Eugene Mack

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Eugen Mack
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SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1928 Amsterdam Horse jump
gold 1928 Amsterdam Team all-around
silver 1936 Berlin Individual all-around
silver 1936 Berlin Horse jump
silver 1936 Berlin Pommel horse
silver 1936 Berlin Team all-around
bronze 1928 Amsterdam Horizontal bar
bronze 1936 Berlin Floor exercise

Eugen Mack (born September 21, 1907 in Arbon ; † October 29, 1978 ) was a Swiss gymnast and two-time Olympic champion .

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he took part in all seven gymnastics competitions. He won the individual horse jumping competition and was third on the horizontal bar behind his teammate Georges Miez , who won the competition. He was also victorious in the team all-around with the Swiss team.

He did not take part in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles .

In 1936, however, at the Summer Olympics in Berlin , he again took part in all eight men's competitions. Almost 30,000 spectators and Adolf Hitler personally witnessed how the favored Swiss were beaten by the German home team. Mack won a total of four silver medals in the individual all-around, horse jump, pommel horse and team all-around competitions. He won another bronze medal in floor exercise.

Mack was the most successful participant in the Gymnastics World Championships in Budapest in 1934 and won five gold medals in all-around (which at that time consisted of 15 competitions), parallel bars, pommel horse, jump and team competition. He also won two silver medals on the rings and on the ground behind Swiss teammate Georges Miez . At the gymnastics world championships in Prague in 1938 he was also world champion in jumping, second on the ground and won the bronze medal in the all-around competition. With the team they won the silver medal this time.

In 1999 Eugen Mack was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

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SURNAME Mack, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Arbon
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1978