Individual All-Around, Apparatus Work, 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 and a compulsory routine on the side horse, and an optional routine on the side horse. Scoring was from 0-5, with 5 being the maximum score for any of the 9 routines, permitting a maximum of 45 overall. | |
This event was an offshoot of the individual all-around for apparatus and field sports, with the scores in the four apparatus events used to determine placements. 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 and a compulsory and optional routine on the side horse. Scoring was from 0-5, with 5 being the maximum score for any of the 9 routines, permitting a maximum of 45 overall. Swiss gymnast Adolf Spinnler had placed third in the combined all-around, but had the highest scores in the four apparatuses and won this event. He placed only in a tie for 64th in the field sports section of the combined all-around. German-speaking gymnasts took the top five places with Otto Steffen in sixth the first American.
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