Aleksanteri Saarvala
Finnish artistic gymnast
Aleksanteri Saarvala | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Shown on a stamp from 1945 | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Country represented | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1913-04-09)9 April 1913 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 7 October 1989(1989-10-07) (aged 76) | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
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
- v
- t
- e
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)
![]() ![]() | This biographical article related to Finnish artistic gymnastics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
![]() ![]() ![]() | This article about a Finnish Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e