Miroslav Cerar

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Miroslav Cerar

Miroslav Cerar (born October 28, 1939 in Ljubljana ) is a former Yugoslav artistic gymnast . Cerar was the outstanding gymnast on the pommel horse in the 1960s, winning all world championships on this device from 1962 to 1970.

Career

His international career began in 1958 when Cerar won bronze on the pommel horse at the World Championships in Moscow. At the 1960 Olympic Games , he finished eighth in the all-around competition and was ninth with the Yugoslav squad. He only reached the device finals on the horizontal bar, where he took fifth place.

In 1961 he won four gold medals at the European Championships in Luxembourg: in the twelve fight, on parallel bars, on pommel horse and on rings, as well as bronze in horse jumping. At the 1962 World Championships in Prague he won gold on parallel bars and pommel horse, both ahead of Boris Schachlin . It was the first time that referees corrected their score after the audience (18,000 spectators) protested for 40 minutes against the original score that Chesslin saw in first place in the parallel bars competition. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1963, he won again in the twelve fight as well as on pommel horse, parallel bars and rings. In addition to silver in the horse jump, he also received bronze for his floor exercise. At the Olympic Games in 1964 , after a failed floor exercise, he finished seventh in the twelve fight and 11th place with the team. He reached three device finals and took sixth place on the parallel bars, won bronze on the horizontal bar and gold on the pommel horse.

At the European Championships in Anvers in 1965, he won gold on bars, silver on pommel horse and on the floor and bronze on rings. Viktor Lissizki won on the pommel horse , who caused Cerar one of only two defeats on his special equipment, the other followed in 1967 against Mikhail Voronin also at a European championship. In between, Cerar won gold on the pommel horse and bronze on parallel bars at the 1966 World Championships in Dortmund.

At the Olympic Games in 1968 he finished 9th in the all-around competition, the Yugoslav squad came in sixth. Cerar only reached the final on the pommel horse, where he won his second Olympic gold medal. He also won the European championship in 1969 on the pommel horse. In 1970, Cerar's hometown hosted the World Cup . He won the pommel horse title for the third time in Ljubljana and was again the only Yugoslav medalist. Cerar retired in 1971 after injuring himself in a competition in Japan.

Cerar had studied law alongside his career and became a lawyer. He also held honorary positions in the Yugoslav and later in the Slovenian association. In 1968 Cerar was voted the first Slovenian athlete of the year, in 1970 he was awarded this title again. Cerar received the Olympic Order and in 1999 he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

family

The lawyer and politician Miro Cerar , who was Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2014 to 2018 and then Foreign Minister in the Šarec cabinet until 2020, is his son.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
  • Peter Matthews, Ian Buchanan, Bill Mallon: The Guinness International Who's Who of Sport . Enfield 1993 ISBN 0-85112-980-3

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Miroslav Cerar: Legenda (German Miroslav Cerar: Die Legende), Delo , October 26, 2019, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Cerar, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav artistic gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana