Ferdinand Danis celebrates his 85th Birthday ...( 1.1.2014 )

One of the most successful gymnasts in the former Czechoslovakia, Ferdinand Daniš, celebrating since 1929 always on the first day of every year his birthday: today his 85th! At that time, born in the small Slovak village Opatova he was later in 1952 to three times in the Olympic squads of CSR, later CSSR and was a participant at the World Championships in Rome in 1954, where his team ranked 5th and four years later in Moscow after the Soviet Union and Japan won the bronze medal.

FerdinanAt the III. Men's European Championships 1959 in Copenhagen, Ferdinand Denis scratched just behind the German bronze medalist Philipp Fürst (3) on fourth on all-around medal, but was behind all-around champion Yuri Titov Vice-European Champion on the parallel bars.
In the year of his third Olympics (Rome 1960) he won, for example, the friendly meet against the East German (GDR) team both in the team competition, as well as in the individual all-around. In his home country Danis was a former multiple Czechoslovak champion not only a recognized personality, but certain as very successfull coach since the mid-sixties of the last century, first at Dukla Prague (1965 - '74), thereafter the ASVS Dukla Banska Bystrica (1974 - '89).
Today he now celebrate in his adopted hometown Prague his 85th birthdayd Daniš was an excellent all-rounder, what his Olympic rankings (13./ 13./ 15) and his 15th placeat the world championship in Moscow in 1958.