Rope climbing at the Olympics
Former Olympic sport
Rope climbing at the Olympic Games | |
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Rope climbing at the 1896 Olympic Games | |
Overview | |
Sport | Artistic gymnastics |
Gender | Men |
Years held | 1896, 1904, 1924, 1932 |
Reigning champion | |
Men | Raymond Bass (USA) |
Rope climbing was an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. It was only held four times: 1896, 1904, 1924, and 1932.[1][2]
Medalists
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1896 Athens details – 14 m (45 ft 11 in) | Nicolaos Andriakopoulos Greece | Thomas Xenakis Greece | Fritz Hofmann Germany |
1904 St. Louis details – 7.62 m (25 ft 0 in) | George Eyser United States | Charles Krause United States | Emil Voigt United States |
1924 Paris details – 7.32 m (24 ft 0 in) | Bedřich Šupčík Czechoslovakia | Albert Séguin France | August Güttinger Switzerland |
Ladislav Vácha Czechoslovakia | |||
1932 Los Angeles details – 8 m (26 ft 3 in) | Raymond Bass United States | William Galbraith United States | Thomas F. Connolly United States |
Team medal counts
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States (USA) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
2 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
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Artistic |
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Rhythmic |
- Individual all-around
- Group
- Individual
- Team horizontal bar
- Team parallel bars
- Team free system
- Team Swedish system
- Team portable apparatus
- Rope climbing
- Club swinging
- Combined
- Triathlon
- Indian clubs
- Sidehorse vault
- Tumbling
- List of medalists
- men
- women
- List of venues