Louis Zutter

{{short description|Swiss gymnast}}

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|birth_place=Les Ponts-de-Martel, Switzerland

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Jules Alexis "Louis" Zutter (2 December 1865 – 10 November 1946) was a Swiss gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/31059 |title=Louis Zutter |work=Olympedia |access-date=20 December 2020}}

Zutter won one of the events, the pommel horse. He was also the runner-up in two more events, the vault and the parallel bars. In addition, he competed in the horizontal bar event, but without success.

He was born in Les Ponts-de-Martel 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 due to the Greco-Turkish War (1897).

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  • {{cite book | author1=Mallon, Bill | author2=Widlund, Ture | name-list-style=amp | title=The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary | location=Jefferson | publisher=McFarland | year=1998 | isbn=0-7864-0379-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/resultsofearlymo00mall }} (Excerpt available at [https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091042/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/Mallon/1896.pdf])
  • {{cite book |author1=Lampros, S.P. |author2=Polites, N.G. |author3=De Coubertin, Pierre |author4=Philemon, P.J. |author5=Anninos, C. |name-list-style=amp | title=The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896 | location=Athens | publisher=Charles Beck | year=1897 }} (Digitally available at [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1896/1896.pdf], 10

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Category:1865 births

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Category:Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Category:19th-century sportsmen

Category:Swiss male artistic gymnasts

Category:Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland

Category:Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland

Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics

Category:Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Category:Sportspeople from Neuchâtel

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