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Gymnastics At The 1900 Summer Olympics
At the 1900 Summer Olympics one gymnastics event for men was contested. The competition was held on Sunday, 29 July 1900, and on Monday, 30 July 1900. There were 135 competitors from 8 nations. The top 18 places were taken by French gymnasts, of which there were more than 100. The event was won by Gustave Sandras, with Noël Bas finishing second and Lucien Démanet third. The highest-placing foreign gymnast was Jules Ducret of Switzerland, in a tie for 19th place. Medal summary Background This was the first appearance of an all-around event. There had been various apparatus events at the 1896 Games, but no overall competition. In contrast, the 1900 Games saw only the all-around event without medals or separate events for any individual apparatus. At the time, athletics events were often combined with gymnastics events in combined events such as this one. The Swiss championships were scheduled for a week after this competition, resulting in few Swiss gymnasts competing here. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vélodrome De Vincennes
The Vélodrome de Vincennes (officially Vélodrome Jacques Anquetil - La Cipale) is a cycling stadium in the Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France. Initially built as a velodrome in 1894, it became the main stadium for the 1900 Summer Olympics; Events that took place in the Velodrome at the 1900 Summer Olympics included Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics, cycling, Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics, cricket, Rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics, rugby union, Football at the 1900 Summer Olympics, football and Gymnastics at the 1900 Summer Olympics, gymnastics. However, the Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics, track and field events were held at the RCF Paris, Racing Club de France. At the 1924 Summer Olympics it became the Cycling at the 1924 Summer Olympics, cycling venue. The venue was the finish line of the Tour de France between 1968 and 1974. Eddy Merckx won each of his five Tour victories there. Prior to 1968, the finish had been held at the Parc des Princes from 1904 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Dejaeghère
The Antwerp International Gymnastics Tournament (''Tournois International Gymnastique D'Anvers''), retrospectively regarded as the 1st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, were held in Antwerp, Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ..., in conjunction with the 27th Belgian Federal Festival, on 14-18 August 1903. Participants * * * * Results Men's individual all-around The championships were purely team events without any individual awards. Individual all-round scores were only introduced in 1922, with the first all-round individual men's champion being recognised in that year. Individual apparatus scores were introduced subsequently. As such no actual individual medals were awarded at these games, the below rankings were conferred retrospectively. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Ravoux
France was the host of the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. France was one of many nations that had competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Greece and had returned to compete at the 1900 Games. Gold medals were not given out and silver medals were given to the winners while bronze medals were given to second place. Medalists * Note - Recorded as Great Britain and Ireland until 2024, the IOC Executive Board approved the change of Lloyd Hildebrand's silver medal at Paris 1900 Olympics from Great Britain to France. Archery France took four of seven gold medals, five of eight silver medals, and four of five bronze medals in the six archery events that were Olympic. Belgium and the Netherlands were the only others nation that competed, taking the remaining seven medals. Many of the French, Belgian, and Dutch competitors are unknown as their names were not recorded. 13 French archers are known by at least their surname, 116 are unidentified in any way. The 129 archers had 240 entri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Erben
František Erben (27 November 1874 – 9 June 1942) was a gymnastics, gymnast, trainer, and educator from Bohemia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Erben made his international competitive debut at the 1900 Olympics, 1900 Paris Summer Olympics where he finished in 32nd place. He took part in the third-ever 1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, World Championships in 1907, where the Bohemian team made its auspicious debut and started their several-decades-long tradition of great success at World and Olympic competition in the sport of artistic gymnastics. He took bronze in the overall competition, behind his compatriot Josef Čada and Frenchman Jules Rolland. Bohemia also took gold in the team competition, and Erben took gold in both the horizontal bar and pommel horse and bronze in the parallel bars. At the next World Championships, in 1909, the Bohemian team won silver, behind France. At the next World Championships, Erben won silver on the horizontal bar and bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Connor (gymnast)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It was the second appearance of Britain after having participated in the inaugural 1896 Games. In Olympic competition, the nation has always shortened its official name to ''Great Britain'' rather than the ''United Kingdom'' seen elsewhere. Medallists Additionally British competitors won five gold medals, three silver medals and five bronze medals while competing for the Mixed Team. Results by event Swimming Great Britain made its Olympic swimming debut in 1900. Jarvis won gold medals in each of the two long distance freestyle events; as neither distance was used again, he is the only Olympic champion ever in both the 1000 metres and 4000 metres. Kemp added a bronze in the obstacle event, another one-time-only competition. This put Great Britain at the top of the leaderboard by gold-silver-bronze (Australia and Germany also had 2 gold medals, but neit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulin Lemaire
