| Men's rings at the Games of the I Olympiad |
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Weingärtner competing in the rings event |
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| Venue | Panathinaiko Stadium | ||||||
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| Date | April 9 | ||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 5 nations | ||||||
| Medalists | |||||||
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| Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics |
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| 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.
| Place | Athlete |
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| 1 | Ioannis Mitropoulos (GRE) |
| 2 | Hermann Weingärtner (GER) |
| 3 | Petros Persakis (GRE) |
| 5 | Carl Schuhmann (GER) |
| - | Konrad Böcker (GER) |
| Alfred Flatow (GER) | |
| Gustav Flatow (GER) | |
| Desiderius Wein (HUN) |