Jack Günthard

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Jack Günthard Apparatus gymnastics
Personal information
Nationality: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s: Barre fixe.svgHorizontal
Barres parallèles.svgbars
Birthday: January 8, 1920
Place of birth: Hirzel
Death day: 7th August 2016
Place of death: Biel
Medals
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold 1952 Helsinki Horizontal bar
silver 1952 Helsinki team
Logo of the UEG European championships
gold 1957 Paris Horizontal bar
gold 1957 Paris Ingots

Jakob "Jack" Günthard (born January 8, 1920 in Hirzel ; † August 7, 2016 in Biel ) was a Swiss gymnast and trainer. He was Olympic champion (1952), European champion (1957), Swiss champion (1956, 1957, 1958) and winner of the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival (1951, 1955).

Life

Günthard, son of Oskar Julius Günthard and Marie born. Isler was born in Hirzel and grew up in Wädenswil . He learned the profession of typesetter , then attended an evening grammar school and, after graduating from high school, studied sports science at the ETH Zurich .

As a student in the semester break, he participated in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki in a successful Swiss squad with Josef Stalder and Hans Eugster . The Swiss squad took second place in the team ranking behind the gymnasts from the Soviet Union and ahead of Finland . Jack Günthard reached 17th place in the individual ranking. On the horizontal bar he won with 19.55 points in front of Josef Stalder and the German Alfred Schwarzmann , who both received silver. In 1953 he was fifth in the international Jahn memorial gymnastics on the Berlin Waldbühne in front of 12,000 spectators. 1957 Günthard became European champion on horizontal bar and parallel bars . In 1951 and 1955 he won the Federal Gymnastics Festival.

After being rejected as Swiss national coach, he trained the Italian team around Franco Menichelli in their preparation for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo. In 1960 the Italian team became bronze winners; Franco Menichelli became Olympic champion in floor exercise in 1964. From 1965 Günthard worked full-time at the sports school in Magglingen and trained Swiss gymnasts ("Günthard Boys") such as Roland Hürzeler, Ueli Bachmann, Peter Rohner, Hans Ettlin, Marco Piatti, Armin Vock and Philippe Gaille until April 26, 1980. At Union Européenne de Gymnastique UEG he worked as a competition manager and analyst.

Jack Günthard became known to a wide audience in the 1970s as the “gymnast of the nation” through his television program “Fit with Jack”. In Radio Beromünster his mission ran daily between 7 and 8 o'clock "Early gymnastics with Jack." In 1974 his book “Fit with Jack Günthard” was published, which sold thousands of copies and was standard display in every fitness center.

Jack Günthard died in August 2016 at the age of 96; his wife Louise Günthard-Ritsche (* 1921) died in 2015. They both lived in Magglingen and in recent years in the Biel residence Au Lac. His brother Hans H. Günthard (1916–2006) was a professor of physical chemistry at the ETH Zurich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Hegglin: Obituary for Jack Günthard. A gifted marketer. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Gymnastics. Success of Josef Stalder at the Jahn memorial gymnastics in Berlin. In: This and That - House Gazette of the Lenzburg Cantonal Prison , Volume 15, No. 11, July 18, 1953, p. 3. ( PDF )
  3. ↑ a b c Jack Günthard died at the age of 96. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung / sda of August 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Alfred Bauder, Hans Primas : Günthard, Hans H .. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz . 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Günthard, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günthard, Jakob (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artistic gymnast and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirzel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 2016
Place of death Biel / Bienne , Switzerland