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Larry Banner
A sketch of Banner from the Los Angeles Daily News in 1953.
Personal information
Full name	Lawrence Shyres Banner
Born	(1936-06-06)June 6, 1936 Van Nuys, California, U.S.
Died	November 28, 2013(2013-11-28) (aged 77) Modesto, California, U.S.
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	United States
College team	UCLA Bruins
Gym	Los Angeles Turners

Lawrence Shyres "Larry" Banner (June 6, 1936 – November 28, 2013) was an American gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Banner attended Van Nuys High School.

Banner was a teacher and taught for 16 years at Turlock High School. He curated the website, www.gymnasticshalloffame.org, which included detailed biographies of those influential to the sport where coverage from USA Gymnastics was lacking. Contributors to his research included fellow USA Gymnastics Hall of Famers Abie Grossfeld and Jerry Wright.

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Larry Banner Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
2. ^ Holliday, Tom (October 15, 2006). "Getting to know them". The Modesto Bee. pp. C1 & C5. Retrieved November 28, 2023.

External links

• Larry Banner at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Larry Banner at the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame
• Larry Banner at Olympics.com
• Larry Banner at Olympedia

v t e 1960 USA Olympic Gymnastics Team
Men's artistic gymnastics athletes	Larry Banner Jack Beckner Abie Grossfeld Gar O'Quinn Fred Orlofsky Don Tonry
Women's artistic gymnastics athletes	Doris Fuchs Muriel Grossfeld Betty-Jean Maycock Teri Montefusco Sharon Richardson Gail Sontgerath
Coaches	Tom Maloney (Men's head coach) Janet Bachna (Women's head coach)

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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