There were 29 separate events in the 26th Fête Fédérale de l’Union des Sociétés de Gymnastique de France competitions, which were held during the 1900 Paris International Exposition in the gymnastics category, although not all were gymnastics events, as fencing, boxing, and shooting were all contested. There were 8,050 competitors overall in the 29 different events. There were seven events for “Group 1” – handsfree, apparatus, boxing, canne (a French form of stick combat), fencing, pyramids without apparatus, and pyramids with apparatus. The boxing event had 94 societies classified with the event won by the Société de gymnastique de Caen with 145 points out of a possible 160.