Bernd Jäger

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Bernd Jäger
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Apparatus gymnast

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
bronze 1976 Team all-around
World championships
bronze 1974 Team all-around

Bernd Jäger (born  November 18, 1951 in Kahla ) is a former German gymnast .

Career

He won a bronze medal in the team all-around competition for the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . His best individual placement at these Olympics was a fourth place on the parallel bars.

In 1974, at a national competition in Switzerland on the horizontal bar, he performed the hunter's somersault, which was later named after him, for the first time, a forward sliding somersault on the slope, with which he triggered a reorientation towards exercises with more flight elements. In the same year he took third place in the team all- around at the World Championships in Varna with the GDR team as well as fifth in the individual competitions on the horizontal bar and parallel bars . At the GDR championships in 1975 he won the all-around, 1973 and 1975 on the horizontal bar and 1974 and 1975 on the parallel bars.

Bernd Jäger's home club was ASK Vorwärts Potsdam , where he later worked as a coach. In addition, he also worked as the Finnish national coach from 1997 to 2000 and during this time led Jani Tanskanen to the world title on the horizontal bar. Since March 2001 he has been training the artistic gymnast of the VT Rinteln. The end of 2019 led hunters a turn course in Namibia Swakopmund by.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The inventor of the hunter flint trains Africa's Olympic candidates | GYMmedia.de. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German apparatus gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kahla