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Andreas Wecker has competed for East Germany Andreas Wecker has competed for Germany Andreas Wecker has won 1 gold medal at the Olympic Games Andreas Wecker has won 2 silver medals at the Olympic Games Andreas Wecker has won 2 bronze medals at the Olympic Games

Andreas Wecker is a gymnast who has competed for East Germany and Germany. He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000 Summer Olympic Games. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful German gymnasts since his country's reunification in 1990. He won a total of five medals throughout his Olympic career, including a gold on the horizontal bar.

Wecker started his Olympic trip as a member of the East German men's artistic gymnastics team that culminated in a runner-up spot behind the Soviet Union on the all-around routine. Four years later in Barcelona, he entered all apparatus finals except the vault and continued to share silver medals with Grigory Misutin on the horizontal bar and added a bronze each on the rings and pommel horse.

Atlanta 1996 turned to be a glorious moment of Wecker's Olympic career. He performed a relatively low-risk, flawless horizontal bar routine to capture his first and only gold medal with a score of 9.850, beating the favorites of such elite quality as Alexei Nemov and Vitaly Scherbo.

When he returned to his fourth Olympics in 2000, Wecker anchored the reunified German men's team as the captain, most experienced member, and the reigning champion on the horizontal bar. At the qualifying stage of the men's artistic gymnastics competition, he suffered a serious shoulder injury with a tore biceps muscle, forcing him to withdraw from the individual all-around final and effectively concluding his Olympic career.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
1988 Men's individual all-around 30th
Men's team Silver
Men's floor 19th
Men's vault 33rd
Men's parallel bars 59th
Men's horizontal bar 8th
Men's rings 18th
Men's pommel horse 63th
1992 Men's individual all-around 4th
Men's team 4th
Men's floor 7th
Men's vault 17th
Men's parallel bars 7th
Men's horizontal bar Silver
Men's rings Bronze
Men's pommel horse Bronze
1996 Men's individual all-around 13th
Men's team 7th
Men's floor 32nd
Men's vault 25th
Men's parallel bars 27th
Men's horizontal bar Gold
Men's rings 5th
Men's pommel horse 54th
2000 Men's individual all-around 30th
Men's team 10th
Men's floor 54th
Men's vault 75th
Men's parallel bars 24th
Men's horizontal bar 21st
Men's rings 58th
Men's pommel horse 19th

1988[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 116.300
Final Did not advance
Team Final 588.450
(116.300)
Floor Qualification 19.550
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 19.300
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 19.250
Final Did not advance
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.700
Final 19.500
Rings Qualification 19.600
Final Did not advance
Pommel horse Qualification 18.900
Final Did not advance

1992[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 116.875
Final 58.450
Team Final 575.575
(116.875)
Floor Qualification 19.475
Final 9.687
Vault Qualification 19.125
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 19.375
Final 9.612
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.600
Final 9.837
Rings Qualification 19.750
Final 9.862
Pommel horse Qualification 19.550
Final 9.887

1996[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 114.474
Final 57.412
Team Final 567.405
(114.474)
Floor Qualification 18.975
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 19.162
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 18.950
Final Did not advance
Horizontal bar Qualification 19.387
Final 9.850
Rings Qualification 19.350
Final 9.762
Pommel horse Qualification 18.650
Final Did not advance

2000[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 56.011
Final Withdrew
Team Qualification 225.282
(56.011)
Final Did not advance
Floor Qualification 8.962
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 8.912
Final Did not advance
Parallel bars Qualification 9.550
Final Did not advance
Horizontal bar Qualification 9.662
Final Did not advance
Rings Qualification 9.250
Final Did not advance
Pommel horse Qualification 9.675
Final Did not advance
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