Emanuel Löffler (29 December 1901 – 5 August 1986) was a

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gymnast who competed in the

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and in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

. Additionally, he won several individual and team medals throughout the 1930s at the World Championships. Löffler, a consistent mainstay of his Czechoslovak team from the late 1920s through the 1930s, having competed at every Worlds/Olympics from 1928-1938 where there were Czechoslovak male gymnast entrants, ''(except for the 1931 Worlds from which he was conspicuously absent)'', encountered extreme misfortune at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, paralleling exactly the extreme misfortune of Janina Skirlińska, Löffler's 1934 World All-Around Bronze Medalist female counterpart from Poland who, exactly like Löffler, finished in 40th place here. (Skirlińska, like Löffler, was a consistent competitor at both her national championships, as well as at the World Championships as, at the next worlds in 1938, where, as the highest-finishing non-Czechoslovak competitor at those games in

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, she placed 4th.)

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* 1901 births 1986 deaths People from Letovice People from the Margraviate of Moravia Czechoslovak male artistic gymnasts Czech male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from the South Moravian Region {{CzechRepublic-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub