Sylvio Kroll

Sylvio Kroll is a German former artistic gymnast, born on 29 April 1965 in Lübben in East Germany, who competed for East Germany and later for a reunified Germany. He trained under Guido Janz, the father of the Olympic champion Karin Büttner-Janz. East Germany's boycott kept him out of the 1984 Olympic Games, but he won vault gold at the Friendship Games that year. He won the 1985 World Championships title on parallel bars and shared the 1987 world vault title with Lou Yun of China. At the 1988 Olympic Games he helped East Germany win team silver and took individual silver on vault behind Lou. He competed again for Germany at the 1992 Games, placing sixth on vault, and retired in 1994. He later worked as a judge and served the German Gymnastics Federation, becoming its Vice President for Elite Olympic Sports in 2013 and stepping down in 2021.