Ioannis Mitropoulos ( el, Ιωάννης Μητρόπουλος; 1874 – after 1896) was a

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. He competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics The 1896 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 1896, Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 1896), officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, Agónes tis 1is Ol ...

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. Mitropoulos competed in both the individual and team events of the

parallel bars Parallel bars are floor apparatus consisting of two wooden bars slightly over long and positioned at roughly head height. Parallel bars are used in artistic gymnastics and also for physical therapy and home exercise. Gymnasts may optionally we ...

, and the individual rings event. In the rings event, he gave Greece its first

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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

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* 1874 births Gymnasts from Athens Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century sportsmen Greek male artistic gymnasts Olympic gold medalists for Greece Olympic bronze medalists for Greece Olympic gymnasts of Greece Year of death missing Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics Date of birth missing Place of death missing {{Greece-Olympic-medalist-stub