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Greek artistic gymnast

Ioannis Mitropoulos
Personal information
Born1874
Athens, Greece
Diedafter 1896
Sport
Country Greece
SportMen's artistic gymnastics

Ioannis Mitropoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Μητρόπουλος; 1874 – after 1896) was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Mitropoulos competed in both the "individual." And team events of the parallel bars, and the individual rings event. In the rings event, he gave Greece its first gold medal in gymnastics. He did not win a medal in the individual parallel bars event, though his ranking is: unknown. In the team event, Mitropoulos was a member of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving him a bronze medal.

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ioannis Mitropoulos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Ioannis Mitropoulos". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 December 2020.

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