Walter Beck (gymnast)

{{Short description|Swiss gymnast}}

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{{MedalSport|Men's gymnastics}}

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{{MedalSilver|1936 Berlin | Team}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|1938 Prague|Team{{cite web |author=Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique |title=125th Anniversary - The story goes on... |URL=https://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/The_story_goes_on_150dpi.pdf |publisher=FIG |date=2005 |page=65 }} }}

{{MedalSilver|1938 Prague|Vault}}

{{MedalBronze|1938 Prague|Horizontal bar}}

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Walter Beck (20 November 1907 – 1992) was a Swiss gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/walter-beck-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418002320/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/walter-beck-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=29 June 2012}} Additionally, he competed at the 1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he helped his Swiss team to silver, and won an individual silver medal on the vault apparatus and an individual bronze medal on the horizontal bar apparatus.