Ernst Gebendinger
Appearance
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Born | Winterthur, Switzerland | 10 December 1926||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 May 2017 Winterthur, Switzerland | (aged 91)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ernst Gebendinger (10 February 1926 – 23 May 2017)[2] was a Swiss gymnast. At the 1950 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Basel he won three gold medals: In Floor exercise (together with Josef Stalder), Vault and with the Swiss team. He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[3] After an accident 1954 he had to end his career.
References
[edit]- ^ Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (2005). "125th Anniversary - The story goes on..." (PDF). FIG. p. 66.
- ^ "Traueranzeigen". Der Landbote (in German). 2017-05-31. p. 16.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ernst Gebendinger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
Categories:
- 1926 births
- 2017 deaths
- Swiss male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland
- Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Winterthur
- Sportspeople from the canton of Zürich
- 20th-century Swiss sportsmen
- Swiss artistic gymnast stubs