Aleksanteri Saarvala
Finnish artistic gymnast
Aleksanteri Saarvala | |||||||||||||||
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Country represented | Finland | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1913-04-09)9 April 1913 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 7 October 1989(1989-10-07) (aged 76) | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aleksanteri Saarvala (9 April 1913 – 7 October 1989) was a Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin where he received a gold medal in horizontal bar, and a bronze medal in team combined exercises.[1]
1948 Olympics
Saarvala also participated at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished shared 4th in horizontal bar, and 17th all-around. The Finnish team won gold medals, but as he was 7th best Finn he did not receive a medal.
References
- ^ "1936 Summer Olympics – Berlin, Germany – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 29, 2008)
External links
- Aleksanteri Saarvala at Olympics.com
- Aleksanteri Saarvala at Olympedia
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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Horizontal Bar
- 1896: Hermann Weingärtner (GER)
- 1904: Anton Heida (USA)
1904: Edward Hennig (USA) - 1924: Leon Štukelj (YUG)
- 1928: Georges Miez (SUI)
- 1932: Dallas Bixler (USA)
- 1936: Aleksanteri Saarvala (FIN)
- 1948: Josef Stalder (SUI)
- 1952: Jack Günthard (SUI)
- 1956: Takashi Ono (JPN)
- 1960: Takashi Ono (JPN)
- 1964: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1968: Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
1968: Mikhail Voronin (URS) - 1972: Mitsuo Tsukahara (JPN)
- 1976: Mitsuo Tsukahara (JPN)
- 1980: Stoyan Deltchev (BUL)
- 1984: Shinji Morisue (JPN)
- 1988: Vladimir Artemov (URS)
1988: Valeri Liukin (URS) - 1992: Trent Dimas (USA)
- 1996: Andreas Wecker (GER)
- 2000: Alexei Nemov (RUS)
- 2004: Igor Cassina (ITA)
- 2008: Zou Kai (CHN)
- 2012: Epke Zonderland (NED)
- 2016: Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
- 2020: Daiki Hashimoto (JPN)
- 2024: Shinnosuke Oka (JPN)
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