Jules Alexis "Louis" Zutter (2 December 1865 – 10 November 1946) was a Swiss gymnast. He competed at the

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. Zutter won one of the events, the

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. He was also the runner-up in two more events, the vault and the parallel bars. In addition, he competed in the horizontal bar event, but without success. He was born in Les Ponts-de-Martel and lived in Peseux, where he was a member of the gymnastics club ''La Société des Amis gymnastes de Neuchâtel''. In 1893 his father was hired as a trainer in Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos and Louis became a member of the club. After his success in the 1896 Olympics, he was honoured in Patras with the Greek athletes by the city. The Zutter family left

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due to the Greco-Turkish War (1897).

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10 1865 births 1946 deaths Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century sportsmen Swiss male artistic gymnasts Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Neuchâtel {{Switzerland-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub