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Gregor Weiss
Full name	Gregor Richard Weiss
Born	(1941-02-18)February 18, 1941 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	United States
College team	Penn State Nittany Lions
Gym	Swiss Turners
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing  United States Event 1st 2nd 3rd Pan American Games 2 2 0 Total 2 2 0 Pan American Games 1959 Chicago Team 1959 Chicago Pommel horse 1959 Chicago Vault 1959 Chicago Parallel bars

Gregor Richard Weiss (born February 18, 1941) is an American artistic gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics, placing 7th in the team event and 59th in the individual all-around. He was a member of the U.S. team at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. In the NCAA, he competed for Penn State University and was the NCAA all-around champion in 1961. He was inducted into the U.S. Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1991.

A resident of Ridgefield, New Jersey, Weiss graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in nearby Englewood.

Following his graduation from Penn State, Weiss served in the U.S. Air Force while still competing internationally and coached at the United States Air Force Academy. He is the father of Michael Weiss.

See also

• List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians

References

1. The Modern Gymnast, November 1964. Accessed November 16, 2017. "Greg Weiss: Height , 5-6; Weight, 138; Age, 23; Ridgefield , New Jersey.... Attended high school at Dwight Morrow, Englewood, New Jersey."

• Weiskopf, Herman (May 16, 1966). "Now You Can't, Now You Can". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
• "NCAA Record Book: Gymnastics" (PDF).
• "Penn State Men's Gymnastics: 2009 National Collegiate Championships Guide" (PDF).
• "Biography: WEISS, Gregor "Greg"". U.S. Gymnastics Hall of Fame. 21 March 2018.
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Greg Weiss". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-05-15.

External links

• Gregor Weiss at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Gregor Weiss at the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame
• Gregor Weiss at Olympics.com
• Gregor Weiss at Olympedia

v t e 1964 USA Olympic Gymnastics Team
Men's artistic gymnastics athletes	Team Larry Banner Ronald Barak Rusty Mitchell Makoto Sakamoto Arthur Shurlock Gregor Weiss Alternate Armando Vega
Women's artistic gymnastics athletes	Team Kathleen Corrigan Muriel Grossfeld Dorothy McClements Linda Metheny Janie Speaks Marie Walther Alternate Doris Fuchs
Coaches	Men's John Muir (Head coach) Abie Grossfeld (Asst. coach) Tom Maloney (Manager) Women's Vannie Edwards (Head coach) Fay Gulack (Manager)

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