Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 4000 metre freestyle
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Men's 4000 metre freestyle at the Games of the II Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | River Seine | |||||||||
Dates | August 15 (semifinals) August 19 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 29 from 7 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 58:24.0 OR | |||||||||
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The men's 4000 metre freestyle was an event on the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was the longest of the three freestyle events. It was held on 15 August and 19 August 1900. 29 swimmers from 7 nations competed.[1] The event was won by John Arthur Jarvis of Great Britain, completing a double with the 1000 metre freestyle. Zoltán Halmay of Hungary took silver, with Louis Martin of France earning bronze.
Jarvis swam using the front crawl; Halmay used the Trudgen stroke.[2]