Jan Koutný Explained

Jan Koutný
Birth Date:	1897 6, df=y
Birth Place:	Vyškov, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Discipline:	MAG
Show-Medals:	yes

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.

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.

External links

• Jan Koutný . https://web.archive.org/web/20091107170249/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/jan-koutny-1.html . 2009-11-07 . dead.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jan Koutný . Olympedia . 3 October 2021.