Joaquín Blume
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Born | (1933-06-21)21 June 1933 |
Died | 29 April 1959(1959-04-29) (aged 25) Cuenca, Spain |
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
Joaquín Blume (Catalan: Joaquim Blume; 21 June 1933 – 29 April 1959) was a Spanish gymnast. The son of a German gymnastics instructor established in Barcelona,[1] he belonged to the gymnastics section of FC Barcelona.[2]
He became Spanish gymnastics champion at 15[1] and he competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics of Helsinki with only 19 years.[2] He went to win eight medals in the 1955 Mediterranean Games[1] and in 1957 he won the European Championship, defeating favourite Yuri Titov.[2] He was a favourite for the 1956 Summer Olympics of Melbourne, until Spain boycotted the games in protest against the presence of the USSR, after their brutal suppression of the Hungarian Revolution.[3]
He was also a favourite in the 1960 Summer Olympics, but he died in a plane crash at the Valdemeca mountains, in Cuenca, on 29 April 1959. The plane was headed for Canarias, where the Spanish gymnastics team were to do a gymnastics exhibition. His wife, also a gymnast and pregnant with their second child, was also a passenger. There were no survivors.[2][4]
In his honour, the Catalan Gymnastics Federation started in 1969 the Memorial Joaquim Blume tournament, first only of male gymnastics with female competition introduced in 1972.[1] A sculpture in his honour is displayed at the Gardens of Joan Brossa, in Barcelona.
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- 1955:
Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1957:
Joaquín Blume (ESP)
- 1959:
Yuri Titov (URS)
- 1961:
Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1963:
Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1965:
Franco Menichelli (ITA)
- 1967:
Mikhail Voronin (URS)
- 1969:
Mikhail Voronin (URS)
- 1971:
Viktor Klimenko (URS)
- 1973:
Viktor Klimenko (URS)
- 1975:
Nikolai Andrianov (URS)
- 1977:
Vladimir Markelov (URS)
- 1979:
Stoyan Deltchev (BUL)
- 1981:
Aleksandr Tkachyov (URS)
- 1983:
Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
- 1985:
Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
- 1987:
Valeri Liukin (URS)
- 1989:
Ihor Korobchynskyi (URS)
- 1990:
Valentin Mogilny (URS)
- 1992:
Ihor Korobchynskyi (CIS)
- 1994:
Ivan Ivankov (BLR)
- 1996:
Ivan Ivankov (BLR)
- 1998:
Alexei Bondarenko (RUS)
- 2000:
Oleksandr Beresch (UKR)
- 2002:
Dan Potra (ROM)
- 2004:
Marian Drăgulescu (ROM)
- 2005:
Rafael Martínez (ESP)
- 2007:
Maksim Devyatovskiy (RUS)
- 2009:
Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
- 2011:
Philipp Boy (GER)
- 2013:
David Belyavskiy (RUS)
- 2015:
Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)
- 2017:
Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)
- 2019:
Nikita Nagornyy (RUS)
- 2021:
Nikita Nagornyy (RUS)
- 2022:
Joe Fraser (GBR)
- 2023:
Adem Asil (TUR)
- 2024:
Marios Georgiou (CYP)
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