Georges Miez

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Georges Miez medal table
Georges Miez in 1928
Gymnast
Switzerland
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1928 Amsterdam	Horizontal bar
gold	1928 Amsterdam	Individual all-around
gold	1928 Amsterdam	Team all-around
gold	1936 Berlin	Floor exercise
silver	1928 Amsterdam	Pommel horse
silver	1932 Los Angeles	Floor exercise
silver	1936 Berlin	Team all-around
bronze	1924 Paris	Team all-around

Georges Miez (born October 2, 1904 in Töss , today Winterthur , † April 21, 1999 in Savosa ), bourgeois Georg Miez , was a Swiss gymnast . With a total of four gold, three silver and one bronze medal, he is the most successful Olympic participant in Switzerland to date .

Life

He was born with the German first name Georg, took part in the competitions with the French first name Georges and was later known as Giorgio in his adopted home, Ticino . He grew up in the attic of a farmhouse in the Eichliacker quarter in the then still independent Töss. Miez started doing gymnastics at the age of 13 at TV Töss , where he also met Melchior Wezel , who would later also attend the 1924 Olympic Games with him. After finishing school he completed an apprenticeship with the « Loki », but from the beginning did not want to stay in the profession. During his apprenticeship he already attended various gymnastics festivals, so he celebrated his first tournament victory at the age of 18 in Kreuzlingen by winning the Intercantonal Gymnastics Festival.

He began his long Olympic career at the age of 19 at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris . He took part in all nine competitions, but won only one bronze medal as a member of the Swiss all-around team; he was also fifth on the horizontal bar.

He reached the peak of his career at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , where he won three golds and one bronze. He won the competitions on the horizontal bar, in the individual all-around and in the team all-around as well as the silver medal on the pommel horse, just behind his Swiss teammate Hermann Hänggi . In addition, he achieved fourth place in the horse jump. In 1929 Miez, who made it to the position of captain of the cavalry, moved to Ticino.

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he was the only Swiss gymnast, which restricted his opportunities to participate. When he only won the silver medal in his best discipline, on the ground, he did not participate in further competitions. In Berlin at the 1936 Summer Olympics , Miez finally won the gold medal on the floor and silver in the team all-round competition.

Miez also became world champion on the ground in Budapest in 1934 . Later, as a gymnastics teacher, trainer and federal course instructor, he was committed to gymnastics, especially youth sports and ensuring that women could play sports.

literature

• Nicolas Hermann: Georg Miez . Record Olympic champion from Winterthur. 2010, p. 29 ( winterthur-glossar.ch [PDF]).
• Marco Marcacci: Giorgio Miez. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 1, 2008 , accessed January 22, 2020 .
• Georges Miez: My memories from the young gymnast to the Olympic decathlon winner in artistic gymnastics: written for the youngsters. , Miez Verlag, Lugano Paradiso 1989.

Web links

• Biography IOC (English)
• Georges Miez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Mettler: The record athlete who refused Hitler the greeting . Der Landbote , July 30, 2016