Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's team parallel bars

Men's team parallel bars
at the Games of the I Olympiad

Venue

Date

April 9

Competitors

63 from 2 nations

Medalists

	Germany Germany
	Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos Greece
	Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos Greece

Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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 team parallel bars was the first of eight gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. It was held on 9 April. Three teams took part, one German and two Greek. The German team won the competition.

Results

Place	Team	Team leader	Gymnasts
1	Germany	Fritz Hofmann	Konrad Böcker, Alfred Flatow, Gustav Flatow, Georg Hillmar, Fritz Manteuffel, Karl Neukirch, Richard Röstel, Gustav Schuft, Carl Schuhmann, Hermann Weingärtner
2	Greece - Panellinios	Sotirios Athanasopoulos	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Petros Persakis, Thomas Xenakis, 29 others, names unknown
3	Greece - Ethnikos	Ioannis Chrysafis	Ioannis Mitropoulos, Dimitrios Loundras, Filippos Karvelas, 15 others, names unknown

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.