Dallas Bixler

Dallas Bixler medal table
Apparatus gymnastics
United States
Olympic games
gold	1932 Los Angeles	Horizontal bar

Dallas Denver Bixler (born February 17, 1910 in Hutchinson , Kansas , USA ; † August 13, 1990 in Buena Park , California ) was an American high-bar gymnast who had only one great success in his career (as an athlete).

Life

Dallas Denver Bixler was born the son of the pioneer aviator and protégé of the Wright brothers, John Bixler. In 1932, at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , Bixler won the gold medal on the horizontal bar. He might have entered the all-around competition, but suffered a shoulder injury in 1935 and had to give up his career as an athlete, but still remained active in the Olympics: He was appointed President of the Southern California Olympic Department. He also assisted the Olympic Organizing Committee in 1984 .

After recovering from the serious injury, he became a banker , restaurateur, and food advisor for the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. In 1965 he applied to the University of California, Los Angeles , got a teacher's certificate and went to various schools in Los Angeles to teach commercial cooking. He died in Buena Park, California in 1990.

Web links

• Dallas Bixler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )