In 1928, he also did well individually, and came in fifth in the individual overall competition. This came after many good placings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Porenta
Janez Porenta also known as Ivan Porenta, (3 June 1896 – 13 June 1942) was a Slovenian gymnast, competing for Yugoslavia. He won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Biography Porenta was born in Ljubljana. He was a member of the Slovenian Sokol athletics movement. With the Yugoslav team, Porenta participated at two Olympic games, at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and in 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In Paris, he competed at nine events, his best results being 4th place in men's team competition and 6th place in horse vault. In Amsterdam, where the Yugoslav team won five medals in total, Porenta was a member of the bronze medal winning team at the team competition, together with Edvard Antosiewicz, Stane Derganc, Dragutin Ciotti, Boris Gregorka, Anton Malej, Jože Primožič, and Leon Štukelj. During the Second World War, Porenta was active in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation ( sl, Osvobodilna fronta slo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Malej
Anton Malej also known as Tone Malej, (16 January 1907 – 15 July 1930) was a Slovenian gymnast, competing for Yugoslavia. He won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Biography Malej was born in Savica pri Srednji vasi near Bohinj. He was the youngest of five children. His parents, Janez and Marija, worked on a farm in Laški Rovt. From 1913 to 1920, Malej attended elementary school in Bohinjska Bistrica. He left for Ljubljana in 1922, to train in an umbrella making workshop, and started working at L. Mikuž in 1926. At the age of 14, Malej joined the Slovenian Sokol athletics movement. Even as a member of the junior team, he already excelled in parallel bars and horizontal bar. He started competing with the member team in 1926. Malej was a member of the Yugoslavian delegation at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam; he won a bronze medal with the men's all-around team, together with Edvard Antosiewicz, Stane Derganc, Dragutin Ciotti, Boris Gregorka, Janez Porenta, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Gregorka
Boris Gregorka (2 August 1906 – 19 March 2001) was a Slovenian gymnast, competing for Yugoslavia. He won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics. After retiring from competitive career, he was the coach of a double Olympic gold medallist Miroslav Cerar. Biography Gregorka was born in Brežice. At the age of seven, his parents introduced him to the Sokol athletics movement in Ljubljana, where he later achieved several successes. Gregorka was rather tall for a gymnast, 181 cm. This made him best-suited for pommel horse, which was also his best discipline. With his Sokol team, Gregorka was the team winner in all five national competitions for "The Sword of King Alexander" award. Gregorka competed at two Olympics. He was a member of the Yugoslavian delegation at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam; he won a bronze medal with the men's all-around team, together with Edvard Antosiewicz, Dragutin Ciotti, Stane Derganc, Anton Malej, Janez Porenta, Jože Primožič, and Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stane Derganc
Stane Derganc (23 April 1893 – 9 August 1981) was a Yugoslav gymnast. At the 1928 Olympics, he won two bronze medals for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (one with team). Today, he is also remembered as the model for the man depicted on the '' Verigar'' stamps, the first stamp series in Slovene. Stane Derganc was born in Ljubljana. He took part in two Olympic Games for Yugoslavia, and two gymnastics World Championships. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, he came in fourth place in the individual combined event, and fifth in the floor event, and seventh in the pommel horse were his best results in the individual apparatus. At the next event, in 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ... he took bronze in the team event and individual floor event. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragutin Cioti
Dragutin Ciotti (19 October 1905 – 17 March 1974) was a Croatian gymnast. He competed in the men's team and won the bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics. The son of a teacher Giuseppe Ciotti, Italian by nationality and Albina Ciotti, née Blečić. After the turbulent years spent in Rijeka, after the First World War, the family moved to the State of Slovenes. He was a big fan of the gym and trained in the Croatian "Sokol" sports society. He was the seventh of ten children. He managed to get into the national team, then one of the three strongest win the world. He was one of the few of the Croats at the time. There he represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 unt .... He was a member of society "Sokol Sušak Rijeka". After his sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Antosiewicz
Edvard Antosiewicz (also Antonijevič; 24 December 1902 – 4 January 1960) was a Slovenian gymnast, competing for Yugoslavia. Antosiewicz was born in Ljubljana. From an early age, he was an active member of the Slovenian Sokol athletics movement. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands; he won a bronze medal with the men's all-around team, together with Stane Derganc, Dragutin Ciotti, Boris Gregorka, Anton Malej, Janez Porenta, Jože Primožič, and Leon Štukelj. In addition, he competed individually in all the men's disciplines. He finished 26th in individual all-around, 21st in horse vault, 38th in parallel bars, 36th in horizontal bar, 11th in rings, and 36th in pommel horse. In the years following, Antosiewicz participated at the 1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Luxembourg, where he won 3rd place with the Yugoslavia team and finished 15th in individual all-around. Antosiewicz's colleague Anton Malej suffered a fatal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Veselý
Václav Veselý (13 August 1900, in Jinonice – 10 December 1941, in Řeporyje) was a Czechoslovak gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vesely, Vaclav 1900 births 1941 deaths Czechoslovak male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts from Prague Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Vácha
Ladislav Vácha (21 March 1899 in Brno – 28 June 1943) was a Czech gymnast and Olympic champion competing for Czechoslovakia. He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a bronze medal in ''rope climbing'' and ''rings''."1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Gymnastics" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 31 March 2008) He received a gold medal in ''parallel bars'', and silver medals in ''rings'' and ''team combined exercises'' at the in .< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislav Tikal
Ladislav Tikal (25 May 1905 in Soběslav – 30 June 1980 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from .... References 1905 births 1980 deaths Czech male artistic gymnasts Czechoslovak male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics People from Tábor District Sportspeople from the South Bohemian Region {{CzechRepublic-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
