Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April 1896. 71 competitors from 9 nations (including 52 from Greece) took part in gymnastics.

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

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

• 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.