Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's team parallel bars

Men's team parallel bars at the Games of the I Olympiad
German team at parallel bars
Venue	Panathinaiko Stadium
Date	April 9
Competitors	63 from 2 nations
Medalists
Germany  Germany Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos  Greece Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos  Greece

Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Parallel bars	men
Horizontal bar	men
Vault	men
Pommel horse	men
Rings	men
Rope climbing	men
Team parallel bars	men
Team horizontal bar	men

The men's team parallel bars was the first of eight gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. It was held on 9 April. Three teams took part, one German and two Greek. The German team won the competition.

Results

Place	Team	Team leader	Gymnasts
1	Germany	Fritz Hofmann	Konrad Böcker, Alfred Flatow, Gustav Flatow, Georg Hilmar, Fritz Manteuffel, Karl Neukirch, Richard Röstel, Gustav Schuft, Carl Schuhmann, Hermann Weingärtner
2	Greece - Panellinios	Spyridon Athanasopoulos	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Petros Persakis, Thomas Xenakis, 29 others, names unknown
3	Greece - Ethnikos	Ioannis Chrysafis	Ioannis Mitropoulos, Dimitrios Loundras, Filippos Karvelas, 15 others, names unknown

References

• 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.