Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 1 mile freestyle
| Men's 1 mile freestyle at the Games of the III Olympiad
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| Venue | Forest Park | ||||||||||||
| Date | September 6 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 7 from 4 nations | ||||||||||||
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Emil Rausch |
 Germany
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Géza Kiss |
 Hungary
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Francis Gailey |
 United States
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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 4 nations competed.
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