Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 1000 metre freestyle

The men's 1000 metre freestyle was an event in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was the middle length of the events. It was on 11 August and 12 August 1900. There were 16 swimmers. These swimmers were from 6 different nations. John Arthur Jarvis of Great Britain won the event. Otto Wahle of Austria was in 2nd place. Zoltán Halmay of Hungary was in 3rd place.

## Background

This was the only 1000 metre freestyle event in the Olympics. In 1896, they swam 1200 metres. The 1000 metres was supposed to replace the 1200. In 1904, the 880 yard and 1 mile replaced the 1000 metres. The 800 metres was used every year after that. The 1500 metres would not be used until 2020.

John Arthur Jarvis was most famous distance swimmer of the time. He was the favorite swimmer in the race.

## Competition

There was a semifinals and a final. There were 4 semifinals. Each semifinal had 4 swimmers. The fastest swimmer in each semifinal went to the final. The fastest 6 times also went to the final. If you were the fastest swimmer in your semifinal, you would not be counted in the 6 fastest times. This meant that the final had 10 swimmers.

The races were in the Seine.

## Schedule

|Date|Time|Round|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Sunday, 11 August 1900|**11:45**|**Semifinals**|
|Monday, 12 August 1900|**14:00**|**Final**|

### Semifinals

There were 4 semifinals. The semifinals were on 11 August.

#### Semifinal 1

|Rank||Swimmer||Nation||Time||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|||14:28.6|,|||||
|2|||17:13.2||||||
|3|||17:41.2||||||
|4|Fumouze||18:00.0||||||

#### Semifinal 2

|Place||Swimmer||Nation||Time||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|||17:18.0||||||
|2|Lué||24:15.0||||||
|3|Lapostolet||25:52.0||||||
|—|Souchu||||||||

#### Semifinal 3

|Place||Swimmer||Nation||Time||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|||14:52.0||||||
|2|||15:27.0||||||
|3|||17:09.6||||||
|4|||18:17.2||||||

#### Semifinal 4

|Place||Swimmer||Nation||Time||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|||15:54.0||||||
|2|||16:54.0||||||
|3|||16:58.0||||||
|4|Texier||21:33.0||||||

### Final

The final was held on 12 August. Jarvis won easily. He was a minute faster than 2nd place.

|Rank||Swimmer||Nation||Time||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||||13:40.2||||||
||||14:43.6||||||
||||15:16.4||||||
|4|||15:22.6||||||
|5|||16:30.4||||||
|6|||16:53.2||||||
|7|||16:53.4||||||
|8|||17:13.8||||||
|9|||17:50.0||||||
|—|||||||||

## Results summary

|Rank||Swimmer||Nation||Semifinals||Final||Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||||14:28.6|13:40.2|||||||
||||15:27.0|14:43.6|||||||
||||14:52.0|15:16.4|||||||
|4|||15:54.0|15:22.6|||||||
|5|||16:58.0|16:30.4|||||||
|6|||17:09.6|16:53.2|||||||
|7|||17:13.2|16:53.4|||||||
|8|||17:18.0|17:13.8|||||||
|9|||17:41.2|17:50.0|||||||
|10|||16:54.0||||||||
|11|Fumouze||18:00.0|rowspan=6|||||||
|12|||18:17.2||||||||
|13|Texier||21:33.0||||||||
|14|Lué||24:15.0||||||||
|15|Lapostolet||25:52.0||||||||
|—|Souchu||||||||||

## Infobox (olympic event)

- **event**: Men's 1000 metre freestyle
- **games**: 1900 Summer
- **image**: Jarvis 1900.jpg
- **caption**: Gold medalist John Arthur Jarvis
- **venue**: River Seine
- **dates**: August 11 (semifinals)
 August 12 (final)
- **competitors**: 16
- **nations**: 6
- **longnames**: yes
- **win value**: 13:40.2
- **gold**: John Arthur Jarvis
- **goldnoc**: GBR
- **silver**: Otto Wahle
- **silvernoc**: AUT
- **bronze**: Zoltán Halmay
- **bronzenoc**: HUN