Peter Šumi

Peter Šumi (June 29, 1895 – May 21, 1981) was a Yugoslav gymnast and the founder of the Sava Kranj factory.

Born(1895-06-29)29 June 1895

Kranj, Austria-Hungary

Died21 May 1981(1981-05-21) (aged 85)

Vienna, Austria

DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics

Country
represented

Yugoslavia

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Peter Šumi
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Born	(1895-06-29)29 June 1895 Kranj, Austria-Hungary
Died	21 May 1981(1981-05-21) (aged 85) Vienna, Austria
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Yugoslavia
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing Kingdom of Yugoslavia World Championships 1922 Ljubljana All-around 1922 Ljubljana Rings 1922 Ljubljana Horizontal bar 1926 Lyon All-around 1922 Ljubljana Team 1922 Ljubljana Pommel horse 1926 Lyon Team 1930 Luxembourg Pommel horse

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Šumi was born in Kranj. He took part in three World Championships in gymnastics for Yugoslavia. At the 1922 World Championships in Ljubljana, he was part of the Yugoslav team that took silver in the team event, behind Czechoslovakia. He also took gold in the individual combined event, as well as gold in the rings, horizontal bar, and parallel bars, and silver in the pommel horse.

At the next World Championships, in Lyon, France in 1926, he again took silver in the team event, again behind Czechoslovakia. Šumi won the individual combined event for the second time, but won no apparatus medals on this occasion.

His last World Championship medal came in 1930, at the World Championships in Luxembourg, where he took silver in the pommel horse. He died in Vienna.

Šumi was the only gymnast to have taken individual overall medals in consecutive World Championships until the Chinese gymnast Yang Wei achieved it in 2006 and 2007.^[1] Additionally, Šumi is one of only two repeat male World All-Around Champions (of which there are 7) in the sport of Artistic Gymnastics, along with Yuri Korolyov, never to make an Olympic appearance as a competing athlete.