Alois Hudec
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Czechoslovakia |
Born | Račice, Austria-Hungary | July 12, 1908
Died | January 23, 1997 Prague, Czech Republic | (aged 88)
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Alois Hudec (12 July 1908 – 23 January 1997)[1] was a Czechoslovak gymnast and an individual World and Olympic Champion in the sport.
He competed for Czechoslovakia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he received a gold medal in rings.[2] Part of his performance there is recorded in an 85-second shot in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia. He also competed at three World Championships in a row (1931, 1934, 1938) where he won the rings title every time.
Hudec also bears another particular distinction within the annals of the history of the sport. Although the 1931 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships often seem to go ignored by various authorities within the sport, the FIG, in their 125-Year Anniversary Publication, refers to them as the "First Artistic Men's World Championships".[3] As he became the overall World All-Around Champion at those games, according to some authorities, Hudec could be considered the first-ever World All-Around Champion in the sport of Men's Artistic Gymnastics.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alois Hudec". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ "1936 Summer Olympics – Berlin, Germany – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 31, 2008)
- ^ Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (2005). 125th Anniversary - The story goes on... FIG. p. 15.
External links
[edit]- Alois Hudec at Olympedia
- Alois Hudec at Olympics.com
- Alois Hudec at Olympic.org (archived)
- Alois Hudec at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)
- Alois Hudec at Olympic.cz (in Czech) (archived)
- 1908 births
- 1997 deaths
- Czechoslovak male artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- People from Vyškov District
- Sportspeople from the South Moravian Region
- Czech artistic gymnast stubs
- Czechoslovak Olympic medalist stubs