Hans Eugster

Hans Eugster ( born March 27, 1929 in Heiden, † November 12, 1956 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic champion.

At the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 for the first time participated Turner from the Soviet Union dominated and equal in most decisions. Its main competitor was not the Finnish athletes who four years earlier were the most successful nation, but the Swiss to Hans Eugster, Jack Günthard and Josef Stalder. Eugster participated in all eight competitions in gymnastics. He won the individual competition on bars before Viktor Chukarin, the most successful athlete at the Games in Helsinki, and bronze on rings. In the team competition, the Swiss took second place behind the gymnasts from the USSR, but most of the Finns.

On the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 1950 in Basel Eugster became world champion on the parallel bars and won the bronze medal on the rings. In Rome in 1954, he won a bronze medal on the parallel bars.

All medals are kept by the brother and former coach Ernst Eugster in Heiden.