Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Swimming events at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m		men
500 m		men
1200 m		men
100 m sailors		men

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

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 (HUN)	Otto Herschmann (AUT)	none awarded
500 m freestyle	Paul Neumann (AUT)	Antonios Pepanos (GRE)	Efstathios Chorafas (GRE)
1200 m freestyle	Alfréd Hajós (HUN)	Ioannis Andreou (GRE)	Efstathios Chorafas (GRE)
Sailors 100 m freestyle	Ioannis Malokinis (GRE)	Spyridon Chazapis (GRE)	Dimitrios Drivas (GRE)

Participating nations

A total of 19 swimmers from 4 nations competed at the Athens Games:

•  Austria (2)
•  Greece (15)
•  Hungary (1)
•  United States (1)

Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports

• HRH Prince George of Greece, president
• Pavlos Damalas, secretary
• Dimitrios Kriezis
• Konstantinos Sachtouris
• Georgios Koundouriotis
• Dimitrios Argyropoulos
• Konstantinos Kanaris
• K. Argyrakis