Emanuel Löffler

Emanuel Löffler
Emanuel Löffler
	Emanuel Löffler circa 1934
Personal information
Born	29 December 1901; Meziříčko (Letovice), Moravia, Austria-Hungary
Died	5 August 1986 (aged 84); Prague, Czechoslovakia
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Czechoslovakia
Men's gymnastics
Representing Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
World Championships

Emanuel Löffler (29 December 1901 – 5 August 1986) was a Czech gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.^[2] Additionally, he won several individual and team medals throughout the 1930s at the World Championships.

Löffler, a consistent mainstay of his Czechoslovakian team from the late 1920s through the 1930s, encountered extreme misfortune at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, paralleling exactly the extreme misfortune of Janina Skirlińska, Löffler's 1934 World All-Around Bronze Medalist female counterpart from Poland who, exactly like Löffler, finished in 40th place here.^[3]^{: 874–875} (Skirlińska, like Löffler, was a consistent competitor at both her national championships, as well as at the World Championships as, at the next worlds in 1938, where, as the highest-finishing non-Czechoslovakian competitor at those games in Prague, Czechoslovakia, she placed 4th.)^[4]

References

^ Artistic results 1934 USA Gymnastics ^{[dead link‍]}
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emanuel Löffler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
^ Organizing Committee for the 11th Berlin Olympiad. "The XIth Olympic Games Berlin, 1936 Official Report (Volume II)". Retrieved 2 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Macanovic, Hrvoje (30 July 1938). "Setsko gimnasticko prvenstvo 1938 u Pragu" [World Gymnastics Championships 1938 in Prague.]. Sokolsky Glasnik (in Slovenian). Vol. 9, no. 26–29. p. 34. Retrieved 11 January 2021.