Dallas Bixler
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| Full name | Dallas Denver Bixler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 17, 1910 Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | August 13, 1990 (aged 80) Buena Park, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dallas Denver Bixler (February 17, 1910 – August 13, 1990) was an American gymnast and Olympic champion. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received a gold medal in the horizontal bar.[1]
Bixler was born on February 17, 1910, in Hutchinson, Kansas.[2] He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1920.[2] He attended Los Angeles High School from 1925 to 1929.[3] While a student, he competed in gymnastics as his father didn't want him to play football.[3][2]
Gymnastics career
As a gymnast after high school, Bixler was a member of Germania Turnverein until 1927.[2] He then switched to the Los Angeles Athletic Club and competed with the organization until 1935.[3][2][4]
Bixler participated in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He qualified as a specialist just 5 days before the Games' opening.[2] He competed in one event, the Horizontal Bar. Sitting in third place after the first rotation, Bixler used a "reverse giant" he learned from Glenn Berry in 1928 during his second rotation to win the gold medal.[2]
He later competed at the Century of Progress, the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.[2] A shoulder injury sustained in May 1935 led Bixler to an early retirement from the sport.[2]
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