Misplaced Pages

Andreas Wecker

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
German gymnast (born 1970)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (January 2025) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the German article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,159 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Andreas Wecker}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Andreas Wecker
Personal information
Born (1970-01-02) 2 January 1970 (age 55)
Staßfurt, East Germany
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Medal record
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1989 Stuttgart Team
Silver medal – second place 1989 Stuttgart Pommel horse
Silver medal – second place 1989 Stuttgart Rings
Bronze medal – third place 1989 Stuttgart Parallel bars
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Horizontal bar
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona Horizontal bar
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona Pommel horse
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona Rings
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Sabae Horizontal bar
Silver medal – second place 1991 Indianapolis Rings
Silver medal – second place 1993 Birmingham Pommel horse
Silver medal – second place 1993 Birmingham Rings
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Indianapolis Team
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Birmingham All-around

Andreas Wecker (born 2 January 1970 in Staßfurt) is a German former gymnast who had a long and successful career. He was European, World and Olympic champion. His greatest achievement was the gold medal on high bar at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, he beat gymnasts of such quality as Vitaly Scherbo and Alexei Nemov. In 1989 Wecker was named the last East German Sportsman of the Year. He competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.

Wecker qualified for the German team for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Just days before his events, he suffered a serious shoulder injury where he tore a biceps muscle in his shoulder, ending his career. Today, Wecker is the chairman and founder of Andreas Seed Oils, headquartered in Bend, Oregon and distributed through his office in Germany.

References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andreas Wecker". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  2. GYMmedia.de Archived 13 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Awards
Preceded byEast Germany Olaf Ludwig East German Sportsman of the Year
1989 		Succeeded byGermany Boris Becker
(as German Sportsman of the Year)
Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Horizontal Bar
Summary
World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Men's Horizontal Bar
European Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Horizontal Bar


Stub icon

This biographical article related to German artistic gymnastics is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article about a German Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: