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{{Short description|Czechoslovak gymnast}}
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|death_place= [[Prague]], Czech Republic
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin]] | [[Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics|Rings]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1931 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1931 Paris]]|[[1931_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Men's_individual_all_around|All-Around]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1931 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1931 Paris]]|[[1931_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Men's_floor_exercise|Floor Exercise]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1931 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1931 Paris]]|[[1931_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Men's_rings|Rings]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1934 Budapest]]|[[1934_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Rings|Rings]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1938 Prague]]|[[1938_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Team_final|Team]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1938 Prague]]|[[1938_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Rings|Rings]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1938 Prague]]|[[1938_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Floor exercise|Floor]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1938 Prague]]|[[1938_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Parallel bars|Parallel Bars]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1938 Prague]]|[[1938_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Horizontal bar|Horizontal Bar]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1934 Budapest]]|[[1934_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Team_final|Team]]}}
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'''Alois Hudec''' (12 July 1908 – 23 January 1997)<ref name="SportsReference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hu/alois-hudec-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417183607/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hu/alois-hudec-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Alois Hudec}}</ref> was a [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] [[gymnastics|gymnast]] and an individual World and Olympic Champion in the sport.

He competed for [[Czechoslovakia at the Olympics|Czechoslovakia]] at the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] in [[Berlin]], where he received a gold medal in ''rings''.<ref name=db-ol-GYM1936>[http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=11&sp=GYM "1936 Summer Olympics – Berlin, Germany – Gymnastics"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827053928/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=11&sp=GYM |date=2007-08-27 }} ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 31, 2008)</ref> Part of his performance there is recorded in an 85-second shot in Leni Riefenstahl's film [[Olympia (1938 film)|Olympia]].  He also competed at three World Championships in a row (1931, 1934, 1938) where he won the rings title every time.

Hudec also bears another particular distinction within the annals of the history of the sport.  Although the [[1931 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]] often seem to go ignored by various authorities within the sport, the [[International Gymnastics Federation|FIG]], in their 125-Year Anniversary Publication, refers to them as the "First Artistic Men's World Championships".<ref>{{cite book |author=Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique |title=125th Anniversary - The story goes on... |publisher=FIG |date=2005 |page=15 }}</ref>  As he became the overall World All-Around Champion at those games, according to some authorities, Hudec could be considered the first-ever World All-Around Champion in the sport of Men's Artistic Gymnastics.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Olympedia|id=31163}}
* {{Olympics.com|id=alois-hudec|org_archive=20210421032618}}
* {{COV profile|new_id=109|old_id=1409--alois-hudec}}

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[[Category:1908 births]]
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[[Category:Czechoslovak male artistic gymnasts]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:People from Vyškov District]]
[[Category:Gymnasts from the South Moravian Region]]
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