Walter Steffens (gymnast)
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FullnameWalter Johan Heinrich Steffens
Born26 December 1908
Barnstorf, German Empire
Died23 August 2006 (aged 97)
Barnstorf, Germany
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Walter Johan Heinrich Steffens | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 December 1908 Barnstorf, German Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 August 2006 (aged 97) Barnstorf, Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Gym | Sportverein Barnstorf | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Walter Johan Heinrich Steffens (26 December 1908 – 23 August 2006) was a German gymnast who won an Olympic gold medal.[1]
He was born in Barnstorf, the son of a family of craftsmen. In the 1930s, he was one of the best in the world on the pommel horse. In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin he won a gold medal as part of the German team, along with Alfred Schwarzmann and others. He was a sports instructor at the Hamm Gymnasium and at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Bergkamen.
