Ferdinand DANIS  was born1929, January 1st in small village Opatova in Slovakia. After some month he mouves with his parents to Moravia-Czech and here he began with gymnastics.  He was the great talent and later he make the gymnastics training in army and his great results start in club ATK,UDA and Dukla Prague freom 1952 - 1964.

>> Ferdinand Danis participated in three Olympic Games (1952, Helsinki, 13th AA;  1956, Melbourne, 13th AA; 1960, Rome, 15th AA) and the World Championships of 1954 Rome (29th) and 1958 Moscow (12th) and at the third European Championships 1959.

There, at the Europeans in Stockholm, at the age of thirty (!), he was fourth in all-around, behind Yuri Titow (URS), Pavel Stolbov (URS) and Philipp Fuerst (GER) and he was the Vice European Champion at the parallel bars, only beaten by champion Titov.
Later Ferdinand Danis became a prominent coach in Czechoslovakia, at the well-known club "Dukla Prague".

Today, Ferdinand Danis and his wife Alina Chadimova-Danisova, also a former gymnast and Olympian 1952, Helsinki (3rd Team TCH; 20th AA;) enjoy a peaceful life of retirement in Prague.
* Prof. Anton Gajdoš, CZE

Walter LEHMANN - born on 13 January 1918
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* - von Erwin Hänggi, STV
Walter Lehmann (Richterswil), one of the most successful post-war gymnasts, is celebrating his 90th birthday today.
At the 1950 World Championships in Basle he won gold in the overall competition and on rings, after gaining three silver medals at the Olympic Games in 1948 in London (team, overall, and high bar).
At national level he won the Eidgenössische Kunstturnertage (1942 und 1945) and then also the Eidgenössisches Turnfest  in 1947 in Berne, as well as gaining the title of Swiss Champion in 1951 in Zürich, all the time competing against such top-class rivals as Michael Reusch, Sepp Stalder, Jack Günthard etc. .
After his active career Walter Lehmann was responsible for many years at the Swiss Gymnastics Federation (EKV) for the organisation of the Swiss Championships and was an internationally renowned, expert and, most importantly, high-principled and honest judge, which led him to be honoured numerous times by the FIG with the position of head judge.  Following health problems, from which he has now recovered, he still retains his interest in artistic gymnastics.
*Source: Erwin Hänggi, STV

World's best judge 1972
In a review of Walter LEHMANN'S life, journalist Sibille Schärer of the Zürichsee-Zeitung describes his outstanding achievements as an internationally renowned judge.

* Zürichsee-Zeitung, 12-Jan-2009--:
After many successes, Walter Lehmann ended his active career in 1954 at the age of 35 .
A year later he married his wife Heidi, who he had got to know at a gymnastics event, the Turnerchränzli, in Rothrist.
In 1957 their daughter Susi was born. Nevertheless, Walter Lehmann did not leave the world of artistic gymnastics but remained active in various organisations and committees: «Out of 52 weekends I was away from home on about 45 for various events.»
Just as he had been a successful gymnast, he was similarly successful as a judge and ..

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So now Gunter Schönherr (53) will be responsible for the national junior team in the new Olympic cycle.

In GDR times Schönherr was himself one of the best gymnasts in the Spartakiade competitions, was a member of the junior and GDR elite squads and trained for some time with Rainer Hanschke at the club then known as SC Chemie Halle  (photo, right >)

As one of Germany's most successful gymnastics coaches, he guided gymnasts such as Sylvio Kroll, Karsten Oelsch, Ronny Ziesmer and Robert Juckel to the top international level and along with the senior coaches he looked after the German teams at World and European Championships and most recently at the Olympics in Beijing. 
Until 2003 Schönherr was also responsible for the team of SC Cottbus, multiple winners of the German team championships.

A clear winner on the women's side.
Caro Weber says happily:  "It means a lot to me that I have not only been voted sportswoman of the year in the Vorarlberg region but have now also been recognised by people who are even more closely associated with my sport. That makes for a good start to the year. Now I need to create four new voluntary routines and press on with my training, as the next season is waiting".
There was never a question mark over the "absolute majority"  (57% of all the votes cast) for the 22-year old gymnast from Dornbirn, who now lives in Vienna.
The majority of fan votes showed her to be the most popular. The jury's verdict took account of Weber's highly successful year, in which she took Austria's best places ever in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics (17th), Europeans (12th), World Cup (8th) and in the Grand Prix (4th), as well as achieving the State Master Titles numbers 30 to 34.