Georges Miez

Georges Miez (2 October 1904 – 21 April 1999) was a Swiss gymnast. He competed at the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a total of four gold, three silver and one bronze medals. Miez was the most successful athlete of the 1928 Games, whereas in 1932 he was the only medalist for Switzerland. Miez also won three medals at the 1934 World Championships.[1]

Georges Miez
Miez at the 1928 Olympics
Personal information
Born	2 October 1904 Töss, Switzerland
Died	17 April 1999 (aged 94) Savosa, Switzerland
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	TV Töss, Winterthur
Medal record Olympic Games 1924 Paris Team 1928 Amsterdam Horizontal bar 1928 Amsterdam Team 1928 Amsterdam All-around 1928 Amsterdam Pommeled horse 1932 Los Angeles Floor 1936 Berlin Team 1936 Berlin Floor World championships 1934 Budapest Floor 1934 Budapest Team 1934 Budapest Horizontal bar

Between the 1924 and 1928 Olympics Miez served in the Swiss army, coached gymnastics in the Netherlands, and worked for a Swiss sportswear company, where he designed a new type of gymnastics trousers. After that he coached gymnastics in Chiasso. Switzerland did not send an Olympic team in 1932 due to the economic depression, but Miez volunteered to compete on his own, and also return the body of his brother who died in the United States. After winning a silver on the floor, Miez withdrew from the Games and toured the United States giving presentations at universities.[1]

Miez retired after the 1936 Games and worked as a national gymnastics coach and then as a Red Cross official. After World War II he founded several private schools, wrote books on sports medicine, and coached tennis. He spent most of his late years in Lugano, where he died of a stroke aged 94.[1]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Georges Miez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 August 2014.

External links

• Georges Miez at the International Olympic Committee