Philipp Herder (born 21 October 1992) is a retired German

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

who represented Germany at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

In 2011, Herder had a neck injury that required surgery to replace a disk with two fused vertebrae, and he temporarily retired from the sport, but he returned at the 2014 World Championships. Herder competed at the 2015 World Championships and helped the German team finish ninth in the qualification round. Herder competed at the 2016 Olympic Test Event and won the gold medal with the German team which allowed Germany to send a full team to the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

. Herder was selected as an alternate for Germany's 2016 Olympic team. Herder was selected to represent

Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics Germany competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's eighth consecutiv ...

alongside

Lukas Dauser Lukas Dauser (born 15 June 1993) is a German male artistic gymnast and a two-time Olympian, having competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2020 Olympic and 2022 World silver medalist on the parallel bars. Career Dauser became ...

, Nils Dunkel, and

Andreas Toba Andreas Toba (born 7 October 1990 in Hanover) is a German gymnast. He is a three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012, Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016, and Gymnastics at the 2 ...

. On October 24, 2022, Herder announced his retirement from elite gymnastics but said he still planned on competing in bundesliga.

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* * * * * 1992 births Living people German male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts from Berlin Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Germany 21st-century German people {{Germany-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub