Jan Koutný

Jan Koutný
Jan Koutný at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, cropped from Czechoslovakian team photo
Personal information
Country represented	Czechoslovakia
Born	(1897-06-24)24 June 1897 Vyškov, Austria-Hungary
Died	18 July 1976(1976-07-18) (aged 79) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Medal record Representing Czechoslovakia Olympic Games Men's Gymnastic 1924 Paris Vault 1928 Amsterdam Team all-around

Jan Koutný (24 June 1897 – 18 July 1976) was a Czech gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born in Vyškov and died in Prague.

In 1924 he won a silver medal in the vault competition. At the 1924 Summer Olympics he also participated in the following events:

• Rings - seventh place
• Individual all-around - eleventh place
• Parallel bars - eleventh place
• Sidehorse vault - twelfth place
• Pommel horse - 22nd place
• Rope climbing - 24th place
• Horizontal bar - 35th place
• Team all-around - did not finish

Four years later he was a member of the Czechoslovak gymnastic team which won the silver medal.

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan Koutný". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-11-07.