Josef Stalder

Josef "Sepp" Stalder
Personal information
Nationality:	Switzerland
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Horizontal bars
Birthday:	February 6, 1919
Death day:	March 2, 1991
Medals
Olympic games gold 1948 London Horizontal bar silver 1948 London Team all-around (twelve-way fight) bronze 1948 London Ingots silver 1952 Helsinki Horizontal bar silver 1952 Helsinki Team all-around (twelve-way fight) bronze 1952 Helsinki Ingots bronze 1952 Helsinki Single all-around (twelve-way fight)

Josef "Sepp" Stalder-Fuchs (* February 6, 1919 - March 2, 1991 ) was a Swiss gymnast .

Stalder took part in the Summer Olympics in 1948 and 1952 . He won a total of seven medals in various disciplines, including a gold on the horizontal bar in London in 1948 . In 1952 he was named Sportsman of the Year in Switzerland . In 1953 he won the international Jahn memorial gymnastics on the Berlin Waldbühne in front of 12,000 spectators.

The "Stalder tackle" is named after him because he was the first gymnast in the world to show a tackle on the horizontal bar.

successes

• Olympic Summer Games 1948 : gold on the horizontal bar, silver in the team all-around competition, bronze on bars
• Olympic Summer Games 1952 : silver on horizontal bar, silver in team all-around, bronze on bars, bronze in individual all-around

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .

Web links

• Josef Stalder in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 )