Josip Primožič

Josip Primožič
Personal information
Born(1900-02-07)7 February 1900
Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary
Died18 August 1985(1985-08-18) (aged 85)
Maribor, Slovenia
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented		 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Medal record
Olympic Games
Representing Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
1928 Amsterdam Parallel bars
1928 Amsterdam Team competition
World Championships
1930 Luxembourg Floor[1]
1930 Luxembourg All-Around
1930 Luxembourg Pommel Horse
1930 Luxembourg Parallel bars
1926 Lyon Horizontal bar
1926 Lyon Team
1930 Luxembourg Team
1938 Prague Parallel bars[1]: 65 
1938 Prague Team[1]

Josip "Jože" Primožič (7 February 1900, in Ljubljana – 18 August 1985, in Maribor) was a Yugoslavian gymnast of Slovene ethnicity.[2]

He took part in three Olympic Games and three World Championships for Yugoslavia. This gave him a total of 10 medals, two silvers at the 1926 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, four golds and a bronze at the 1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, a bronze at the 1938 World Championships, as well as a silver and a bronze at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

At the 1924 Olympics, he won no medals, but Yugoslavia came in fourth in the team competition. In 1928, he also did well individually, and came in fifth in the individual overall competition. This came after many good placings in individual events; silver in the parallel bars, fourth on the flour, and sixth on the horizontal bars. There were also no medals in his last Olympics in 1936, and his best placing was sixth in the team event.

References

  1. ^ a b c Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (2005). "125th Anniversary - The story goes on..." (PDF). FIG. p. 64.
  2. ^ "Josip Primožič". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 October 2021.


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