Georges Miez

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Men's Gymnastics
Olympic medal record
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	Horizontal Bar
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	Team Combined Exercises
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	All-around, Individual Men
Gold	1936 Berlin	Floor Exercises
Silver	1928 Amsterdam	Pommeled Horse
Silver	1932 Los Angeles	Floor Exercises
Silver	1936 Berlin	Team Combined Exercises
Bronze	1924 Paris	Team Combined Exercises

Georges Miez (October 2, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was a Swiss gymnast, Olympic Champion and World Champion. He competed at the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a total of four Olympic gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal.^[1]

Miez made his Olympic debut in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where he obtained a bronze medal in Team Combined Exercises as a member of the Swiss team. In the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he won three gold medals and one bronze medal. In 1932 he obtained a silver medal, and in 1936 one individual gold medal a silver medal with the Swiss team. Miez became World Champion in 1931 and 1934.

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^ Profile: "Georges Miez" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 16, 2008)

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Olympic champions in men's individual all-around

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1932: István Pelle \| 1936: Georges Miez \| 1948: Ferenc Pataki \| 1952: William Thoresson \| 1956: Valentin Muratov \| 1960: Nobuyuki Aihara \| 1964: Franco Menichelli \| 1968: Sawao Kato \| 1972: Nikolai Andrianov \| 1976: Nikolai Andrianov \| 1980: Roland Brückner \| 1984: Li Ning \| 1988: Sergei Kharkov \| 1992: Li Xiaoshuang \| 1996: Ioannis Melissanidis \| 2000: Igors Vihrovs \| 2004: Kyle Shewfelt