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Ferdinand Steiner
Ferdinand Steiner
Personal information
Country represented	Bohemia/ Czechoslovakia
Born	unknown
Died	unknown
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Medal record
Representing Bohemia
World Championships

Ferdinand Steiner was a gymnast from Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic.

He took part in the World Gymnastics Championships in 1909, 1911 and 1913. In 1909, he won gold in the team combined competition. In 1911, he won gold in both the team event and in the combined event, and also took gold in the rings and bronze in the horizontal bar. At this World Championships, the Bohemians dominated the team event, and took the top four places in the overall competition. At his last World Championships, in 1913, he again took gold in the team competition.

Steiner introduced an element, the inverted cross,^[1] a move that is still valued as a "C"-difficulty element in the current Code of Points,^[2] if not much higher, depending upon the movement from which it is entered.^[3]

Since medal winners who represented the Austro-Hungarian Empire came from Bohemia, these medals were later transferred to Czechoslovakia by the FIG.

After Steiner's competitive career was over, he was a very reputable trainer of his fellow Czechoslovakian Sokol gymnasts.^[4]^{: 252, 329}

References

^ Gajdos, Anton; Provaznikova, Maria; Banjak, Stephen J. (June 2002). "150 Years of the Sokol Gymnastics in Czechoslovakia, Czech and Slovak Republic". Science of Gymnastics Journal. 4 (2): 24. ISSN 1855-7171. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
^ Butcher, Steve; Huang, Liping; Tomita, Hiroyuki (January 2018). "2017 Code of Points - Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). www.gymnastics.sport. International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
^ Butcher, Steve; Huang, Liping; Tomita, Hiroyuki (January 2018). "2017 Code of Points - Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). www.gymnastics.sport. International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
^ Dusek, Peter Paul Jr. (1981). Marie Provaznik: Her Life and Contributions to Physical Education. University of Utah.