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| Born | (1951-07-21)21 July 1951 (age 74) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Gienger salto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eberhard Gienger (German pronunciation:[ˈeːbɐhaʁtˈɡiŋɐ]ⓘ; born 21 July 1951) is a Germanpolitician (CDU) and former West Germangymnast. He competed at the1972 and1976 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the latter.[1]
During his gymnastics career from 1971 to 1981, Gienger won 36 German championship titles; one gold and three silver medals in world championships; three gold, two silver and two bronze medals in European championships, and one Olympic bronze medal.
Gienger was an outstandinghigh bar artist: He won the European Championships in 1973, 1975 and 1981; he won gold in the 1974 World Championships, and won the bronze medal in the1976 Olympic Games. For these feats he was elected German Sportsman of the Year in 1974 and 1978. TheGienger salto on thehigh bar and on theuneven bars is named after him.
Gienger was a member of the GermanNational Olympic Committee from 1986 to 2006, and since 2006 has been the Vice President of theDeutscher Olympischer Sportbund, the successor organization to the German NOC.
Gienger entered politics in 2001 and became a member of theChristian Democratic Union. He has been a member of the German Parliament since the2002 elections, representing theNeckar-Zaber electoral district of the southernGerman state ofBaden-Württemberg. In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Sports and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.In February 2020, Gienger announced he would not seek reelection in the2021 German federal election.[2]
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