Aljaž Pegan

Aljaž Pegan
— Gymnast —
Aljaž Pegan in 2010
Personal information
Country represented	Slovenia
Born	(1974-06-02) June 2, 1974
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Eponymous skills	Pegan (high bar), Pegan (parallel bars)
Medal record World Championships 2005 Melbourne Horizontal Bar 2002 Debrecen Horizontal Bar 2006 Aarhus Horizontal Bar 2007 Stuttgart Horizontal Bar European Championships 2004 Ljubljana Horizontal Bar 2007 Amsterdam Horizontal Bar 2000 Bremen Horizontal Bar 2008 Lausanne Horizontal Bar Mediterranean Games 1993 Agde Horizontal bar 2009 Pescara Horizontal bar 1993 Agde Team 2001 Tunis Horizontal bar

Aljaž Pegan, born June 2, 1974, is a Slovenian gymnast.

Pegan is one of the best Slovenian gymnasts, he competes on Horizontal Bar, where he is world and European champion. He also has an element, the pegan, named after him on both high bar and parallel bars.

He has been competing internationally since 1988, but has not qualified for any Olympic Games yet, due to the IFG rules, which do not allow competitors to participate only on individual tools. He was denied qualification to the 2008 Beijing Games when the Olympic "wild card" spot was awarded to a different gymnast.

Notable successes

• 1st, 1994 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Prague, Czech Republic
• 3rd, 2000 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Bremen, Germany
• 2nd, 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Debrecen, Hungary
• 3rd, 2004 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 1st, 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Melbourne, Australia
• 2nd, 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Århus, Denmark
• 2nd, 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Stuttgart, Germany

External links

• RTVSLO, in Slovenian
• Aljaž Pegan at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique