List of 1896 Summer Olympics medal winners

This article lists the athletes who won a medal (awarded retrospectively by the International Olympic Committee) to 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens (Greece).

Contents
Athletics Cycling Fencing	Gymnastics Shooting Swimming	Tennis Weightlifting Wrestling

Athletics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Thomas Burke United States (USA)	Fritz Hofmann Germany (GER)	Francis Lane United States (USA)
			Alajos Szokolyi Hungary (HUN)
400 metres	Thomas Burke United States (USA)	Herbert Jamison United States (USA)	Charles Gmelin Great Britain (GBR)
800 metres	Edwin Flack Australia (AUS)	Nándor Dáni Hungary (HUN)	Dimitrios Golemis Greece (GRE)
1500 metres	Edwin Flack Australia (AUS)	Arthur Blake United States (USA)	Albin Lermusiaux France (FRA)
110 meter hurdles	Thomas Curtis United States (USA)	Grantley Goulding Great Britain (GBR)	none awarded
Marathon	Spiridon Louis Greece (GRE)	Kharilaos Vasilakos Greece (GRE)	Gyula Kellner Hungary (HUN)
High jump	Ellery Clark United States (USA)	James Connolly United States (USA)	none awarded
		Robert Garrett United States (USA)
Pole vault	William Hoyt United States (USA)	Albert Tyler United States (USA)	Evangelos Damaskos Greece (GRE)
			Ioannis Theodoropoulos Greece (GRE)
Long jump	Ellery Clark United States (USA)	Robert Garrett United States (USA)	James Connolly United States (USA)
Triple jump	James Connolly United States (USA)	Alexandre Tuffèri France (FRA)	Ioannis Persakis Greece (GRE)
Shot put	Robert Garrett United States (USA)	Miltiadis Gouskos Greece (GRE)	Georgios Papasideris Greece (GRE)
Discus throw	Robert Garrett United States (USA)	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos Greece (GRE)	Sotirios Versis Greece (GRE)

Cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint	Aristidis Konstantinidis Greece (GRE)	August von Gödrich Germany (GER)	Edward Battel Great Britain (GBR)
Speed	Paul Masson France (FRA)	Stamatios Nikolopoulos Greece (GRE)	Léon Flameng France (FRA)
Lap	Paul Masson France (FRA)	Stamatios Nikolopoulos Greece (GRE)	Adolf Schmal Austria (AUT)
10 km	Paul Masson France (FRA)	Léon Flameng France (FRA)	Adolf Schmal Austria (AUT)
100 km	Léon Flameng France (FRA)	Georgios Kolettis Greece (GRE)	not awarded
12 hours	Adolf Schmal Austria (AUT)	Frederick Keeping Great Britain (GBR)	not awarded

Fencing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte France (FRA)	Henri Callot France (FRA)	Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis Greece (GRE)
Foil fencing master	Leonidas Pyrgos Greece (GRE)	Jean Maurice Perronet France (FRA)	not awarded
Sabre	Ioannis Georgiadis Greece (GRE)	Telemachos Karakalos Greece (GRE)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)

Gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Horizontal bars	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	Alfred Flatow Germany (GER)	not awarded
Parallel Bars	Alfred Flatow Germany (GER)	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	not awarded
Pommel horse	Louis Zutter Switzerland (SUI)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	not awarded
Rings	Ioannis Mitropoulos Greece (GRE)	Hermann Weingärtner Germany (GER)	Petros Persakis Greece (GRE)
Climbing rope	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 (GRE) Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Sotirios Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis	Greece (GRE) Ioannis Chrysafis Ioannis Mitropoulos Dimitrios Loundras Filippos Karvelas
Horizontal bars per team	Germany (GER) Konrad Böcker Alfred Flatow Gustav Flatow Georg Hillmar Fritz Hofmann Fritz Manteuffel Karl Neukirch Richard Röstel Gustav Schuft Carl Schuhmann Hermann Weingärtner	not awarded	not awarded

Shooting

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
200m rifle	Pantelis Karasevdas Greece (GRE)	Pavlos Pavlidis Greece (GRE)	Nikolaos Trikoupis Greece (GRE)
300m rifle	Georgios Orfanidis Greece (GRE)	Ioannis Frangoudis Greece (GRE)	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)
25m pistol	John Paine United States (USA)	Sumner Paine United States (USA)	Nikolaos Morakis Greece (GRE)
25m pistol rapid fire	Ioannis Frangoudis Greece (GRE)	Georgios Orfanidis Greece (GRE)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)
50m pistol	Sumner Paine United States (USA)	Holger Nielsen Denmark (DEN)	Ioannis Frangoudis Greece (GRE)

Swimming

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle	Alfréd Hajós Hungary (HUN)	Otto Herschmann Austria (AUT)	not awarded
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)
100 m freestyle for sailors	Ioannis Malokinis Greece (GRE)	Spyridon Chazapis Greece (GRE)	Dimitrios Drivas Greece (GRE)

Tennis

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles	John Pius Boland Great Britain (GBR)	Dionysios Kasdaglis Greece (GRE)	Konstantinos Paspatis Greece (GRE)
			Momcsilló Tapavicza Hungary (HUN)
Doubles	John Pius Boland Great Britain (GBR)  Friedrich Traun Germany (GER)	Dimitrios Petrokokkinos Greece (GRE)  Dionysios Kasdaglis Greece (GRE)	Teddy Flack Australia (AUS)  George S. Robertson Great Britain (GBR)

Weightlifting

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
An arm	Launceston Elliot Great Britain (GBR)	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)	Alexandros Nikolopoulos Greece (GRE)
Two arms	Viggo Jensen Denmark (DEN)	Launceston Elliot Great Britain (GBR)	Sotirios Versis Greece (GRE)

Wrestling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Greco-Roman wrestling	Carl Schuhmann Germany (GER)	Georgios Tsitas Greece (GRE)	Stefanos Christopoulos Greece (GRE)

References

• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.