Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics; at the Games of the I Olympiad
	Gymnastics pictogram
Venue	Panathinaiko Stadium
Dates	9–11 April
No. of events	8 (8 men, 0 women)
Competitors	71 from 9 nations

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, eight gymnastics events, all for men, were contested in Panathinaiko Stadium. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics. Events took place on April 9, April 10, and April 11, 1896. There were 71 competitors from 9 nations (including 52 from Greece) that took part in gymnastics.[1]

Medal summary

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Horizontal bar	Hermann Weingärtner Germany	Alfred Flatow Germany	none awarded
Parallel bars	Alfred Flatow Germany	Louis Zutter Switzerland	none awarded
Pommel horse	Louis Zutter Switzerland	Hermann Weingärtner Germany	none awarded
Rings	Ioannis Mitropoulos Greece	Hermann Weingärtner Germany	Petros Persakis Greece
Rope climbing	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Greece	Thomas Xenakis Greece	Fritz Hofmann Germany
Vault	Carl Schuhmann Germany	Louis Zutter Switzerland	Hermann Weingärtner Germany
Team parallel bars	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hilmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	Greece Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Spyros Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis	Greece Ioannis Chrysafis Ioannis Mitropoulos Dimitrios Loundras Filippos Karvelas
Team horizontal bar	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hilmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	none awarded	none awarded

Participating nations

A total of 71 gymnasts from 9 nations competed at the Athens Games:

Bulgaria (1)
Denmark (1)
France (1)
Germany (11)
Great Britain (1)
Greece (52)
Hungary (2)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (1)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	2	10
2	Greece	2	2	2	6
3	Switzerland	1	2	0	3
Totals (3 nations)		8	7	4	19

Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics

Joan. Phokianos, president
George Streit, secretary
Joan. Yenissarlis
Loukas Belos
Nic. Politis
Chas. Waldstein
Dimitri Aighinitis
Dim. Sekkeris
Spiridon Comoundouros
Const. Manos
Sp. Antonopoulos

References

"Gymnastics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.

International Olympic Committee results database
Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at )
Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at )
Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.

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[SR-1] "Gymnastics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.

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