Gertrud "Trudi" Meyer (13 July 1914 – 23 October 1999) was a German

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who competed in the

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. In 1936 she won the gold medal as a member of the German gymnastics team. Although Meyer was the highest individual all-around scorer at these Olympics, she is not recognized as an Olympic All-Around Champion like subsequent women gymnasts such as Larissa Latynina, Věra Čáslavská,

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, or

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because individual medals were not awarded to women at the Olympics until 1952. This is a lack-of-individual distinction that she shares with the highest women's individual overall scorer at the 1948 Olympic,

Zdeňka Honsová Zdeňka Honsová (3 July 1927 in Jihlava – 16 May 1994) was a Czech gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Honsová was the highest women's gymnastics individual all-around scorer at these Olympics, continuing the legacy of major ...

, as well as with whomever was the highest scorer of the women's gymnastics competition at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympic Games.

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1914 births 1999 deaths German female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Germany Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Hanover Gymnasts from Lower Saxony 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub