| Dominique Follacci | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  France | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 May 1879 Annaba, Algeria | |||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
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Dominique Follacci (born 18 May 1879, date of death unknown) was a French gymnast. [2] He competed in the men's artistic individual all-around event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. [3]
Follaci was interested in sports from childhood. He become a director of the Languedocienne Gymnastics Society. He received several prizes while presenting this organization in competitions like Dijon 1899, Paris 1900, Nice 1901. [4] Additionally, he was a competitor at the 1911 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he was a part of the silver medal winning French team and where he also won individual silver medals on the rings and parallel bars apparatuses.
Nikolai Yefimovich Andrianov was a Soviet and Russian gymnast.
Heikki Ilmari Savolainen was a Finnish artistic gymnast. He competed in five consecutive Olympics from 1928 to 1952 and won at least one medal in each of them. In 1928, he won a bronze on pommel horse, which was the first-ever medal in gymnastics for Finland. Winning his last medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he became the oldest gymnastics medalist, at 44 years old; he delivered the Olympic Oath in the opening ceremony of the 1952 games. In 1932, Savolainen and his teammate Einari Teräsvirta had the same score on horizontal bar, but the Finnish team voted to give the silver medal to Savolainen. In 1948, he again had the same score as teammates Veikko Huhtanen and Paavo Aaltonen on pommel horse, and the gold medal was shared among the three.
Louis Antoine Smith MBE is a retired English artistic gymnast.
Fabian Hambüchen is a retired German gymnast who was a Olympian champion in 2016. Fabian also won gold medals at European Games and at 2015 Summer Universiade. He has a full set of Olympics medals, one in each colour, as he is the 2016 Olympic champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist on the individual horizontal bar event. He became World champion on horizontal bar in 2007 Stuttgart. Since the end of his active career, he has appeared in various television productions and advertising partnerships.
Hermann Hänggi was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics, where he won two gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal. Additionally, he competed at the 1931 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he won an individual gold medal on the vault apparatus.
Hrant Shahinyan, also known as Grant Shaginyan, was a Soviet Armenian gymnast. Specializing in the still rings and pommel horse, he is a two-time Olympic Champion, two-time World Champion and seven-time USSR Champion.
Kōhei Uchimura is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist, winning three golds and four silvers, and a 21-time World medalist.
Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games.
Kristian James Thomas is a British former artistic gymnast. A long-standing member of both the England and Great Britain men's teams, he was a member of the British team that won gold in the 2012 European Championships team event, and a historic bronze in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won his first global individual medal in the 2013 World Championships, a bronze in vault; it was also the first global medal ever won in vault by a British male gymnast. In 2015 he won his first major international title, gold in the floor exercise at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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The France women's national artistic gymnastics team represents France in FIG international competitions.
Samir Aït Saïd is a French artistic gymnast. He's the 2019 World bronze medalist and the 2013 European champion on the still rings. He is also a three-time European silver medalist and a two-time European bronze medalist. He represented France at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, he has qualified to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He was one of France's flagbearers at the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo is a Filipino artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 Olympic champion on the floor exercise. He is the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with his floor exercise bronze medal finish in 2018, as well as the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to achieve a gold medal finish for the same criteria in 2019 at the same event. With multiple medals on the international stage, Yulo is the most successful Filipino gymnast in history, and the second person to win an Olympic gold medal for the Philippines.
Laurent Grech was a French gymnast. He competed in the men's artistic individual all-around event at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Additionally, he competed at the 1913 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he helped his French team to silver and won an individual gold medal on the rings apparatus.
Jan Sládek was a Czech gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Additionally, he competed at the 1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, helping his CzechoSlovakian team to the silver and winning an individual bronze medal on the pommel horse, as well as at the 1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he helped his CzechoSlovakian team to gold, as well as taking an individual silver medal in the all-around combined exercises.
Wataru Tanigawa(Japanese: 谷川航) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic Gold Medal at the 2024 games as part of the Japanese team which won the all-around competition. He was also part of Japan's team at the 2020 Olympics which won silver. He is a two-time bronze medalist at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Universiade.
Daiki Hashimoto is a Japanese artistic gymnast. Widely regarded as the successor of Kohei Uchimura, he won two gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in all-around and horizontal bar, as well as a silver in team. His Tokyo individual gold medal win win made him the youngest Olympic All-Around champion, at age 19 years, 355 days. At the world championships, he has also won 3 golds, 5 silvers, and 1 bronze.
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