Philipp Prince

Philipp Prince
Personal information
Nationality:	Germany
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	horse
Birthday:	November 8, 1936
Place of birth:	Oppau
Death day:	November 6, 2014
Place of death:	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Medals
Olympic games bronze 1964 Tokyo Team all-around  European championships bronze 1959 Copenhagen Individual all-around bronze 1959 Copenhagen Pommel horse bronze 1961 Luxembourg Pommel horse

Philipp Fürst (born  November 8, 1936 in Oppau ; † November 6, 2014 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German gymnast . His home club was the Turnerbund Germania 1889 Oppau.

Career

Fürst won a bronze medal in the team all-round match with the all-German team at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . In the individual all-around, he finished 24th in these games. At the European Championships in 1959 he won a bronze medal each in the individual all-around and on the pommel horse , two years later he was tied with the Soviet gymnast Viktor Leontjew vice European champion on the pommel horse behind Miroslav Cerar from Yugoslavia, who dominated this device in the 1960s .

At the German championships, he won three national championships with the team and a total of 18 individual titles. He won in 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962 and 1964 in all-around competitions, from 1959 to 1962 four times in a row on parallel bars (1960 tied with Günter Lyhs ), in 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1962 on pommel horse, 1961 and tied with Günter Lyhs in 1964 in ring gymnastics as well as 1957, 1961 and 1964 on the horizontal bar . Only Eberhard Gienger and in the Democratic German Republic active Klaus Köste were more successful at national level.

Philipp Fürst, originally a bricklayer and later a structural engineer , completed an apprenticeship as a state-recognized gymnastics and sports teacher at the German Gymnastics School in Frankfurt am Main in 1962 . After the end of his active career, he worked from 1969 to 1985 as the national coach of the men's team of the German Gymnastics Federation , after which he worked at the Ludwigshafen-Oppau state performance center until 1996. In 1964 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest award in Germany in the field of sport.

Web links

• Philipp Fürst in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Sport-komplett.de: Gymnastics - European Championships Men
• Sport-komplett.de: German championships men
• Philipp Fürst obituary on GYMmedia.de (with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National gymnastics coach died