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 Eberhard Gienger in 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1951-07-21) 21 July 1951 (age 73) Künzelsau, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | International | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Gienger salto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Eberhard Gienger (German pronunciation: [ˈeːbɐhaʁt ˈɡiŋɐ] ; born 21 July 1951) is a German politician (CDU) and former West German gymnast. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the latter.
Gymnastics career
During his gymnastics career from 1971 to 1981, Gienger won 36 German championship titles; one gold and three silver medals in world championships; three gold, two silver and two bronze medals in European championships, and one Olympic bronze medal.
Gienger was an outstanding high bar artist: He won the European Championships in 1973, 1975 and 1981; he won gold in the 1974 World Championships, and won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympic Games. For these feats he was elected German Sportsman of the Year in 1974 and 1978. The Gienger salto on the high bar and on the uneven bars is named after him.
Political career
Gienger was a member of the German National Olympic Committee from 1986 to 2006, and since 2006 has been the Vice President of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, the successor organization to the German NOC.
Gienger entered politics in 2001 and became a member of the Christian Democratic Union. He has been a member of the German Parliament since the 2002 elections, representing the Neckar-Zaber electoral district of the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Sports and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In February 2020, Gienger announced he would not seek reelection in the 2021 German federal election.
References
- Olympic results Archived 20 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- "Eberhard Gienger tritt nicht wieder an". Stuttgarter-zeitung.de (in German). 7 February 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
Further reading
- Jo Viellvoye, Josef Göhler: "Eberhard Gienger. Das Abenteuer der Turnkunst" Badenia, Karlsruhe 1978, ISBN 3-7617-0147-0
- Andreas Götze, Jürgen Uhr: "Eberhard Gienger präsentiert Mond-Salto. Die großen Erfinder" Steinmeier, Nördlingen 1994, ISBN 3-927496-26-X
External links
Media related to Eberhard Gienger at Wikimedia Commons
- Eberhard Gienger at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Eberhard Gienger at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Eberhard Gienger at Olympics.com
- Eberhard Gienger at Olympedia (archive)
- Parliamentary home page of Eberhard Gienger Archived 27 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- People from Künzelsau
- German Protestants
- German male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Gymnasts at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for West Germany
- Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
- Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017
- Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013
- Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009
- Members of the Bundestag 2002–2005
- Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany
- Medalists at the 1973 Summer Universiade
- Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- European champions in gymnastics
- West German male artistic gymnasts
- German sportsperson-politicians
- Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region)
- Politicians from Baden-Württemberg
- German sports executives and administrators