Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
200 m		men
1000 m		men
4000 m		men
Backstroke
200 m		men
Other
200 m team		men
200 m obstacle		men
Underwater		men

At the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, seven swimming events were contested. Only men competed in the swimming competition. There was a total of 76 participants from 12 countries competing.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	1	3
2	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
2	Germany (GER)	2	0	0	2
4	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
5	Austria (AUT)	0	3	1	4
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
7	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
7	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1

Total		7	7	7	21

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
200 m freestyle	Frederick Lane (AUS)	Zoltán Halmay (HUN)	Karl Ruberl (AUT)
1000 m freestyle	John Arthur Jarvis (GBR)	Otto Wahle (AUT)	Zoltán Halmay (HUN)
4000 m freestyle	John Arthur Jarvis (GBR)	Zoltán Halmay (HUN)	Louis Martin (FRA)
200 m backstroke	Ernst Hoppenberg (GER)	Karl Ruberl (AUT)	Johannes Drost (NED)
200 m team swimming	Germany (GER)^[2] Ernst Hoppenberg Max Hainle Julius Frey Max Schöne Herbert von Petersdorff	France (FRA) Maurice Hochepied Victor Hochepied J. Bertrand Verbecke Victor Cadet	France (FRA) René Tartara Louis Martin Désiré Merchez Georges Leuillieux Houben^[3]
200 m obstacle event	Frederick Lane (AUS)	Otto Wahle (AUT)	Peter Kemp (GBR)
Underwater swimming	Charles Devendeville (FRA)	André Six (FRA)	Peder Lykkeberg (DEN)

Participating nations

A total of 76 swimmers from 12 nations competed at the Paris Games:

Australia (1)
Austria (3)
Belgium (1)
Denmark (1)
France (47)
Germany (6)
Great Britain (7)
Hungary (1)
Italy (2)
Netherlands (4)
Sweden (1)
United States (1)

Notes

↑ "Swimming at the 1900 Paris Summer Games". Sports Reference. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
↑ This is the roster of the German team as given by the International Olympic Committee database. Mallon notes that Petersdorff did not actually compete. He also claims that contemporary sources support a 4-person roster including Hoppenberg, Hainle, Gustav Lexau, and Ernest Luhrsen; Frey and Schöne are not included in either Mallon or de Wael's list of competitors in the event.
↑ Houben did not actually compete; however, he is listed in the IOC's medal database as part of the Neptune team.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
De Wael, Herman (2001-06-07). "Swimming 1900". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
Mallon, Bill (December 1997). The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.

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