Zdeněk Růžička (15 April 1925 – 18 April 2021) was a Czech gymnast who was a three-time Olympian.
Winning two individual bronze medals on floor exercise and rings at the
Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested. Finland at the 1948 Summer Olympics, Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.
Shortly after the Czechoslovak team arrived in London, 22 ...
where he also placed 7th in the combined individual all-around standings, he continued to compete at the next two Olympiads where his best results were top-15 placements on pommel horse and rings in 1952 and a top-10 finish on the horizontal bar in 1956. He was born in
Ivančice
Ivančice (; ) is a town in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 9,900 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zone ...
. He died 18 April 2021 at the age of 96.
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1925 births
2021 deaths
Czech male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
People from Ivančice
Gymnasts from the South Moravian Region
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