Zapisani v spomin je serija zakladkov v okolici Novega mesta. Imena oseb se skrivajo v imenih stavb in ulic, na katera včasih kar pozabimo, po kom in zakaj so tako poimenovana. V besedi in kamnu pa jih ohranjamo še danes.
Written in memory is one of the series of caches around Novo mesto. Names of people are used in names of buildings and streets, which are sometimes forgotten by whom and why they are named so. In word and stone they are preserved till today.
LEON ŠTUKELJ
Danes se po njem imenujeta športni dvorani v Novem mestu in Mariboru ter trg v Mariboru.
Leon Štukelj je bil slovenski telovadec in olimpionik, ter pravnik. Rodil se je 12. novembra 1898 v Novem mestu (Kranjska), umrl pa 8. novembra 1999 v Mariboru.
Nastopil je na sedmih velikih tekmovanjih in skupno osvojil 20 kolajn. Samo na olimpijskih igrah je skupno osvojil 6 kolajn: dve zlati v Parizu 1924, zlato in dve bronasti v Amsterdamu 1928, ter srebro v Berlinu 1936.
Leta 1927 je dokončal študij prava. Po končani športni poti je delal kot sodnik, najprej v Novem mestu, nato pa v Lenartu in Mariboru, kjer je živel vse do smrti.
V devetdesetih letih 20. stoletja je Štukelj veljal za najstarejšega še živečega olimpionika (dobitnika zlate olimpijske kolajne). Zaradi te vloge je bil povabljen na otvoritev OI v Atlanti leta 1996. Tam je s svojo čilostjo pri skoraj 98 letih navdušil vse, tudi takratnega predsednika ZDA Billa Clintona, ki mu je segel v roko.
Vse do smrti zaradi nenadnega srčnega napada le nekaj dni pred 101. rojstnim dnevom je bil aktiven in je vsakodnevno vadil na krogih v domačem stanovanju. Na njegov 100. rojstni dan je bila organizirana velika proslava v rodnem Novem mestu.
Vir: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_%C5%A0tukelj
Leon Štukelj was a Yugoslav gymnast of Slovene ethnicity, Olympic gold medalist and athlete.
He was born in 1898 in Novo mesto and died in 1999 in Maribor.He is a noted figure in Slovenian sporting history. Štukelj is one of the few Slovene athletes to have risen to the very top of his sport.
Štukelj competed at seven major international competitions and captured a total of twenty medals. At the Olympic Games alone he won six medals: two gold medals (counted for Yugoslavia) in Paris (1924), one gold medal and two bronze in Amsterdam (1928), and a silver medal in Berlin (1936), with which he concluded his career. Štukelj was presented at the opening ceremony of the OOG in Atlanta (1996) as then-oldest living Olympic gold medalist, where he shook hands with the President of the United States Bill Clinton.
Today a sports hall in Novo Mesto, mainly used by a local basketball team, is named after him, in addition to the University Sports Hall situated on the campus of the University of Maribor.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_%C5%A0tukelj