Hans Eugster

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Hans Eugster Apparatus gymnastics
Personal information
Nationality: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
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Gymnastique aux anneaux.svgrings
Birthday: March 27, 1929
Place of birth: Heiden AR
Death day: November 12, 1956
Place of death: Lucerne
Medals
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold 1952 Helsinki Ingots
silver 1952 Helsinki Team all-around
bronze 1952 Helsinki Rings

Hans Eugster (born March 27, 1929 in Heiden AR ; † November 12, 1956 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic champion .

Life

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , gymnasts from the Soviet Union took part for the first time and immediately dominated most of the decisions. Your main competitor was not the Finnish athletes, who four years earlier had formed the most successful nation, but the Swiss around Hans Eugster, Jack Günthard and Josef Stalder . Eugster participated in all eight gymnastics competitions. He won the individual competition on parallel bars in front of Viktor Tschukarin , the most successful athlete at the Helsinki Games, and bronze on the rings. In the team standings, the Swiss took second place behind the gymnasts from the USSR, but ahead of the Finns.

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Basel in 1950 , Eugster was world champion on parallel bars and won the bronze medal on rings. In 1954 in Rome he won another bronze medal on the parallel bars.

All medals are kept by the brother and former trainer Ernst Eugster in Heiden AR.

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personal data
SURNAME Eugster, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiden AR , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1956
Place of death Lucerne , Switzerland