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 also 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. While Julius Lenhart, who placed second in this event, always remained an Austrian citizen, he is sometimes listed as an American in Olympic results because he represented an American club at the 1904 Olympics.
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