Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Swimming; at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Bay of Zea
Dates	11–19 August
No. of events	4
Competitors	13 from 4 nations

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

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
2	Greece (GRE)	1	3	3	7
3	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
Totals (3 nations)		4	4	3	11

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.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle	Alfréd Hajós Hungary	Otto Herschmann Austria	none awarded
500 m freestyle	Paul Neumann Austria	Antonios Pepanos Greece	Efstathios Chorafas Greece
1200 m freestyle	Alfréd Hajós Hungary	Ioannis Andreou Greece	Efstathios Chorafas Greece
Sailors 100 m freestyle	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

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.

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