Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 1 mile freestyle

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Men's 1 mile freestyle at the Games of the III Olympiad
Venue	Forest Park
Date	September 6
Competitors	7 from 5 nations
Medalists
Emil Rausch  Germany Géza Kiss  Hungary Francis Gailey  Australia
1908 (1500 m) →

Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 yard	men
100 yard	men
220 yard	men
440 yard	men
880 yard	men
1 mile	men
Backstroke
100 yard	men
Breaststroke
440 yard	men
Freestyle relay
4 × 50 yard	men
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The men's 1 mile freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event was held at such a distance at the Olympics and the only time the mile was used; later incarnations of the event used 1500 metres as the distance.

7 swimmers from 5 nations competed.

Results

Final

Final
	Emil Rausch (GER)	27:18.2
	Géza Kiss (HUN)	28:28.2
	Francis Gailey (AUS)	28:54.0
4.	Otto Wahle (AUT)
—	Edgar Adams (USA)	Did not finish
	Louis Handley (USA)	Did not finish
	John Meyers (USA)	Did not finish

References

1. ^ "Swimming at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's One Mile Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2016.

Sources

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 19 December 2006.