Leon Stukelj, a legend of world sport, is written down in the
annals of Slovene sporting history as the most successful competitor
at major international tournaments such as the World Championships and
the Olympic Games. He is one of the few Slovene athletes to have risen
to the very top of his sport, where he remained right from the World
Championships in Ljubljana in 1922 all the way to the Olympic Games in
Berlin 1936, at which he rounded off his competitive gymnastics
career.
At seven major international competitions he captured a total of
twenty medals: eight gold, six silver and six bronze. At the Olympic
Games alone he won six medals: two gold medals in Paris in 1924, on
gold medal and two bronze in Amsterdam in 1928, and a silver medal in
Berlin in 1936 with which he concluded his career.
