Bernd Jäger

Bernd Jäger
Country represented	East Germany
Born	(1951-11-18) November 18, 1951 (age 65) Kahla, Germany
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	ASK Vorwärts Potsdam
Medal record Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Team World Championships 1974 Varna Team

Bernd Jäger (born 18 November 1951 in Kahla) is a German former gymnast who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In the 1974 world championships in Varna, competing on horizontal bar, he first performed his forward sommersault starting from forward giant and ending in backward swing, named later Jägersalto. With this element, Jäger started the worldwide development of release elements on high bar, followed by innovations by Eberhard Gienger, Stoyan Delchev and others.

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