Bernd Jäger

Bernd Jäger won an all-around bronze medal with the East German male gymnastics team at the 1976 Montréal Olympics. He qualified for the parallel bars event final, where he placed an unfortunate fourth. He also placed tenth in the individual all-around. At the 1974 Worlds Jäger won his first team bronze medal in an international competition. The same year he founded the so-called “Jägersalto”. Domestically, he earned five national titles.

Jäger later became a very successful gymnast coach, first with his home club ASK Vorwärts Potsdam, and later from 1997-2000 as the Finnish national coach. In 2001 he was named chief coach of VT Rinteln.