George Eyser

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Olympic medal record
Men's Artistic Gymnastics
Gold 1904 St. Louis Rope climbing
Gold 1904 St. Louis Vault
Gold 1904 St. Louis Parallel bars
Silver 1904 St. Louis Combined 4 events
Silver 1904 St. Louis Pommel horse
Bronze 1904 St. Louis Horizontal bar

George Eyser (born 1871, date of death unknown) was an American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals, including three gold. Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg[1], having lost his real leg after being run over by a train[2], and he is believed to be the only Olympic medal winner who had a wooden leg[citation needed].

Eyser also competed for Concordia, with the club winning the 1908 international meet in Frankfurt, Germany, and the 1909 national meet in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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  1. ^ International Olympic Committee. St. Louis 1904. Retrieved on 2006-08-26.
  2. ^ Useless Information - 1904 St. Louis Olympics. Retrieved on 2006-08-26.

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Olympic champions in men's parallel bars
1896: Alfred Flatow | 1904: George Eyser | 1924: August Güttinger | 1928: Ladislav Vácha | 1932: Romeo Neri | 1936: Konrad Frey | 1948: Michael Reusch | 1952: Hans Eugster | 1956: Viktor Chukarin | 1960: Boris Shakhlin | 1964: Yukio Endo | 1968: Akinori Nakayama | 1972: Sawao Kato | 1976: Sawao Kato | 1980: Alexander Tkachyov | 1984: Bart Conner | 1988: Vladimir Artemov | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Rustam Sharipov | 2000: Li Xiaopeng | 2004: Valeri Goncharov
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Olympic champions in men's vault
1896: Carl Schumann | 1904: George Eyser-Anton Heida | 1924: Frank Kriz | 1928: Eugen Mack | 1932: Savino Guglielmetti | 1936: Alfred Schwarzmann | 1948: Paavo Aaltonen | 1952: Viktor Chukarin | 1956: Helmut Bantz-Valentin Muratov | 1960: Boris Shakhlin-Takashi Ono | 1964: Haruhiro Yamashita | 1968: Mikhail Voronin | 1972: Klaus Köste | 1976: Nikolai Andrianov | 1980: Nikolai Andrianov | 1984: Lou Yun | 1988: Lou Yun | 1992: Vitaly Scherbo | 1996: Alexei Nemov | 2000: Gervasio Deferr | 2004: Gervasio Deferr