Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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 9 nations (including 52 from Greece) took part in gymnastics.

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
Horizontal bar	Hermann Weingärtner (GER)	Alfred Flatow (GER)	none awarded
Parallel bars	Alfred Flatow (GER)	Louis Zutter (SUI)	none awarded
Pommel horse	Louis Zutter (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner (GER)	none awarded
Rings	Ioannis Mitropoulos (GRE)	Hermann Weingärtner (GER)	Petros Persakis (GRE)
Rope climbing	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos (GRE)	Thomas Xenakis (GRE)	Fritz Hofmann (GER)
Vault	Carl Schuhmann (GER)	Louis Zutter (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner (GER)
Team parallel bars	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hofmann 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 Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	none	none

Participating nations

A total of 71 gymnasts from 9 nations competed at the Athens Games:

• Bulgaria (1)
• Denmark (1)
• France (1)
• Germany (11)
• Great Britain (1)
• Greece (52)
• Hungary (2)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (1)

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

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

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

• 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 )
• 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 )
• 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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