Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics

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At the 1904 Summer Olympics of Saint Louis, Missouri, eleven gymnastics events were contested, all for men only.

The 1904 Games had a confusing 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

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
All-around
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 Julius Lenhart (USA)  Wilhelm Weber (GER)  Adolf Spinnler (SUI)
Combined
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 Anton Heida (USA)  George Eyser (USA)  William Merz (USA)
Triathlon
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 Adolf Spinnler (SUI)  Julius Lenhart (USA)  Wilhelm Weber (GER)
Team
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 United States (USA)
Philadelphia Turngemeinde
John Grieb
Anton Heida
Max Hess
Philip Kassel
Julius Lenhart
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
Parallel bars
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 George Eyser (USA)  Anton Heida (USA)  John Duha (USA)
Horizontal bar
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 Anton Heida (USA) none awarded  George Eyser (USA)
 Edward Hennig (USA)
Vault
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 George Eyser (USA) none awarded  William Merz (USA)
 Anton Heida (USA)
Pommel horse
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 Anton Heida (USA)  George Eyser (USA)  William Merz (USA)
Rings
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 Herman Glass (USA)  William Merz (USA)  Emil Voigt (USA)
Rope climbing
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 George Eyser (USA)  Charles Krause (USA)  Emil Voigt (USA)
Club swinging
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 Edward Hennig (USA)  Emil Voigt (USA)  Ralph Wilson (USA)

Participating nations

119 gymnasts from 3 nations competed.

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 12 8 9 29
2  Switzerland (SUI) 1 0 1 2
3  Germany (GER) 0 1 1 2

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