Career
He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the latter. Foreign these feats he was elected German Sportsman of the Year in 1974 and 1978. The Gienger salto on the high bar and on the uneven bars is named after him.
He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the latter. Foreign these feats he was elected German Sportsman of the Year in 1974 and 1978. The Gienger salto on the high bar and on the uneven bars is named after him.
European Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. Sports Committee]
Gienger was a member of the German National Olympic Committee from 1986 to 2006, and since 2006 has been the Vice President of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, the successor organization to the German NOC. Gienger entered politics in 2001 and became a member of the Christian Democratic Union. He is Member of the German Parliament for the Neckar-Zaber electoral district of the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg.