Jack Günthard
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]
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Born | Hirzel, Switzerland | 8 January 1920
Died | 7 August 2016 96) (aged |
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
References
- "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)
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