Miroslav Klinger
Miroslav Klinger in 1928
Miroslav Klinger (20 January 1893 – 10 February 1979) was a Czech gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
He was born and died in Prague.
In 1920 he was a member of the Czechoslovak gymnastic team which finished fourth in the team event.
Four years later at the 1924 Summer Olympics he participated in the following events:
- Individual all-around - fifth place
- Vault - seventh place
- Pommel horse - seventh place
- Parallel bars - tenth place
- Rings - eleventh place
- Sidehorse vault - twelfth place
- Rope climbing - 24th place
- Horizontal bar - 26th place
- Team all-around - did not finish
Klinger was an active member and activist of Sokol organization. During World War II he was incarcerated in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.[1] In Czechoslovak parliamentary elections in 1948 he was elected to the National Assembly for the Czech National Social Party. He was a member of parliament until 1960.[2]
References
- ↑ Kvasil, Bohumil. Malá československá encyklopedie, 3. [s.l.]: Academia, 1984. p. 407.
- ↑ Profile at the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic website
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