Germany's Olympic champion Andreas Wecker one of the Inductees of IGHOF "Hall of Fame"

In 2000, Andreas WECKER (55) from Berlin was the first German gymnast to take part in four Olympic Games. There were four Olympic gymnastics medals in the first decade of reunified Germany - all four won by the protégé of former coach Lutz Landgraf: the Olympic high bar champion from Atlanta (1996) and world champion from 1995, who was part of the GDR's Olympic silver team (1988) and was already in the Olympic high bar final in Seoul as an 18-year-old youngster and was the last "Athlete of the Year" in the former GDR, lives now in Bend in the US state of Oregon since 2007. It has now been announced that the 12-time national German gymnastics champion will join the ranks of gymnastics legends in the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" (IGHoF) in mid-May 2025. After former world champion Eberhard Gienger (2007), Olympic champion Klaus Köste (2014) and Valeri Belenki (2015) and Fabian Hambüchen (2022), Andreas Wecker would be the fifth German gymnast to receive this big honor!
* On women's side since 2000, four German women have adorned the gallery of honor of world gymnastics in Oklahoma City: the two German Olympic champions from Berlin  Maxi Gnauck and Karin Büttner-Janz (2003) but also from Leipzig Erika Zuchold (2005), and Steffi Biskupek-Kräker (2011) - all four were athletes from former GDR.
* Together with Andreas Wecker the British Star Beth TWEDDLE and Roumanian Catalina PONOR will be the new IGHOF Inductees 2025.
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