Stane Derganc (23 April 1893 – 9 August 1981) was a Yugoslav

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. At the 1928 Olympics, he won two bronze medals for the

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(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

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. 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

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he took bronze in the team event and individual floor event.Stane Derganc at Sports Reference
Profile at Sports Reference LLC At the World Championships, he won many medals. At his first World Championships, in 1922 in Yugoslavia, he was part of the Yugoslav team which took silver in the team event, behind Czechoslovakia. He also took bronze in the individual overall event, and silver in the horizontal bar. He also took part in the next World Championships, in Lyon, France in 1926. There, Yugoslavia again won silver in the team event. He won no individual medals at this World Championships.

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Stane Derganc was depicted by Ivan Vavpotič on the ''Verigar'' stamps from late 1918: File:Znamka Verigar 3.jpg, 3- heller stamp File:Timbre Verigar 15 Slovenie SHS 1918.jpg, 15-heller stamp File:Znamka Verigar 30.jpg, 30-heller stamp

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Derganc, Stane 1893 births 1981 deaths Slovenian male artistic gymnasts Yugoslav male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Yugoslavia Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia Gymnasts at the 1924 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Ljubljana Carniolan people Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics