Trude Gollner-Kolar

Gertrude Gollner-Kolar, known as Trude, was on the Austrian women’s gymnastics team that finished sixth at the 1948 London Olympics. Individually, she placed 39th. She represented Union Graz domestically. In 1952 at the Helsinki Olympics, Gollner-Kolar helped the team place tenth and she finished 75th individually. With the portable apparatus team, she was ninth.

Trude Gollner-Kolar was Austrian champion in individual all-around (1950, 1952-53). In total, she won 19 national titles. At the 1950 World Championships she shared the title in the flying wings and became the only Austrian World Champion in gymnastics ever (as of 2023). She added a silver medal in horse vault, and a bronze in the individual all-around.