Alberto Braglia

Alberto Braglia (born March 23, 1883 in Campogalliano , Modena province , † February 5, 1954 in Modena ) was an Italian gymnast and Olympic champion.

In his childhood Braglia practiced alone in a stable and then joined a gymnastics club at the age of twelve. At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , he was second twice, in the all-around with five and six exercises. However, the results in Athens are not recognized by the IOC today . He developed a stemme on the horizontal bar , which was further developed by the Swiss gymnast Eduard Steinemann and named after him.

At the Summer Olympics in London in 1908 , Braglia won the all-around event. Like two years earlier, he did not participate in the team all-around competition. After the Games, Braglia struggled to earn a living and performed as the Human Cannonball in a circus ; he broke his shoulder and several ribs in an accident.

Because of his professional activity, which also contained sporting elements, Braglia was considered a professional by the Italian Gymnastics Federation and therefore excluded. In time for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm , however, he got his amateur status back. He defended his Olympic title in the all-around competition and also won the gold medal with the team. In addition to the Soviet-Ukrainian Viktor Tschukarin (1952 and 1956) and the Japanese Sawao Kato (1968 and 1972) and Kōhei Uchimura (2012 and 2016), he is one of the four athletes who were able to repeat their all-round victory.

In later years Braglia was a popular and successful circus performer. In 1932 he traveled to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and coached the Italian gymnasts, who surprisingly won the team competition.

The Stadio Alberto Braglia in Modena , home of the FC Modena football club, is named after him .

Web links

Information on the side of the IOC (English)
Alberto Braglia in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Steinemannstemme and Staldergrätsche. In: av.tib.eu. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
↑ Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games - The Chronicle I . Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 282 .

personal data
SURNAME	Braglia, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Campogalliano , Province of Modena
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 1954
Place of death	Modena

[tib-14445-1] Steinemannstemme and Staldergrätsche. In: av.tib.eu. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .

[2] Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games - The Chronicle I . Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 282 .