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Vlasta Děkanová
Vlasta Děkanová (5 September 1909 – 16 October 1974) was a Czechs, Czech Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who represented Czechoslovakia. She was the first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Women's individual all-around, World All-Around Champion as well as the first repeat World All-Around Champion in women's artistic gymnastics. Early life Děkanová was born in Prague in 1909. Her father was a dedicated member of Czech Sokol movement, Sokol and the manager of a gym in the Žižkov district of Prague. She progressed through the Sokol system, graduating in 1933. She performed locally at the Lucerna Music Bar, Lucerna Palace. Beginning in 1928, Děkanová started touring and performing in exhibitions internationally in countries including Belgium, France, Netherlands, Poland, and Yugoslavia. In the United States, she performed in exhibitions in Cleveland, New York, and Washington. Competitive career Děkanová made her World Championship competitive debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its Prague metropolitan area, metropolitan area is home to approximately 2.3 million people. Prague is a historical city with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, Czech Gothic architecture, Gothic, Czech Renaissance architecture, Renaissance and Czech Baroque architecture, Baroque architecture. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary. The city played major roles in the Bohemian Reformation, Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Best - Czechoslovakians Vlasta Děkanová, Alois Hudec, Jan Gajdoš
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Gymnastics At The 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's Artistic Individual All-around
The men's artistic individual all-around event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was one of seven gymnastics events for men and was the seventh Olympic men's all-around gymnastic championship. Scores from the individual apparatus events were added to give aggregate scores for the individual all-around; individual all-around scores were similarly summed for the team all-around event. There were 88 competitors from 11 nations. Each nation sent a team of 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Georges Miez of Switzerland, with his countryman Hermann Hänggi taking silver. They were the first medals in the event for Swiss gymnasts since 1904 and the first gold medal ever for a Swiss man in the individual all-around. Defending Olympic champion Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia finished with the bronze this time, making him the third man to win multiple medals in the event. Background This was the seventh appearance of the men's individual all-around. The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 8th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ..., in conjunction with that year's French Federal Festival, on May 22–23, 1926. Medal table Team Competition Individual Standings Pommel horse Rings Parallel bars Horizontal bar References {{World gym champs World Artistic Gymnastics Championships World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1926 Sports competitions in Lyon World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1926 International gymnastics competitions hosted by France 20th century in Lyon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 7th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...) on August 11–12, 1922. Medal table This was the first international tournament arranged under the auspices of FIG at which individual medals for all-round performance were awarded. However, the individual medals for apparatus were not awarded at the 1922 tournament, those discussed below were awarded by FIG retrospectively. Team Competition Individual Standings Pommel horse Rings Parallel bars Horizontal bar References Sources Prvi ljubljanski stadion {{World gym champs World Artistic Gymnastics Championships World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1922 Sport in Lju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Štukelj
Leon Štukelj (; 12 November 1898 – 8 November 1999) was a Slovene professional gymnast. He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics. He is a noted figure in Slovenian sporting history. Štukelj is one of the first Slovene athletes to have risen to the very top of his sport, where he remained right from the World Championships in Ljubljana in 1922 all the way to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, at which point he finished his competitive gymnastics career. Štukelj competed at seven major international competitions and won a total of twenty medals: eight gold, six silver, and six bronze. At the Olympic Games alone he won six medals: two gold medals (counted for Yugoslavia) in Paris in 1924, one gold medal and two bronze in Amsterdam in 1928, and a silver medal in Berlin in 1936. Biography Štukelj was born in Kandija (part of Novo Mesto since 1923), Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia). His baptismal record bears the name ''Leopol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's Artistic Individual All-around
The men's artistic individual all-around event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was one of nine gymnastics events and it was contested for the sixth time. The competition was held from Thursday, 17 July 1924, to Wednesday, 23 July 1924. Seventy-two gymnasts from nine nations competed. Each nation could send up to 8 gymnasts, up from 6 in previous Games. For the first time since 1904, the scores for individual competitors were used to calculate a team score (the team events were completely separate from 1908 to 1920). The men's artistic individual all-around was won by Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia's Robert Pražák took silver, while Bedřich Šupčík earned bronze. Both nations were making their debut in the event. Background This was the sixth appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's Artistic Individual All-around
The men's artistic individual all-around competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 and 11 August. It was the ninth appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report la84.org. Retrieved 14 March 2019. There were 111 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending up to 8 competitors. The event was won by of Germany, the nation's first victory in the men's individual all-around. Germany also received bronze, with taking third. Silver went to Switzerland's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlasta Děkanová On The Uneven Bars 1936 Olympics Official Report
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Janina Skirlińska
Janina Skirlińska (8 March 1907 – 23 April 1993) was a Polish Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Polish women's team at those Olympics, where they placed 6th in the team competition. Additionally, she was the Bronze All-Around Medalist at the 1934 World Championships (the first-ever edition of those games that included a women's competition), helping her Polish team to the bronze medal at both that World Championships and the next edition of the World Championships in 1938. Early life Skirlińska was born on March 8, 1907 in the small village of Żurawiczki, Poland to Władysław and Helena (née Kwaśniewski) Skirliński who have alternatingly been described as belonging to the intelligentsia and Polish landed gentry, landed gentry classes. She graduated from high school in the nearby larger town of Jarosław with a course emphasis on physical education and military training. In her years after high sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit Kalocsai
Margit Kalocsai (27 December 1909 – 23 November 1993) was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. At the first-ever World Championships for women, she was the 2nd-place finisher, which stands in extreme contrast to her 41st-place individual result at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics where her marks in both the compulsory and voluntary segments on 2 of the 3 events contested were extremely low (61st place overall on the parallel bars and 33rd place overall on the vaulting horse out of a field of 64 competitors), considering her performance at the preceding 1934 World Championships. Kalocsai's extreme misfortune at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics parallels, with immediately adjacent juxtapositioning, the misfortune of Poland's Janina Skirlińska Janina Skirlińska (8 March 1907 – 23 April 1993) was a Polish Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Polish women's team at those Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's Artistic Team All-around
The women's artistic team all-around competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ... was held at the Waldbühne on 12 August. It was the second appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report la84.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019. Competition format The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928, when women's gymnastics debuted at the Olympic Games. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise on each of the three ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
