Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's rings

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Weingärtner competing in the rings event
Weingärtner competing in the rings event
Gymnastics at the
1896 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Parallel bars   men
Horizontal bar men
Vault men
Pommel horse men
Rings men
Rope climbing men
Team parallel bars men
Team horizontal bar men

The men's rings was one of eight gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. The fifth event, it was held on 9 April. The Greeks won the gold and bronze medals, with Hermann Weingärtner winning his fifth medal. Places 1-3 and 5 are known, but 4 is not - any of the four athletes whose places are not known may have occupied the fourth position.

[edit] Results

Place Athlete
1 Greece Ioannis Mitropoulos (GRE)
2 Germany Hermann Weingärtner (GER)
3 Greece Petros Persakis (GRE)
4 Germany Carl Schuhmann (GER)
- Germany Konrad Böcker (GER)
Germany Alfred Flatow (GER)
Germany Gustav Flatow (GER)
Hungary Desiderius Wein (HUN)

[edit] References

  • 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.