Leon Stukelj

Leon Stukelj was born in Novo Mesto on 12 November 1898. In 1907 he joined the junior section of the Novo Mesto Sokol Society and first began seriously to involve himself in gymnastics. He spent his childhood and youth in Novo Mesto, the main town of Slovenia's Dolenjska region. He attended grammar school here and after graduating from the law faculty it was in Novo Mesto that he did his judicial practice and took up his first appointment as a judge.

He captured a total of twenty medals: eight gold, six silver and six bronze. At the Olympic Games alone he won six medals: two gold medals (counted for Yugoslavia) in Paris in 1924, one gold medal and two bronze in Amsterdam in 1928, and a silver medal in Berlin in 1936, with which he concluded his career.

His 100th birthday in 1998 was a major celebration in Slovenia. Leon Stukelj still exercised regularly until even just before his death, only four days before his 101st birthday.

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