Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos or Ethnikos Athens is one of the oldest sports clubs in Greece

Greece

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. It was founded in 1893.

It had a team of gymnasts

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

 competing at the 1896 Summer Olympics

1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era...

 in Athens

Athens

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.

The team's leader was Ioannis Chrysafis

Ioannis Chrysafis

Ioannis Chrysafis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Chrysafis was the team leader of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving the members of the team bronze medals....

. Members included Ioannis Mitropoulos

Ioannis Mitropoulos

Ioannis Mitropoulos 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...

, Dimitrios Loundras

Dimitrios Loundras

Dimitrios Loundras was a Greek gymnast who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Loundras competed in the team parallel bars event. In that competition, Loundras was a member of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving him a bronze...

, Filippos Karvelas

Filippos Karvelas

Filippos Karvelas was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karvelas competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars. He did not win a medal in the individual event, though his ranking is unknown...

, and 15 others whose names are unknown.

The team placed third of the three teams in the parallel bars team event, earning a bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 (retroactively awarded by the International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

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, as the awards at the first Olympic Games differed from the gold, silver, bronze format used later).