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| Born | (1895-06-29)29 June 1895 Kranj, Austria-Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 May 1981(1981-05-21) (aged 85) Vienna, Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter Šumi (June 29, 1895 – May 21, 1981) was aYugoslavgymnast and the founder of theSava Kranj factory.
Šumi was born inKranj. He took part in three World Championships in gymnastics for Yugoslavia. At the 1922 World Championships in Ljubljana, he was part of the Yugoslav team that took silver in the team event, behind Czechoslovakia. He also took gold in the individual combined event, as well as gold in the rings, horizontal bar, and parallel bars, and silver in the pommel horse.
At the next World Championships, in Lyon, France in 1926, he again took silver in the team event, again behind Czechoslovakia. Šumi won the individual combined event for the second time, but won no apparatus medals on this occasion.
His last World Championship medal came in 1930, at the World Championships in Luxembourg, where he took silver in the pommel horse. He died inVienna.
Šumi was the only gymnast to have taken individual overall medals in consecutive World Championships until the Chinese gymnastYang Wei achieved it in 2006 and 2007.[1] Additionally, Šumi is one of only two repeat male World All-Around Champions (of which there are 7) in the sport ofArtistic Gymnastics, along withYuri Korolyov, never to make an Olympic appearance as a competing athlete.
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