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. 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. Silver went to Wilhelm Weber of Germany, with bronze to Adolf Spinnler of Switzerland, competing for the German club Turnverein Esslingen. They were the first medals in the event for each of those nations, as France had swept the medals in 1900.

The medals won by Austrian Julius Lenhart and Swiss Adolf Spinnler are attributed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) according to the national affiliation of the club or team they represented, rather than their nationality. As Lenhart represented an American club and Spinnler a German club, their results are attributed to the United States and Germany, respectively.

The results from the athletics triathlon event and the gymnastics triathlon event were used to determine scores for this men's artistic gymnastics individual all-around event. The scores from this event, with some adjustments, were also used for the men's team event.

Background

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

Schedule

Date Time Round Friday, 1 July 1904 Final Saturday, 2 July 1904 Final, continued

Results

Rank Gymnast Nation Total Julius Lenhart 69.80 Wilhelm Weber 69.10 Adolf Spinnler 67.994 Ernst Mohr 67.905 Otto Wiegand 67.826 Otto Steffen 67.037 Hugo Peitsch 66.668 John Bissinger 66.579 Christian Busch 66.1210 William Merz 65.2611 Philip Kassel 64.5612 Theodore Gross 64.3913 Wilhelm Lemke 64.1514 Otto Boehnke 64.1015 William Andelfinger 63.5316 George Stapf 63.4717 Charles Umbs 63.1918 Anton Heida 62.7219 Adolph Weber 62.6220 Andreas Kempf Kempf was a Swiss citizen living in the United States. The IOC lists his competition as being for the United States. 62.5721 George Mayer 61.6622 Fred Schmind 61.4023 Andrew Neu 61.2124 John Duha 61.0225 Reinhard Wagner 60.7326 Lorenz Spann 60.3227 Emil Rothe 60.2728 Ragnvald Berg 60.2429 Robert Herrmann 59.9930 Emil Beyer 59.7031 Max Hess 59.2932 Edward Siegler 59.0333 Harry Hansen 59.0034 Max Wolf 57.8535 Frank Ihrcke 57.4736 John Dellert 57.4137 Charles Sorum 57.4038 William Horschke 57.3339 Oliver Olsen 57.2740 Rudolf Krupitzer 57.1841 Gustav Mueller 57.1242 Emil Schwegler 56.8743 Henry Koeder 56.5844 Louis Kniep 56.5745 William Traband 56.2646 Leander Keim 56.1647 Ernst Reckeweg 56.1548 Charles Krause 56.1149 Jacob Hergenhahn 55.7750 Edward Hennig 55.6351 Philip Schuster 55.4452 John Grieb 55.2153 P. Gussmann 54.9254 Gustav Hämmerlin 54.8755 William Tritschler 54.7356 Christian Deubler 54.6357 Julian Schmitz 54.5858 Otto Niemand 54.5459 Robert Maysack 54.5360 Emil Voigt 54.3361 Anthony Jahnke 53.9462 Phillip Sontag 53.8363 Oluf Landnes 53.6464 George Aschenbrenner 53.4765 John Wolf 53.4366 Edward Tritschler 53.1667 Max Emmerich 52.8568 Harry Prinzler 52.8169 Frank Raab 52.3970 Leo Hunger 52.2271 George Eyser 52.2072 William Berewald 51.8773 George Mastrovich 51.83 Martin Ludwig 51.8375 Max Rascher 51.5376 Henry Kraft 51.4077 Willard Schrader 51.2278 James Dwyer 51.0079 George Schroeder 50.9080 Bob Reynolds 50.7481 Harry Warnken 50.5382 Birger Nilsen 50.4583 John Laichinger 50.0084 Rudolf Schrader 49.6485 Michael Lang 49.4486 Charles Dellert 49.3587 Alvin Kritschmann 48.9788 Richard Tritschler 48.8089 Arthur Rosenkampff 48.3490 Clarence Lidington 48.3091 Henry Weyland 47.9492 Ben Chimberoff 47.9393 K. Woerner 47.6794 Curt Roedel 47.6395 Maurice Barry 47.4396 P. Ritter 47.0997 Otto Feyder 47.0598 Bernard Berg 46.7399 Max Thomas 45.85100 Martin Fischer 45.35101 Charles Schwartz 45.34102 Wilhelm Zabel 45.13103 Louis Rathke 44.93104 L. Guerner 44.90105 William Herzog 44.60106 August Placke 44.41 Otto Roesner 44.41108 Paul Stendel 43.38109 Arthur Sundbye 43.21110 Christian Sperl 42.66111 William Kruppinger 42.50112 John Wussow 42.46113 Walter Real 42.44114 John Miesel 41.97115 Otto Thomsen 41.67116 Edmund Pueschel 40.36117 Otto Knerr 39.87118 William Friedrich 39.57119 Ted Studier 13.14

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