# Stane Derganc

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**Stane Derganc** (23 April 1893 – 9 August 1981) was a [Yugoslav](/source/Yugoslavia) [gymnast](/source/Gymnastics).[1] At the 1928 Olympics, he won two bronze medals for the [Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes](/source/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia) (one with team). Today, he is also remembered as the model for the man depicted on the *[Verigar](/source/Verigar_issue)* stamps, the first stamp series in [Slovene](/source/Slovene_language).[2]

Stane Derganc was born in [Ljubljana](/source/Ljubljana). He took part in two Olympic Games for Yugoslavia, and two gymnastics World Championships. At the [1924 Olympics](/source/Gymnastics_at_the_1924_Summer_Olympics) in Paris, he came in fourth place in the individual combined event, and fifth in the floor event, and seventh in the pommel horse were his best results in the individual apparatus. At the next event, in [1928](/source/Gymnastics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics) he took bronze in the team event and individual floor event.[3]

At the World Championships, he won many medals. At his first World Championships, in 1922 in Yugoslavia, he was part of the Yugoslav team which took silver in the team event, behind Czechoslovakia. He also took bronze in the individual overall event, and silver in the horizontal bar. He also took part in the next World Championships, in Lyon, France in 1926. There, Yugoslavia again won silver in the team event. He won no individual medals at this World Championships.

## Gallery

Stane Derganc was depicted by [Ivan Vavpotič](/source/Ivan_Vavpoti%C4%8D) on the *Verigar* stamps from late 1918:

## References

1. ["Stane Derganc"](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/31489). *Olympedia*. Retrieved 3 October 2021.

1. Balkovec, B. (2009). [*Jugoslavija v času: devetdeset let od nastanka prve jugoslovanske države*](https://books.google.com/books?id=PHWqxzSH69QC). Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. p. 207. ISBN 9789612372958. Retrieved 2014-12-14.

1. [Stane Derganc at Sports Reference](https://web.archive.org/web/20200417183747/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/stane-derganc-1.html) Profile at Sports Reference LLC

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