Gervasio Deferr

{{Short description|Spanish gymnast (born 1980)}}

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| birth_place = Premià de Mar, Barcelona, Spain

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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|2000 Sydney|Vault}}

{{MedalGold|2004 Athens|Vault}}

{{MedalSilver|2008 Beijing|Floor}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|1999 Tianjin|Floor}}

{{MedalSilver|2007 Stuttgart|Floor}}

{{Medal|DQ|2002 Debrecen|Floor}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Cup}}

{{MedalGold|2000 Glasgow|Men's Vault}}

{{MedalSilver|2000 Glasgow|Men's Floor}}

{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}

{{MedalSilver|2000 Bremen|Men's Floor}}

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Gervasio Deferr Ángel (born 7 November 1980) is a retired gymnast from Spain who competed at three Olympic Games. He became the Olympic champion in men's vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney (scored 9.712) and repeated the feat at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens (scoring 9.737 average — vault 1 scored 9.687; vault 2 scored 9.787). Each of his ankles show a tattoo with the logo of one of these two Olympic Games. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the silver medal on the floor exercise with a score of 15.775.

Deferr started in gymnastics at the age of five. He considered floor exercise as his favorite event and has had some success in major competitions. He finished in second place with the silver medal on floor at the 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with a score of 9.750 points, which he repeated eight years later with another silver medal at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, as well as many medals in the same apparatus in the Gymnastics World Cup, between them: World Cup 2000 in Ljubljana, Slovenia — 9.688 points (silver), or World Cup 2001 in Paris, France — 9.625 points (gold).{{cite web |url= http://www.gymmedia.de/AG/events2000/leduel/superscore.pdf |title= World Cup 1999/2000 |access-date= 28 December 2016 |editor= gymmedia.de}} He also finished second at the 2002 World Championships on floor exercise but the medal was taken away after he tested positive for marijuana.

In January 2011, Deferr announced his retirement.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2011-01-21 |title=gymnast Gervasio Deferr retires |url=https://gymnasticscoaching.com/2011/01/21/gymnast-gervasio-deferr-retires/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Gymnastics Coaching.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2013-07-16 |title=Olympic Gymnastic champion Gervasio Deferr teaches children in Barcelona’s La Mina suburb |url=https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/olympic-gymnastic-champion-gervasio-deferr-teaches-children-in-barcelona-s-la-mina-suburb |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=www.catalannews.com |language=en}}