Miese, Georges

Georges won the right to participate in his first Olympics in 1924, taking second place in the national championship. In total, he participated in four Olympic Games and won eight medals, a record number of medals in Switzerland, equal to the number of awards with his teammate Eugen Mack , but Miz has four golds versus two for Mack.

Between the Olympic Games of 1924 and 1928, Georges served in the military, worked as a gymnastics coach in the Netherlands. Returning to Switzerland, he worked for a sports company and developed his own model of trousers for gymnastics.

In the 1928 games in Amsterdam, Mies was Switzerland's most successful athlete. After the Olympics, he moved to Chiasso in Ticino . In Chiasso, he worked as a gymnastics teacher and was responsible for the development of solitary sports in the city.

In 1932 in Los Angeles, he was the only Swiss to leave the games with a medal. Although his participation in the games was a big question. The Swiss Federation decided not to send a team to the Olympics because of the global economic crisis. Georges rode as an individual. At each type of competition, a vote was taken on the participation of individuals in the competition. So Georges did not take part in the floor exercise competition.

In 1934, Miz participated in the only world championship for him, where he won gold in floor exercises and with the team, as well as silver on the crossbar. In 1936, he finally won Olympic gold in floor exercises and ended his career.

Mies later became the coach of the Swiss national gymnastics team. For some time he worked in the Red Cross (during the Winter War in Finland ). After the Second World War, he founded several successful private schools, wrote books on sports medicine.

He owned several tennis courts. He spent the end of his life in Lugano , where he died in 1999 at the age of 94, shortly after a stroke.

• Georges Mies - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Miz Georges - article from the Grand Olympic Encyclopedia ( M. , 2006)