| Josef Stalder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 February 1919 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 March 1991(1991-03-02) (aged 72) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Josef Stalder (6 February 1919 – 2 March 1991) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic champion.
Career
He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a gold medal on the horizontal bar, a silver medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal on the parallel bars. He also won four medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
He was the originator and namesake of stalder circles, now a common skill on both the horizontal bar and the uneven bars.
He was inducted posthumously to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2024.
References
- "1948 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 28 March 2008)
- Ivanov, Christian (May 19, 2024). "Four gymnastics legends inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame". intlgymnast.com. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
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Preceded by Hugo Koblet
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Swiss Sportspersonality of the year 1952 |
Succeeded by Alfred Bickel
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| Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Horizontal Bar | |
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Hendricus Thijsen (NED)
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