Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Apparatus Gymnastics - Tauhangeln (men)

sport	do gymnastics
discipline	Dewing
gender	Men
Attendees	5 athletes from 4 nations
Competition location	Panathinaic Stadium
Competition phase	April 10, 1896
Medalist not forgiven Nikolaos Andriakopoulos ( GRE ) Thomas Xenakis ( GRE )
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Gymnastics competitions at the 1896 Olympic Games
Ingot single	Men
Parallel bars team	Men
Pommel horse	Men
Horse jump	Men
Horizontal bar single	Men
Horizontal bar team	Men
Rings	Men
Dewing	Men

The rope hanging was the last gymnastics competition at the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 and was held on April 10th in the Panathinaiko Stadium .

The Olympic champion was the Greek Nikolaos Andriakopoulos , ahead of his compatriot Thomas Xenakis . Third place went to the German Fritz Hofmann .

Results

rank	athlete	nation	height
1	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Greece	14.0 m
2	Thomas Xenakis	Greece	14.0 m
3	Fritz Hofmann	German Empire	12.5 m
4th	Viggo Jensen	Denmark	unknown
5	Launceston Elliot	Great Britain	unknown

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