Walter Steffens (gymnast), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Barnstorf, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Walter Steffens (gymnast)
- Walter Johan Heinrich Steffens (26 December 1908 - 23 August 2006) was a German gymnast who won an Olympic gold medal. He was born in Barnstorf, the son of a family of craftsmen.
- In the 1930s, he was one of the best in the world on the pommel horse.
- In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin he won a gold medal as part of the German team, along with Alfred Schwarzmann and others.
- He was a sports instructor at the Hamm Gymnasium and at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Bergkamen.
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