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

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.

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 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
  Julius Lenhart   Austria 69.80
  Wilhelm Weber   Germany 69.10
  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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