Olympic Summer Games 1896 / gymnastics

Gymnastics at the 1896 Olympic Games
information
venue	Athens
Competition venue	Panathinaic Stadium
Nations	9
Athletes	71 (71 )
date	9-11 April 1896
decisions	8th
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At the 1st Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , eight gymnastics competitions took place. The venue was the Panathinaiko Stadium .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country			Third	total
1	German Empire	5	3	2	9
2	Greece	2	2	2	6th
3	Switzerland	1	2	-	3

Medalist

Men

competitor	silver	bronze	Third
Ingot single	Alfred Flatow	Louis Zutter	not forgiven
Parallel bars team	German Empire	Greece	Greece
Pommel horse	Louis Zutter	Hermann Weingärtner	not forgiven
Horse jump	Carl Schuhmann	Louis Zutter	Hermann Weingärtner
Horizontal bar single	Hermann Weingärtner	Alfred Flatow	not forgiven
Horizontal bar team	German Empire	not forgiven	not forgiven
Rings	Ioannis Mitropoulos	Hermann Weingärtner	Petros Persakis
Dewing	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Thomas Xenakis	Fritz Hofmann

Results

Ingot single

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space	country	athlete
1	GER	Alfred Flatow
2	SUI	Louis Zutter
	16 more gymnasts

Date: April 10, 1896
18 participants from 6 countries

Parallel bars team

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space	country	athlete
1	GER	Conrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Felix Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner
2	GRE	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Sotirios Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis 29 other unknown gymnasts
3	GRE	Ioannis Chrysafis Ioannis Mitropoulos Filippos Karvelas Dimitrios Loundras 15 other unknown gymnasts

the German team on bars

Date: April 9, 1896
63 participants from 2 countries

Second place went to the Greek team of the Panhellenic Gymnastics Club in Athens. The Greek team of the Ethnikos gymnastics club in Athens came in third.

Horse jump

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space	country	athlete
1	GER	Carl Schuhmann
2	SUI	Louis Zutter
3	GER	Hermann Weingärtner
	12 more gymnasts

Date: April 9, 1896
15 participants from 5 countries

Horizontal bar single

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space	country	athlete
1	GER	Hermann Weingärtner
2	GER	Alfred Flatow
	13 other gymnasts

Date: April 9, 1896
16 participants from 4 countries

Horizontal bar team

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space	country	athlete
1	GER	Conrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Felix Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner

the German team on the horizontal bar

Date: April 11, 1896
11 participants from 1 country

Rings

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space	country	athlete
1	GRE	Ioannis Mitropoulos
2	GER	Hermann Weingärtner
3	GRE	Petros Persakis
4th	GER	Carl Schuhmann
	11 more gymnasts

Hermann Weingärtner on the rings

Date: April 9, 1896
15 participants from 5 countries

Pommel horse

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space	country	athlete
1	SUI	Louis Zutter
2	GER	Hermann Weingärtner
	11 more gymnasts

Date: April 9, 1896
14 participants from 5 countries

Rope climbing

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 1896 / apparatus gymnastics - rope dangling (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	GRE	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	23.4
2	GRE	Thomas Xenakis	k. A.
3	GER	Fritz Hofmann	k. A.
4th	THE	Viggo Jensen	k. A.
5	GBR	Launceston Elliot	k. A.

Date: April 10, 1896
5 participants from 4 countries

Web links

• Gymnastics at the Olympic Games 1896 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )