Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Participants (Mixed Team)

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At the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 the concept of national teams did not yet play a decisive role, and so four athletes competed in tennis doubles as mixed teams.

Medalist

Silver medal Olympic champion

Name (s) sport discipline
United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Pius Boland (GBR) Friedrich Adolf Traun (GER)
German EmpireThe German Imperium 
tennis Double

Bronze medal Bronze medal

Name (s) sport discipline
Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece Dionysios Kasdaglis (GRE) Dimitrios Petrokokkinos (GRE)
Kingdom of GreeceKingdom of Greece 
tennis Double

Although the two athletes competed in the Games for Greece, the IOC assigns the medals to a mixed team, as Dionysios Kasdaglis actually comes from Egypt.

third

Surname sport competition
AustraliaAustralia Edwin Flack (AUS) George Stuart Robertson (GBR)
United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
tennis Double

Participants by sport

tennis tennis

source

  1. Athens 1896 Tennis - Results & Videos. In: olympic.org. Retrieved August 13, 2016 .