| | Event type
Individual All-Around, Apparatus Work and Field Sports, Men
| Date | 1 – 2 July 1904 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Francis Field, Washington University, St. Louis | |
| Participants | 119 from 2 countries | |
| Format | Each competitor executed three routines on the horizontal bar and parallel bars - two compulsory and one optional. All competitors performed a compulsory routine on the long horse, a compulsory routine on the side horse, and an optional routine on the side horse. They then competed in the 100 yard dash, long jump, and shot put. | |
This was the main all-around competition held at the July Turnverein Gymnastics events at the St. Louis World’s Fair. It consisted of a combination of four apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, long horse, side horse) and three track & field events (100 yards, long jump, shot put). The event was dominated by German-speaking gymnasts, who took the first seven places, led by Austrian Julius Lenhart, who represented the Philadelphia Turngemeinde in 1904. The first native-born US gymnast was eighth-placed John Bissinger. Otto Steffen was an American who finished sixth, but he had been born in Germany, came to the US in 1890, and was naturalized in 1900.
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