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Gymnastics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

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Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the III Olympiad
Unknown athlete competing on the parallel bars
VenueFrancis Field
DatesJuly 1–2
Competitors119 from 3 nations
Winning score69.80
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Julius Lenhart
 Austria
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wilhelm Weber
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Adolf Spinnler
 Switzerland
← 1900
1908 →

The men's artistic individual all-around was an artistic gymnastics event held as part of the gymnastics programme at the 1904 Summer Olympics. It was the second time an all-around event was held at the Olympics. The competition was held on Friday, July 1, 1904 and on Saturday, July 2, 1904. One hundred and nineteen gymnasts from three nations competed.[1] The event was won by Julius Lenhart, an Austrian gymnast living in the United States and competing under the auspices of his Philadelphia-based club.[2] Silver went to Wilhelm Weber of Germany, with bronze to Adolf Spinnler of Switzerland. They were the first medals in the event for each of those nations, as France had swept the medals in 1900.

The scores from this event, with some adjustments, were also used for the men's team event.

Background

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This was the second appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900. At the time, it was common to include athletics events along with gymnastics competitions in a combined event such as this.[3]

Another combined event was held in 1904, during the later October gymnastics events.

The United States made its debut in the event. Germany and Switzerland each made their second appearance, the only two nations to have competed at both editions of the event to that point.

Competition format

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The scores in the all-around were the sum of the results of the athletic triathlon and gymnastics triathlon events. They thus included competition in the 100 yard dash, long jump, shot put, horizontal bar, parallel bars, and horse (both vaulting horse and pommel horse).[3]

For the gymnastics triathlon, each competitor performed a total of 9 routines—3 on each of the three apparatus. Each set of three routines included two compulsory exercises and one optional exercise. For the horse apparatus, there was one compulsory exercise in each of the vaulting horse and pommel horse, with the optional exercise being on the pommel horse. There was a maximum score of 5 points for each exercise, for a total of 15 points in each apparatus and 45 points for the triathlon.[3]

In the athletics triathlon, the three events were the 100 yards, the long jump, and the shot put. There was no maximum score for each event, but rather a "standard" score of 10 and competitors would receive a score above or below 10 based on whether they performed better or worse than the "standard" result. In the 100 yards, the standard was 11.0 seconds, with a .1 point addition or subtraction for every .2 seconds faster or slower. In the long jump, the standard was 18 feet, with a .1 point addition or subtraction for each .1 feet longer or shorter. In the shot put, the standard was 30 feet, with a .1 point addition or subtraction for each .2 feet longer or shorter.[3]

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Friday, 1 July 1904 Final
Saturday, 2 July 1904 Final, continued

