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About Leon Stukelj, Olympian
Until his death in 1999, Leon Stukelj was the oldest living Olympian.
Leon Štukelj was a Yugoslav gymnast of Slovene ethnicity, Olympic gold medalist and athlete, a noted figure in Slovenian sporting history. Štukelj is one of the few Slovene athletes to have risen to the very top of his sport, where he remained right from the World Championships in Ljubljana in 1922 all the way to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, at which point he finished his competitive gymnastics career. Štukelj competed at seven major international competitions and won a total of twenty medals: eight gold, six silver, and six bronze. At the Olympic Games alone he won six medals: two gold medals (counted for Yugoslavia) in Paris in 1924, one gold medal and two bronze in Amsterdam in 1928, and a silver medal in Berlin in 1936. At the time of his death in 1999 he was the world's oldest living Olympian.
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Leon Stukelj, Olympian's Timeline
| 1898 |
November 12, 1898
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Kandija, Novo Mesto, Novo mesto, Slovenia
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| 1999 |
November 8, 1999
Age 100
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Maribor, Maribor, Administrative unit Maribor, Slovenia
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