Miroslav Klinger (20 January 1893 – 10 February 1979) was a Czech gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

and in the

1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op ...

. He was born and died in Prague. In 1920 he was a member of the Czechoslovak gymnastic team which finished fourth in the team event. Four years later at the

he participated in the following events: * Individual all-around - fifth place * Vault - seventh place * Pommel horse - seventh place * Parallel bars - tenth place * Rings - eleventh place * Sidehorse vault - twelfth place * Rope climbing - 24th place * Horizontal bar - 26th place * Team all-around - did not finish Klinger achieved greater success at the 1922 World Championships in Ljubljana where he contributed to the team gold, achieved individual gold on the Pommel Horse and Horizontal Bar, and won silver on the Parallel Bars. Klinger was an active member and activist of the Sokol organization. During World War II he was incarcerated in

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and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Czechoslovak parliamentary elections in 1948 he was elected to the National Assembly for the Czech National Social Party. He was a member of parliament until 1960.Profile
at the

Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic The Chamber of Deputies, officially the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic ( cs, Poslanecká sněmovna Parlamentu České republiky), is the lower house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The chamber has 200 seats ...

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1893 births 1979 deaths Czech male artistic gymnasts Czechoslovak male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1920 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1924 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Prague Buchenwald concentration camp survivors Dachau concentration camp survivors Czech National Social Party politicians {{CzechRepublic-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub