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Men's parallel bars at the Games of the I Olympiad
Alfred Flatow competing on the parallel bars
Venue	Panathinaiko Stadium
Date	April 10
Competitors	18 from 6 nations
Medalists
Alfred Flatow  Germany Louis Zutter  Switzerland
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Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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The men's parallel bars was one of eight gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. The parallel bars event was held on 10 April, the seventh gymnastics event to be held. 18 gymnasts from six nations competed, with the judges announcing Alfred Flatow as the winner and Louis Zutter as the runner-up.

Background

This was the first appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). The field consisted of 10 Germans and 8 gymnasts from 5 other nations.

Competition format

Judges awarded the prizes, but little is known of the scoring and rankings.

Schedule

The men's parallel bars was held in the morning of the fifth day of events, having been moved from the fourth day as the other gymnastics events went too long to finish the full programme.

Results

Rank	Gymnast	Nation
	Alfred Flatow	Germany
	Louis Zutter	Switzerland
3–18	Konrad Böcker	Germany
	Charles Champaud	Bulgaria
	Gustav Flatow	Germany
	Adolphe Grisel	France
	Georg Hilmar	Germany
	Gyula Kakas	Hungary
	Filippos Karvelas	Greece
	Fritz Manteuffel	Germany
	Ioannis Mitropoulos	Greece
	Karl Neukirch	Germany
	Antonios Papaioannou	Greece
	Richard Röstel	Germany
	Gustav Schuft	Germany
	Carl Schuhmann	Germany
	Desiderius Wein	Hungary
	Hermann Weingärtner	Germany

References

1. "Gymnastics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's Parallel Bars". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
2. ^ "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
3. Charles Champaud is counted as Bulgarian here; some sources count him as Swiss (making the total number of nations competing 5 rather than 6).
4. ^ Official Report, p. 82.

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.

• Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics
• Parallel bars at the Olympics