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Swimming
at the Games of the I Olympiad
Swimming; at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Bay of Zea
Dates	11 April 1896
No. of events	4
Competitors	13 from 4 nations
	1900 →

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men.^[1] They were planned and organized by the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports.^[2] All events took place on 11 April in the Bay of Zea. There was a total of 13 participants from 4 countries competing.^[1]

Medal table

Medal summary

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal and subsequent places received no award.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle^[3] details	Alfréd Hajós Hungary OR	Otto Herschmann Austria	not known
500 m freestyle^[4] details	Paul Neumann Austria	Antonios Pepanos Greece	Efstathios Chorafas Greece
1200 m freestyle^[5] details	Alfréd Hajós Hungary	Ioannis Andreou Greece	not known
Sailors 100 m freestyle^[6] details	Ioannis Malokinis Greece	Spyridon Chazapis Greece	Dimitrios Drivas Greece

Participating nations

A total of 13 swimmers from 4 nations competed at the Athens Games:

Austria (2)
Greece (9)
Hungary (1)
United States (1)

Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports

Prince George of Greece, president
Pavlos Damalas, secretary
Dimitrios Kriezis
Konstantinos Sachtouris
Georgios Koundouriotis
Dimitrios Argyropoulos
Konstantinos Kanaris
K. Argyrakis

References

^ ^a ^b "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
^ 1896 Olympic Games Official Report, Part 2 (PDF). C .Meissner & N .Kargaduris.
^ "Athens 1896 Swimming 100m Freestyle Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
^ "Athens 1896 Swimming 400m Freestyle Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
^ "Athens 1896 Swimming 1200m Freestyle Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
^ "Athens 1896 Swimming 100m Freestyle for Sailors Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

External links

De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, Timolean; Politis, N.G.; Anninos, Charalambos (1897). "Second Part: The Olympic Games in 1896". The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896 (PDF). Athens: Charles Beck. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). "1896 Olympic Games — Analysis and Summaries" (PDF). The 1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.

[:0-1] "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-16.

[2] 1896 Olympic Games Official Report, Part 2 (PDF). C .Meissner & N .Kargaduris.

[3] "Athens 1896 Swimming 100m Freestyle Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

[4] "Athens 1896 Swimming 400m Freestyle Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

[5] "Athens 1896 Swimming 1200m Freestyle Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

[6] "Athens 1896 Swimming 100m Freestyle for Sailors Men Result". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

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Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics