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{{short description|Swiss gymnast}}
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|fullname=Jules Alexis Zutter
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|birth_date= {{birth date|1865|12|12|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Les Ponts-de-Martel]], Switzerland
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|death_date= {{death date and age|1946|11|10|1865|12|2|df=y}}
|death_place=[[Boudry]], Switzerland
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{{MedalCountry| {{SUI}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1896 Summer Olympics|1896 Athens]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse|Pommel horse]]}}
{{MedalSilver|1896 Athens|[[Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's vault|Vault]]}}
{{MedalSilver|1896 Athens| [[Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars|Parallel bars]]}}
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'''Jules Alexis "Louis" Zutter''' (2 December 1865 &ndash; 10 November 1946) was a Swiss [[gymnastics|gymnast]].  He competed at the [[1896 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/31059 |title=Louis Zutter |work=Olympedia |access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref>

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, Neuchâtel|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 [[Panachaiki|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 &ndash; 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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