Aleksanteri Saarvala

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of Finland Finland
Men’s Gymnastic
Olympic Games
Gold 1936 Berlin Horizontal bar
Bronze 1936 Berlin Team

Aleksanteri Saarvala (born April 9, 1913) is an 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]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "1936 Summer Olympics – Berlin, Germany – Gymnastics" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 29, 2008)


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Olympic champions in men's horizontal bar
1896: Hermann Weingärtner | 1904: Anton Heida – Edward Hennig | 1924: Leon Štukelj | 1928: Georges Miez | 1932: Dallas Bixler | 1936: Aleksanteri Saarvala | 1948: Josef Stalder | 1952: Jack Günthard | 1956: Takashi Ono | 1960: Takashi Ono | 1964: Boris Shakhlin | 1968: Akinori Nakayama – Mikhail Voronin | 1972: Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1976: Mitsuo Tsukahara | 1980: Stoyan Deltchev | 1984: Shinji Morisue | 1988: Vladimir Artemov – Valeri Liukin | 1992: Trent Dimas | 1996: Andreas Wecker | 2000: Alexei Nemov | 2004: Igor Cassina
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