GAJDOŠ A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES VIII Vol. 9 Issue 1: 97 - 99 SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES VIII Anton Gajdoš, Bratislava, Slovakia Ph.D. Anton Gajdoš born on 1.6.1940 in Dubriniči (today Ukraine) lives most of his life in Bratislava (ex TCH, nowadays SVK). He comes from gymnastics family (his brother Pavel have world championship medals) and he devoted his life to gymnastics. His last achievement is establishment of Narodna encyklopedia športu Slovenska (www.sportency.sk). Among his passion is collecting photos and signatures of gymnasts. As we tend to forget old champions and important gymnasts, judges and coaches, we decided to publish part of his archive under title Short historical notes. All information on these pages is from Anton's archives and collected through years. JOSEF GÖHLER (November, 17 1911, Hösbach - January, 27 2001, Wurzburg) Dr. Josef Göhler was one of the most prominent gymnastics expert in the period from 1930 to 1982. His contribution to the gymnastics on his national (German) and international development have been in a many different ways e.g. an enthusiastic gymnast, as a writer, competitor, reporter and vise president of the German Gymnastics Federation from 1948 - 1982. He began the sport when he was 6 and trained at Hosbach. After a long career as a competitor, during which he was quite successful in the collegiate ranks,he turned his energies to reporting. His coverage of the 1936 Olympics marked the beginning of whole new passion for gymnastics Dr. Göhler wrote many books and edited the fine magazine Olympishe Turnkunst from 1966 - 1975. Very great work Dr. Göhler did in the world as expert-journalist, contributions to Gymnast magazine -USA its name at the time,now International Gymnast minimum 15 years from 1970. His books at beginning was for example: Die romische Politik in Italien, Dissertation , Breslau, Science of Gymnastics Journal 97 Science of Gymnastics Journal GAJDOŠ A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES VIII Vol. 9 Issue 1: 97 - 99 1938, Rom und Italien,1939,1974, Japanishe Turnkunst, 1961 and some of the last was very important book - Geshichte der Turngerate,Esslingen-Neckar, 1989. Besides as an expert he served also as a city council member and as a pedagogue. His archives a huge treasure, which includes over 2300 of his articles, books and reports. As such important person, Jochen Henzel in 1997 made a dissertation about Jozef with title: "Being and becoming a German gymnast in the twentieth century. Today Goehler's gymnastics archive is located in the Berlin Sportmuseum. Two of a large number of honours are: German Gymnastic Federations- honorary membership and the merit-medal of the FIG presented to Dr. Josef Gohler at the WCh in Indianapolis in 1991 by President Juri Titov. 9t ALINA KABAYEVA (12 May 1983) Alina is one of the most decorated rhythmic gymnasts with two medals from Olympic Games, 14 medals from World Championship and 21 from European Championship (out of them 18 gold - record of EC titles). Her long career started in 1998 with gold medal for all around at European Championship (at age of 15 years, she was the youngest European Champion) and stopped with gold medal with group at World Championship in 2007. She won all the possible titles at - Olympic Games, World Championship, European Championship, World Cup Final and Grand Prix Final. Her flexibility was something on the edge of possible, and she was also creative with her movements she was the first to perform (back split pivot with hand help, ring position with slow full turn, back scale pivot). After her gymnastics career, she moved into politics. Photo by E. Langsley and with permission of International Gymnast Magazin Science of Gymnastics Journal 97 Science of Gymnastics Journal GAJDOŠ A. SHORT HISTORICAL NOTES VIII Vol. 9 Issue 1: 97 - 99 Medals Competition OG 2000 Bronze AA (all around) OG 2004 Gold AA WC 1999 4x Gold AA, Team, Ball, Ribon, 2x Silver Rope Hoop WC 2001 Disqualified for using furosemide - medicine on black doping list WC 2003 4x Gold AA, Team , Ball, Ribon, Silver Hoop, Bronze Clubs WC 2007 1x Gold Team, Bronze Ribbon EC 1998 Gold AA, Bronze Team EC 1999 3x Gold AA, Team, Hoop, Silver Ribbon, Bronze Rope EC 2000 5x Gold Team, Hoop, Ball, Zaragoza, Ribbon EC 2001 4x Gold Team, Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Silver Rope EC 2002 2x Gold AA, Team, Bronze Rope EC 2003 Gold Team EC 2004 2x Gold AA, Team EC 2006 Silver AA WCup 2000 3x Gold Rope, Ball, Ribbon, Silver Hoop WCup 2004 2x Gold Hoop, Ribbon COMPULSORY EXERCISES ON PARALLEL BARS AT OLYMPIC GAMES 1928 Picture say more than 1000 words. Science of Gymnastics Journal 97 Science of Gymnastics Journal