Eberhard Gienger
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| Eponymous skills | Gienger salto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eberhard Gienger (German pronunciation:
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 and on the uneven bars
is named after him.
Political career
Gienger was a member of the German
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.[2]
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
- Parliamentary home page of Eberhard Gienger Archived 27 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
