Walter Steffens (gymnast)

Walter Johan Heinrich Steffens (26 December 1908 – 23 August 2006) was a German gymnast who won an Olympic gold medal.^[1]

Walter Steffens
Full name	Walter Johan Heinrich Steffens
Born	(1908-12-26)26 December 1908 Barnstorf, German Empire
Died	23 August 2006(2006-08-23) (aged 97) Barnstorf, Germany
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Germany
Gym	Sportverein Barnstorf
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing  Germany Olympic Games 1936 Berlin Team

He was born in Barnstorf, the son of a family of craftsmen. In the 1930s, he was one of the best in the world on the pommel horse. In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin he won a gold medal as part of the German team, along with Alfred Schwarzmann and others. He was a sports instructor at the Hamm Gymnasium and at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Bergkamen.