Anton Malej
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Anton Malej also known as Tone Malej, (16 January 1907 – 15 July 1930) was a Slovenian gymnast, competing for Yugoslavia. He won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Malej was born in Savica pri Srednji vasi near Bohinj. He was the youngest of five children. His parents, Janez and Marija, worked on a farm in Laški Rovt. From 1913 to 1920, Malej attended elementary school in Bohinjska Bistrica. He left for Ljubljana in 1922, to train in an umbrella making workshop, and started working at L. Mikuž in 1926. At the age of 14, Malej joined the Slovenian Sokol athletics movement. Even as a member of the junior team, he already excelled in parallel bars and horizontal bar. He started competing with the member team in 1926.
Malej was a member of the Yugoslavian delegation at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam; he won a bronze medal with the men's all-around team, together with Edvard Antosiewicz, Stane Derganc, Dragutin Ciotti, Boris Gregorka, Janez Porenta, Jože Primožič, and Leon Štukelj. In addition, he competed individually in all the men's disciplines. He finished 25th in the individual all-around, 30th on the horse vault, 19th on the parallel bars, 51st on the horizontal bar, 15th on the rings, and 15th on the pommel horse.
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