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 | ||||||
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Date | April 9 | ||||||
Competitors | 63 from 2 nations | ||||||
Medalists | |||||||
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Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 |
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1 | Germany | Fritz Hofmann | Konrad Böcker, Alfred Flatow, Gustav Flatow, Georg Hillmar, Fritz Manteuffel, Karl Neukirch, Richard Röstel, Gustav Schuft, Carl Schuhmann, Hermann Weingärtner |
2 | Greece - Panellinios | Sotirios 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.
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