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Jan Koutný (24 June 1897 – 18 July 1976) was a Czech gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born in Vyškov and died in Prague.
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 Jan Koutný at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, cropped from Czechoslovakian team photo | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 June 1897 Vyškov, Austria-Hungary | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 July 1976 (aged 79) Prague, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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In 1924 he won a silver medal in the vault competition. At the 1924 Summer Olympics he also participated in the following events:[1]
- Rings - seventh place
- Individual all-around - eleventh place
- Parallel bars - eleventh place
- Sidehorse vault - twelfth place
- Pommel horse - 22nd place
- Rope climbing - 24th place
- Horizontal bar - 35th place
- Team all-around - did not finish
Four years later he was a member of the Czechoslovak gymnastic team which won the silver medal.
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