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| Born | October 31, 1925 Olyphant, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | August 21, 2012 (aged 86) Florida, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kent State Swiss Turners | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Frank Haley Ed Markowski[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Joseph "Joe" Kotys (October 31, 1925 – August 21, 2012) was an American artistic gymnast. He won a team gold medal and three individual medals at the 1955 Pan American Games. At the 1948 Summer Olympics, he placed seventh with the team and had his best individual result of 23rd place on pommel horse.[3]
Kotys fought in World War II as a gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and completed 22 missions. He also competed as a diver and won the Ohio Conference three times. As a gymnast he won the NCAA titles all-around in 1949–50, on parallel bars in 1949–50, on the horizontal bar in 1950, and on the pommel horse in 1951. He also won three AAU titles, in the vault in 1948 and on parallel bars in 1948 and 1951. While competing on rings at the 1956 U.S. Olympic Trials he crashed to the floor due to a failed support mount. He retired soon after that to become a gymnastics coach in Ohio.[3] In 1978 he was inducted into the U.S. Gymnastics Hall of Fame.[2]
References
- ^ Dwight Normile (August 24, 2012) Former U.S. Olympian Joe Kotys Passes Away. International Gymnast Magazine
- ^ a b KOTYS, Joseph "Joe". U.S. Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- ^ a b Joe Kotys. sports-reference.com
- 1925 births
- 2012 deaths
- Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of the United States
- American male artistic gymnasts
- Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
- Gymnasts at the 1955 Pan American Games