Johanna Quaas

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Johanna Quaas on June 24, 2017 in Halle (Saale) at the prominent jumping jump of my life

Johanna Quaas (born November 20, 1925 in Hohenmölsen as Johanna Geißler ) is a German gymnast . She is the oldest competitive gymnast in the world.

Life and career

She started gymnastics at an early age and competed in her first competition in 1934. After finishing school, the mandatory compulsory year followed and later the labor service. In 1945 she completed her training as a sports teacher in Stuttgart . Then she moved to Weißenfels , where she devoted herself to handball , since gymnastics had been banned by the occupying powers as an alleged "military training". With the end of the ban in 1947, she began to do gymnastics again. From 1950 she studied at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She completed her studies with the state examination and then worked as a trainer for physical education teachers at the Institute for Physical Education, founded in 1948. As an author, she contributed to the creation of the textbook apparatus gymnastics .

During this time Quaas did gymnastics in the University Sports Association Science Halle . From 1961 she initially worked as a gymnastics trainer at SC Chemie Halle and later as a vocational school teacher. Among other things, she trained the gymnasts Barbara Dix-Stolz and Christel Felgner-Wunder , who were nominated for participation in the 1964 Olympic Games and competed there for the all-German team . At the age of 57, Quaas began active gymnastics again in 1982 and the following year she became GDR champion at the VII GDR gymnastics and sports festival in Leipzig . After the reunification she took part in all German gymnastics festivals from 1990 onwards .

Quaas became known in 2012 through several YouTube videos that she showed during appearances at the championship tournament in the Cottbus Lausitz-Arena . The videos developed into viral clips and reached several million views within a very short time. Numerous television and newspaper reports followed in German and international media, including reports on the American television stations NBC and ABC as well as an appearance on Gottschalk Live . The German gymnast was also reported in numerous Chinese newspapers.

On September 13, 2012, it was announced that Quaas received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as "the oldest female gymnast in the world". She replaces Inge Kaatz from the HSG DHfK Leipzig, who died in 2010 .

In 2015, Johanna Quaas was honored with the Nadia Comaneci Sportsmanship Award in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame as the oldest competitive gymnast in Oklahoma.

For Queen Elisabeth II - both were ninety years old at the time - Johanna Quaas jumped from a height of 3000 m at the Böhlen airfield on June 5, 2016 with the parachute. Your tandem partner was Eberhard Gienger . In contrast to the Queen, who was doubled together with James Bond actor Daniel Craig during the parachute jump on the occasion of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for the opening ceremony , Johanna Quaas proved the authenticity of the jump.

On June 24th 2017 Johanna Quaas took part in the celebrity jumping at the jump of my life by Andreas Wels in the Nordbad in Halle (Saale) .

Quaas is a member of the State Gymnastics Association of Saxony-Anhalt and the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Society .

Private life

Quaas was married to the gymnastics coach Gerhard Quaas (1932–2016) since 1963. The couple has three daughters. None of her daughters became a gymnast. Johanna Quaas lives in Halle (Saale) .

Web links

Commons : Johanna Quaas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oldest gymnast in the world. Johanna Quaas from Halle conquers the "Hall of Fame". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of June 24, 2015, accessed on July 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Johanna Quaas world famous  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) at dtb-online.de, accessed on September 13, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dtb-online.de
  3. ↑ Hallesches Turnertreffen - gymnastics pioneers from the very beginning ( memento of January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at gymmedia.com, accessed on September 13, 2012
  4. ↑ 86-year old Johanna Quaas demonstration on PB - "Tournament Der Meister" Cottbus 2012 at youtube.com, accessed on September 13, 2012
  5. ↑ 86-year old Johanna Quaas demonstration on FX - "Tournament Der Meister" Cottbus 2012 at youtube.com, accessed on September 13, 2012
  6. ↑ a b 86-year-old tournament is a YouTube star. SUPERillu.de, April 12, 2012, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Guinness Book of Records: Johanna Quaas from Halle is the oldest gymnast in the world. September 13, 2012, accessed October 1, 2012 .
  8. ↑ For the Queen: 90-year-old girl from Halle jumps with the parachute in Böhlen ( Memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 5, 2016
  9. ↑ "Leap of my life" The oldest gymnast in the world (91) jumps off the board in Halle. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 24, 2017, accessed June 25, 2017 .
  10. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Society / u. In: jahn-gesellschaft.de. August 27, 2012, archived from the original on October 1, 2012 ; Retrieved October 1, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Ex-gymnastics trainer Gerhard Quaas died | GYMmedia.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Quaas, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geißler, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenmölsen , Germany