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Miroslav Klinger (20 January 1893 – 10 February 1979) was a Czech gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
He was born and died in Prague.
In 1920 he was a member of the Czechoslovak gymnastic team which finished fourth in the team event.Four years later at the 1924 Summer Olympics he participated in the following events:
- Individual all-around - fifth place
- Vault - seventh place
- Pommel horse - seventh place
- Parallel bars - tenth place
- Rings - eleventh place
- Sidehorse vault - twelfth place
- Rope climbing - 24th place
- Horizontal bar - 26th place
- Team all-around - did not finish
Klinger achieved greater success at the 1922 World Championships in Ljubljana where he contributed to the team gold, achieved individual gold on the Pommel Horse and Horizontal Bar, and won silver on the Parallel Bars.
Klinger was an active member and activist of Sokol organization. During World War II he was incarcerated in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Czechoslovak parliamentary elections in 1948 he was elected to the National Assembly for the Czech National Social Party. He was a member of parliament until 1960.