Paulin Alexandre Lemaire (18 December 1882 – 17 October 1932) was a French gymnast who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1908 Summer Olympics, and the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i .... He was part of the French team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920. References External links * 1882 births 1932 deaths French male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1900 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Maubeuge Gymnasts from Nord (French department) 20th-century French sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Peitsch
Georg Hugo Richard Peitsch (21 December 1878 – 10 September 1951) was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics and the 1904 Summer Olympics. He moved to the United States following the 1904 Olympics and became a gymnastics teacher in Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ..., while continuing to be a gymnast himself. He was said to have gained national prominence in the US for his gymnastic talents, being described as one of the "most outstanding" in the sport in the country. References External links * 1878 births 1951 deaths German male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Germany Gymnasts at the 1900 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1904 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Berlin Emigrants from the German Empire to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Pavanello
Camillo Pavanello (20 October 1879 – 7 July 1951 ) was an Italian gymnast. He competed in the men's individual all-around event at the 1900 Summer Olympics The 1900 Summer Olympics (), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad () and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900. No opening or closin .... References External links * 1879 births 1951 deaths Italian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Italy Gymnasts at the 1900 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Terni {{Italy-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Ravoux
France was the host of the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. France was one of many nations that had competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Greece and had returned to compete at the 1900 Games. Gold medals were not given out and silver medals were given to the winners while bronze medals were given to second place. Medalists * Note - Recorded as Great Britain and Ireland until 2024, the IOC Executive Board approved the change of Lloyd Hildebrand's silver medal at Paris 1900 Olympics from Great Britain to France. Archery France took four of seven gold medals, five of eight silver medals, and four of five bronze medals in the six archery events that were Olympic. Belgium and the Netherlands were the only others nation that competed, taking the remaining seven medals. Many of the French, Belgian, and Dutch competitors are unknown as their names were not recorded. 13 French archers are known by at least their surname, 116 are unidentified in any way. The 129 archers had 240 entri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Jeanfavre
Oscar Jeanfavre (died June 1939) was a Swiss gymnast. Olympics career He competed in the men's individual all-around event at the 1900 Summer Olympics The 1900 Summer Olympics (), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad () and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 14 May to 28 October 1900. No opening or closin .... References External links * Year of birth missing 1939 deaths Swiss male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Switzerland Gymnasts at the 1900 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing Date of death missing {{Switzerland-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Ghysels
Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain * St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. * Felix, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada * St. Felix, South Tyrol, a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy. * Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County * Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois * Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa Music * Felix (band), a British band * Felix (musician), British DJ * Felix (rapper) (born 2000), Australian rapper and member of the K-pop boy band Stray Kids * Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc Business * Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries * AB Felix, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Lavielle
Laurent Daniel Jean Lavielle (born 25 June 1880, date of death unknown) was a French gymnast. He competed in the men's individual all-around event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Additionally, he competed at the 1905 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Bordeaux, France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Gui ..., where he was part of the championship-winning French team. Whilst individual scores were not given until 1922, FIG has retrospectively conferred, on the basis of scores given in the team event, silver in the all-around combined exercises and bronze on the pommel horse for his performance at the 1905 international tournament. References External links * 1880 births 1960 deaths French male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for France Gymnasts at the 1900 Summer Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |