Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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At the 1896 Summer Olympics, eight gymnastics events, all for men, were contested in Panathinaiko Stadium. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics. Events took place on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April 1896. 71 competitors from 8 nations (including 52 from Greece) took part in gymnastics.

Contents 1 Medal summary 2 Medal table 3 Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Medal summary

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Parallel bars	Alfred Flatow Germany (GER)	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	none
Horizontal bar	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	Alfred Flatow Germany (GER)	none
Vault	Carl Schuhmann Germany (GER)	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)
Pommel horse	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	none
Rings	Ioannis Mitropoulos Greece (GRE)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	Petros Persakis Greece (GRE)
Rope climbing	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Greece (GRE)	Thomasios Xenakis Greece (GRE)	Fritz Hoffmann Germany (GER)
Team parallel bars	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hoffmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	Greece Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Spyros Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis	Greece Ioannis Chrysafis Ioannis Mitropoulos Dimitrios Loundras Filippos Karvelas
Team horizontal bar	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hoffmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	none	none

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	2	10
2	Greece	2	2	2	6
3	Switzerland	1	2	0	3

Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hungary, and Sweden had gymnasts compete, but won no medals.

[edit] Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics

• Joan. Phokianos, president
• George Streit, secretary
• Joan. Yenissarlis
• Loukas Belos
• Nic. Politis
• Chas. Waldstein
• Dimitri Aighinitis
• Dim. Sekkeris
• Spiridon Comoundouros
• Const. Manos
• Sp. Antonopoulos

[edit] See also

• List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)

[edit] References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; & Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck.  (Digitally available at [1])
• Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9.  (Excerpt available at [2])
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X. 

Events at the 1896 Summer Olympics (Athens)
Athletics • Cycling • Fencing • Gymnastics • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men) and List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)