Tennis at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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Singles final in 1896 Olympic tennis
Singles final in 1896 Olympic tennis
Tennis

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested, both for men. They were begun on 8 April and continued on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April.[1] 13 competitors from 6 nations, including 7 Greeks, took part in the tennis competition. Many of the doubles teams were of mixed nationality, including all three medalist pairs.

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[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
Singles
details		 Great Britain John Pius Boland
Great Britain (GBR)		 Greece Dionysios Kasdaglis
Greece (GRE)		 Greece Konstantinos Paspatis
Greece (GRE)
Hungary Momcsilló Tapavicza
Hungary (HUN)
Doubles
details		 Great Britain John Pius Boland (GBR) and
Germany Friedrich Traun (GER)		 Greece Demetrios Petrokokkinos
and Dionysios Kasdaglis (GRE)		 Australia Teddy Flack (AUS) and
Great Britain George S. Robertson (GBR)

The doubles team of Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos appears in the IOC results database as a mixed team. Kasdaglis is listed as Greek in the database for the singles event. Petrokokkinos, not having won a singles medal, is not identified with any nation in the IOC database; however, all sources which do give a nationality for Petrokokkinos give it as Greek. Kasdaglis, a Greek national residing in Alexandria, is listed as Egyptian in some sources.

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Mixed team Mixed team 1 1 1 3
2 Great Britain Great Britain 1 0 0 1
3 Greece Greece 0 1 1 2
4 Hungary Hungary 0 0 1 1

France had a tennis player compete but he won no medals. Competitors from Australia and Germany won medals only as a part of a mixed team in the doubles event.

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Dates given are in the Gregorian calendar. Greece still used the Julian calendar at the time. According to that calendar, the tennis competition began on 27 March and closed on 30 March.

[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. 
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