Josef Stalder
Josef "Sepp" Stalder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality: | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
discipline | Apparatus gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Horizontal bars |
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Birthday: | February 6, 1919 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death day: | March 2, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- ↑ 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 )
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SURNAME | Stalder, Josef |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stalder-Fuchs, Josef (full name); Stalder, Sepp (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss gymnast |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1919 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1991 |