Gervasio Deferr
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Artistic Gymnastics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Sydney 2000 | Vault | |
| Gold | Athens 2004 | Vault | |
Gervasio Deferr Angel (born November 7, 1980 in Premià de Mar, Barcelona) is a gymnast from Spain, who started in gymnastics at the age of five, and has since become the number one athlete of his country in that sport.
He became the olympic champion in men's vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney (scored 9.712) and has repeated the feat at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens (scored 9.737 — vault 1 scored 9.687; vault 2 scored 9.787). He also won the silver medal on floor exercise at the 1999 World Championships of Gymastics with a score of 9.750 points, as well as two titles in the same apparatus in the World Cup of Gymnastics:
A curious aspect of Deferr's personality is his stating that he considers sleeping a hobby.
| Olympic champions in men's vault |
|---|
| 1896: Carl Schumann | 1904: George Eyser | 1924: Frank Kriz | 1928: Eugen Mack | 1932: Savino Guglielmetti | 1936: Karl-Alfred Schwarzmann | 1948: Paavo Aaltonen | 1952: Viktor Chukarin | 1956: Helmut Bantz-Valentin Muratov | 1960: Boris Shakhlin-Takashi Ono | 1964: Haruhiro Yamashita | 1968: Mikhail Varonin | 1972: Klaus Köste | 1976: Nikolai Andrianov | 1980: Nikolai Andrianov | 1984: Yun Lou | 1988: Yun Lou | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Alexei Nemov | 2000: Gervasio Deferr | 2004: Gervasio Deferr |
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