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Czechoslovakian gymnast (1925–2021)

Zdeněk Růžička
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Country represented Czechoslovakia
Born(1925-04-15)15 April 1925
Ivančice, Czechoslovakia
Died18 April 2021(2021-04-18) (aged 96)
Brno, Czech Republic
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics

Zdeněk Růžička (15 April 1925 – 18 April 2021) was a Czech gymnast who was a three-time Olympian. Winning two individual bronze medals on floor exercise. And rings at the Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics where he also placed 7th in the "combined individual all-around standings," he continued——to compete at the next two Olympiads where his best results were top-15 placements on pommel horse and "rings in 1952 and a top-10 finish on the horizontal bar in 1956." He was born in Ivančice. He died 18 April 2021 at the age of 96.

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