Country represented Switzerland Name Josef Stalder | Role Olympic athlete Died March 2, 1991 | |
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Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics Olympic medals Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics - Men's artistic individual all-around Similar People Jack Gunthard, Viktor Chukarin, Alfred Schwarzmann, Hrant Shahinyan | ||
Josef Stalder (6 February 1919 – 2 March 1991) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic champion. 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.
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