Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men.^[1] They were planned and organized by the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports.^[2] All events took place on 11 April in the Bay of Zea. There was a total of 13 participants from 4 countries competing.^[1]

Swimming at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Bay of Zea
Dates	11 April 1896
No. of events	4
Competitors	13 from 4 nations
1900 →

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	0	2
2	Greece (GRE)	1	3	2	6
3	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	2	10

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.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m freestyle[3] details	Alfréd Hajós  Hungary OR	Otto Herschmann  Austria	not known
500 m freestyle[4] details	Paul Neumann  Austria	Antonios Pepanos  Greece	Efstathios Chorafas  Greece
1200 m freestyle[5] details	Alfréd Hajós  Hungary	Ioannis Andreou  Greece	not known
Sailors 100 m freestyle[6] details	Ioannis Malokinis  Greece	Spyridon Chazapis  Greece	Dimitrios Drivas  Greece

Participating nations

A total of 13 swimmers from 4 nations competed at the Athens Games:

•  Austria (2)
•  Greece (9)
•  Hungary (1)
•  United States (1)

Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports

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