Flatow, Gustav Felix

Sport:
gymnastics

Country Represented:
Germany

Years Competed:
1896, 1900

Medals Received:
gold

Olympic Info:
Flatow, a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, competed at the first two modern Olympiads as a member of the German gymnastics team. At the 1896 Athens Games, he won gold medals in the team horizontal bar and team parallel bars. Flatow then returned to the Olympics in 1900 at the Paris Games, but did not win any medals.

At the beginning of World War II, Flatow fled from Germany to Holland, but was later caught. He was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp and died there just months before the end of the war. Posthumous honors for Gustav and his cousin Alfred Flatow, included the naming of a street in Berlin and a commemorative stamp.

Birth and Death Dates:
b. Jan. 7, 1875 - d. Jan. 29, 1945

Origin:
Berent, Pomerania

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