Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 4000 metre freestyle


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.
The 4000 metre freestyle event was held only once. It was the longest Olympic swimming event for over a century, until the 10 kilometre open water event was introduced at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Results

Semifinals

In the first round, there were three semifinals. The winner of each semifinal advanced to the final, as did the six fastest losers from across all the semifinals. The semifinals were held on 15 August.

Semifinal 1

RankSwimmerNationTimeNotes
11:01:48.4
21:15:04.8
31:22:29.6
41:26:25.6
5Lagarde1:38:31.8
6de Romand1:50:36.4
7Fumouze2:02:27.0
—Hermand
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Semifinal 2

RankSwimmerNationTimeNotes
11:11:33.4
21:17:55.4
31:22:58.4
4Texier1:31:02.8
5Kobierski1:37:10.4
6Lué1:46:40.4
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—Gallais
—Landrich

Semifinal 3

RankSwimmerNationTimeNotes
11:25:16.6
21:28:32.6
31:35:03.2
4Mortier1:40:16.8
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—Gellé
—Heyberger
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—Loppé
—Regnault
—Vallée

Final

The final was held on 19 August. Jarvis won easily, more than ten minutes ahead of Halmay.
RankSwimmerNationTime
158:24.0
21:08:55.4
31:13:08.4
41:15:07.6
51:16:37.2
61:18:25.4
71:26:32.2
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