Roland Brückner (gymnast)

Roland Brückner (Turner) medal table
Roland Brückner, GDR championships 1978
do gymnastics
Germany Democratic Republic 1949 German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1980	Floor exercise
silver	1980	Team all-around
bronze	1980	Horse jump
bronze	1980	Ingots
bronze	1976	Team all-around
World championships in apparatus gymnastics
gold	1979	Floor exercise
European championships in apparatus gymnastics
gold	1981	Floor exercise

Roland Brückner (born December 14, 1955 in Koethen ) is a former German gymnast who competed for the German Democratic Republic . During his active career he was in the service of SC Dynamo Berlin and the Dynamo sports association and took part in two Summer Olympics. In 1976 in Montreal he won the bronze medal in the team all-around competition. Four years later, at the Moscow Games , Brückner won two bronze and one silver medals and was Olympic champion in floor exercise.

He was also successful at world championships and in 1979 in Fort Worth secured first place in his favorite discipline, the floor exercise. He did the same three years later at the European Gymnastics Championships in Rome . In 1978 and 1980 he also won the World Cup. At GDR championships he was successful on all devices and won a total of 23 national individual titles, including six titles in a row from 1976 to 1981 in the all-around competition. In 1984 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

Today Brückner works together with Maxi Gnauck as a trainer in the north-west Swiss arts and apparatus gymnastics center in Liestal and teaches sports at the secondary school in Reigoldswil.