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Julius Lenhart  Austria 69.80
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wilhelm Weber  Germany 69.10
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Adolf Spinnler  Switzerland 67.99
4 Ernst Mohr  Germany 67.90
5 Otto Wiegand  Germany 67.82
6 Otto Steffen  United States 67.03
7 Hugo Peitsch  Germany 66.66
8 John Bissinger  United States 66.57
9 Christian Busch  Germany 66.12
10 William Merz  United States 65.26
11 Philip Kassel  United States 64.56
12 Theodore Gross  United States 64.39
13 Wilhelm Lemke  Germany 64.15
14 Otto Boehnke  United States 64.10
15 William Andelfinger  United States 63.53
16 George Stapf  United States 63.47
17 Charles Umbs  United States 63.19
18 Anton Heida  United States 62.72
19 Adolph Weber  Germany 62.62
20 Andreas Kempf  United States[4] 62.57
21 George Mayer  United States 61.66
22 Fred Schmind  United States 61.40
23 Andrew Neu  United States 61.21
24 John Duha  United States 61.02
25 Reinhard Wagner  United States 60.73
26 Lorenz Spann  United States 60.32
27 Emil Rothe  United States 60.27
28 Ragnvald Berg  United States 60.24
29 Robert Herrmann  United States 59.99
30 Emil Beyer  United States 59.70
31 Max Hess  United States 59.29
32 Edward Siegler  United States 59.03
33 Harry Hansen  United States 59.00
34 Max Wolf  United States 57.85
35 Frank Ihrcke  United States 57.47
36 John Dellert  United States 57.41
37 Charles Sorum  United States 57.40
38 William Horschke  United States 57.33
39 Oliver Olsen  United States 57.27
40 Rudolf Krupitzer  United States 57.18
41 Gustav Mueller  United States 57.12
42 Emil Schwegler  United States 56.87
43 Henry Koeder  United States 56.58
44 Louis Kniep  United States 56.57
45 William Traband  United States 56.26
46 Leander Keim  United States 56.16
47 Ernst Reckeweg  United States 56.15
48 Charles Krause  United States 56.11
49 Jacob Hergenhahn  United States 55.77
50 Edward Hennig  United States 55.63
51 Philip Schuster  United States 55.44
52 John Grieb  United States 55.21
53 P. Gussmann  United States 54.92
54 Gustav Hämmerlin  United States 54.87
55 William Tritschler  United States 54.73
56 Christian Deubler  United States 54.63
57 Julian Schmitz  United States 54.58
58 Otto Niemand  United States 54.54
59 Robert Maysack  United States 54.53
60 Emil Voigt  United States 54.33
61 Anthony Jahnke  United States 53.94
62 Phillip Sontag  United States 53.83
63 Oluf Landnes  United States 53.64
64 George Aschenbrenner  United States 53.47
65 John Wolf  United States 53.43
66 Edward Tritschler  United States 53.16
67 Max Emmerich  United States 52.85
68 Harry Prinzler  United States 52.81
69 Frank Raab  United States 52.39
70 Leo Hunger  United States 52.22
71 George Eyser  United States 52.20
72 William Berewald  United States 51.87
73 George Mastrovich  United States 51.83
Martin Ludwig  United States 51.83
75 Max Rascher  United States 51.53
76 Henry Kraft  United States 51.40
77 Willard Schrader  United States 51.22
78 James Dwyer  United States 51.00
79 George Schroeder  United States 50.90
80 Bob Reynolds  United States 50.74
81 Harry Warnken  United States 50.53
82 Birger Nilsen  United States 50.45
83 John Laichinger  United States 50.00
84 Rudolf Schrader  United States 49.64
85 Michael Lang  United States 49.44
86 Charles Dellert  United States 49.35
87 Alvin Kritschmann  United States 48.97
88 Richard Tritschler  United States 48.80
89 Arthur Rosenkampff  United States 48.34
90 Clarence Lidington  United States 48.30
91 Henry Weyland  United States 47.94
92 Ben Chimberoff  United States 47.93
93 K. Woerner  United States 47.67
94 Curt Roedel  United States 47.63
95 Maurice Barry  United States 47.43
96 P. Ritter  United States 47.09
97 Otto Feyder  United States 47.05
98 Bernard Berg  United States 46.73
99 Max Thomas  United States 45.85
100 Martin Fischer  United States 45.35
101 Charles Schwartz  United States 45.34
102 Wilhelm Zabel  United States 45.13
103 Louis Rathke  United States 44.93
104 L. Guerner  United States 44.90
105 William Herzog  United States 44.60
106 August Placke  United States 44.41
Otto Roesner  United States 44.41
108 Paul Stendel  United States 43.38
109 Arthur Sundbye  United States 43.21
110 Christian Sperl  United States 42.66
111 William Kruppinger  United States 42.50
112 John Wussow  United States 42.46
113 Walter Real  United States 42.44
114 John Miesel  United States 41.97
115 Otto Thomsen  United States 41.67
116 Edmund Pueschel  United States 40.36
117 Otto Knerr  United States 39.87
118 William Friedrich  United States 39.57
119 Ted Studier  United States 13.14

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Julius Lenhart". Olympic.org. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Individual All-Around, Apparatus Work and Field Sports, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  4. ^ Kempf was a Swiss citizen living in the United States. The IOC lists his competition as being for the United States. [1]

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