Jules Alexis "Louis" Zutter (2 December 1865 – 10 November 1946) was a
Swiss
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gymnast
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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 ...
in
Athens
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.
Zutter won one of the events, the
pommel horse
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. He was also the runner-up in two more events, the vault and the
parallel bars
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. In addition, he competed in the
horizontal bar
The horizontal bar, also known as the high bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics. It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a syste ...
event, but without success.
He was born in
Les Ponts-de-Martel
Les Ponts-de-Martel is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
History
Les Ponts-de-Martel is first mentioned in 1360 as ''Martel''.
Geography
Les Ponts-de-Martel has an area, , of . Of this area, or 59.2% is used for a ...
and lived in
Peseux, where he was a member of the gymnastics club ''La Société des Amis gymnastes de Neuchâtel''. In 1893 his father was hired as a trainer in
Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos and Louis became a member of the club. After his success in the 1896 Olympics, he was honoured in Patras with the Greek athletes by the city. The Zutter family left
Greece
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due to the
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
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.
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10
1856 births
1946 deaths
Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics
19th-century sportsmen
Swiss male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics
People from Neuchâtel
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