Eduard Steinemann
Eduard "Edi" Steinemann (born August 2, 1906 , † June 28, 1937 in Flawil ) was a Swiss gymnast .
Steinemann did gymnastics from 1927 to 1928 at the Carouge club in Geneva. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , the Swiss team with Hans Grieder , August Güttinger , Hermann Hänggi , Eugen Mack , Georges Miez , Otto Pfister , Eduard Steinemann and Melchior Wezel won the gold medal in the team competition, with the six best individual performances on each device in the evaluation was received, the two weakest scores were discarded results. In the individual ranking, Steinemann took 15th place, his best placement on the equipment was fourth on the pommel horse .
At the Gymnastics World Championships in Budapest in 1934 , the Swiss team won the team standings with Walter Bach , Hans Grieder, Hermann Hänggi, Eugen Mack, Georges Miez, Eduard Steinemann, Josef Walter and Melchior Wezel. Steinemann also won the silver medal in the horse jump and on the pommel horse behind Eugen Mack.
At the Olympic Games in 1936 , the Swiss team won the silver medal behind the German gymnasts. The Swiss team consisted of Eugen Mack, Michael Reusch , Eduard Steinemann, Walter Bach, Albert Bachmann , Georges Miez, Josef Walter and Walter Beck . In the individual ranking, Steinemann achieved tenth place, and eighth place on the bars was his best individual placement.
Steinemann's family owned the Steinemann Hammerwerke in Flawil. After completing his training as a locksmith, Eduard Steinemann moved to Geneva in 1927 and to Paris in 1928 to perfect his professional skills as an art locksmith. After a car accident in 1930, he had to interrupt his sporting career. Steinemann died in 1937 of pleurisy and pneumonia.
A stemme on the horizontal bar is named after Eduard Steinemann , although it was exercised before him by the Italian Alberto Braglia .
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 (here especially p. 681, note 157 and p. 906, note 286).
Web links
- Eduard Steinemann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Medalist at world championships
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 | Steinemann, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinemann, Edi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1906 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1937 |
| Place of death | Flawil |