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| Born | (1864-08-27)27 August 1864 Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 December 1919(1919-12-22) (aged 55) Frankfurt (Oder), Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hermann Otto Ludwig Weingärtner (27 August 1864 – 22 December 1919) was a German gymnast.
He started his career in his hometown Frankfurt (Oder) at the local gymnastics club Frankfurter Turnverein 1860. Later on he moved to Berlin to compete for the Deutsche Turnerschaft.
He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Weingärtner was a member of the German team that won two gold medals by placing first in both of the team events, the parallel bars and the horizontal bar.
He also won a number of individual medals, taking the gold in the horizontal bar, silver in pommel horse and rings, and bronze in the vault. He competed in the parallel bars, but did not win a medal in that event. His six medals arguably made him the most successful competitor at the first modern Olympic Games.
After his return to Germany he and most of the other German gymnasts were suspended because the Deutsche Turnerschaft (at this time the governing body of German gymnastics) boycotted the Olympic games with the reason that competing is "un-German". So he moved back to Frankfurt (Oder) to manage the open-air swimming pool founded by his father on the Ziegenwerder island.
He drowned trying to rescue a person from drowning in the Oder.
In 1996, the main footpath on the Ziegenwerder island was named Hermann-Weingärtner-Weg.
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hermann Weingärtner Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- "Hermann Weingärtner". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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- 1864 births
- 1919 deaths
- Sportspeople from Frankfurt (Oder)
- German male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts for Germany
- Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- 19th-century sportsmen
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- 19th-century German people
- 20th-century German sportsmen
- Sportspeople from the Province of Brandenburg
- People from the Free City of Frankfurt
- Deaths by drowning in Germany