Ladislav Vácha
Czech gymnast
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Country represented | Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1899-03-21)21 March 1899 Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 28 June 1943(1943-06-28) (aged 44) Zlín, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ladislav Vácha (21 March 1899 in Brno – 28 June 1943) was a Czech gymnast and Olympic champion competing for Czechoslovakia.
He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he received a bronze medal in rope climbing and rings.[1] He received a gold medal in parallel bars, and silver medals in rings and team combined exercises at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.[2]
He died during World War II shortly after being interrogated by Gestapo for his resistance activities.[3]
References
- ^ "1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Gymnastics" Archived 19 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 31 March 2008)
- ^ "Ladislav Vácha". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Parallel Bars
- 1896: Alfred Flatow (GER)
- 1904: George Eyser (USA)
- 1924: August Güttinger (SUI)
- 1928: Ladislav Vácha (TCH)
- 1932: Romeo Neri (ITA)
- 1936: Konrad Frey (GER)
- 1948: Michael Reusch (SUI)
- 1952: Hans Eugster (SUI)
- 1956: Viktor Chukarin (URS)
- 1960: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1964: Yukio Endō (JPN)
- 1968: Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
- 1972: Sawao Katō (JPN)
- 1976: Sawao Katō (JPN)
- 1980: Aleksandr Tkachyov (URS)
- 1984: Bart Conner (USA)
- 1988: Vladimir Artemov (URS)
- 1992: Vitaly Scherbo (EUN)
- 1996: Rustam Sharipov (UKR)
- 2000: Li Xiaopeng (CHN)
- 2004: Valeriy Honcharov (UKR)
- 2008: Li Xiaopeng (CHN)
- 2012: Feng Zhe (CHN)
- 2016: Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)
- 2020: Zou Jingyuan (CHN)
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