Innocent Stangl
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Innozenz Stangl (born March 11, 1911 in Jesenwang ; † March 23, 1991 ibid) was a German gymnast .
Stangl was the eleventh child in a Gütler family. After he was able to achieve some success at gymnastics festivals in his youth, he took on several professions that supported his gymnastics career. In 1936, Stangl moved to TSV 1860 Munich before he started at the Olympic Games in Berlin . There he took part in seven individual gymnastics decisions , but always missed a medal. It was only in the team that he and seven other team members were able to win the gold medal in front of the Swiss and Finnish teams. Stangl was a member of the NSDAP and the SA .
In the following years, Stangl became a sports teacher in Gdansk and Munich , before serving as a radio operator during the war and becoming a prisoner of war in 1945 . After his escape from Czechoslovakia, he first worked as a representative and unskilled worker in the textile industry, then he won a German championship title in 1947 in the pentathlon. Stangl spent the following years again as a teacher at several schools, then he retired early in 1969 because of a broken cervical vertebra. Stangl lived his last years in an old people's home in his hometown Jesenwang.
The salto invented by Stangl from the giant rim was named after him Stangl-Salto , and a street in Jesenwang also bears his name. Today the headquarters of his first club, TSV Jesenwang, are located in Innozenz-Stangl-Weg.
On September 3, 1950, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements.
Web links
- Portrait of Stangl on the side of one of his former schools, the Gisela-Oberrealschule in Munich
- Innozenz Stangl in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic gymnastics champion Innozenz STANGL would be 100 years old today ... at gymmedia
- ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government to the Bundestag of September 23, 1973, printed matter 7/1040, page 80
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| SURNAME | Stangl, Innocent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jesenwang |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1991 |
| Place of death | Jesenwang |