Frank Kriz

Frank Kriz
Frank Kriz
Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	March 26, 1894
Died	January 11, 1955 (aged 60)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Medal record
Men’s gymnastic
Representing the United States
Olympic Games

Frank Josef Kriz (March 26, 1894 – January 11, 1955) was an American gymnast and Olympic champion.^[1] A member of the New York Sokol and the Bohemian Gymnastic Association, he competed in the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Summer Olympics.^[2] In 1924, he received a gold medal in vault.^[3] In 1922 and 1924, he won the Amateur Athletic Union national gymnastics title.^[4]^[5] In 1959, he was one of the initial inductees to the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.^[6]

Kriz was the very first U.S. gymnast, male or female, to win a medal of any sort at a Summer Olympic Games or World Championships on foreign soil, and would remain the only one to win any medal at those such games on foreign soil for nearly half a century until Cathy Rigby won a silver on balance beam at the 1970 World Championships in Ljubljana and Peter Kormann won a bronze medal on floor exercise at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games.

References[]

^ "Frank Kriz". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2009-03-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 26, 2008)
^ New York Times, Kriz Wins National Gymnastics Title, April 22, 1922
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2009-03-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-15. Retrieved 2009-03-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)