Janez Porenta

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| native_name = Јанез Порента

| altname = Ivan Porenta

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|06|03|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|06|13|1896|06|03|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ljubljana, Kingdom of Italy

| discipline = MAG

| country = Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

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Janez Porenta also known as Ivan Porenta, (3 June 1896 – 13 June 1942){{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/janez-porenta-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121337/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/janez-porenta-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Janez Porenta Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at |publisher=Sports-reference.com |date= |accessdate=2017-02-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:doc-C3WSXKSU/54835f7a-ee1f-4761-af14-ce9edb819f2c/PDF|title=DLib.si - Naši spomeniki: Gramozna jama, Žale, Urh}} was a Slovenian gymnast, competing for Yugoslavia. He won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/31515 |title=Janez Porenta |work=Olympedia |access-date=3 October 2021}}

Biography

Porenta was born in Ljubljana. He was a member of the Slovenian Sokol athletics movement. With the Yugoslav team, Porenta participated at two Olympic games, at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and in 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In Paris, he competed at nine events, his best results being 4th place in men's team competition and 6th place in horse vault. In Amsterdam, where the Yugoslav team won five medals in total, Porenta was a member of the bronze medal winning team at the team competition, together with Edvard Antosiewicz, Stane Derganc, Dragutin Ciotti, Boris Gregorka, Anton Malej, Jože Primožič, and Leon Štukelj.

During the Second World War, Porenta was active in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation. In 1942, he was arrested by the forces of Fascist Italy for involvement in the murder of the banker and businessman Avgust Praprotnik (1891–1942) and then shot at the Gramozna Jama ('gravel pit') site in Ljubljana.{{cite book|last1=Rutar|first1=Miloš|title=Sodelovati in zmagati: Slovenski športniki v NOB|date=1986|publisher=Borec|location=Ljubljana|page=195}}{{cite book|last1=Križnar|first1=Ivan|last2=Mihevc|first2=Mira|title=Bitka, kakor življenje dolga: pričevanja o revolucionarnem in osvobodilnem boju Slovencev|date=1975|publisher=Cankarjeva založba|location=Ljubljana|page=230}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}

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