Urs Meister

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Urs Meister
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NationalitySwiss
Born (1958-11-09) 9 November 1958 (age 60)
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Sport Gymnastics

Urs Meister (born 9 April 1958) is a Swiss gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1]

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At the 1984 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics disciplines were contested. In addition to the fourteen artistic gymnastics events contested, for the first time at the Olympics, a rhythmic gymnastics event was contested–the women's individual all-around. All of the gymnastics events were held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and North Korea.

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References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Urs Meister Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC . Retrieved 11 August 2019.