Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 440 yard freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 440 yard freestyle
Games:	1904 Summer
Venue:	Forest Park
Date:	September 7
Competitors:	4
Nations:	3
Gold:	Charles Daniels
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Francis Gailey
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Otto Wahle
Bronzenoc:	AUT
Next:	1908 (400 m)

The men's 440 yard freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] It was the first time the event was held at the Olympics, and the only time yards were used instead of metres. The length of 440 yards (402.336 metres) was slightly longer than the 400 metres that would be used in every subsequent edition of the swimming programme.

4 swimmers from 3 nations competed.

Results

Final

Final
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		6:22.0
		6:39.0
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Sources

• Web site: Wudarski . Pawel . 1999 . Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich . 19 December 2006. pl.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1904 St. Louis Summer Games: Men's 440 yard Freestyle . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417165756/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1904/SWI/mens-440-yard-freestyle.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 27 August 2016 . Sports Reference.