Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Tug of War

Tug of war at the Olympic Intermediate Games
information
Attendees:	32 athletes
Date:	April, 30th
Competition location:	Athens
Decision:	1

Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 (medal table tug of war)
space	team				Total
01	German Empire	1	-	-	1
02	Greece	-	1	-	1
03	Sweden	-	-	1	1

At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , a tug of war competition was held. According to the official program, the tug of war was embedded in the superordinate sport of athletics , which also combined stone throwing and rope swinging , as well as today's sports of athletics , weightlifting and wrestling .

Result

space	country	athlete
1	GER	Karl Kaltenbach , Joseph Krämer , Heinrich Rondi , Willy Dörr , Wilhelm Ritzenhoff , Julius Wagner , Heinrich Schneidereit , Wilhelm Born
2	GRE	Spyros Lazaros , Antonios Tsitas , Spyros Vellas , Vasilios Psachos , Konstantinos Lazaros , Georgios Papachristou , Panagiotis Triboulidas , Georgios Psachos
3	SWE	Anton Gustafsson , Ture Wersäll , Erik Granfelt , Eric Lemming , Carl Svensson , Axel Norling , Osvald Holmberg , Gustaf Grönberger
4th	AUT	Rudolf Arnold , Henri Baur , Karl Höltl , Leopold Lahner , Rudolf Lindmayer , Franz Solar , Josef Steinbach , Josef Wittmann

Course of the competition

The tug of war competition took place on April 30, 1906. In the preliminary round Germany beat Austria and Greece defeated Sweden. Sweden then won the battle for third place against Austria, Germany won the final against the Greeks. The German team consisted of 3 athletes, two gymnasts, two weightlifters and one wrestler.