1896 Olympics Wrestling Event results

1896 Summer Olympics Wrestling Game

Participating Countries

Germany 

Great Britain 

Greece

Hungary 

Medal Tally 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Greco-Roman	Carl Schuhmann (GER)	Georgios Tsitas (GRE)	Stephanos Christopoulos (GRE)

1896 Olympics Weightlifting Event results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
One hand lift	Launceston Elliot Great Britain (GBR)	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)	Alexandros Nikolopoulos Greece (GRE)
Two hand lift	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)	Launceston Elliot Great Britain (GBR)	Sotirios Versis Greece (GRE)

1896 Olympics Tennis game Results

1896 Summer Olympics Tennis game Medal Tally 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	John Pius Boland Great Britain (GBR)	Dionysios Kasdaglis Greece (GRE)	Konstantinos Paspatis Greece (GRE)
			Momčilo Tapavica Hungary (HUN)
Men's doubles	Mixed team  John Pius Boland (GBR)and  Friedrich Traun (GER)	Mixed team  Demetrios Petrokokkinos (GRE) and  Dionysios Kasdaglis (GRE)	Mixed team  Edwin Flack (AUS) and  George S. Robertson (GBR)

1896 Olympics Swimming Event Results

Swimming Game 1896 Olympics 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle	Alfréd Hajós Hungary (HUN)	Otto Herschmann Austria (AUT)
500 m freestyle	Paul Neumann Austria (AUT)	Antonios Pepanos Greece (GRE)	Efstathios Chorafas Greece (GRE)
1200 m freestyle	Alfréd Hajós Hungary (HUN)	Ioannis Andreou Greece (GRE)	Efstathios Chorafas Greece (GRE)
Sailors 100 m freestyle	Ioannis Malokinis Greece (GRE)	Spyridon Chazapis Greece (GRE)	Dimitrios Drivas Greece (GRE)

Shooting game results in the 1896 Summer Olympics

Shooting game results in the 1896 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
200 metre military rifle	Pantelis Karasevdas Greece (GRE)	Panagiotis Pavlidis Greece (GRE)	Nicolaos Trikupis Greece (GRE)
300 metre free rifle, three position	Georgios Orphanidis Greece (GRE)	Ioannis Frangoudis Greece (GRE)	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)
25 metre military pistol	John Paine United States (USA)	Sumner Paine United States (USA)	Nikolaos Morakis Greece (GRE)
25 metre rapid fire pistol	Ioannis Frangoudis Greece (GRE)	Georgios Orphanidis Greece (GRE)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)
30 metre free pistol	Sumner Paine United States (USA)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)	Ioannis Frangoudis Greece (GRE)

Gymnastics results in the 1896 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics results in the 1896 Summer Olympics

A total of 71 gymnasts from 9 countries competed at the Athens Games:

 Bulgaria (1)

 Denmark (1)

 France (1)

 Germany (11)

 Great Britain (1)

 Greece (52)

 Hungary (2)

 Sweden (1)

 Switzerland (1)

Medal Results 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Horizontal bar	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	Alfred Flatow Germany (GER)
Parallel bars	Alfred Flatow Germany (GER)	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)
Pommel horse	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)
Rings	Ioannis Mitropoulos Greece (GRE)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	Petros Persakis Greece (GRE)
Rope climbing	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Greece (GRE)	Thomas Xenakis Greece (GRE)	Fritz Hofmann Germany (GER)
Vault	Carl Schuhmann Germany (GER)	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)
Team parallel bars	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	Greece Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Spyros Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis	Greece Ioannis Chrysafis Ioannis Mitropoulos Dimitrios Loundras Filippos Karvelas
Team horizontal bar	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner

Medal Tally in Gymnastics game

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	2	10
2	Greece	2	2	2	6
3	Switzerland	1	2	0	3

Fencing game results in 1896 Summer Olympics

1896 Olympics Fencing 

Participating Countries 

Austria 

Denmark 

France 

Greece 

Medal Tally in Fencing Game 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil, Individual	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (FRA)	Henri Callot (FRA)	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis  (GRE)
Masters foil	Leonidas Pyrgos (GRE)	Jean Maurice Perronet (FRA)
Sabre, Individual	Ioannis Georgiadis (GRE)	Tilemachos Karakalos (GRE)	Holger Nielsen (DEN)

