Jack Günthard
Appearance
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Switzerland |
Born | Hirzel, Switzerland | 8 January 1920
Died | 7 August 2016 (aged 96) |
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Jakob "Jack" Günthard (8 January 1920 – 7 August 2016) was a Swiss artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he won the gold medal in the horizontal bar, and the silver medal in the team combined exercises.[1] Günthard died in August 2016 at the age of 96.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Gymnastics" Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 28 March 2008)
- ^ Swiss gymnastics legend Jack Günthard dies. swissinfo.ch (8 August 2016)
External links
[edit]- Jack Günthard at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Jack Günthard at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Jack Günthard at Olympics.com
- Jack Günthard at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 2016 deaths
- Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Swiss male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- European champions in gymnastics
- 20th-century Swiss sportsmen
- Swiss artistic gymnast stubs
- Swiss Olympic medalist stubs