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Gymnastics at the Games of the III Olympiad
Gymnastics pictogram
Venue	Francis Field
Dates	July – October 1904
No. of events	11
Competitors	119 from 3 nations
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At the 1904 Summer Olympics of St. Louis, Missouri, eleven gymnastics events were contested for the first time.

The 1904 Games had a program of events spread out over several months, and the gymnastics competition was no different. The International Olympic Committee considers two sets of events as "Olympic":

• International Turners' Championship held July 1–2, comprising the all-around, triathlon, and team events
• Olympic Gymnastics Championships held October 29, comprising the seven individual apparatus events and the combined event.

The individual all-around was a combination of the gymnastic triathlon competition and the athletics triathlon. The team competition was a combination of individual scores from the individual all-around. The parallel bars, horizontal bar, vault, and pommel horse scores for each gymnast were summed to get the combined score.

Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics
All-around	men
Triathlon	men
Team	men
Combined	men
Parallel bars	men
Horizontal bar	men
Vault	men
Pommel horse	men
Rings	men
Rope climbing	men
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Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
All-around details	Julius Lenhart  Austria	Wilhelm Weber  Germany	Adolf Spinnler  Switzerland
Combined details	Anton Heida  United States	George Eyser  United States	William Merz  United States
Triathlon details	Adolf Spinnler  Switzerland	Julius Lenhart  Austria	Wilhelm Weber  Germany
Team details	Mixed team (ZZX) Philadelphia Turngemeinde John Grieb Anton Heida Max Hess Philip Kassel Julius Lenhart (AUT) Ernst Reckeweg	United States (USA) New York Turnverein Emil Beyer John Bissinger Arthur Rosenkampff Julian Schmitz Otto Steffen Max Wolf	United States (USA) Central Turnverein, Chicago John Duha Charles Krause George Mayer Robert Maysack Philip Schuster Edward Siegler
Club swinging details	Edward Hennig  United States	Emil Voigt  United States	Ralph Wilson  United States
Horizontal bar details	Anton Heida  United States Edward Hennig  United States	none awarded	George Eyser  United States
Parallel bars details	George Eyser  United States	Anton Heida  United States	John Duha  United States
Pommel horse details	Anton Heida  United States	George Eyser  United States	William Merz  United States
Rings details	Herman Glass  United States	William Merz  United States	Emil Voigt  United States
Rope climbing details	George Eyser  United States	Charles Krause  United States	Emil Voigt  United States
Vault details	George Eyser  United States Anton Heida  United States	none awarded	William Merz  United States

Participating nations

119 gymnasts from 4 nations competed.

•  Austria (1)
•  Germany (7)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  United States (110)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	10	7	9	26
2	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
3	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
4	Mixed team (ZZX)	1	0	0	1
5	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
Totals (5 entries)		13	9	11	33

References

Citations

1. "Gymnastics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
2. Wallechinsky, David (2012). The Book of Olympic Lists. London, UK: Aurum Press Ltd. pp. 247. ISBN 9781845137731.

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2007-04-09.
• James E. Sullivan, ed. (1905). Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac (PDF). New York: American Sports Publishing. pp. 203, 245–247. Retrieved 2007-04-09.

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