Joaquín Blume
Joaquín Blume | |
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Personal information | |
Country represented | Spain |
Born | (1933-06-21)21 June 1933 |
Died | 29 April 1959(1959-04-29) (aged 25) Cuenca, Spain |
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Joaquín Blume (Catalan: Joaquim Blume; 21 June 1933 – 29 April 1959) was a Spanish gymnast. The son of a German gymnastics instructor established in Barcelona,[1] he belonged to the gymnastics section of FC Barcelona.[2]
He became Spanish gymnastics champion at 15[1] and he competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics of Helsinki with only 19 years.[2] He went to win eight medals in the 1955 Mediterranean Games[1] and in 1957 he won the European Championship, defeating favourite Yuri Titov.[2] He was a favourite for the 1956 Summer Olympics of Melbourne, until Spain boycotted the games in protest against the presence of the USSR, after their brutal suppression of the Hungarian Revolution.[3]
He was also a favourite in the 1960 Summer Olympics, but he died in a plane crash at the Valdemeca mountains, in Cuenca, on 29 April 1959. The plane was headed for Canarias, where the Spanish gymnastics team were to do a gymnastics exhibition. His wife, also a gymnast and pregnant with their second child, was also a passenger. There were no survivors.[2][4]
In his honour, the Catalan Gymnastics Federation started in 1969 the Memorial Joaquim Blume tournament, first only of male gymnastics with female competition introduced in 1972.[1] A sculpture in his honour is displayed at the Gardens of Joan Brossa, in Barcelona.
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- 1955: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1957: Joaquín Blume (ESP)
- 1959: Yuri Titov (URS)
- 1961: Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1963: Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1965: Franco Menichelli (ITA)
- 1967: Mikhail Voronin (URS)
- 1969: Mikhail Voronin (URS)
- 1971: Viktor Klimenko (URS)
- 1973: Viktor Klimenko (URS)
- 1975: Nikolai Andrianov (URS)
- 1977: Vladimir Markelov (URS)
- 1979: Stoyan Deltchev (BUL)
- 1981: Aleksandr Tkachyov (URS)
- 1983: Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
- 1985: Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
- 1987: Valeri Liukin (URS)
- 1989: Ihor Korobchynskyi (URS)
- 1990: Valentin Mogilny (URS)
- 1992: Ihor Korobchynskyi (CIS)
- 1994: Ivan Ivankov (BLR)
- 1996: Ivan Ivankov (BLR)
- 1998: Alexei Bondarenko (RUS)
- 2000: Oleksandr Beresch (UKR)
- 2002: Dan Potra (ROM)
- 2004: Marian Drăgulescu (ROM)
- 2005: Rafael Martínez (ESP)
- 2007: Maksim Devyatovskiy (RUS)
- 2009: Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
- 2011: Philipp Boy (GER)
- 2013: David Belyavskiy (RUS)
- 2015: Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)
- 2017: Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)
- 2019: Nikita Nagornyy (RUS)
- 2021: Nikita Nagornyy (RUS)
- 2022: Joe Fraser (GBR)
- 2023: Adem Asil (TUR)
- 2024: Marios Georgiou (CYP)
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