Hans Grieder
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| gold | 1928 Amsterdam | Team all-around |
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| bronze | 1924 Paris | Team all-around |
Hans Grieder (born November 12, 1901 in Basel , † October 31, 1995 in Arbon ) was a Swiss gymnast .
Grieder made his first gymnastics attempts and exercises in the "Citizens' Gymnastics Association Basel". For professional reasons he moved to Arbon in 1924, where he soon married Emma († 1948), née Paul. They had two sons together.
Already at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , Grieder won bronze in a team competition with August Güttinger , Jean Gutweninger , Georges Miez, Otto Pfister, Antoine Rebetez , Karl Widmer and Josef Wilhelm . On the third Federal Artistic Gymnastics Day in Zurich in 1927 , Grieder won the gold medal.
At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Grieder won the team all-round competition in apparatus gymnastics together with August Güttinger , Hermann Hänggi , Eugen Mack , Georges Miez , Otto Pfister , Eduard Steinemann and Melchior Wezel .
At the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Budapest in 1934 , Grieder won another gold medal with the Swiss team. Grieder got the best freestyle mark on the horizontal bar in Paris and Amsterdam.
Grieder was the technical director of the “Thurgau Artistic Gymnastics Association” and received the badge of honor at a ceremony in Basel in 1989 for the 204 Olympic medal winners.
Web links
- Hans Grieder in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- olympic.org
- Nekrolog for Hans Grieder In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch 1997
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| SURNAME | Grieder, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1995 |
| Place of death | Arbon |