Cycling game results in 1896 Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race	Aristidis Konstantinidis Greece	August von Gödrich  (GER)	Edward Battel  (GBR)
Sprint	Paul Masson  (FRA)	Stamatios Nikolopoulos (GRE)	Léon Flameng  (FRA)
Time trial	Paul Masson (FRA)	Stamatios Nikolopoulos (GRE)	Adolf Schmal (AUT)
10 kilometres	Paul Masson (FRA)	Léon Flameng (FRA)	Adolf Schmal  (AUT)
100 kilometres	Léon Flameng (FRA)	Georgios Kolettis  (GRE)
12-hour race	Adolf Schmal Austria (AUT)	Frederick Keeping Great Britain (GBR)

American first athlete Olympic champion Thomas Burke

Event	Place	Athlete	Heat	Final
100 metres	1st	Thomas Burke	12.0 seconds	12.0 seconds
	3rd	Francis Lane	12.2 seconds	12.6 seconds
	–	Thomas Curtis	12.2 seconds	Did not start
400 metres	1st	Thomas Burke	58.4 seconds	54.2 seconds
	2nd	Herbert Jamison	56.8 seconds	55.2 seconds
1500 metres	2nd	Arthur Blake	No heats	4:34.0
110 metre hurdles	1st	Thomas Curtis	18.4 seconds	17.6 seconds
	–	William Hoyt	Unknown	Did not start
Marathon	–	Arthur Blake	No heats	Did not finish

1896 Summer Olympics Medal Tally

1896 First Modern Olympics games Medal Tally 

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	7	2	20
2	Greece (GRE)	10	17	19	46
3	Germany (GER)	6	5	2	13
4	France (FRA)	5	4	2	11
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	2	7
6	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	3	6
7	Austria (AUT)	2	1	2	5
8	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
9	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	3	6
10	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	0	3
11	Mixed team (ZZX)	1	1	1	3
		43	43	36	122

Medalists: America first Olympic 1896 in Athens

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Thomas Burke	Athletics	Men's 100 metres
Gold	Thomas Curtis	Athletics	Men's 110 metre hurdles
Gold	Thomas Burke	Athletics	Men's 400 metres
Gold	Ellery Clark	Athletics	Men's high jump
Gold	Ellery Clark	Athletics	Men's long jump
Gold	James Connolly	Athletics	Men's triple jump
Gold	William Hoyt	Athletics	Men's pole vault
Gold	Robert Garrett	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Gold	Robert Garrett	Athletics	Men's shot put
Gold	John Paine	Shooting	Men's 25 metre military pistol
Gold	Sumner Paine	Shooting	Men's 30 metre free pistol
Silver	Herbert Jamison	Athletics	Men's 400 metres
Silver	Arthur Blake	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres
Silver	James Connolly	Athletics	Men's high jump
Silver	Robert Garrett	Athletics	Men's high jump
Silver	Robert Garrett	Athletics	Men's long jump
Silver	Albert Tyler	Athletics	Men's pole vault
Silver	Sumner Paine	Shooting	Men's 25 metre military pistol
Bronze	Francis Lane	Athletics	Men's 100 metres
Bronze	James Connolly	Athletics	Men's long jump

1896 Modern Olympics Games Overview

Overview  of  1st Modern Olympics 1896

Host city	Athens, Greece
Countries participating	14
Athletes participating	241
Events	43 in 9 sports
Opening ceremony	April 6
Closing ceremony	April 15
Officially opened by	King George I of Greece
Stadium	Panathinaiko Stadium

1896 Olympics Games: Venues

Venue	Sports
Panathinaiko Stadium	Athletics, Gymnastics, Weightlifting and Wrestling
Bay of Zea	Swimming
Athens Lawn Tennis Club	Tennis
Kallithea	Shooting
Neo Phaliron Velodrome	Cycling
Zappeion	Fencing