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

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.[1]

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

Background

This was the only appearance of the event, which was one of two team apparatus events contested at the 1896 Games (along with a team horizontal bar competition).[2]

Competition format

There were 10 sets of parallel bars made available to the teams. However, there was apparently no limit on the size of the teams, as one team exceeded 30 members. Judges scored the routines on execution, rhythm, and technical difficulty.[2]

Schedule

The men's team parallel bars was held in the afternoon of the fourth day of events. It was the second event of the afternoon, following the 800 metres (which began at 2:30 p.m.).[3]

Date		Time	Round
Gregorian	Julian
Thursday, 9 April 1896	Thursday, 28 March 1896	2:30	Final

Results

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

References

1. "Gymnastics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's Parallel Bars, Teams". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
2. "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
3. Official Report, part 2, p. 79.

Sources

• 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.