Hugo Jahnke

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gold 1908 London Gymnastics team

Curt Hugo Jahnke (born March 6, 1886 in Stockholm ; † January 12, 1939 there ) was a Swedish gymnast and Olympic champion .

Jahnke took part in the Summer Olympics in London in 1908. With the Swedish team consisting of 38 men , he won the gold medal in apparatus gymnastics in front of Norway and Finland.

Jahnke worked as an architect. Among other things, he was one of the architects responsible for the construction of the new building for the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg .

Individual evidence

  1. Hugo Jahnke on sports-reference.com, accessed January 4, 2016
  2. Hugo Jahnke on the website of the Swedish Olympic Committee, accessed January 4, 2016