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Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, eight gymnastics events were contested.

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Parallel bars, Men

PosAthlete
1Alfred Flatow[?] (GER)
2Louis Zutter[?] (SUI)
3 unknown

Parallel bars team, Men

PosAthlete
1 Germany
Carl Schumann[?], Conrad Böcker[?], Alfred Flatow[?],
Gustav Flatow[?], Fritz Manteuffel[?], Karl Neukirch[?],
Richard Röstel[?], Gustav Schuft[?], Hermann Weingärtner[?],
Georg Hillmar[?], team leader Fritz Hofmann[?]
2Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos (GRE)
team leader Sotirios Athanasopoulos[?] + 32 others
3Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos (GRE)
Filippos Karvelas[?], Dimitrios Loundras[?], team leader Ioannis Chrysafis[?] + 16 others

Horizontal bar, Men

PosAthlete
1 Hermann Weingärtner[?] (GER)
2 Alfred Flatow[?] (GER)
3 unknown

Horizontal bar team, Men

PosAthlete
1Germany
Carl Schumann[?], Conrad Böcker[?], Alfred Flatow[?],
Gustav Flatow[?], Fritz Manteuffel[?], Karl Neukirch[?],
Richard Röstel[?], Gustav Schuft[?],
Hermann Weingärtner[?], Georg Hillmar[?], team leader Fritz Hofmann[?]

Only one team, Germany, competed.

Horse vault, Men

PosAthlete
1Carl Schuhmann[?] (GER)
2Louis Zutter[?] (SUI)
3Hermann Weingärtner[?] (GER)

Pommel horse, Men

PosAthlete
1Louis Zutter[?] (SUI)
2Hermann Weingärtner[?] (GER)
3 unknown

Rings, Men

PosAthlete
1Ioannis Mitropoulos[?] (GRE)
2Hermann Weingärtner[?] (GER)
3Petros Persakis[?] (GRE)

Rope climbing, Men

PosAthlete
1Nikolaos Andriakopoulos[?] (GRE)
2Thomas Xenakis[?] (GRE)
3Fritz Hofmann[?] (GER)



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