It was the fifth gymnastics competition of the Games, in which 15 athletes from 5 nations competed. Olympic champion was the Greek Ioannis Mitropoulos , ahead of the German Hermann Weingärtner , who won his fifth medal. Third place went to Petros Persakis from Greece. There is no record of which athlete finished fourth, possibly one of the athletes listed below without a placement.
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Greece
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German Empire
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Hungary